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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-04
Sudden Drop
of
Valuations.

trollers. report for 1861 Yet the first
year after my inauguration the board
dropped the valuation to 81, 133, 2S2, 0l3, in
hundred dollars of valuation was 6Si6
cents, though under the least valuation
for the preceding four years it would have
been much lower than this.
Inc year following, owing to differences
IN the board, the valuation was restored
to its normal figure, being 81, 266, 593 O65,
and the tax rates sunk to 42.9 cents on The
one hundred dollars, the lowest tax rate
ever reached in the State of California
III. Inc # following year the valuation of
dollars.
This year certain members Of the Board
OF Equalization telegraphed to Boards of
SUPERVISORS suggesting they ask for a re-
ductfon in the valuation in their counties
and many counties were reduced. This
klnd OF equalization is very injurious to
the State
A high tax rate is injurious to any State
because people abroad, seeking invest
the causes that have led Board of
EQUALIZATION to play battedore and shut
tlecock with State values. They do not
understand the combinations of equaliZ-
ers. They do understand, however, that
the constant shrinkage of values would
ordinarily indicate retrograding instead
of a progressing State. and that low tax
loans.
The amount provided to be raised for
law was s5,O1OO0 The tax rate was 81
cents. The amount provided by the same
law to be raised for the fiftieth fiscal year
Is 80 100000, exactly the same as that for
the forty-ninth fiscal year, and yet the
tax rate is ass cents. Thus to raise the
same amount, a change of value makes a
difference of 2.2 cents In the tax rate
l hope the Legislature may find some
means Of correcting this evil.
l desire, in passing, to state that the
amounts of the last three tax levy bills
are over million three hundred thousand
dollars less than the pledge of my party
On this subject ! call attention to my
former recommendation:
ITO equally and fairly provida for aod
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Eight Years
Of
DiSburSing.

are 13,257, 14 OF, or less expen0tu lures
in favor of this administration by
This is shown by the Controllers fig
ures, Appendix d; i. E., there was expend-
ed during the past four years, with It's IN
creased institutions and inmates thereo1,
and not deducting any debts or the FORM
er four years, nearly two million dollars
less.
for this administration include the Afflli-
ated Colleges and other buildings, the ex-
penditures for the previous four years
ought to include, as they 90 not, cerIaln
made special and thus prevented from be,
ing subject TO drafts on the General
Fund. costing in all s5S5,OOO 90.
betveen the cost Of the previous admin
istration and this, from this fund, we
must deduct from this administration the
amount 1t paid Tor the Iol dntt MA fnr
add to the former one the ueo'0 Po0 AA
nv so doing and assuming the least pos
sibie claimed expenditure Tor oeouctlon
we have:
Exnenditures January l, 1891,
to January /, 1895. $l5 ,UZo,9 ol 10
Paid by this for past admin nm am oo
iStraton ....-...'....'..'.''''' 1'V0''000 w
Total SIS, OPS 1861 O6
Expenditures January 1, 1895,
to January /, 1899. .........:, .$l3 ,1of IA W
Deducting for expenditures for -.
past administrations. ........ l,ooooVo w
Total .....................''.SI z' zoi LA W
Thus making the cost from the general
fund properly chargeable to this admins
tration So. 76S, 1896 10 less than for the pre-
ceding administration.
give in appendix D by years and half
wears the Controllers figures for the eX-
penditures from this fund.
Should we include buildings ABOVE men
toned, the difference would be over 81
000,000.
Balances in General Fund at End of
Each Year.
TIL balances on hand in this fund at the
beginning of each of the fiscal years for
several years past have been:
Overdrawn. Balance.
For the year ending.
June 80 1898. -. .$136,Ol2 96 ..,..........
For the year ending
June 80 1894. ............... SHf,O62 W
June e 90, 1896. .....I........... 227,247 90
For the year ending
Tune 60 1886. .................. 2,257, 29O 90
June 1e so, 1897. ......,.......... 2,2s2,727 90
June 80. 1898. ................ 2,eO1, 0e3 90
For the year ending
June 80, 1899 (esti-
mated Observation-Disclosures z,uUU,UOO w
The balance was 1927 ,247 at the begin
ming of my first fiscal year Since then
it has been yearly over two million dol
lars. Nor has there been Il single de-
ficiency in the general fund since Deem
Der. 1895. And the balance at the begin
ming of Governor Cages first fiscal year,
July l. 1899, should be over $2,000000.
With the Cover
nor and both
EaSv to Save branches of the
Legislature of the
+ba same political faith
IiiO it will be easy to
c ol;4 keep this large bal
(. SIdlS Cr0ull. ance in the general
fund and to main
tain the credit of
the State as we have established It,
But If either endeayor to economic by
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-04
Power of the
Board of
Examiners.

