The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
Executive Veto Denounced as Cruel and
Lacking in Dignity.
MORE IN SORROW THAN IN ANGER
They Say They Are Mortified by the Ignorance Of Law Of the
Man Who Was Elected TO See That the Statutes
Should Be Faithfully Obeyed

But we represent that such property"
some times consists of several animals,
part of which may be sold to pay cost
of keeping all; and sometimes we take
up animals with other property at
tached, and no owner appears, and
sometimes a part interest in an ami
nal may be sold to pay the cost OF Its
rescue from cruelty
We protest to your honorable bodies
against the charge of the Governor that
we want to put a burden Of $1O2,0 on
the people, and that we reap the benefit
of fines imposed and put the cost of
trials on the State without putting up
a dollar.
We represent that the societies have
put up ten times more of their own
money than they have received as fines,
and many cases cost the societies more
than the fines levied; that the societies
work for the benefit of the people, and
not for themselves; we protest that the
bill does not authorize us to start out
ION pilgrimage Of human slaughter,
and that such an attack by the Gov
ernor is cruel, undignified, and loses
him the respect his office should nave.
We protest that in the veto message
the Governor treats of the law as it ex-
lists more than of Assembly bill No. 5,
thus exposing unfamiliarity with the
law and the bill, for, as we have said
they were created such by law before
the Governor became a citizen Of the
State, as he should have known, and
that the same law exists in most States
of this country.
By this petition we represent that 1t
is untrue that our societies do not work
for ''the benefit of the State" but for
their own gain; that such charge is
cruel and untrue; that We have for
years and years put up our money to
enforce the States laws and have made
no gain for ourselves, and have given
our time as we'll as our money freely
to prevent cruelty, rather than make
arrests, that our children and those of
our neighbors may not be witnesses of
inhumanity, but be brought up to re-
Spect the rights Of animals, because We
know that those who are cruel to their
domestic animals will be cruel to their
fellow men.
We represent to your honorable bod
les that we have not, as the Governor
says, sought to put a burden of $102,-
900 on the people. Our bill asks for per-
mission for the people, if they are will
ing, to help us meet the costs Of our
work. 1t does not compel them to do so.
We represent. in petitioning you to
pass the bill over the veto, that we are
more mortified than angry over the ex-
posure made by the veto message Of
lack of knowledge Of the law as it is
and has been so many years, and over
the charge against our motives and
purposes, as being selfish and un-
worthy, whereas they are disinterested
and unselfish. and we represent that we
would be less than men if we did not
resent for the bodies to whom such
charges have been made, the attacks
made upon us so cruelty and unjusti-
fiably.
By the Sacramento County Humane
Society.
G. H. SMITH, President,
DANIEL HEALY,
H. T. MILLER,
DANIEL FLINT,
ISADOR SCHAD, Treasurer.
Sacramento, March 13, 1899.