Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-21
NO INTEREST
MBHLS SA US
GOVERNOR
ASKS TAX EXTENSION FOR
SIXTY DAYS
SAN FRANCISCO INSISTS ON
ANOTHER SESSION
Wants Amendments Made to Charter.
VIII Be Called If Work Can
Be Finished This
Week
by WINFIELD S. MORGAN

Special to The Herald.
SACRAMENTO, Nov 20.-In a speech to
the judiciary committee of the assembly
in conference with leading bankers and
lawyers of the state, Governor Gfllett to-
day denied that he was interested in any
of the bills which have been introduced,
and stated further that the bills as they
were introduced, simply represent what
he and his advisers could prepare in the
past two weeks.
He further advised the committee to use
their best Judgment in the matter of
offering substitutes for the bills prepared
by him or his secretary at his suggestion
In the matter of delegating to the gov
ernor the power of granting an extension
of the date regarding the payment of
taxes he said it was the opinion of those
to whom he had listened at the confer
.cnce that such power need not be so dele
gated, and all that was necessary was to
legislate for an extension of sixty days
during the present stringency. Governor
Cillett said his only purpose in calling the
special session of the legislature at this
time was to do the best possible thing for
the state of California.
Wants Another Session
Governor Gillett today received dele
cation from San francisco, headed by
Supervisor j. d. Murphy, who asked that
dIOltltT SpeCldl S6SSlol De Ctlltu dS SuOl
as the present session adjourned for the
purpose of ratifying certain amendments
to the charter of San Francisco which
were not included in the call for the pres
ent session
After considerable discussion the gov
ernor replied that he was besieged daily
with requests of a like nature from all
parts of the state. He exhibited a pocket
full of kilograms, one of which he read.
xxyac fror tha I,o, ,,lra Of IN
asked for another session.
''If this thing is to go on this way when
will we get through?" he asked. After
being assured that it was the desire of
the members of both the senate and the
house to get through this week If possible,
the governor promised the San Francisco
delegation that he would call another
journed in time to finish both sessions
this week.
In Dark on Holidays
At the close of the conference this even
ing a majority of the members of the
assembly Judiciary committee expressed
themselves as more than ever in the dark
regarding the holiday question. District
Attorney Everett J. Brown of Alameda
county addressed the conference on the
subject of passing bill to permit the
superior courts to transact business on q
holiday, and expressed it as his opinion
that such a proceeding was impossible
under the constitution. Judge w. B. Cope
and A. e. Bolton, who represented the
San Francisco Bar association, preceded
Mr.. Brown and read a bill which the bar
association thought would cover the mat
ter fully. In effect it gives the superi >r
judge the power to transact any judicial
business which he could transact on any
other day"
This leaves to the discretion of the
courts the matter of entertaining suits for
money and the Issuing of writs for attach
ment or execution.
In closing, Judge Cope sententiously re-
marked: "You trust your superior judges
500 days in the year, why not trust them
the rest Of the timer" The conference
adjourned to meet\ at 8 o'clock tomorrow
morning.