The San Francisco call., 1904-06-25
FEW OF MAYORS
VETOES UPHELD
Supervisors Oyerrule Major
ity of His Refusals to Ap-
prove the Appropriations
RIDICULE HIS CHARGES
Allowance for City's Spring
Valley Water Company Lit
igation Is Made Secure

The Supervisors yesterday forenoon
took up their budget lately returned by
the Mayor and quietly overrules three
Of his vetoes. Fifteen members Of the
board were present-just the number
| needed to handle the executives off,
cial objection to their proposed meas
ures-but Alpers, Boxton, Bent, Rea
and Finn stood with the Mayor and cut
the re-vetoers down to ten except in
the case of three items. These items
were therefore the only vetoes over
ruled. There were appropriations Of
$4,000 for maintenance of minors in nom
sectarian institutions; $1475 for the pay
ment of premiums on official bonds of
public officers, and $15, 900 for the de-
fense of the Spring Valley Water Com
pany's suit.
In some cases the board scored the
Mayor. especially when, in referring to
certain vetoes, 1t declared that it did
not recognize the propriety of the al
legged vetoes and considered them in
valid and void"
RAPS THE MAYORS KNUCkLES.
The Mayor in his veto message had
said: II have no fault to find with
the principles of civil service reform,
for If the practice accorded with the
theory a beautiful governmental fabric
could be created"
To this the board, adopting the
words of it's Finance Committee, an
swered: IF we correctly apprehend
the Mayor from this and succeeding
sections of his message his allegiance
to the abstract principle of civil service
reform is unbounded; he is opposed to
it only in practice. However. it is OBJ
vious that his ambiguous declarations
of loyalty to the system are not to be
taken seriously"
Then the board, still following the
Finance Committee, declared that the
charges of his Honor scattered through /
the message would be painful but for
the fact that these charges were as
ridiculous as they were hollow. So We
must decline a frivolous quarrel of
words that would edify nobody and
would only belittle the legislative :
branch of the city government"
The board was called to order by Su- I
pervisor Brandenstein, the Mayor being
absent. and Alpers, Boxton, Bent, 4
Braunhart, Comte, Connor. D'Ancona, I
Eggers, Finn, Hooks. Mcclellan. Rea .
and SandersoH present
ACTION ON THE VETOES.
The majority against the Mayor was
not strong enough to overrule his We
toes of the following items in the
budget: Three thousand dollars for
Third and Channel street tenders, $500
for public convenience station, $500 for
third elevator at the City Hall, $1,000
for a stenograDher for the Board of
Supervisors, $4,000 for exporting ac-
counts of public officers and city con-
tractors. which item the Mayor cut
down to $4,000: $1,000 for advertising.
$1,000 for books for the law department
and $4,000 for public utilities.
The appropriation for the public con-
venience would have been passed over
the veto but for the fact that the pro-
posed station was to be near a public
school. Regarding the appropriation
for public utilities his Honor accom-
panied his veto of this item with the
statement that he understood the
chairman of the Public Utilities Com
mittee was in the habit of employing
help without the assistance of the
Mayor Supervisors or Civil Service
Commission.
On the items of $4,000 appropriated for
maintenance of minors, $1475 for pay
ment on bonds of public officers and
SIS 900 for Spring Valley Water litiga-
tion the board pulled itself together and