The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-11
MlLLARD SWORN IN.
The Lieutenant Elect Get.
ting a Lot of Practice.

The Lieutenant Elect Get
ting Lot of Practice.
SACRAMENTO. Jan. 1O.-The wrinkles
are being snoothed out of the whole CUB
ernatorlal situation as rapidly as may be.
Budd and Willard, Democrat ana RspubIi-
can respectively, were to-day declared
elected as Governor and LIeuten aut-Goy-
ernor. The opposition to Budd'S inaugu-
ration faded away as it approached its
purpose, and just so do the difficulties in
the way Of Miilard's qualifying resolve
themselves into thin air as they are fairly
confronted. However. they have given
whole lot Of people, including the sic
man himself and the new Attorney
General, a whole lot of trouble. There
has been q good deal of the theatrical
about Millard's case that is rather anus
ing I, sober-minded people. When be
takes the oath tomorrow it will be for the
third time. Long ago. with some sort of
underlined dread that Bill Jones or Harvey
Smith or some enterpri5ing citizen might
seal a march on him and take the oath OF
Office as Lieutenant-Gover and thereby
throw Mr.. Willard and his towering pur-
pose and majority to the ground, he had
notary public or somebody come to his
sick chamber in the night time with dark
lantern and administer to him the oath.
A any rate it was done and kept as pro-
found secret for long time the date for
ever carefully registered that IL might be
flashed upon JDnes should he spring up
anywhere in the State with an oath of
Office concealed about him. To-day the
most elaborate preparations were made for
carrying to his bedside the news before
any Jealous newspapers had displayed itin
vulgar bulletins upon the public streets.
Early in the day a dispatch was sent to
Millard and 10 his friend, Congressm an
elect McLachlan of Los Angeles, advising
him that he would be declared elected be-
fore the session Of the Legislature to-day.
McLachlan was to have carriage in wait
ing at the telegraph Office with a
Judge or other qualified person to
administer the oath, was to remain at
Millard's house while the feet messenger
in the carriage should bring the news. a
telegram was already written by his
friends here and, as the words of Speaker
Lynch, declaring him to be duly elected,
fell from the lips of the Speaker and
awakened the enthusiastic cheers of Re-
publicans Of the joint session and the
gallery and the lobby, the message was
licked over the wires, rushed into the
waiting carriage, hurried behind reeking
horses to the Willard residence, where
Immediately and before the cheers had
subsidized in the Assembly rooms at Sscra.
mento he was sworn in at Los Angeles
The messenger with the carriage and the
reeking horses hurled themselves back tc
the telegraph Office and the news was
licked back to his waiting friends in the
legislative halls, and everybody felt thai
something had been done. though jus
what il would be difficult to say.
For Mr.. Willard. though now having
two certificates of his oath of Office, ha,
not yet been regularly sworn in. Tha
has TO be done according 20 law or it avail
nothing. Attorney General Fitzgerald hal
been looking 10y proxy through volumes
of law haillDg from all the States to dis
cover how an absurd technicality can br
overcome, and has reached the conclusion
forecasting his interview exclusively t.
THE CALL Of yesterday.
"Mr. Willard has been elected Lieuten
ant-Governor. There is DO doubt of that,
said the Judge tonight. 1.-THE constitu
lion says that this officer may qualify be
fore any person having the right to ad
minister an oath. but a legislative provi
sion has declared that he must appear be
fore the Legislature 70 take the oath
There is conflict. Now, If the Legisla
ture sees fit to accept the oath as takel
before a committee of its members ap
pointed for that purpose. or even as com
hrye nj i'm, ,zhi
they are in session tomorrow, as being i.
full satisfaction Of the requirements O
the law, who is there to gainsay it? Tb
Legislature Is the Legislature, is it not
The same power that made the law accept
il and that's ali there is 10 it. / imagtn
that Mr.. Willard will be sworn in to-mor
row, as / can see no legal objection, th
Legislature accepting, which it will do, o
course"
And SO it is the general expression; t