The herald., 1898-12-18
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Senator r. F. Dell Vale may get the
building and loan commissionership; that
is, if there is any
Chance for thing left after Gen
Del Vale eral Barrett gets
| what he wishes.
There are few, if any, men in the south who
have done as much for the Democracy as has
Del Vale and who have got as little in re-
turn. 1t is true that whenever there was
position without any salary attached and
lots of work, it was frequently offered to
Del; but let soft snap be vacant, and the
Barretts of the party fell into them.
! Mr.. V. Patton of Danville, Illinois, is in
the city. Mr.. Patton is one of the luckiest
men in the country,
He Struck as well as one of the
It Rich best hearted and
most philanthropic.
He has an income OF probably hundred
| thousand year, and he spends great por-
tion of it doing good He went into a
mine in British Columbia some time ago
and recently sold it for just less than
million. Everything he touches succeeds
and makes money for him, SO that it is only
question of his living long enough to be
one of the millionaires of the country, with
a reputation for money like the Goulds and
Rockefellers.
''The question of the inauguration is one
about which some lawyers are interested"
said Governorelect
inauguration ts,
Difficulty day There is diff
ference OF opinion
about it, which, while of no Importance
Is OF some interest. 1t seems that the con-
stitution provides that the governor shall
be inaugurated on the first Monday after
the first of January, which will be the second
proximo. The law also provides that the
governor shall serve four years from the
date of his Inauguration. Governor Budd
was inaugurated well along after the first,
on the eighth or eleventh, l forget which,
and his term of four years would be cut
short if he has to get out before the same
date in the coming January while Mr.. Gage
is entitled to his office on the second of the
month. 1t is understood that Mr. Gage will
hold that he should take Office on the second,
and there has been no intimation from Gov
ernor Budd that he would not acouesce, so
there will be no likelihood of the Seventh
being called out again or of 4 double COVER
nor.
Mr.. CAGE stood in his office yesterday
afternoon looking at his desk. There was
both regret and
oH WIN easiness expressed in
the Old his face. THAT is
the first time since
1851. he said that this desk has been cleared
OF papers. He had been at work all day, ar
ranging his law business and making all
preparations for his near departure for
Sacramento. "Do you know sometimes
feel sorry that | have won this fight" con-
tinued the governor. Il have enioyed INV
life as a lawyer and find that | have
changed from hard to harder work" But
this was while he was looking at his old
desk devoid of red-taped bundles of more
or less caustic verbiaye, devoid of immense
wads of typewriter documents, no demur-
rers, answers or complants it was the part
ing OF the ways for Mr.. Gage: it was off
with the old and on with the new. 1t will
be four years before he sits again in front
OF that desk and plunges into the problems
which balance life and property He showed
his soft hat down on his beetling mass of
hair, cast a glance about the dingy old of
fee, slammed the top down of the empty
desk, and with sigh took leave of the
place. He will probably not enter it again
until after his term expires, so a little senti-
ment may have been justiiable. 1t was in
that office and at work at that desk that he
made himself the man he is today, and that
is why he is to be the head of the greatest
state in the Union.
There has been a clearing out of the prac-
tical politicians for San Francisco prepar-
ing for the senatorial
POLITICAL fight, and now the
Exodus larger ones are follow
ing suit. Senator r..
y Bulla left yesterday noon and will remain
until the session opens, though he will be
most of the time at Sacramento, attending
to the duties he has as code commissioner.
Governor-elect Gage will taks his departure
tomorrow with his family, and will make his
way directly to Sacramento where he will
select home for his term. Al the colonies,
Flint, Parker and Osborne, have been at
the Palace for several days and tongue tied
Billy Dunn will follow this week. George
Stewart left last night, though what he is
going to do no one seems to know. Some
one suggested that he make the senatorial
run, as IAN unexpected pleasure Jimmy
Copeland goes Tuesday, Al Murphy is due
back from Mexico on Saturday. The game
will be hot and the bride will be off.
O O O
The orange growers will not get the re-
duction in freight rates that they intend |
to ask for, because |
Always Ready the railway compan-
to Reduce Rates les take the ground |
that such reduction
will not do the producers any good. "The |
thing has been tried with wine and BEANS"
said "a railway official to me yesterday, "and |
tine result was that the middlemen simply |
sold their wine and beans for the difference |
between, what they were asking and the re-
duction made to them Tt woulN he the |