The record-union., 1897-11-23
ITS SUPPORT IS CUT OFF.
NO MONEY FOR THE YOUNT-
WILLIE HOME.
Not State Institution, and There
fore Can Have No State
Assistance.


ing of the State Board of Examiners
the only other member present being
Secretary of State Brown.
The usual number of bills were ap-
proved without comment, after which
Secretary Markley called up that sent
in by the Directors Of the Yountville
Veterans Home Association, which at
a former meeting had been laid over
until such time as the Governor should
be present.
The bin is for $11, $50, the quarterly
allowance set aside by the Legislature
for the maintenance and support of the
institution, upon the fuIfillment of GER
tain conditions.
Since the organization of the insu-
tuition biennial appropriations have
been made by the Legislature for its
support, and such appropriations were
paid without question until about
year ago, when Secretary of State
Brown, acting under the instructions
of the State Board of Examiners, inves-
tigated the matter and reported that
the institution was private and not a
State affair.
The provision of the Constitution
which provides that the State shall
make no appropriation for the support
of private institutions was applied in
the case, and the Directors of the
Yountville Home offered to deed its
property to the State, so that the nee
essary support might be Forthcoming.
The last Legislature accordingly
passed bill. which was approved by
the Governor on the 11th of March,
providing that the property be decided
to the State on or before July /, 1897.
But on July 1st the Yountville Home
property had not been transferred to
the State, and when the bill for the
first quarter of the present fiscal year
was sent in Secretary of the Board
Markley declined to sign it, because
the Act of March 18th had not been
complied with. And so it happened
that the matter was sprung at yester-
days meeting
Governor Budd said he believed, ac
cording to the Attorney Generals opin-
ion, the Yountville Home is not State
institution.
Secretary of State Brown called at
tention to the fact that he, and not
the Attorney General. had given the
opinion referred to.
The Governor said the Directors of
the institution understood how mat
ters stood, and had been reconciled TO
deed the property to the State, pro-
vided the usual appropriation of $40
900 per year was allowed They had
even drawn the law, the Governor said.
and he had supposed that they would
comply with it's provisions without
murmur.
Secretary of State Brown said he
understood that the Directors of the
home had acted on the advice of their
attorney, w. H. Jordan, and evidently
feared that should they turn the prop
erty over to the State flaws would be
picked in the law, and the money
would not be forthcoming.
Well" said the Governor eff they
don't turn that property over to the
State they won't get any money, and
the sooner they find that out the bet
ter"
Adjutant-General Barrett presented
letter from the President of the Board
of Managers of the National Soldiers
Homes, inquiring whether or not the
Yountville Home is a State institution.
The Governor instructed the Ad.u-
tant-General to inclose with his reply
copy of Secretary of State Browns
report Turning to his Private Secre-
tary, the Governor continued:
Notify the State Treasurer that no
more Federal money will be paid on
the order of the Directors of the Yount-
vile Home for the support of that in
stitution.''
The Federal statute governing the
question provides that no money shall
be appropriated by the General Gov
ernment for the support of Soldiers
Homes in States unless the same be
State institutions, and that all moneys
so paid shall be paid through the Gov
ernor or Treasurer of the State in
which the institution is situated.
The financial position of the Yount-
vile Home seems to be in a perilous
state
In speaking of the matter after the
meeting, the Governor said he did not
know whether or not the Attorney
General intended bringing suit against
the institution for the return of mon
eys advanced in former years