The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-27
SENATORS AND
ASSEMBLY MEN
COME TO TOWN
Legislative Quorum
Present.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAMSHlPS
FOUR CANDIDATES TO HEAD
WAYS AND MEANS.
Lieutenant Governor Neff Listens to
Hints About the Organization
of the Senate for the
Coming Session.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAISHlPS
FOUR CANDIDATES TO HEAD
WAYS AND MEANS.

There was a quorum of the next Legis-
lature in San Francisco yesterday ana
many of the newly elected AssemplyIieh
and several Of the hold-over senators as
sembled at the Palace Hotel just aIter the
Wisconsin was launched. The ARRIVAL OF
Governor-elect Gage and the event at Tue
Union Iron Works attracted the IeslSAa-
tors to the city.
Much of the gossip around the Palace
had reference to legislative affairs Inc
United States Senatorship was dlscussed
and many opinions were expressed as TO
the preference OF individual members OIL
the Legislature.
Among the guests aboard lne l1 No. ~
Commissioners boat, the Governor Marx Marx
ham, were Senator's Dickinson, Bulla'
Morehouse Boyce and Prisk, and Assem-
blyman Howard Wright. AT, naeS Sei Igio and
talked of cruisers, gunboats, battleshlps
and torpedo craft. us of
Later in the day at the headquartel5s III
the Republican State committee ana IN
the court and corridors of the PaIace
Hotel political topics engaged the allen-
ton of visiting and resident staIesHInneaaf
MANY a. hint was dropped to JACOB Neil,
Lieutenant Governor-elect, concerning the
good qualities of this or that state sen
ator for service on some lmporlant cOiL-
mittee The Lieutenant Governor may
have some trouble in arranging committee
chairmanships to the entire satisfaction OF
the Senate but his difficulties will be trlv,
Wright as Speaker of the Assembly, Will
encounter when the time comes for max
ing up the committee lists or the lower
house Already four AssembIymen aspire
to the position of chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee. Henry e. D1bble,
Grove L. Johnson, c. M. Belshaw ana l..
II. Valentine are candidates for this po-
Republican leaders recognize that the
party will be held responsible for the acts
of the incoming Legislature The Re-
,At111 nrfr
ment and both branches of the Legtsla-
ture, and will therefore be held account
able for all appropriations of public
money.
Some of the politicians perceive. an ele-
ment of danger to the party in the mag
nitude of the Republican majority. Should
the various State institutions and COM
missions applying for allowances or
money combine, as they did in the noto-
rious Buckley Legislature OF 1889, a
strength sufficient to overcome the OBJ
jections of the executive department
might be rallied. Assemblyman Wright
does not apprehend danger in this re,
strength of the conservative forces 10
hold the Legislature in check.
Whatever, may be said concerning l,si me the
people generally build their hopes OF
economical administration on the firm
ness of the chief executive officer.
The chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee can accomplish much good in
keeping appropriations within proper
limit. At the recent convention of min
ers Governor Budd expressed regret that
Senator VOORHEES, had retired from legis-
lative service, remarking that the ANA
dor Senator, as chairman of that com
mittee. had saved the State a million dol
lars Senator S. c. Smith of Kern Coun-
ty is spoken of as a man possessing many
of the qualities that a chairman of the
Finance Commiee should possess.
The coyote claims are bound to engage
the attention of the incoming Legislature.
1t is said that the claims are now in the
hands of few respected bankers, and
that the work of handling the bill for
the payment of bounties will not be in
trusted to talkative agents.