The San Francisco call., 1909-01-13
VIRTUE WILL DE
SLOGAN OF TIE
18Th ASSEMBLY
New POIicy@Of Economy VIII Be
Followed by Converted
Legislators
Senate and House BaSk in Re-
f1ected Light of ThefD0wn
Goodness
By George Van Smith
Sese5aI Dneateh 70 The CaIIl

AIENTO Jan I2.-~Nirtue funassailable
and beyond price; economy and indus
try" This is TO be the Slogan Of the
thirty-eig ighth session of the legisla-
ture The lobbyist is bans shed-on his
way 10 exile; the senate and assem-
bly, wiz net blow the state for luxur
ious furnishings and SeIEatOr McCart-
ney's mother in law mu 81 deliver the
goods or be separated cfpom her So
day job as porter
Nor is this slogan Doe be used for
class yell purposes only. y is laid down
as a set form of legislative orthodoxy,
the conversion has ken and the
statesmen are in the first ecstasies
the strange new faith. lieutenant Gov
ernor Warren Porter and Speaker Stan
ton have declared Rouse nit 'emt"
for the lobbyists. whom Governor Gil
lett SAYS have disgraotd the legisla-
tive sessions quite longs enough. The
senate caucus has decided not to pUr-
chase permanent furnisthings for their
il furnished committees rooms which,
ley the way, Secretary of State Curry
says are quite good enoAgh and which,
in the opinion Of Governor Gillett, viii
do until Secretary Of state Curry can
Eet around 10 the jObt Of furnishing
tnem permanently andi in style in
harmony with the rest, of the capitol.
CILLETT AGAINST LClBBTISTS
The lobbyists rule (which will un-
doubtedly be adopted by the senate on
Thursday morning has the unqualified
endorsement OF Govep or Gillett, who
said yesterday:
Il am heartily in fa' vor Of such a rule
and ] sincerely hope 1t viii be enforced
IT is one Of the wisest things the legis-
lature has ever done 1t will tend to
decencT. better legislation and il viii
prevent repetition of the disgraeeful
scenes which have bfsen enacted on the
floors OF the senate and the assembly.
The third house VIII 1pot be permitted to
publicly issue order s to legislators.
When L was in the senate ] saw the
greatest abuses i saw men come on
the floor WEile the senate was in ses-
sion and tell senate rs how to vote. 1
kicked then and L have kicked ever
since I object 10 seeing legislators
pulled around by tn coattails'
But that is only "a part Of it. Speaker
stanton has given Z out cold to the as
sembly attaches tn ~ they must do the
work assigned TO them or lose their
places at The piel counter. and now
comes the senate republican caucus
with the formal PFonouncement that a
pun VIII not save the perquisites Of the
man or woman " no fails to deliver on
The JOB opposite b IS or her name on the
payroll
A groan went q from the senator's on
Saturday when they discovered that
their committee rooms. If carDet~a NJ
an. were done Y nth reftted bits of cast
of assembly cf amber carD.i
tables were n omemade and some of
them rickety z nd that the chairs were
for the most part remnants Of an in
voice which 'arter, sometime senator
from Los Ang GELS, slipped over on the
senate when il was not looking and for
(which the stale paid ST a chair.
Senator a-Fftt introduced a resolu-
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geant at arms 70 purchase furnishings
10 make cle rooms habitable and
serviceable. There at once arose a
murmur about the expenditure Of
S572.00o by the capitol commission and
a wei inteiltioned agitation in favor of
the appOi ntnRent OF committee
charged with furnishing the committee
rooms per1manently instead of spending
money fOs furniture that must be dis
cslrded.
Rough estimates place the cost of
fhe nece ssary temporary fittings at
from S15o0 10 $4,000, andfit was argued
that proper permanent equipment and
furnishings c0nld be purchased for
s1o.0Oe quite as wei now as in the
future, and the price of the temporary
fittings be saNed.
Before the naatter got into the senate
caucus Secretary Of State Curry had his
little say about the senatorial criti-
cism Of the rooms and the work of the
commission.
The committee rooms" said Curry
are quite goDd enough. In fact, they
are in better shape and more comfort
able than they have been at any time
since this Building was opened, 80
years ago. Il is true that we have
spent s372.00os and it is also true that
II turned OVerfto the commission $500
from my o7=n appropriations. With
that S38e SEQ sve have done work that
If ii We're TO be contracted for today
would cost at least s500.000.'
Meanwhile the republican caucus
had met and decided against the per-
manent furnlshings and also against
a general temporary furnishing beyond
what was dee naed absolutely necessary
for the comfsErt. and convenience of the
committees. "A committee was ap-
pointed to cooperate with the sergeant
at arms ia raaking the necessary pur-
chases 10 make the judiciary and
finance com mittee rooms respectable
and the other senators VIII make shift
TO get along with committee rooms and
equipment thlt certainly add nothing
TO the dignA y Of the state OF Cali
fornia.
When the caucus got through with
the furniture economies. il turned its
attention TO attaches and firmly re-
solved that the job holder who failed
10 deliver tn e goods in his billet should
lose his cluftch on the public purse
forthwith. The senators had been in
formed that some Of the attaches on
the roll hads not presented themselves
for work
A general warning was hung out
10 the effecr that in the event of the
failure of any attache to do the work
for which ~ drew salary the senator
who secured his appointment would be
advised that the said attache was no
longer on tlSe pay roll Mccartney an
nounced Ou'sside the caucus that Mrs
A. McCaldin- would be replaced on the
porters' rollf by another of his consti-
fuents
Mccartney has declared that Ire pro-
posed TO make the expose of his ap-
pointment II his mother in law to a
porters job, question of high privi-
lege 10 be discussed by him on the
loor Of thef senate. It is an even BET
that Mccartney viii change his mind
The membe.rs Of the patronage commit
tee are sore over a job which might
have put th EN- in mighty bad lighl
had they not been able TO shift the en-
lire respons ibility on Mccartney. who
permitted them to believe that a Nc
Jaidin WAS "A man A question af nrfs--