The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-07
THE RETRENCHERs FAIL.
Their Efforts to Check the
Appropriations Prove
Useless.
ASSEMBLY YIELDS TO SENATE.
The House Makes a Pretense of
Economy and Then Votes
the Money.

SACRAMENTO, March 6.-Two items recon-
mended by the Senate, which raised the
general appropriation bill 1924 900, were
accepted by the Assembly this afternoon.
They were the appropriations for the State
fair and the district fairs, which were voted
down when the bill was considered in the
Assembly. The vote to give the State fair
$4,000 stood Al to 80. For the district fairs
there were "A IN the affirmative and only 26
in the negative.
This represents the general feeling with
which the report of the conference COM
mittees was received. The members real
lied that they should make at least a pre-
tense of economy. AT the same time they
had to yield to the imperative demands of
the Senate If they hoped to to get any por-
ton of the bill through
The appropriations for the State fair
caused more than an ordinary amount of
objections. Dodge protested against the
acceptance of the recommendation. "The
House is already being condemned for ex-
travagance," he said. "These appropria-
tions are absolutely unnecessary. Let US
leave them off,"
Belshaw of Contra Costa read the total
of the appropriations passed on favorably
by the Ways and Means Committee. This
amounted to the enormous sum of $13,-
S,788, which is $4S9, ,01S 4S more than the
50-cent levy would allow, 1--WE can't af-
ford these fairs" said he. eff we leave one
out we must omit ALL"
Brusie announced that the member from
Contra Costa had evidently decided that
all the bills he spoke of would be passed.
This, he shouted, was a ''vile decision''
and not in accord with common-sense.
Laugenour told of properties worth
$1,000 in Los Angeles, the title to which
would lapse from the fair association there
if they did not get their appropriation.
Bulla Of Los Angeles wanted to know
what property this was, but before he could
get an answer the question was called.
Then the friends of the district fairs began
to scramble. They were afraid the State
Fair men might go back on them after the
$40, 900 for the State Fair had been granted.
They therefore wanted all their appropria-
tlons considered at once. Their motions
were declared out of order though. But
their fears were groundless.
While the State Fair appropriation re-
celved only Al votes there were A in favor
of allowing the district fairs $194 200. The
vote was as follows:
Ayes-Bassford, Bennett, Bettman, Bledsoe,
Boothby, Brusie, Butler, Cargill, Coleman,
Devine, Dewitt, Dixon, Dunbar, Dwyer, Ewing
Glass, Guy, Hall, Hatfield, Holland, Huber,
Johnson, Kelsey, Laird, Laugenour, Lewis,
Lleweliyn, Mccarthy, McKelvey, Nelson, O'Day,
Pendleton, Price, Reid, Richards, Sanford,
Spencer, Swisler, Tibbetts, Thomas Tomblfn,
Twigg, Zocchi. Mr.. Speaker-44.
Noes-Ash, Bachman, Barker, Belshaw, Bulla,
Collins, Cutter, Dale, Davis Dodge, Fassett,
Hudson, Jones, Kenyon, Meads, Merrill, North,
Osborn, Phelps, Powers, Robinson, Rowell
Staley, Stansell, Waymire, Weyse-26.
Absent and not voting-Berry, Dinkelspiel,
Freeman, Gay, Healey, Keen, Wade, wilkins.
Wilkinson-o