The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
WORK IN COMMITTEE.
The Retrenchment Committee Bound II
Sdue the State Some MoneU.

The Retrenchment Committee Bound to
Saue the State Some Money.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1.-While the Re-
trenchment Committee of the Assembly
have been looping at superfuous attaches
of the Legislature the Committee on Ways
and Means have been attacking the I'M
necessary expenses connected with the
State Capitol building. They have made a
great showing of secrecy for some reason
or other, and no one is supposed to know
of the action taken until Monday. The
first intimation of what was being done
was reached from the fact that the general
appropriation bill, which is reported every
wear and usually provides for all the
regular officials, went to the printer this
morning containing recommendations
that only those salaries definitely fixed by
law be allowed.
Special bills are being prepared for all
other officials and in almost every case
there are recommendations that the
amount allowed be somewhere near what
private firm would pay for similar SER
vices. These changes will result in saw
ing of many thousand dollars every year.
One of the highest officers to suffer is the
chief ianitor. AT present he receives $1,000
wear. A bill will be introduced allowing
him only $1,000. The engineer receives $3.50
month. His salary will be cut to 500.
Ordinary laborers, gardeners and porters
are receiving $50 and 800 month. The
new bills will allow them $50. The Capitol
police and watchmen now get 500 a
month. The salary recommended is $75.
The work of the committee is not yet COM
plete, but it is thought their report will be
ready for the printer by Tuesday.
The subcommittee on public buildings
from the Assembly, consisting of Berry
(chairman), Bettman, Lewis, Guy, Dwyer,
Sanford and Nelson, started for Los An
geles this afternoon in a Pullman palace
car The trip will probably occupy week,
although they may stay longer, as their
leave of absence is indefinite.
The Fish and Game Committee of the
Assembly have at last sent their new game
laws to the printer. The only important
change is in the close season for salmon,
which now is to extend for two months
from the last of August till the LIST of No
vember.
A bill preventing picknickers, fishermen
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or anywhere except at places where they
were especially authorized to stop, was not
recommended The bill was being pressed
by representatives of various swell sporting
clubs, but did not meet the approval of the
committee There was bill recommended
providing for the appointment by April,
1895, of game warden by each Board of
Supervisors. This official was to receive a
salary not to exceed 500 a month and ex-
penses not to exceed $25 month and his
duty would be to see that the game laws
were enforced during the two years of his
term.
The subcommittee of the Judiciary Com
mittee, which will frame the new revenue
laws, will consist of Freeman, Reid and
Dinkelspiel.
Assemblyman North, who introduced a
bill yesterday making the playing of foot
ball or abetting the game misdemeanor,
has received word from San Francisco that
a fund is being raised by the dealers in
sporting goods to fight the measure. The
step will do no good, however, as the bill
is not ''cinch" introduced by practical
politicians for revenue only. On the con-
trary it was fathered by the Alameda
Assemblyman at the special request of
such men as Judge A. l.. Prick, District
Attorney Charles Slocum, ex-District At
torney George Reed, ex-Judge Emil Neus-
banner and Edgar Pringle. The bill is in
the hands of the Committee on Public
Morals and will be acted on next week
The Senate Committee on Elections will
meet on Wednesday evening next to hear
arguments on the various measures before
the Legislature contemplating changes in
the election laws.