The San Francisco call., 1899-04-01
APPROPRIATIONS
VAINLY GRAN TED
Efforts of Legislators
Undone=
BILLS VETOED OR PoCKETED
MR. GAGE STRIKES OUT MANY
CLAIMS.
The Governor Saves to the State Over
Two and Half Million Dollars
by Withholding his
Signature.
BILLS VETOED OR P0CKETED
MR. GAGE STRIKES OUT MANY
CLAIMS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO, April 1.-The follow
ing is a list Of bills carrying appropria-
tions vetoed or pocketed by Governor
Gage:
Improvements, Whittier School, $4,000:
purchase of land for Folsom Prison, $4,000;
quarantine officer, Board Of Horticulture,
5000; claim, Board of horticulture,
1881 Ol; expert to Australia, $500; claim
of 2. n. Strout 5000; claim of l. H. Polk,
S77O9 80; metallic cases, Clerk Of the Su-
preme Court, 600; mileage, attending
Normal School convention, S6S9 so; metal
lie cases, State Library, $4,000; pur-
chase Of lumber and fencing for Pres
Ton School, $500; metallic cases,
road on west shore of Lake Ia
hoe, $4,000; additional room, Normal
School, San Jose, 10000; management of
Veteran Volunteer Firemans Association,
5000; clair1 Of a. L. Wood, $500; Commits
sioner of Irrigation, $4,000; claim of Tai
bot h Wallis, S6S4S 13; claim of Claus
Spreckels, $4,000; indeXing opinions Of
Attorney General, $1,000; .ood6 deficiency, i6
ficiency, repairs of Capitol building,
$4,000; boring well on Capitol grounds,
$500; concrete wall, Stockton Hospi-
tai, 5000; deficiency, stationery, lights
and fuel, 1851 9S; deficiency, station
cry, lights and fuel, $500; claim of
city of Sacramento for water furnished,
water furnished, $500; building Folsom
road, $4,000; State Board of Charities,
5000; deficiency, repairs of Capitol
5gllding IbtDE S252P a55 deficiency purchase Of
stationery, lights ard fuel, $4,000; Pacific
Ocean Exposition, $3.50 900; authorizing
counties to raise by taxation $4,000 for ex-
hibits at foreign and domestic expositions,
81 counties, $50, 900; besides the last named
bill, failed to approve bill authorizing mu-
niclpal corporations TO raise, for like pur-
pose, an unlimited amount; claim of w.
II. Murray, 1890; cksim of J. z. Edison,
1887; claim of Louise Rienzi $3.50 II; claim
of J. e. Atkinson, $4,000; claim of Thomas
s45,616 80; claim of ]. w. Sibole, $S75; State
Game Warden $4,000; deficiency, contiu-
gent expenses, Clerk of the Supreme
Court, 5000; State Board of Health ex-
perts. to examine purity of food, 500 900;
wagon road TO Yosemite Valley, $50. 900; i'm
proVement of San Diego harbor, 500 600:
improvement of Oakland harbor, 500 600;
inspection of dairies, $4,000; furnishing
administration building Mendocino hos
pital, S11, 800; metallic cases, State Treas
urer, $500; Improvement Mendocno hos
pital, $40, 900; claim of L. Dunnigan, $4,000;
Improvement Deaf and Dumb and Blind
Asylum, $4,000; claim of William M Sui
Ivan, 1900; release of ]. n. E Wilson
from Indebtedness to State, S4371; COM
pletion of main building, Home for Feeble
minded Children, sS7 500; laundry,
lighting and heating, Home Feeble-mind-
ed Children. $500; water supply, Home of
Feeble minded Children, $40 300; relief of
J; A Holt, $25QO; establish water system,
Preston School, $1,000; ice plant Preston
School, $500; tools and books, Preston
School, $1,000; purchase of land, Napa
State Hospital, $4,000 claim of Goodalf,
Perkins & Co, S2345 70; claim of Addie
McGinness, $4,000; improvements Univer-
sity and Affiliated Colleges. $43, 900; com
mission to test voting. machines, $1,000;
metallic cases. Superintendent of Public
INSTRUCTION, $780, improvements, Indus
trial Home of Mechanical Trades. $4,000;
deficiency, Attorney General, $3.50: Cotton
Hall trustees, $500; deficiency. Code Com
missiOners, S227S 84; claim c. A. Williams,
$Sl is; claim of Scott Calhoun. 5000; claim
of Encinal Publishing Company, S4O0;
claim Bancroft, Whitney & Co. Sl150 90:
transfer from general fund to school book
fund, s25 900; erection of Municipal
Hospital, San Francisco, $780, 600; extend
Ing seawal, San Francisco harbor. be-
sides being a tax OF $1,000. 900, with inter
est, on the shipping interests there would
be a direct tax upon the people, under
article XVI Of the constitution requiring
the publication of such law, in every
county, at a very low estimate of $50 .0Oj
appointing agent to collect war claims due
the State to the amount of 1885, 9I5 42 at
10 per cent, 1895. .19l "a; prevention cruelty
TO animals, S205, 200. Total, s2676, ,l31 "a.