The herald., 1897-03-16

ing received from Mr.. French the follow.
ing letter: s Rx
SAN JOSE, Cal. March 8, 1897
ssstafe Printer. Sacramento, Cal.-My
Dear sir: 1 want to write you line IN
strict confidence and ask your assistance
in killing Budd's pet bill before the leg
islature, assembly bill 6SS and senate
bill 494 am just in receipt of letter
from Varcoe, enrolling clerk of the as
sembly, who assures me can count or
your cheerful cooperation. You will
probablyremember me as one of the wal
horses that left my business and spent
q weeksin Sacramento, at my own ex-
pense, at the last legislature to kill No
SIG, and did not return home until the
flowers withered from the funeral cere-
monies.
"You will perceive that bill 6SS and
senate bill 494 are identical, and the hope
is that if the one is killed the other will
go through.
IT know you have sufficient confidence
in my integrity and loyalty to the tax
payers of this state to know that IL
was not thoroughly confident of their
vicious nature that / would be en-
gagged in securing their passage instead
of their defeat. know you are in pos
ition to kill these bills. and I am
backed by influential friends of yours
in asking you to do so, and If you ever
want anything from Santa Clara county
kindly communicate with
Yours respectfully.
(Signed) HENRY FRENCH"
See Frank Brandor-I think he will
do anything he can. Confidentially.
Mr.. Frank Brandon, chief clerk of the
senate. received from Mr.. French the
following letter:
Hon. Frank Brandon, Chief Clerk of
Senate, State Capitol. Sacramento-My
Dear Friend: / want to write to you in
strict confidence and invoke your as
sistance in killing assembly bill 6SS and
senate bill 494. ! have just discovered
a rotten scheme that lies behind these
bills, and am thoroughly confident that
S. T. Black and the principals of three
normal schools are working in hand,
with the governors approval. The de-
tails / will give you in fun the first time
we meet, but know you have sufficient
tollbothtC IA my liAtN SAANS - @>ttO'' NAAe%e
these bills, while innocent on the sur
face. are vicious legislation, and the
highest and best interests of the state
normal schools demand their extermina-
tion.
Nov, I don't expect you to jeopar-
die anything by making an open fight.
but 1 know you are in position to kill
them If YOU want to-
Count on me as your sincere friend
always. Very respectfully.
"HENRY FRENCH"
"Confer with State Printer Johnston;
can't trust Black
The letter to Nh. Johnson contained
the language: Il hope you are in a posi-
tion to kill these bills. And see Frank
think he will do anything he
can (confidentially)."
In the Letter to Mr.. Brandon the words:
Snow, don't expect you to jeopardize
anything to make an open fight. but
] know you are in position to kill them
if you want to- and the fact appears
from this letter to Mr. Johnstone that
he was in correspondence on the same
subject with Mr.. john Varcoe, enrolling
clerk of the assembly. The state printer
was in no manner to blame for the
changes in bill 494 that would have
KILLED" it, nor was Mr.. Brandon. The
fact remains, however, that the bill was
twice so dealt with after it had.properly
passed, and that 1t contained matters
therein Inserted which would most eff
fectually have killed it, had the error
not been discovered.
The danger of defeat of deserving
measures during the closing days of the
session would be so very easy by such
methods that every safeguard should be
thrown around them. The eheaviest pen
alties should be attached to any secret,
confidential request made of officers
handling them to interest themselves in
any manner whatever in their defeat.
JAMES H. BUDD,
March Is, 1897. Governor.
The governor is very indignant with
French for abusing his confidence and
has removed him summarily from his
trusteeship and appointed his sue
cessor.
This afternoon the case of the en-
TOlllUS cdSt WAS lllNeSllSdleu. IL dp-
pears, however, probable that his mis-
takes were accidental, although in view
of French's letter they were open to
grave suspicion.
The senate this afternoon passed the
etate lunacy law
A good deal of Indignation is felt
against Mayor Phelan of San Francisco
for trying to defeat the state road laws
because they helped the country dis
tricts and not directly the city of San
Francisco. There is a feeling that that
town wants to get everything and give
nothing to the rest of the state.
The committee investigating the state
printing office made a lengthy report in
which they suggest number of inn
provements, but say, 1--WE find no evil
dence of waste or extravaganza in the
use or purchase of stock or the en-
ployment of labor at the present time"
It's understood there will be no in
vestigation Of the coyote bounty bill
scandal, as the time is too short and
suits against the Examiner for libel are
being prepared by Powers and others
implicated. FRASIER.
BUDD'S VIGILANCE
Leads to a Suggestion of Some Needed Lcgisla-