The herald., 1896-03-06
His Trip a Business One
Solely
UNCONVENTIONALYETDIR DIRECT
The Man and Executive Is a
Typical American
he CONSENTS TO AN INTERVIEW
The Tax Levy and the Pledge Of the
Democratic Platform
The Abuse IN Regard to Insane Asylums
and the Causes
6..--
lie CONSENTS TO AN INTERVIEW
The Abuse In Regard to Insane Asylums
and the Causes
Recent Reor2 r2anization In the National Guard
Explained -Favors the Consolidation OF
the Two Prisons and Equitable TAKE
alton - On Dodging Banks

The friends of Governor Budd who well
coined him to Southern California on his
arrival Wednesday, we're both surprised
and delighted to note the marked improve
ment in his health since his last visit.
His face was fuller and lighted with the
flush of health. His naturally rugged con-
stitution, severely taxed by the ardors Of a
irving campaign, had recovered its wonted
yiror and elasticity. Like giant refreshed
with sleep, he has plunged into the whirl
of state affairs and has grappled with the
Cyclopean task of reducing the enormous
volume of expenditures Of public moneys,
a labor requiring exactlng efforts, a study
of the multiplicity of details that requires
an extraordinary comprehension - the
power to group maze of bewilderng fig
ures in mastery array and apply to them
the best judgment and common sense to
check the wastage and minimize the neces-
sary public outlay with consumnate ap.
plcation and address.
Governor Budd's trip to the fair SOUTH
land this time is purely business one;
later on he will come to us for a months
visit at fiesta time to enjoy at leisure the
charms of the many attractive resorts of
this favored section.
Unconventional and direct, Governor
Budd is a typical American, faithfully full
filling the pledges made by him during his
wonderful canvass. He believes in the
honest administration of the state iustitu-
tons on broad American lines, that the
republic, in its sisterhood of states, may
live by the virtue of honest government.
His Americanism crops out. too, at unex-
pected intervals, as was the quiet sugges-
ton made at a number OF the institutions
visited by him that the American flag
4 A. -k1t<,
In an interview which | give with the
chief executive, have not intervaled the
text by reproducing the interroya' cries
propounded on matters OF state policy and
economics, but rather have eudeavored to
rive the governors own words as they fell
from his lips.
II have very little time on this hurried
eisit to state what have done or expect to
do. have done the best knew how to
carry o ut the pledges made by my party
and by myself during the last election. 1t
will be remembered that the state canvass
In Calf ornia, SO far as state officers were
Soncern ed, was largely run upon pledge
to put the affairs of the state upon a
strictly business basis, and to keep the tax
levy for the running expenses OF the gov
ernment within 45 cents per 500 on the
assessed value of 1898. 1t has been and
of my term, to see that the tax levy is far
below the 45 cent pledge of the Democratic
platform.
"The first fiscal year of governors
term has largely to deal with deficiencies
and expenses and other expenditures
of government over which he and the legis.
la.ure. acting with him, have little or no
control. The strike, the expenses for in
digents, the completion of public buildings
rendered it necessary that the last legisla-
tlre provide by state taxation a much
larger sum for state purposes than would
have otherwise been necessary; and not
withstanding the veto of over million
dollars of bills passed by it, the amount
raised for taxes during the 47th year
amounted to over 90 cents on each 500 of
assessed value. This will leave probably "a
surplus in the treasury at the expiration of
the forty-seventh fiscal year, but the same
could not be avoided. as | vetoed bills far
in excess of the amount calculated by the
legislature"
1.-THE tax levy for the forty-eighth fiscal
year, h owever, will be but about IA Clio
cents on each 500 of property acc ording
TO the assessed valuation of 1893. There
will be shrinkage in the amount OF
money raised for the general fund of from
$i,9l3,1O6 to $2,6S ,37l. The school
fund and the interest and sinking fund
remaining the same, as neither the legisla-
ture nor myself deemed it advisable to in
terfere with moneys raised for the public
schools of the state.
II believe that the amount raised by the
tax levy for the forty-ninth and tiftieth
fiscal years will be far less than the amount
raised for the forty-eighth fiscal year, and
that should the next legislature be pledged
by the various parties to pass laws looking