The San Francisco call., 1907-01-18
JOHNSON CHANGES
FRONT AGAIN

antly, but he realizes that not all pub
lie men are built of such stern stuff.
Consequently he has his hatchet out
for the jury bill. He says that the car
toon law may not amount TO much in
the way Of producing prosecutions, but
is a good deterrent, and that the news
papers have become SO Extensively bold
in their treatment Of public men that
the retention of the cartoon law will
probably save bloodshed.
Johnson's views are entirely in ac-
cord with the insurance people who
will fight the Drew bill and similar
measures, and who are now officially
represented here by T. c. Coogan, at
torney for the Fire Underwriters.
johnson believes that to compel the
companies doing business in Califor-
MIA to make deposits would be to re-
duce the number of companies, drive
out the good concerns in fact Johnson
thinks that a deposit in New York or
washington that could be attached
by process of the California court
would serve the whole purpose and
encourage the insurance companies to
accept California business. That is
the way the companies feel about it,
too.
GILLETT TO FILL THE JOBS
Gillett's. withdrawal of the Pardee
nominations from the Senate will prob
ably leave sixteen appointments, among
them a Harbor Commissioner, in the
air for month or more. possibly until
after the Supreme Court has handed
down a decision in the Mackenzie case.
Three Senators. Mattos, Belshaw and
]. B. Sanford Cd, are among the Par
dee appointees whose availability Gill
lett will ponder on before filing the
Jobs Belshaw, who was named to the
prison board, is a friend of the new
Governor, although he was not Gillett
supporter in the recent Republican un-
pleasantness.
GiHett has. however. shown more
than a mere disposition to be above
petty politics and he says that the
Pardee list contains the names of a
number Of his friends. indicating that
after he has given the list the Gus
tomary gubernatorial scanning several
of them will be renominated, among
them Belshaw. The appointment of
Mattos is not impossible by any manner
of means. Mattos is one of the repre-
sentarives Of a Portuguese vote in Ala
media County that is large enough to
be worthy of consideration, but the ap-
pointment will probably be somewhat
influenced by the attitude of the San
Francisco commercial interests. Carey
Friedlander will be back next week to
give the Governor the benefit of his
advice. 1t is fair to assume, however,
that this particular nomination will not
be made until the Mackenzie case is
settled.
LEAVITT CUTS THE PIE
Senator Frank Leavitt, chairman Of
the Republican Senate caucus and pat
ron of the jub hunters. is at least frank
in his determination to parcel out all
the pie baked by the organization. The
fact that some OF the appointees have
not yet been able to put in an appear
ance and that some of them. who have
come to Sacramento to add to the
gayety of the nation and deplete the
treasury, have not yet discovered the
identity of their alleged chiefs and su-
perintendents, is no check to the grist
of appointments.
A Senator from the north was ap-
preached yesterday by one of his ap-
pointees, whom he had not seen since
he had left home. The appointee was
assured that his name was on the pay
roll The attache wanted to know
where he would find his pay. Among
the many benef7ciaries of his legisla-
tive largess the Senator had difficulty
in remembering Just what job this par
ticular good man was holding down.
Inquiry disclosed that the man was
supposed to be an assistant sergeant
at arms, but that he did not know