Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
DISPUTES ON
ACTS RESULT
IN DELA Y
LIMIT OF TAX COLLECTION IS
ISSUE
WOULD GIVE GOVERNOR POWER
OF EXTENSION
Bankers Asked to Participate In De-
Iiberations-San Francisco Asks
Second Sesslon-LegIslators
Are Economical
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 19--With the pos
sible impeachment and trial Of Railroad
Commissioner Andrew M. Wilson obviat-
ed by his resignation today 1t was be-
lieved that the legislature would finish
its work by Thursday night or Friday at
the latest but q serious obstacle to the
rapid working Of the legislative machine
ry was encountered this afternoon when
the bills drafted to enable the courts to
resume duty during the. special holiday
period and the measure for extending the
time for the payment of taxes, reacheo
the respective judiciary committees or the
two houses. Much dissension was ex-
pressed in the committees of both houses
not with the object of the measure but
with their present form. Strong opposi-
tion developed and it was impossible to
reach an agreement.
The main point at issue on the tax de-
linquency bill was whether the legislature
should extend the time for payment for
flat period of days or make 1t as the Bill
Is drawn, not exceeding thirty days at
one time, but comforting power upon the
governor to declare at his discretion
three periods of thirty days each and not
to exceed ninety days in one fiscal year.
In the judiciary committee of the as
sembly the bill was sharply attacked, its
constitutionality was questioned and an
issue was raised whether the bill was not
delegating legislative function upon the
executive in permitting the executive at
his discretion to declare laws when taxes
shall be paid
Call Executive
Governor Gillett, in response to a mes
sage from the senate committee, appeared
at the meeting and favored the bill as
drawn. He said it would be impossible
to set definite time when the stringency
shall have passed to permit the with
drawal of money from the banks.
In the course of the discussion the gov
ernor said: Il have no sympathy with
the banks. The people have been sur
Hrisingly patient 1t Is not for the banks
that we particularly want to legislate,
but for the depositors. If you extend the
time for the payment of taxes for ninety
lays as the Los Angeles people would
have it done, what is to hinder the banks
f1om saying. we have your money and
what are you going to do about it, and
they may be in a flourishing condition at
the time any stringency having passed. ;"
The governor and Senator Curtin, au-
thor of three senate bills on the holiday
question, had lively tilt Governor Gil
lett contended that Curtins bills would al
low action taken against any bank that
is now insolvent, but which, if given a
itself No agreement could be reached
and the senate judiciary committee ap-
pointed two subcommittee, one, COM
posed of Senators Willis, Curtin, Keene,
Anthony, Carter and Broughton, to dis
cuss the various holiday bills. and the
other. composed of Senators Curtinj
Wright Wolfe, Willis and Mccartney, to
take up the suspension of the tax delin-
quency bill. Both committees are to re-
70 ha roit tnr
Assembly Dissatisfied
In the judiciary committee of the assem-
bly, the holiday bills also proved unsatis-
factory in their present form 1t was
contended that the measures confiictcd
with the constitution which provides that
Courts shall always be open legal hoh-
days and non-judicial days excepted" 1t
also was maintained that the bills as
drawn did not prevent the issue and serv-
ing of attachments upon banks during
special holidays.
The banking interests of the state came
in for sharp criticism in not having taken
sufficient interest in the special legislation,
intended in part at least for their pro-
lection, to have formulated bills or have
attorneys representing them at the legI5-
lature.
1t was finally decided to ask Governor
GilIett Attorney General Webb, E. C.
Cooper, private secretary to the governor,
and L. T. Hatfield, representing the Sac
ramento chamber of commerce and banks,
to meet the committee at o'clock to-
morrow afternoon and send kilograms re-
ouesting Homer S. King, president of the
San Francisco clearing house; I. w. He'll
man, president of the Union Trust COM
pany, and Everett ]. Brown. district at
torney of Oakland, to appear before the
committee at the same time, that the
T1iOhf learn fbair NaxUE
Attorneys representing banking inter
ests throughout the state were also in
vited AS this will mean at least one
DAVIS delay in the working legislature
since pending the action of committees
nothing can be done in either house, it is
possible that the session may extend over
until next week.
Few Absent
with all but five of the forty senators
in their seats, one or two more arriving
in the afternoon the upper house held two
Lrief sessions while the assembly, WITH
seventy-five members present, held short
Session in the morning and then ad-
1ourned until 10 o'clock a. m. tomorrow.
The companion bills to the measures
introduced in the lower house in tho
morning for the rehabilitation of courts
during special holidays, the extension o.
the time for the payment of taxes during
periods of financial stringency, providing
for the payment Of the expenses of Adjt
Gen. ]. B. Lauck incurred during the
street car strike in San Francisco las
spring and amending the Islais Creek bill
for a bond issue for a tidal basin an6
harbor improvements at San francisco
were not introduced In the senate unit
the afternoon session. A concurrent reso
luton was also introduced in the uppei
house approving four amendments to thu
chartar of San Francisco.
A committee from the board Of
supervisors of San Francisco composed
of Supervisors Matt Sullivan and Dan.
iel Murphy arrived at the state capita
today and, accompanied py members ~
the san Francisco delegation to th'
fcontinued ON Page Two.)