The San Francisco call., 1906-06-12
OPPOSE RELIEF BILL.

! SACRAMENTO, June 11.-At time
when the nation has with generosity
been making appropriations 10 reileVe
the stricken city of San Francisco the
representatives of sacramento, OroVlile
and two other towns have placed them
selves on record in the Assembly as op-
posed to any legislation in aid of the
first city of the State. Six Assembly
men voted today against an approprla-
tfon of 100000 for the erection Oh
State building in San Francisco, which
was passed by an overwhelming vote Oh
SO to g.
The first speaker to oppose the meas
ure was Cans of Red Bluff. who took
the stand that while some of the State
Offices should be in San Francisco the
majority ought to be kept at the state
capital where, he maintained, their du-
ties required their service. He SAID
that he saw no reason for the erection
of a State building in the city, as for
many years past the State has been able
TO do without such a building. Cans
further said that at this time, when the
State has been called upon to meet such
extraordinary expenditures 1t could not
AFFORD TO allow San Francisco the
| amount named in the appropriation for
the erection of building commensu-
.-ate with the dignity of the state he
| said that the men with Eastern capital
| ave expressed sufficient confidence in
he future of San Francisco and that
The voting of money for a public build
ng was not needed to show the States
confidence
Cans was scored in heated terms by
| Rolley of Eureka, who said that he re-
/ gretted that the resolution did not call
/ FOR an appropriation of a million or a
million. and a half for the use of the
stricken city. He said that the bill is
the first by which the State is enabled
to give aid and that as the law of the
State did not permit the giving of the
money outright as donation he was
only toe glad to vote for the measure
rs it stood. Rolley then pointed out
the advantages of locating the State
offices in San Francisco and the expense
! that would be saved the State In the
matter of leases of temporary Offices.
Houser of Los Angeles and Goodrich
i Of Pasadena both spoke of the visit
they had paid to the dismantled city
yesterday, and each said that after the
visit he was ready to vote an appro-
! priation to any amount TO assist in the
upbuilding of San Francisco.
! McKenney, Hawkins, Strobridge, Ohm
sted and Devlin also spoke in favor of
the appropriation
| Busick of Sacramento was delegated
by the Sacramento representatives to
defend what he termed the interests of
Sacramento and vicinity in having the
Offices of the State remain in Sacra-
mento. He said that the San Fran
cisco crowd" has come up here for the
purpose of asking for things they
would not dare ask for on any other
occasion"
For fully quarter of an hour Busick
talked on, while the hum of individual
conversation in the Assembly hall rose
louder and louder. Soon it became i'm
possible to hear the speaker, and Gates
of Oroville and Weyand OF Colusa rose
to protest against the inattention shown
the Sacramento man.
The men who went on record as op-
posing the first opportunity California
has had to aid San Francisco by legisla-
tive appropriation are Busick, Lynch
and O'Brien of Sacramento, Creighton
of Redding, Cans of Red Bluff and
Gates of Oroville.