ate. I succeeded. however. in having
grated upon the general appropriation
bill clause known as the ''one-twenty-
fourth clause" by which all institutions
and departments, unless excepted there
from expressly, should eXpend one-twen-
ty-fourth part onIy of the two years APP
preparation during any one month. This
gave to the board absolute control over
these expenditures, and concerning the
clause the report of the present board
says:
Section 4-General appropriation and
the one-twenty-fourth provisO: In years
prior to the adoption of the one-tWenty-
fourth clause, State institutions frequently
overdrew their accounts, and toward the
end of the fiscal year the Board of TX
aminers would be compelled to grant them
DEFICIENCIES, as prisons and insane aSylums
could not be closed and inmates turned
out. These grants ranged from five thou
sand to ninety thousand dollars for each
institution. This year not one institution
asked for a deficiency, as the board kept
strict watch on their monthly demands
and they kept within their limit"
The session of 1895 allowed over one
hundred thousand dollars deficiencies to
institutions alone, not including officers.
This year not a single institution has APP
piled for a deficiency. The financial con-
dition of State Institutions in this regard
from the forty-fifth TO the fiftieth year
is shown in the following table:
For the two fiscal years ending
June 80, 1895, Agnews and
Napa saved .....................$ 1892 Is
For the two fiscal years ending
tons saved .....:........:..:.. 8o2aO sc
At the present rate there will be
saved for the forty-ninth and
fiftieth fiscal years ending June
80, 1899 ........................... 60S77 81
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| General Fund
in State
of Depletion.


was certainty. The fund became ex-
hausted in May 1895. 1t became exhausted
again in July, 1895, and so remained until
December, 1895. when the first installment
OF taxes for the forty-SeVenth fiscal year
was paid into the general treasury.
This condition of affairs was the usual
one. Against it a previous Governor had
protested, the retiring State Treasurer in
1894 had detailed with much feeling the
dtshonor in this conduct of the State and
the State Controller, in his report of De-
cember 10, 1894, said
ION June 8, 1898, the general fund be-
came exhausted, and al the close of the
fiscal year, June 80, it had been over
drawn to the extent of $136, 012 06, is
shown in the foregoing summary. Cash
payments We're not resumed until the LIST
OF January following, at which time this
amount of outstanding warrants was
over 81. 800 000.''
This statement the Legislature should
ponder, for the spectacle of a great State
like California having it's warrants in the
streets to the amount of $1,000 900 at a
time is most discreditable. This occurred
in December, 1893 Further and properly
the Controller said:
That such a condition of affairs should
exist at any time is to be deplored, but
1t was especially unfortunate at that
particular time, as the State was suffering
greatly from the general financial dis
tress then prevailing, and to have the
State suspend payment subjected numbers
OF contractors, merchants and employees
of the State to great inconvenience and
no small pecuniary loss. This condition
of the general funa is not unusual 1t has
been exhausted, with few exceptions. ever
since the foundation of the State, but it
can and should be guarded against in the
future, and L cannot impress too strongly
upon your Excellency and the Legislature
the necessity of so doing"
In 1894 the Controller was compelled to
make a transfer of $3.50 900 from other
funds with which to meet the demands
against the general fund. (See Controllers
letter, appendix A.
The matter was so serious that I made
this condition of the general fund my
special care, and determined to remedy
the evil during my term of office.
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Punishment
for All
AdulteratorS.

