The herald., 1897-04-02

did so because 1t was already provided
for by statute. For striking out the
$4,000 for the school text book depart
ment he gave the same reasons he did
for striking out the $685. 900 for the sup
port Of the state printing Office, and in
addition said: 1.-THE superintendent of
state printing has failed to make to
me reports required by law, and has
made reports which are misleading and
from which it appeared that it required
SAG, 900 to do $94, 900 worth of work"
He further stated that he was con-
vinced that extravaganza existed In the
state printing office; that experts ap-
pointed had reported many irregulari-
ties; that no proper time books or stock
books were kept and inexperienced help
employed.
The appropriation of $26o0 for i'm
provements to the Preston schooLof in.
dustry was vetoed because the governor
thought it had no right in the general
bill The appropriation of $35, 900 for the
Santa Clara state school was vetoed be-
cause the school had not been estab-
lished.
Marin county's appropriation of $4229 so
was vetoed because the governor thought
it was unconstitutional. The 100000 for
the Yountville home met with the same
fate because it was provided for in an
other law. The appropriation of $4,000
for the department of viticulture. $4,000
for forestry stations and $4,000 for the
department of agriculture of the state
university, were stricken out because
the university could provide for them
out of other funds. and because the ap-
propriations were excessive. All ap-
preparations for district agricultural
fairs were vetoed on the ground that the
financial condition of the state would
not warrant the expenditure.
Among other bills that go by the
board are those providing for the pay
n,ent of coyote scalp bounties and the
sum allowed Major Pico for expenditures
incurred by him in equipping a bat
talon of union soldiers during the war
The major is very wroth tonight. Three
legislatures have allowed him this
money, but Governor Markham pock-
eted his bill once and Gov Budd twice.
Pico declares that he will publish
proclamation in which he will inform
the public why Governor Budd refused
to sign his bill.
Other state officials declare that the
governor is wrong in his conclusion that
the board of examiners may allow de-
f1ciency claims where the general ap-
preparation has been stricken out. It is
only in cases where there are appropri-
ations, but insufficient ones, that a de-
ficiency can be allowed, say these other
officials. and there is much feeling mani
tested here in official and other circles
over the governors action,
BILLS SIGNED.
The bills signed besides the general
appropriation bill were:
S. B. 292 to provide for the deficiency
In the appropriation for the support and
maintenance of the widows and orphans
of union soldiers, sailors and marines.
and for ex-union army nurses residing
at Evergreen. in the county of Santa
Clara, at the home in said county, and
under the auspices Of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps Home association for the
forty-eighth fiscal year.
s. B. 31S, for the protection and pres
ervation Of public highways from dam
age by storm waters and floods, and to
authorize the expenditure of public
moneys for the purposes thereof.
s. B. $50, to amend sections 1868, $685.,
3S05. ss17, $500. 1921. 1895, 1858, 1858 an6
1897 of the political code; to add to said
code five new sections to be numbered
sections 37S7, 8739. 9776, 9777 and 1918,
and to repeal sections 342S and 4OSS Of
said code, all Of said sections relating 20
public lands and revenue and taxation.
Senate substitute for S. B. $40, BAL, 342
and 343 for improvements at the Preston
school of industry.
S. B. $40, for the purchase of additional
land for the Preston school of industry
at lone.
s. B. BAT, making an appropriation to
pay the deficiency in the appropriation
for the contingent expenses of the SEN
ate, thirty-flrst session, California leg
islature.
s. B. $40, to amend section S495 of the
political code by adding provision rel
ative to adverse occupations.
S. B. 81, an act making an appropria-
tion for enlarging the laundry of the
Southern California state asylum for the
insane and inebriates to double its pres
ent capacity.
S. B. 119, to appropriate $4,000 for
the erection of an administration build
ing for the use and occupancy of the
officers employees and patients of the
Mendocino asylum. to purchase furni-
ture and furnish the same.
S. B. 1856, an act to establish a uniform
system of county and township govern
ments.
8. B. 422, to amend sections 1895, 1897,
1898. 1900, 1912, 1918. 1918, 1919 1924. 1886,
1945. 1862, 1866. 1866, 1870, 1874. 1876. 1881,
1882. 1884, 1886. 1890, 2O06 2007 2O1S, 2O22,
2076. 2OS4. 2094, 209s and 2105 of the po-
litical code, and to repeal section 2101
thereof. and to add two new sections
thereto, to be known as sections 200S and
2009 all relating to the National Guard
of California
S. B. 443-Amending section 1853; an act
to provide for the organization, incor-
poration and government of municipal
corporations, approved March 2. 1883.
S. B. 4S3 to amend an act to provide
for the classification of the municipal
corporations, approved March 13, 1883.
s. B. sol. to provide for the funding