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be done through advertising for bids.
and that vouchers for all bills would
be furnished with the report.
Senator Aram said that the decora-
tlons would be the most expensive
part. The committee had had confer
enceS with a number of persons, and
had found a firm in this city that
would furnish them at a very reason
able price. He would like for the FL
nance Committee to consult with the
Capitol Committee and see what was
| necessary to be done. The figures are
less than those of four years ago, and
the decorations finer.
Mr.. Weinstock thought it would be
we'll to hear all the committees. 1T
| might be found that the aggregate
| was beyond the committees means.
He thought the Reception and Invita-
| ton Committee should be enlarged to
/ twenty-five from Sacramento and fifty
/ from abroad. and that invitations
! should be sent out to leading men Of
| the State, asking them to take part III
| the committee, and that seventy-five
| badges for the committee should be
| printed. The committee would like
/ also TO have the Executive Committee
estimate the number of tickets to be
, given to the various papers, and how
! to issue the invitations to them.
| General Sheehan suggested that in
| vitations be extended to the leading
| newspapers Of the State, and that they
| be notified that the tickets could be
procured on the day of the ball. 1t
/ NO IAo1 Mo 70 hay H11t
| before, as there are a number of peo
| pie who write to the country papers
and offer to represent them, and the
tickets come back here, and are used
| by people who have no business with
them. The small papers will not
come, and would not write up the ball
| if they did.
On motion of Mr. Wilson, General
Sheehan was added to the Invitation
| Committee, and the whole matter Of
press tickets was referred to it, with
| power to act.
D. w. Carmichael, for the Music
Committee, reported, recommending
that Neale's Orchestra be given charge
| Of the Assembly chamber. with ten
pieces, at $3.50, and Professor Hand
have charge of the Senate chamber,
with eight pieces and piano, for 81;
| that the Lyric Quartet sing a song in
each chamber, for $40, and that there
be concert music in the rotunda until
u clock, at $40.
The report was received and placed
on file.
Judge Hughes reported for the Ban
quet Committee that there would be
| in all probability from 1900 to 1,5D
to feed. and that the committee
| thought the banquet would cost 81, 500,
besides the wine. The committee eX-
pected to get it's chairs from the new
Pavilion, through the kindness of E. F.
| Smith. The committee would also
want some reliable men to guard the
doors and keep intruders out. The
guests would be admitted to the hail
| by two StairWayS, all other avenues
being closed, and when enough had
been admitted the doors would be
closed.
The cost of the banquet at Governor
Markham's inaugural ball was 81 200
and at Governor Budd's 81, 1O5. He
thought it would be we'll that those
who We're entitled to tickets should be
furnished with badges, so that if in
truders gained entrance they could be
elected.
Al Lindley moved that the Printing
Committee be allowed $3.50 for the
work it has to do, so that it may get
to work
Judge Hughes moved that the FL
nance Committee be requested to meet
with the Capitol and Decoration Com
mittee and consult as to necessary dec
orations. Carried.
Mr.. Carmichael asked what the FL
nance Committee had done in regard
to San Francisco and Oakland. He
thought the committee could get 81 600
to 81 200 from San Francisco, half as
much from Los Angeles, and some
thing from Stockton and other places
He thought the committee should
know something concerning the pros
poets soon. He believed it would yield
large returns in Los Angeles and San
Francisco if placed in the proper
hands
Mr. Lindley thought at least $500
worth of tickets could be sold in Los
Angeles.
Mr.. Wilson said that as soon as the
tickets are printed they will be placed
| in the hands of committees in the cit
! les named
Judge Hughes asked the co-opera-
| ton of the committees for the closing
of the we'll in the Capitol, and prohibi-
| tiOn of sale of liquor in the building,
which made so much trouble last time.
| The committee then adjourned till
next Wednesday night