The San Francisco call., 1899-03-31
City of DR.. Pardee Is
CinChed.
ED ANIMALS CHEST SUNK Il
LEAVITT'S BILLS Kill
FRANK JORDAN WINS HIS ONLY
BATTLE.
Even the Transposition of a Noted
Poem seems to Have Slipped
the Memory of the
Governor.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call


9OS Broadway, March 30.
Oakland IS in sackcloth and ashes. Sew
eraI messages have been sent to Sacra-
mento to-day concerning the pocketIng OF
certain bills, and the answer has lnYarl-
ably been the same. Not a single bill in
which Alameda County had an interest
except one has become a law.
Governor Gage has not been generous
to the city wherein lives DR.. Pardee
Many think he has not been ordinarily
kind, while just a few think he has been
positively mean if not unjust. Among
This latter class is a host of disappointed
deputies, who We're banking their all on
the Governor signing the many pllls
amending the county government act.
Oakland will not have harbor com
mission the various departments OF the
county government will have to struggle
along without assistance more than that
allowed two years ago, and even the State
University is not to have its new build
ing.
Yet Governor Gage is being highly com
mended for the relief he has affored Oak
land in one particular. For two years the
little shivering daughters of John c. Pei
ton, the States pioneer schoolteacher,
have been peddling their father 5 poems
on the trains, and they have been toll
Grated in the hope that in the future
some Legislature might grant the old
pedagogue relief. Governor Gage has
signed the bill granting Mr.. Pelton $1,000,
and for a year al least he will not be IN
need. This may be a small return to the
party for six months Of shouting for Mr..
Gage, but it is better than nothing.
The claims of Oakland certainly have
not received the recognition from the
Governor to which many think they are
entitled. At the last Republican State
convention everybody knows what Ala
media County did. A large portion of it
went to Sacramento and howled and
hOwled for its favorlte candidate, as 1t
had a right to do. They were even pre-
pared with a ready made song TO cele-
brate the victory of DR.. Pardee after he
should have been nominated. With un-
swerving fidelity to their party the Ala
media County contingent, seeing that their
choice was not to get the plum, called
meeting of their committee on poetry,
and with the assistance of Cal Ewing,
posed the poem. Anybody knows what a
hard task it must have been to transpOse
rhythmically correct by. substituting
Gage" However, the task was success
fully completed, and although 1t might
have tasted something like crow to tur-
key appetite the alameda Solfd'' hOWled
it Just as Justify for the Governor
Now he has had his revenge for that
The greatest surprise is the pocketing
of Senator LeaVitts pet measure creating
a Harbor Commission for Oakland. The
Senator from the moment he was noml-
mated never WaVered a particle in his
allegiance to Mr.. Gage and his friends
especially Colonel Burns During the lat
ter part of the Legislature the most
prominent Burns man at Sacramento was
Senator LeaYttt, and 1t was confidently
expected JIldI MS measure dL lSdSl NOutQ
receive the official sanction. But it is
dead as are also the Senator's two other
bills for arranging the salary for the
Harbor Commissioners, and for apprOpri-
ating 800 900 for maintaining the commIs-
sion and building WharveS.
Auditor Cal Ewing and Assessor Dali
ton, and to a lesser degree District At
torney Allen and the Coroner and Re-
corder and the Sheriff are particularly
sorrowful. All have been in Sacramento for
weeks, incurring heavy expensen for the
purpose of boosting along their own little
fights. and all have landed in the same
tureen. Their Wretchedness is not ale
waited by the thought of the heroic work,
including the surgery of the celebrated
poem, that they did last fall for the man
from Los Angeles.
These actions of the Governor leave the
immense patronage of the harbor, con-
sisting of a wharfinger at 800 per month,
in the hands of the City Council, and has
given increased hope to the nineteen can
didates who will struggle next Monday
night for the appointment.
Out of nine members of the LegiSla-
ture from this county, four voted for Mr.
Cages friend Burns for Senator. The
county is now attempting to figure out
how much more 1t might have received
at the hands of the Governor had the
delegation been a unit for Mr.. Herrin' s
candidate and if its people had not earned
the title of rice eaters by proClaiming
so strongly against Mr.. Burns at the time
of the detection Of the member from