The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-27
Used to Approve or Annihilate
Many Measures
NINETY-SEVEN SIGNATURES
Some Bills That Will Benefit Los Angeles
Authorized
In the Great Batch There Are Propositions
That Will Aid Every Portion Of the
State of California

late last night on bills and the result was
that ninety-seven more bills bear his sig
nature. They are as follows: 8ssembly
bill 772. to prevent the sale of imitation
or adulterated honey; Assembly bill 81,
changing the fiscal year of cities operat-
ing under charter framed under section
g. article of the constitution; Assembly
bill 81. to pay the claim of 7. Carl Spell
ing against the state; Assembly bill III,
to amend section 726 of the code OF civil
procedure relative to the foreclosure OF
mortgages: and Assembly bills numbers
500, sos, 79s, 799, 80 607, 1856. Also AS
sembly bill 14O, relating to transfers OF
stock of corporations engaged in certain
business, transferable as appurtenanccs
10 real property; Assem- bly, bill las, to
create the Office of game warden; Assem-
bly, bill 157, authorizing superior Judges
of counties of over 200. 600 Inhabitants to
appoint secretary; Assembly bill l9S,
authorizing the issuance OF Bones and in
curing of indebtedness bv Cities and
towns for their protection from overflow
and their drainage; Assembly bill 2i6,
making an appropriation to pay dehcl-
ency in the appropriations for forestry
stations: Assembly bill 22l, appropriating
money for the use of the two forestry sta
tions and the establishment OF third !;
Assembly bill 353, to reduce the mum Der
of superior judges of Tulare county; AS
sembly bill 433, to authorize the trustees
of Auburn to remove cemetery and do
nate the land for public park; Assembly
bill 439, to authorize the state to secure
title to a road in FL Dorado county, and
providing for the appointment OF the
Lake Tahoe wagon road commissioners.
Governor Budd has refused TO approve
the bill providing for the sale of railroad
oh fra II cbiSpS mnnlc1nalltl ties
He says: The reasons which impel me to
withhold my approval of Assembly bill
No. 176 are these: The bill entitled AN
act to amend an act entitled an act pro-
viding for the sale of railroad and other
franchises in municipalities and relative
to the maintaining of franchises APP
proved March %. 1895. The body of the
act contains but few changes from the one
which it purports to amend. One is a
minor change as to the advertising OF the
application. The other provides that the
hour, as well as the day. OF the nearing
themselves trivial and could hardly have
been the cause of the amendment in
question. The act provides that every
franchise or privilege to erect or lay tele-
graph or telephone wires, to construct or
operate railroads along or upon any pub
lie street or highway, or to exercise any
other privilege whatever hereafter pro-
posed to be granted by the Board of
Supervisors, Common Council or other
government or legislative body of any
county, city and county, city, town or
district within the state shall be granted
upon the conditions in this act PROVIDED
and not otherwise.
This provision was in the law sought to
be amended, and the words shall be
granted upon conditions in this act pro-
vided, were the controlling and manda-
tory portions of said clause.
The act then proceeded to provide for
the application and the advertising for
such applications as should be made and
declared that
advertisement must state the character
OF the franchise or privilege proposed to
be granted for the term of its continu
ance, and if street railroad, the route to
be traversed, and the day upon which
tenders will be received for the same
Thus providing, under the act of 1888
that the Council should grant. after adj
vertisement and application, railroad, tele-
graph or telephone franchises upon GER
tain conditions stated
The new bill uses substantially the
exact language of the old act in regard to
the franchises, the fact that they should
be granted, the persons or companies to
be affected and changes the clause last
above quoted to read as follows: This
advertisement must state the character
of the franchise or privilege proposed to
NC granite lllt uSlIlS VI us
and if street railroad, the route to be
traversed and the day and hour upon
which sealed tenders will be received for
the same"
The only substantial change in the bill
as to the franchise that is to be granted
is made by the addition of the crooked
little letter IS to the word term" as it
existed in the act sought to be amended.
In the act it provides for the grant,
stating the term of its continuance, in
dicating only the time.
In the amendment, by the insertion Of
but one letter, it is made to read the
terms of its continuance, which means
the conditions under which it must ex :
ercise the franchise to be granted.
Under the old law (before the 80 wa S
inserted) time only needs to be stated
Under the new bill, conditions bene-
hcial to the corporation applying for the
franchise may be applied for and grant
ed. 1t may provide that no railroad line
shall run parallel within two blocks of
the petitioninG company. 1t may provide
that not more than certain number of
blocks i'll all of any other line shall be
used by competing line. 1t may make
a thousand conditions beneficial to itself
which if secured from the municipality
gives it all absolute monopoly. The line
making application may provide abso-
lutely against competi ton. While the
letter 5" is small and of seeming insg-
nlhcance, the manner in which it is inter
jected into this bill and is attempted To
be interjected into the law would make
it OF the utmost Importance. | doubt
whether ever before in the history of leg
islation the addition of a single letter in
the alphabet has mad more potential sig
nitcance. While the law, as it was civ
ing certain term OF continuance for the
franchise. might not have been unwise,
any law allowing corporation or person
to purchase an absolute monopoly, or
franchise and privilege for the erection OF
laying of telegraph or telephone wires or
the construction or operation OF railroads
upon any public street or highway,
would be plainly against the principles OF
our institutions.
Assembly bill 54i--Io amend the act ere
ating Board of Commissioners of the
Building and Loan Associations.
Assembly bill Relating TO marriages
and repeating the section allowing
marriages by contract.
Assembly bill 5l2-To pay the claim Of
.js.nes \. kearny.
Assembly bill :ilS--Authorzing the Con-
troiie. to relurnish his office.
Assembly bill 530--Io pay the expenses
o; the iuneral OF the late Secretary OF
state. T.. u. Waite.
Assembly biil oOe-To pay the city of
San Francisco for expense OF transport, =
ton OF children to the Whittier school. d
Assembly bill 60l-To pay rent for Office
OF Commissioners OF Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
Assembly bin GIG Authorizing the
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