The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-26
SEN ATE MESSAGES.

SENATE MESSAGES.
The following were received and read
in the Assembly:
Senate passed Senate substitute for
A. B. 444, relating to the appraisement
of the estates of deceased persons.
The House concurred in the substitute
which was sent to engrossment and en-
rollment.
| A. B. 291, relating to corporations,
amended and passed as amended
House concurred in amendments.
| The Senate concurred in Assembly
amendments to s. B. SO, to provide for
| inspection Of diaries.
! The Senate refused to concur in AS
sembly amendments to S. B. 56, relat-
l. ing to salaries Of Superior Judges. II
the House should not recede Senators
Cutter, Davis and Sims were appoint
ed as a committee Of conference. The
House refused to recede, and the
Speaker appointed for conference Cobb,
Caminetti and Mcdonald Of Tuolumne.
| The Senate having refused to concur
in the Assembly amendments to S. B.
96. ON motion of Knowland, the Assem-
bly, consented to recede.
The Senate had kindly looked after
the interests Of A. B. 52S. the "teach-
ers' salary fund bill,' which had been
sent from the Assembly minus an en-
acting clause. The Senate applied one
to fit and the Assembly concurred.
The Senate announced that it had
struck out the enacting clause of Chen
oweth's A. B. 800, amending the Act
to provide for creation of county fire
insurance companies.
GOVERNORS MESSAGES.
| The Governor to-day announced his
disapproval Of four bills:
| Assembly bills 2S7 and 2SS were class
ed together by the Governor, as they
form part of one coherent plan to give
| further assistants to the Clerk of the
Supreme Court. An additional chief
deputy of the Supreme Court is named
by bill 2S7, with a salary Of 81, 400
year, and one Of the other six deputies
is made a stenographer at a salary OF
81, 200. The measures further provide
that another chief deputy be hired at a
salary of $500 a year.
In disappearing of these bills the
Governor holds that there is no neces-
sity for additional clerical force in the
Supreme Court; that there has been no
difficulty whatever in conducting the
affairs of the office with the present
force; and that there are enough clerks
and assistants now to enable all of
them to have vacations each year-the
practice of giving vacations having
been in vogue for years.
In vetoing bill 293, which provides
for the expenditure of $1,000 by the
Clerk Of the Supreme Court for metallic
filing cases, the Governor raises the
objection that the bill provides for the
payment Of the debt proposed out of
funds now on hand or in sight; that
the amount asked for is greatly excess
sive. and that the dangerous and
vicious principle of allowing the clerk
to expend the sums asked for without
referring bills to the Board of Exam
liners is in the bill.
Sacramento, Feb. %, 1899.
To the Assembly of the State of Cali
fornia: herewith return to your hon.
orable body without my approval, and
with my objections thereto, Assembly
bill No. 15S.
I disapprove of this bill, because,
among other things, there is no limit
placed upon the appointing power Of
the board referred to in Section 10 of
the bill; no limit to the expense it may
incur; no limit to the price it may pay
the persons employed.
Under Section IS of said Act the
board therein referred to has power to
commission as quarantine guardians
such person or persons as in their judg-
ment may be deemed necessary. No
such tremendous power is lodged any,
n n q fa Off nd
unrestricted power should be vested
anywhere.
In the haste and confusion incident
to the great labor imposed upon your
honorable body, and the necessity OF
rapid legislation, this great oversight
has occurred.
There should be some restraint placed
upon the number of quarantine guard
lans, and some restraint placed upon
their compensation otherwise it is in
the power of the board referred to to
bankrupt the State.
Again, in Section 6, the Quarantine
officer is given power to enter, for the
purpose of search, into the private res
ldence of the citizen. 1t gives such off,
Ger the power to enter into
any warehouse, depot, dock, mole. or
any other place, within the limits of
| the State Of California etc.
This clause should be SO limited that
it could not be contended that the RICH !
of such quarantine officer entitled him
to search a private residence.
I The phrase cor any other place"
should be limited so that it would read:
Or any other place of business not a
private residence
Again, the Act attempts to fix Grim
inality upon the owner or persons in
charge or possession of any infected
trees, etc, if within a certain period
of time" there is failure or neglect or
refusal to disinfect or destroy such ar
ticles
Parties thus circumstanced should
nave reasonable period of time within
which to act, and they should not be
held criminally responsible unless they
willfully neglect or refuse to obey the
reasonable mandates of the Quarantine
Officer
| am in sympathy and accord with
legislation in behalf of the horticulture
lists of the State, and I regret exceed
lngly that there has been such negli-
gence in the drafting of measures de-
signed to benefit such interests within
this State. Laws should be so framed
| that thorough quarantine can be
maintained, and making it criminal
for any person willfully to violate them
Something on the lines of Assembly
bill 1oS should receive careful attention,
and I trust that a law may be framed
covering all its beneficial features,
WITHOUT the radical objections herein
mentioned, and that you may take the