The record-union., 1895-03-08

erty, was passed-ayes 53, noes 0.
A. b. 669, prescribing how judgments,
which may be recovered against any city
and county of over 100000 population.
shall be paid, was passed-ayes 49, noes
0-and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Zocchi gave notice of motion for re-
consideration of the vote by which A. 3.
$50 was refused a second reading.
a. Is. 4lS, TO appropriate $1,000 as COM
pensation to Julius a. Hult, private in
Second Brigade, n. g. c., for injuries
sustained while in active service, was
passed-ayes 46. noes I.
| A. b. 739, authorizing an increase of the
| police force of cities of the State having
population of over 100000, was amended
by committee of one and sent to the
printer.
A. b. A, to pay the claim of Mary NJ.
! Springer, the widow and heir of Thomas
A. Springer, late State Printer, deceased.
was read the third time.
Bledsoe opposed the bill, saying that
the State had paid the claim
Brusie said he did not see what pleas
ure the gentleman could have in opposing
an honest claim against the State He
| thought the Endorsement of Newton
Booth would outweigh the statements of
the gentleman from Humboldt.
The bill was placed on its passage, and
| during rOll-call a call of the house was
ordered, but atterward dispensed with,
! and the bill was refused a final passage
! ayes 81, noes 81.
Bettman gave notion of motion to re-
consider.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
The following message from the Gov
! ernor was received:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.,
SACRAMENTO, March Z, 1895.
| 10 the Senate and assembly Of the State
! Of California: In my inaugural address
| delivered to your honorable bodies I
| called attention to the extravaganza of
I our State Government and to the high
rates OF existing taxation. | made COM
parison in that address between the ex-
penSes OF California and those of the other
principal States of the Union, showing
! by tables presented that while California
| III population was twenty-second. in the
matter OF total expenditures it ranked
fourth.
In that inaugural 1 also called your at
! tentlOn TO the reports OF the Superintend-
ent of the Napa Lunatic Asylum. and
the former Superintendent of the Stock
! ton Lunatic Asylum, showing the large
| number of persons therein maintained,
| who, under the law, should not be in
mates of those institutions. l said in this
| connection, after indicating the great
! disprOportlon between the expenses OF
| California and other states of the Union:
las step in the direction indicated,
! would recommend that a bill be passed
abollshing existing asylum boards, and
| providing for one nom partisan board of
| from seven to nine members to control
the entire system of lunatic asylums,
with power To employ one general super
vlslng head, who shall be an expert, and
not otherwise connected with any of the
! institutions. The saving by such q sys-
| tenn would be large. and local persuasion
! and influence could circumvent neither
! the expert nor the general board"
Since my inauguration, and in the dis
! charge OF my duties as Governor, l have
| more fully Investigated the institutions
and affairs OF the State than was possible
prior thereto. l have discovered ample
proof of all 1 said in that address, and
! that its statements were far short of the
actual facts.
a bill was introduced, without sugges-
! ton from myself, by Senators and Assem-
/ blymon OF the State going beyond even
the recommendations of my address,
which bill, in my belief, if adopted by
| this Legislature. with such amendments
as 1t may deem proper, would save to the
taxpayers Of the State hundreds of thou
| sands of dollars each year. l refer to the
! Senate bill known as the Seymour bill
| No. 5OS) and the Assembly bill known as
the PendletoR bill No. 693).
In another portion OF my address I
! spoke as follows: The extraordinary
| increase in the number of our lunatic
! asylums and other State institutions had
Its origin IL two causes: First, the desire
! of members OF the Legislature from par
/ tIcuIar sections To secure the approval Of
| their constituents by conterring upon
| them certain supposed benefits, and the
! consequent lnlquitous system OF trading
to which this gave rise"
| These obserYatiOns-trst,a as to the en-
deavor of the members OF the Legisla-
ture to secure the approval OF their con-
| sutuents at the expense of the people at
| large; and second, local persusaion and
| influence eXcrted upon them-haye been
| put to the test in this Legislature, and
| have been eXemplitied in the considera-
ton OF the so-calIed Seymour-Peudleton
! bill.
We have seen in the corridors of the
! Capitol either the trustees of the various
institutions affected by these bills, or
! their representatives., using every intiu-
! ence within their power for the purpose
| OF defeating the measure. We have se5n
| local Boards OF Trade and local merchants
not only appealing to the members from
I their respective localities for the defeat OF
these measures, but even demanding that
| the measures be Withdrawn. When local
| communities Of the business men of load
| ing towns publish to the Legislature and
TO the world that they demand that their
representatives in the Legislature shall
! abandon measures of this nature because
a virtual admission that the loss to the
| localities would be saving to the tax
/! payers OF the State, and constitutes a very
| strong reason why the proposed legiSla-
/ ton should be adopted. While these
Boards of Trade and other like bodies are
| making such strenuous efforts before the
| Legislature, | fail to find one recon-
mendation emanating from them in the
interest Of economy.
The Board OF Examiners of this State,
! of which the Attorney-General and Sec
retary of SIate-both upright Republi-
cans-are mem berS, will bear out the EX-
/ ecutlye In the statement that the eXtrav-
agance of those institutions and the
/ burden placed upon the people by their
nlismanagement are things so far be-
yond the conception of the people that
il known, they would create a storm of
general indignation, which would cause
local trustees and local merchants to
pause before essaylng to dictate to the
| Legislature what ought TO be done in the
interest of the people. The Investigations
made by the Board of Examiners show
that but few institutions are not, in vio-
| iatlon Of the letter and spirit of the law.
misapplying public funds-in some cases
using the maintenance fund for the pur-
pose OF making purchases and improve
mentS, and IN others spending the money
OF the State in luxuries for the heads of
/ departments such as would not be con-
templated by any judicious regulations
and IN still others maintaining many in
mates that should not be there.
The maintenance of State officers
housed and cared for at the expense of
the people, is an item in the list OF ex-
trayagances OF no small importance
The Attorney General, the Secretary of
State, the Surveyor General, and other
officials of equal ability, who are elected