The fruit products Of this State have
advanced within the last few years be-
yond all hope of home consumption; and
unless foreign market can be obtained
have TO be cut down and the lands used
for other purposes.
AT a meeting of the Board of Regents
on the 18th of last December, one of its
most careful and conservative members
Regent Halidfe, stated that of our fruits
shipped abroad much was infested with
scale, and for these reasons was rejected.
II publications be correct, the markets
of the Old World are being closed against
US by reason of this same lack of care,
or worse, on the part of our shippers.
Within the last month a report came
wines because of their injurious adultera-
ton. When the battleship Wisconsin was
launched in San Francisco recently a
prejudice against our wine made itself
manifest, as the people from the East who
christened the ship did SO with wines Of
foreign production
At the Peace Jubilee our wines were
excluded from the list. During the last
session of the Legislature a pure wine
law bill was passed. which I could not
tions. [ would recommend that a law
be enacted making it a felony or a mis-
demeanor-in the discretion Of the trial
court-for any person to ship to foreign
market, either Intentionally or through
criminal negligence, diseased fruits or
adulterated wine or food.
No Improvement can be made on the
pure food law of March 26, 1895. The law
is short and comprehensive. 1t has ac-
Complished great good since its passage,
and should this Legislature impose on the
State and local Boards of Health the en-
forcement Of the same it will accomplish
all that can be desired by the most en-
thuSiaStic advocates of food regulations.
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lessening the amount Of the school fund
superintendent, it will have to be done
by reducing the amount to be raised each
year for each school census child, Grip
ping of the schools and reduction of
proposition that has been advanced here
tofore, but has not found favor, nor
should it.
The number of State institutions and
inmates maintained during the past four
years largely exceed those maintained in
former years, as the following table
shows:
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Budd's second biennial message to the
Legislature of the State of California:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
January 8, 1899.
To the Senate and Assembly:
Gentlemen-I yield to my successor,
with greater pleasure than received
from my predecessor, the GoVernorship
of the State of California. When l was
inaugurated the financial condition of the
State was deplorable; and the task before
me, with a Legislature composed of polit-
teal opponents, was a formidable one.
For a number of years the State had
been under financial cloud, and had pur
sued slipshod, n-at-the-heel, Dor
row-from-Peter-to-pa y-PauI policy.
Payments of its debts were delayed,
and its warrants were at a discount on
the street-a condition of affairs Disgrace
full at home and disastrous abroad.
Its institutions were under neither sys-
tematic nor uniform laws, the asylums
were filling with those not entitled to
shelter and deficiencies were the order of
the day.
Bounties were paid on coyote scalps and
the INDECENT laws made the basis of gross
frauds.
The Controllers estimates continued to
increase from report to report, and the
Legislatures augmented the amounts be-
You'd ali reason.
State property was at loose ends; no
account was taken thereof and no inven-
tories given or required
limitations of food filled the markets to
the detriment Of the real products of the
State
Authorizations abounded everywhere,
and the laws of health were openly ig-
nOred.
our roads were a disgrace and the
money spent upon them largely wasted
through ignorance of the art of road
bMiding.
County governments existed by permits
sion only, as there was no constitutional
law regulating them.
Tax sharks thrived on the distress of
the people.
our codes were practically shapeless,
and my, predecessor had urged the crea-
ton of commission to put them in
form.
The University Of California suffered
from lack of funds and proper buildings
had twice been denied the Affiliated Col
Needless taxation was placed on the
people for the useless institutions that
had sprung up.
This was, in part, the condition of the
State when / assumed the responsible
ties of, this office. AS l relinquish them
| am glad to say that all these conditions
nave undergone radical and permanent
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-04
Quarantine
Law
for Cattle.
Gals and boards.


cials and boards. Twice have eminent
physicians been sent to Washington, D.
D., in the hope of lettering our condition.
Twice it has been necessary to request
District Attorneys to enforce strictly the
criminal statute of 1898, and almost con-
stantly the executive of the State, or the
Secretary of State Board of Health, has
been engaged in correspondence and in
VestigationS on the subject. The present
quarantine law is insufficient Under the
opinion of the Attorney General of this
State the contagious disease fund is APP
plicable to contagious or infectious dis
eases of human beings only. A Jaw should
be passed giving full power to the State
Board Of Health to employ such assist
ance as may be necessary, and the mon
eys in the contagious disease fund should
be made to apply iii cases of cattle quar-
antine in the same manner and to the
same extent that they now do in cases
of human quarantine.
The Department of Agriculture has re-
lieVed our condition. Its agents with
those of the state, have worked diiig eItr
ly. The quarantine lines, to meet the
varying conditions, have been changed.
but we have no proper laws to protect
compelled to appeal to the Governors of
other States for permission to transport
and feed inspected cattle in their States.
Had the cattlemen of California seen the
necessity for action in this matter
sooner and aided the efforts of the exec
utiVe to secure the passage Of a proper
law as recommended, they would not
have suffered so severely during the last
dry season.
It may seem peculiar that a State
which has spent on agricultural societies
within few years $1O54 ,229 should not
have on the statute books a proper law
to, protect its cattle. horses, sheep or
other animals or fowls, yet such is the
fact, and under the law public funds can
not be directly used for such protection.
During this administration the subject
of health has been much discussed in the
State, owing to the passage of pure food
laws by the Legislature, and the energet-
cisco Board of Health, which has estab-
lished and enforced the best sanitary reg
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One of the first
acts of this admin
istration was to en-
deavor to h a V e
passed a bill en-.
larging the powers
of this board. The
bill passed the
House, but was de-
fnntnd in the Son
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-04

From January /,
1891, to January l.
1895. the eXpendi-
lures from the
General Fund were
SIS. ops, 961 06. From
January l, 1885, to
January 1, 1899. the
expenditures from
the General Fund
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-04
TO- DAY

