The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-19
GAGE DENIES
SAN FRANCISCO
4 NEW HOSPITAL
Vetoes the Bill Provid-
ing for One. }
REASONS FOR HIS ACTION
THINKS THE NEW CHARTER
WILL GIVE AUTHORITY.
The Bill Offered by Sullivan Had
Passed Both Houses without
the Least Opposition From
Any Quarter.
REASONS FOR HIS ACTION
THINKS THE NEW CHARTER
WILL GIVE AUTHORITY.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Feb Ex-Governor Gage has de-
cded that the people of San Francisco
have no right to build a decent hospital
for the city and county's sick. He I'M
parted this information to the Legislature
in a message sent to both houses to-day,
announcing that he had vetoed Assembly
bill 243, and giving his reasons for so do
ing.
The bill was introduced by Assembly
man E. D. Sullivan early in the session
and experienced no difficulty in its pass
age through the Legislature. 1t was &C
cepted as request from the people of San
Francisco, who desiEed to build a new hos
pital and could not do so without she
permission of the State. The Board OF
Supervisors of that city decided to DO the
work some months ago and proceeded as
far as having competitive plans drawn
before it discovered that without leGlsia-
tive enactment 1t had no right to proceed.
The bill introduced by Assemblynan Sui
livan was designed to remedy this defect
in the law.
Governor Cages message is self-explan-
atory and reads as follows:
Executive Department State of California
SACRAMENTO, Feb. IL, 1882
To the Assembly of the State OF Calttornia'
herewith return to your honorable oooy, WIN
out my approval, Assembly Dill NO. -so' WIN
my objections thereto.
This bill gives power to the common Coun-
porations of the first class to erect and fur-
nish, at the expense of such corporations,
an ad Valorem property tax on all property,
real and personal, within the limits OF sucn
penditures being $500, 900, and providing for the
levying of the tax for such purpose IN the
ifty-frst fiscal year, and not otherwise -
1t is apparent from the tenor OF the Dill
that the object in fixing the limit OF exPendi-
tnre vas TO Of the state eonsttution
which reads as follows;
ner create any debt or debts, liability or
liabilities, which shall singly or in the as
gregate with any previous debts or Liabilities.
exceed the sum of SS00G00 except IN case OF
to repel invasion or TO suppress insured
ton, unless the same shall be authorized by
law some single object or work TO De dis
tinctly specified therein, which law shall pro
vide ways and means exclusive Of loans, for
the payment of the interest of such debt or
liability 1T falls due, and also to pay and
discharge the principal OF such debt or La
bility within twenty years of the time of the
contracting thereof, and shall be irrepealable
until the principal and interest thereon snai
take effect until, at a general election, 1t
shall have been submitted TO the people and
shall have received majority of all the votes
cast for and against it at such election; and
all moneys raised by authority of such law !
shall be applied only to the specific object
therein stated. or to the payment Of the debt
thereby created, and such law shall be pub !
county or city and county, If one be pub |
lfshed therein, throughout the State, for three |
months next preceding the election at which
1t is submitted to the people. The Legisla-
ture may at any time after the approval OF
such law by the people. if no debts shall have
contracted in pursuance thereof repeal the
AS the city and county Of San Francisco is
in requiring this tax levy to be made in the
ffty-frst fiscal year TO evade the provisions
1t was likewise the object of this bill, in
view of the proposed large expenditure, TO es-
the constitution. which reads follows:
mo county. city, town. township, Board of
Indebtedness liability. in any manner, or
for any purpose, exceeding in any year the
income and revenue provided for 1t for such
year without the assent of two-thirds of the
qualified electors thereof, voting at an election
or at the time of mourning such Indebtedness
provision shall be made for the collection OF
an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on
such indebtedness as it falls due, and also pro-
vision to constitute a sinking fund for the pay
ment of the principal thereof on or before ma
turity which shall not exceed forty years from
the time of contracting the same: Any lndebt-
provision shall be void
II these were not the objects. and If the bill
eniy. then the bill is wholly idle, because by
subdivision 81, section 81 article 3. of AN act
TO provide for the
(approved March 10, 1889. municipal corpora
t to Establish municipal hospital. Said sub
DIVISION reads follows:
city and county hospital, smallpox hospi-
tai and such other institutions of the same
character are or may be necessary, and to
perpetuate such institutions may have been
heretofore established i'll such cities or cities
and counties heretofore Incorporated
Again the power of taxation is vested in
municipal corporations an essential at
tribute for all the purposes of existence. unless
its exercise be in express terms prohibited
Security Savings Bank and Trust Company
| Hinton, 81 Cal, PIG.
| not by organizing Hereunder, accept the adj
| yantages offered by the above act of March
49, 1888 relating to municipal corporations OF
| the first class, to which classification Assembly
hill No. 243 pretends to apply in general terms
Moreover by the provisions of entitled
| AN act authorizing the mourning of indebted
ness by cities, towns of municipal corporations,
| incorporated under the laws of this State for
| the construction of water works, sewers and
| all necessary public improvements, or for any