The record-union., 1899-01-11
LAWS TO HURT FRUIT MEN.
COUNTY OFFICERS HEAR OF
ADVERSE LITIGATION.
Horticultural Commissioners Are
Worried About Rumors OF
q New Bill.

It Is rumored-and the rumOr mas
caused great CONSERVATION among TIE
County Horticultural Commissioners VI
this and other countieS-that a Sendlor
has decided to urge bill, the proVis-
ions of which are such as to abollsn
County Commissioners throughout the
State.
The Sacramento County Horticultural
Commissioners were in session yester-
day at the Capitol, and among otner
things Secretary Cutter was feenus
good because OF the promising tnlHSs
that his report to the Board OF Su-
pervisors would contain, but chanse
came over the spirit of his dreams
before he had collected his notes anu
put his pen to paper for the purpose
of telling about the good work OF the
commission
One of those little birds" that are
said to carry stories to the vlgllahl
whispered into his ear, saying tHal
there was a movement on foot to wipe
out the County Commissioners, WHO
say that their work is even more use
full than that of State Boards of Horti-
culture. for the reason that these men
send experts and workers INTO the
field for the purpose of stamping out
disease and promoting the welfare OF
fruit-growers everywhere within their
districts.
Then there was a furry, and Com
missioners Cutter, Booth and Johnston
went into caucus and made up their
minds that they ought to prepare 10
make a determined fight against the
bill that means to wipe their Official
lives off the face of the earth.
nd n oh
the three in unison.
Secretary Cutter said: 1--WE do not
know who is so wicked as to bring UP
a measure of this kind. 1t is strange
that men would fight an interest that
is so vital to the State as fruitgrov'-
ing. One of our board alone has this
year shipped forty carloads of fruit.
and what must be the shipments from
the STATED This commission is not an
expensive thing. for all that we have
been allowed this year is the petty sum
of 5000. and with this sum we have dcne
a great deal of good in stamping out
the scale and other pests. l think we
have all reason to congratulate our
selves that this department has rem
dered good service to the State, and
that it should be encouraged in every
way possible.
The County Commissioners will file
their report with the Supervisors to-
day. and they will then resolve them
selves into committee of the whole
to do all in their power to prevent
any dangerous assault on the business
that has been intrusted to them under
the provisions of the State law.
Secretary Lelong of the State Board
of Horticulture said that he had heard
the rumor. but he did not care to dis
cuss the matter-in fact, he was too
busy. He could not say who was the
author of the proposed measure. or
whether it's purpose was to give in
creased power to the State Board at
the expense of the County Commits
sioners or not There is a rumor that
the bill is a scheme that was invented
for the purpose of concentrating power
in a proposed State Commission, with
a fat payroll and salary list, but this
could not be confirmed.
1t is said there is a plan to have a
travelling commission, patterned after
the Building and Loan Commission,
and that the duty of its members
would be to do for the State what
County Commissioners now do for the
counties