Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-03

Gov. Pardee arrived in Los Angeles
from Sacramento yesterday morning
looking tired and worn, and apparently
in need of a rest. He said he had not
been feeling well lately, and that he
was going to Catalina in the afternoon
and would remain there until Satur-
day. when he would return to this city
to take part in the big barbecue to be
given that afternoon under the auspices
of the Republican league The gov
ernor will be one of the principal speak
ers on that occasion.
The governors train was about two
hours late and owing to miscalcua-
ton on the part of some of his friends
as to the time of its arrival, there was
nobody at the depot to meet him. AS
result, he made the trip from the sta
ton to the Angelus hotel in a street
car, where Phil Stanton and one or two
Others who had intended to engage q
carriage for him, met him a few min
| utes later. The governor was dressed
in gray business suit, dark outing
| shirt with a white tie held in place by
| a safety pin, and a black slouch hat.
Anticipates Hard Fight
Notwithstanding his appearance gave
evidence of considerable fatigue, the
governor cheerfully consented to be
hotel, but he showed a disposition to
confine his talk on political subjects to
general rather than specific lines. He
said that he was in the race for the
governorship again and that he had
every reason to believe he would win,
Notwithstanding the hard fight that Is
being made by other candidates for the
nomination. Gov. Pardee declared that
he was we'll satisfied with the outlook
in oil no npt Of ctata nd sa1
that when the state convention is held
he would be found in the running.
A suggestion that possibly his con-
troversy with the consolidation COM
mission might have some bearing on
his campaign in Los Angeles county
evidently touched a responsive chord
| in his breast, for he Immediately pro-
| ceeded to review the history of that
controversy and insisted that he had
been misrepresented in regard to the
attitude he had taken on the question
| Incidentally, he solved the mystery of
the disappearance of the original
amendment which had been handed to
him, and which was supposed to have
been lost after getting into the hands
of the legislative committee.
Document Apparently Lost
1t will be remembered that when q
committee from the consolidation COM
mission went to San Francisco the Sec
ond time and appeared before the legls-
lative committee, 1t was stated that the
| legislative committee was unable to
produce the amendment which had been
handed to the governor, and which the
| consolidation commission desired to
| have inserted in the call for an extra
session of the legislature. The Los An
gelans were asked If they could fur
nish copy of it and Judge Dillon
| handed them a draft of what he said
he believed to be the original amend
ment, but which turned out to be one
containing Self-eXecuting clause, and
which had not been passed upon by the
consolidation commission. The legis-
lative committee and the governor re-
fused to consider the amendment in this
form, and the result was lively con-
| troversy, in which each side accused
the other of bad faith. The consolida-
tion commission members insisted that
a mistake had been made in handing
over the amendment containing a self
executing clause and they have been at
a loss to know what has become of the
original document.
Says He Has Amendment
| Questioned as to whether he could
| throw any light on this subject, the
governor said:
There is no mystery whatever about
the disappearance of that original
amendment. and l am surprised that
anybody should have claimed there
was. | have that amendment in my
possession now, and have had it most of
the time since II was handed to me.
do not believe the legislative committee
claimed IL was lost or mislaid, for the
members of that committee we'll knew
what had become Of It,
when that amendment was handed
to me Immediately sent 1t to the legis-
lative committee, but soon afterwards
it was returned to me. l then sent It
down here TO Mr.. Washburn, and he,
too returned 1t to me In a few days.
never have made any secret of the
fact that L either have had that docu-
ment In my possession or knew Just
where 1t was all the time, and II the
members OF the consolidation commits
sion had really been anxious to find 1t
they easily could have done so.
Discusses Documents
II do not see, however, how the cause
Of the consolidation commission would
have been any better served by the
! first amendment than by the second.