You may be a weak, half-paralyzed
mortal, shivering, blue and fit to fall
in the street, but this grand remedy
can do what no other remedy can-stop
the mischief in a month. Drains do
cease in ten days-indeed they Do
and life, light and full, unutterabIe joy
come back like sunshine after rain Try
it at once, and then you will be one
more voice added to those who sing
1.-THE only thing
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FAREWELL WORDS Of THE
RETIRING EXECUTIVE
Recommendations and Suggestions to the
Incoming Administration
Comments on Public Institutions and Their Management
and a Criticism Of the Affairs Of the
Ferry Depot

the contractors and laborers, doing bust
ness with the State-to wait for months
at a time for their money, or has COM
PEELED the Controller to make transfers of
hundreds of thousands of dollars annually
to save its credit.
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Your honorable
body should GER
tainly consider the
passage of some
proper quarantine
law for cattle. This
subject has been
the cause of much
hard work on the
mart of State off,
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The Folsom
Prison
Nuisance.

there. The last Legislature failed
to provide means to remedy the evil
though it was recommended. A deficient
ey was allowed in June, 1885, by the State
Board of Examiners for this purpose 1t
has not been used as the board pre-
ferred to lay the matter before the Legis-
lature. This evil should be remeded, for
there is no reason why the. waters of
stream from which the people of the cap
ital pump water for domestic purposes
should be polluted in this manner.
Prior to 1889, there were in California
but eleven State institutions. The popu-
lation of these was but 5479 With mex
pensive additions to the buildings and
few more attendants the State could have
handled the natural increase of inmates
for twenty years. The Legislature passed
laws increasing the asylums from three
to five, although it had been reported two
years previous by the superintendent of
the Stockton Asylum that that institu-
ton had carried on its records for many
years large number of inmates not en-
titled to admission thereto. If we must
retain this class in State institutions ii
should be in one not designated as an in
sane asylum.
AS an example of economical and eff
fcient management of a public institu-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-04

7 y LIId 7 tIIu I q
CURED appropria-
ton bills concern
ing which | con-
ferred with the
legislature to con-
tain a clause max
ing the appropria-
tions not available
until the January
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-04

People who, to
profit themselves,
send fruit or wine
or other products
Of the State abroad
in either a dis
eased or an adul-
terated condition,
should be most Sc
verely punished.
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the State of California.
central a d
A Board TO should also have
the power to regu-
E;~ late the salaries,
ia wages and number
All of employees of all
MI SdlarloS. State institutions,
and it should be re-
quired to equalize
such wages SO that equal services shall
receive equal pay by those employed in
conducting the States business. 1t can
not be done now because there is no cen
tral board with full powers, and the local
pressure is often too great for the local
officials to Withstand. In this connection,
l desire to say that l appealed to the
Legislature in my biennial message to
permit the State Board of Examiners to
limit the number of employees on the
water front of San Francisco and to
regulate their wages. [ recognized that
when in March, 1890, a Democratic Board
of Harbor Commissioners turned the Of
fees over to their successors they had
massed for the State and there was in the
treasury the sum of $4,000, and that such
moneys which had formerly been col
lected would not be saved under the sys-
tenn in vogue. The Legislature again re-
fused to allow the Board of Examiners
to interfere with the employees of the Re
publican Harbor Commissioners, as they
had done two years before.
Uniform Bookkeeping.
This central board should have the
power of adopting uniform system of
bookkeeping for the institutions of the
State. 1t is one of our most needed re-
forms.
The central board should be given en-
larged powers Of inquiry, general and
supervisorial powers over all the institu-
tons of the State, and appellate powers
over the action of any board. The Legis-
lature will recognize, as I said in my in
augural, that the Governor is held re-
sponsible in the eye of the people for the
conduct of the State, and especially of his
appointees, and therefore should have
some power over them.
1t is also a fact that it is the duty of
the Legislature to legislate for and of
the executive branch of the government
to carry on its institutions, and the
sooner this is clearly considered and de-
fined the better for the State it will be
in many respects.
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accordance

In accordance
with my aVoWed
policy, l have We
toed a large num-
Der of appropria-
ton bills and items.
This was necessary
TO keep the eX-
penses of the State
within a certain
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The deeper one
investigates t h e
more he is i'm
pressed w i t h the
n e e d for some
change in our sys-
TEN Of taxation,
and the sooner po-
litical parties make
their State cam-
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A total saving Of .............s

The board has passed on claims amount
ing to S7519 .256; has rejected claims
amounting to $46 $40 70; has cut off claims
and items amounting to $1O2 1872 a. being
two years, not including the saving in de-
fciencies. And if we take the disallow-
ances of the Board of Examiners for the
two previous years ending December, 1896,
it makes a total of reflections of $S9S, 769 30
during the four years I commend a care
full perusal of these reports of this board.
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During the four
years prior to my
inauguration, the
value of property
In California was
fixed by the Board
Of Equalization at
never less for any
on one aoy year aI than ST.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-04

The law provid-
ing for the pay
ment of taxes in
t w o installments
did not take effect
until July /, 1891, so
my predecessor re-
ceived all the taxes
paid into the gen.
eral fund for the