The herald., 1897-03-16
COZ. BUDD BOUNCES
TRUSTEE Mr.. FRENCH
For Trying to Exercise III
fluence
TEMPERED WITH ENROLLING CLERK
And Tried to Kill Bills After
Passage
SENATE BILL NUMBER 4o4
Was Not Liked by the Late Normal
Trustee
Employees Asked to Be Kind Enough to
XIII 1t
Twice the Bill Was Sent TO the Gov
| ernor for His Signature and Twice
the Governor Detected
the Error
Was Not Liked by the Late Normal
Trustee
Employees Asked to Be Kind Enough to
Kill II
Twice the Bill Was Sent TO the Gov
ernor for His Signature and Twice
the Governor Detected
the Error

Special to The Herald
SACRAMENTO, March 15.-We have
a new scandal today and this time the
Prohibition party is the sufferer. 1t Will
be remembered that when Governor Budd
vas making his campaign in 1894 he
spoke one night at Fresno. The same
night Henry French, Prohibition can
didate for governor, was in town, and
en- Budds invitation he spoke from the
same platform, telling his audience that
il they could not vote for the Prohi-
bition ticket to vote for Budd. In recog-
milton of this support one of the gov
ernors first appointments was French as
trustee of the Normal school at San Jose.
This session Bulla introduced what was
known as the general normal school
BILL covering all normal schools. The
bill has passed both houses and gone
to the governor French was opposed to
the bill and has written all over the
state to Prohibitionists to write to
friends here to oppose the bill. That was
legitimate enough so long as he con-
fined himself to trying to influence mem-
bers of the legislature not to vote for
to kill the bill, as the following message
Of the governor shows:
To the Honorable Legislature of the
State of California:
Gentlemen-On February 25th, by .
vote of 29 to 1, senate bill No. 494 was
passed by the senate. ca March 4th.
upon it's consideration by the assembly
it was amended, and on March 8th by
a vote of As to 1t passed that body as
amended. On March 9th, by vote of
50 to 0, the senate refused to concur in
the assembly amendments, and on March
11th, by vote of Al to T. the assembly
receded therefrom. The bill was returned
from the house to the senate. and or
dered to enrolment. On March 18th.
what purported to be senate bill No. 494
was handed to the presiding officers and
chief clerks Of your two bodies as duly
enrolled, and therefore was by them
certified to me. The document certified
to me- however, was not senate bill No.
494 as 1t passed, but contained provisions
not contained In the true bill, and had
1t been approved as certified to me. the
result would have been that the bill
as passed would have been KILLED"
This fact being brought to the atten-
ton of the proper officers, second docu-
ment purporting to be said senate bill
was transmitted to this office, but not
accepted, as 1t was found not to be the
true bill, or the bill as passed. Later,
senate bill No. 494 as it passed, was prop
erly delivered to this Office.
In view of these facts. and Of certain
foI, fvov, k<.r
1 desire to recommend that your hon.
orable bodies, under a suspension Of
rules, pass a bill making 1t felony.
with severest penalty, for any person.
directly or indirectly, to write. tele-
graph, telephone or in any manner ap-
proach one of the officials through
whose hands bill must pass, requesting
that official to blockade that bill, or to
use his position to kill the same. or T.
take any part for or against any meas
ure before the legislature. The legisla-
ture itself, which passes all bills. IL the
proper body to which appeals should be
made, and II appeals are permitted to
be made to clerks of said bodies. or per-
sons who may control or be employed
in the printing of bills, that q bill b
may be introduced unknown to the laws
for the defeat of measures after their
passage.
1t is now felony to alter bill: =
should be felony for any clerk or en-
ploye Of your honorable bodies to lobby
for bill, or for any person to suggest
that they in any manner take part u
legislative proceedings-other than y
the proper discharge of their duties,
Had the bill in question been delivered
later in the session. or the blunder ~
manned undiscovered, even the aignA~
ture Of the governor would not have
made law out of measure which your
honorable bodies so almost unanimcusly
passed. The change of & word or ,
phrase in the printing Of a bill may. ~
der our constitution, blockade and ~
1t.
On March ., Mr.. Henry French of -
Jose telegraphed to the state printer -
follows: n n
SAN JOSE. Cal. March 3, IN
"A. ]. Johnston (Personal),< eoo1o
Printer. Sacramento: Blockade aroeu-
bly, bill 6ss and senate bill ~ until Nnx
letter reaches you. +
HENRY HRHlNt<l>
on the same day he sent an id9u(1 -
telegram to Mr.. Brandon. chiof elc1 q
the sonata Neithex e tl|ooe +