The herald., 1897-03-01


an additional annual grant from the
state taxes Is already making itself felt,
~ Is announced that Mrs. Hearst, mother
OF the proprietor of the Examiner, Will
give the institution a million and half
collars very shortly, and that she mas
arranged for the money to go to the
school If anything should happen TO
her in the meantime. / am told by As
semblyman Wright, who represents the
university on the floor of the assembly,
That other wealthy people nave prom
lsed to contribute enough to the univer-
sity to make it's endowment at least
four million In excess of what II Is to-
day. and that special effort Will be
made to establish a school of mining
at Berkeley which will be second to
none In the world. A representative of
the university is now in Europe. study
Ing buildings etc, at the leading uni
versities of the world, with view of
giving this state the best buildings in
the world. On his return Mrs Hearst
will make her doSation, and work will
begin. At present the university has
the finest site and the poorest buildings
of any institution Of its professions in
the world.
A gentleman who stands very high
with the Southern Pacific railroad tells
me that that road ard the Western
Union Telegraph company put up the
money to pass the bill TO allow prize
fighting in Nevada. One hundred thou
sand dollars was contributed, but the
bin was passed more easily than was
at first believed possible, and only $50 900
was used. Nevada was selected as the
state for several reasons. 1t has
small population, is remote from east
ern influence, and has small legisla-
ture, and then 1t Is isolated, only the
Western Union Telegraph company has
any wires in the state, and only the
Southern Pacific railroad has any tracks
within it's limits Therefore the tele-
graph company has monopoly of the
telegraph business, and the railroad
company of the passenger business.
What the telegraph business Will
amount to may be guessed from the
fact that ten wires have been laid to
Carson by the company. and they ex-
pect to send 5000 900 words the day be-
fore and the day of the fight The rail-
road company will have all 1t can do
to carry the passengers, so 1t is easy
to see that II was good speculation
by the two great corporations.
Governor Budd has reason to con-
graduate himself on his victory. Dis
guise 1t as they may, the governor has
come out on top in the printing house
trouble. He has secured two sets of
experts to audit the books of the state
printer: he has had the appropriat ton
bills amended to suit his ideas. and he
is now in a position TO prove his state
ments against the state printer in such
manner that no one can question their
accuracy. He has taught his opponents
politics, and has proved that he is a
past master in the art diplomatic.
Assembiyman Mead has a scheme
which may go through to provide for
two or possibly three state fairs, in
stead of one. His idea is to have fair
at Sacramento and one at Los Angeles,
and If desired one in the northern part
OF the state, the appropriations to be
the same for each section. That would
do away with all district fairs. or the
present system of state fair here, for
which Southern California is taxed. but
from which It gets absolutely no bene-
fit. The plan of having three fairs
would be by far the best and most equit-
able to all sections. and would enable
each section to make an exhibit worth
seeing, instead of the merely nominal
displays made now. The cost to the state
would not only not be any more, but 1t
would really be less Today there is
expended the sum of $3.50 900 on fairs.
whereas better results could be achieved
with $4,000 for each of the three state
fairs.
Bulla's park bills became law yes
terday without the signature of the
governor. There was some technical
legal objection to them which made the
governor decline to sign them, but he
yielded to the desires OF the senat tor and
Los Angeles and did not veto them.
The road laws passed by the assembly
provides for an annual road tax of one
quarter of a mill upon each dollars
worth of property. This will give
fund of 100000 a year. which is to be
used in building a system of roads and
maintaining them. AS the tax Is per-
petual the work can begin at once. The
money is to be divided between the
several counties pro rata and work in
each county is to be begun at once but
on a general plan which will eventually
make all the reads in the state part
of one big system controlled by the
state. Such a plan is the only one feas-
ible to give the state the roads that /.
should have, and is as important as
any legislation this years legislature Is
likely to pass.
Some interested parties who own land
near the proposed Home for Girls at
Santa Clara but who live in the State
of Washington, are raising a clamor
against the removal of the girls from
Whittier. To hear them talk and to
read their interviews in the papers 1t
would be supposed that the town of
Whittier was one of the most corrupt
towns In the state, and that the pres
ence of the girls school there had
terribly demoralizing influence on the
whole Quaker town. They seem to have
the idea that at Whittier the girls run
around town at will and that they con-
sort with the male population unre-
strainedly One of these imported COM
plainants declared in an interview in
the Examiner that the girls were ruin
ing the boys at the boys school. and he
privately went around here declaring
that number of the girls had been cor
rupted by the boys while both We're ir
the Institutes at Whittier. When asked
by persons from the south to prove his
charges. he said he had never been In
Los Angeles, or to Whittier, but that
he had heard so. The citizens and resi-
dents of Whittier would be astounded
II they could hear the description of
them given by these Santa Clara oppo-
sitionists The opposition, however
does not "cut much ice," as the boys
say in the legislature, and their lies are
but the outward manifestation of their
inward rage. There is talk Of not ad-
journing before March 90 but as the sal
ary of the members ceases after next
Thursday, and most of the attaches will
draw no salary after the following Sat-
urday, the desire to adjourn not later
than the 18th will no doubt prevail.
The assembly went to-day to the
state university, but the senate refused
to go preferring to make laws and get
through business. FRASIER.
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