The San Francisco call., 1907-01-21
BIC SUM REQUIRED
FOR AGNEWS
Hospital Buildings at the
Asylum VIII Have to
Be Entirely Rebuilt
PLEA FOR UNIVERSITY
By John Taylor Waldorf
CALL HEADQUARTERS,
1907 EIGHTH STREET.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 2O.--Assembly-
man Grove johnson remarked I'm debate
q few days ago that If he thought II
would do any good he would vote away
the whole treasury Of the State of Cali
fornia. He spoke without thought of
the future, but in the short time that
has elapsed since he proclaimed his
generosity new signs have appeared on
the Legislative horizon. The signs are
In the form of dollar marks and Grove
may yet get a chance 10 prove he meant
what he said.
For Eve days appropriation bills have
been pouring fnto the Assembly and al
ready the amounts asked for foot mp
about s4,OOO,OOO As this is only ONE
weeks output some one must labor
overtime with = pruning knife or the
sacramento preserver Of sabbath peace
and dispenser of public money viii not
lack opportunity 10 make the State
treasury merely a repository fer unpaid
bills.
In Justice to the fntroducers OF ap-
pnopriation bills IL must first be said
that the earthquake and FIRE OF last
April is responsible for calls for money
that would not otherwise have been
made. For instance, 100000 Is asked
60 replace destroyed buildings that
formed part of the State Hospital for
the Insane at Agnew. Then there is
bali for 100000 to restore income
lost to the University OF California BY
the great FIRE. However, neither, OF
these measures Is on the list OF bills
now before the ways and means COM
lnittse OF the Assembly. Neither is the
bin calling for $3.50 900 for a library
building on the grounds Of the State
University
BILLS IN COMMITTEE
These bills and others appropriating
amounts ranging from q few hupdred
20 many thousand dollars are at pres
ent in the hands OF committees that are
10 investigate and report before the
plans involved are submitted TO the
group of members whose business It is
10 work out financial puzzles The ways
and means committee, OF which As
Eemblyman Miguel Estudillo of Riv-
erside is chairman. has tsbulated
figures on proposed appropriations
that suggest the valuations OF
something new in trusts. Many OF the
bills are meritorious, but others are
visionary and the committee has hard
sob in front Of It. The AK is likely to
fan on the unjust and Just alike, with
one Important difference, whereas in
some cases it viii only trim in others
Il will annihilate.
Appropriation bills that have not
yet reached the ways and means COM
mittee foot up approximately $1,S0o.000.
Those before the committee total So
S75.Oee In the list Of the latter is an
sppropriation Of a million dollars for
the Balboa exposition and $4,000 for
the jamestown exposition. Among the
many other items Of proposed expense
are the following: Automatic rifles,
100000; State armory at Sacramento,
100000: State armory at Los Angeles,
500. 900.
So much for war, now for peace.
VARIOUS APPROPRIATION
State agricultural farm at Davisville
1882 GOO; San Jose normal school. re-
pairs and improvements, $55o,00o water
supply for Soldiers Home at Yount-
vile, s2z 900; new buildings for State
printing office, $50. 600; plant for path
ologicsl laboratory. $4,000; agricul-
turai pavilion at Sacramento, $4,000
farmers institutes. $4,000: search foI
beneficial insects. $4,000
The list IS long. but there IS no pro-
vision for any fund 10 be devoted tc
searching out bugs" that are not bene-
fetal Such work must be done without
any appropriation. This is the task OF
the committee and the fact that Grove
johnson stands outside ready to back
up the wagon and relieve the State OF
al further responsibility may develop
some unusually vigilsnt watch dog OF
the treasury.