The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
STATE PRINTING IS THE FEATURE.
Each Department Is to Pay for Its Own Work Out Of
Special Fund That Is Considered Sufficient to
Garry It on Two Years.

=. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
GENTO, Feb, 24.-After a month OF the
hardest kind OF work. Chairman Nalen-
tine OF the Ways and Means Committee
got the general appropriation bill intro
duced in the Assembly this evening.
From a comparative standpoint, II is not
e remarkable document. It carries but
one or two radical changes from the am
nibus bill OF 1887; none OF the funds OF
State institutions are severely sliced,
neither have any of them been increased
10 e noticeable extent
The military appropriation IS increased
enough so as to cover the expense Of the
new naval battalion. The district agri-
cultural societies were the greatest suf-
ferers under the pruning knife They were
ell cut down from $500 TO $1,000 less than
the figures of previous years. Governor
Cages pin money fund-Oficially desig-
mated as his secret service fund-reInains
the same, $4,000, but g slight reduction
is made IN the amount allowed him with
which TO pay State rewards for the appre-
hension of criminals
The feature of the bill that is unusual is
the product of the fertile brain Of Valen-
tine himself. It carries no appropriation
for the State printing office, saving OF
course the salary Of State Printer John
ston-
Instead each Of the State departments is
allowed a sufficient sum 10 pay for the
cal years 10 come and each SHAH nave us
printing done at the State office and pay
for 1t out OF the funds SO provided.
Last years appropriation, which was
vetoed by Governor Budd, amounted 20
$4,000; the aggregate OF printing funds
about the same figure.
1t is evident that some agreement has
been arrived at between Governor Gage
and the Legislature with regard to the
. funds for district agricultural fairs La : I
session there was tacit agreement IN TIE
d. Legislature TO pass both the appropriation
for the State fair and the appropriations
d, for the agricultural districts. If one could
not be passed then the other should not
be. Both bills were 10 stand OF fau 10
Eether. Both were passed, but Governor
Budd vetoed the district apportoument
and left the State fund. A mighty howl
went mn from the rural districts forth
with. This year it is understood that
both items wiz receive the Governors
lions have been cut down approximately
oua-thfrd to meet Governor Cages IDEA
The total National Guard appropriation
IS 1895 $40 66. II is divided up as follows:
Salary adtutant general, S6Vg0; salary as as
sistant adjutant general, $5sg95 saIary
clerk 10 adjutant general, $S2JV; salery
clerk and porter 10 adjutant general, $Z4Oo;
for postage. etc. 500; care of State ar
7nory Cleaning and transportation of
arms, travelling and contingent expenses
of adjutant general, $500; armory rents
and other expenses OF National Guard
S161. 500; uniforms, oNercoats anu qL I1- ter
master stores. $4,000; division headquaT-
ferS 1920: brigade inaccuracies SotzV'
regimeutal headquarters and bands, Sl5,
i5{; annual allowance National Guard,
s3f 166 Sc; coal and supplies for training
shin of the naval battalion, 5000; travel
ing expenses of officers on detail duty,
$4,000 target practice and medals, SoO09;
hospital supplies, $1,000; encampment al
iowances, $50 600; printing, binding, ETC.,
The State Mining Bureau gets $50. 900,
but with the prOvisO that SZO,uO0 OF IL
shall be spent in a scientific examination
OF the mother lode and the oil districts;
The amount allowed for salaries IN the
State Bureau of Highways is but S6VV0, a
reduction Of $4,000. made necessary be
cause of the fact that two OF the ofnces
IA the commission are 70 be abohshed.
The matter Of legislative expenses is no
small one The per diem and salary or
The Lieutenant Governor and Senator's
figures S21. 500; Assemblymen, S42 600.
For the pay of the attaches OF the SEN
> ate S21 90 is allowed $4,000 more than last
YEAR. The Assembly is allowed for the
same purpose SOS 800. Last sessions ap-
preparation was $4,000. The appropria-
lions OF 1897 were based on the Belshaw
law and figured for sixty days. This
wear the Belshaw act is dead and the per
diem is figured a seventy day basis.
Following is the bill in brief:
Section / The following sums OF money are