The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-09-01
BOND ISSUE met
With APPROVAL
Supervisors in Special Session
Unanimously Favor Expo
sition Proposition

Three things marked yesterdays spe-
cial session of the board of supervisors
TO submit 70 the people in the proposed
charter amendments:
First-The unanimous and enthqsi-
astic approval of the proposal looking
to the submission of the So. 600, 900 bond
issue for the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton.
Second-The failure of Mayor Nc
Carthy 70 carry through his program
of electing all the supervisors on the
four year basis at one time, due to the
insurgent vote Of Supervisor Walsh.
Third-The taking of the first step
to lift the dollar limit, by putting the
school fund in q separate authorization
in an amendment submitted and backed
by the names OF 10000 petitioners.
The session was a busy one.
other important matters voted for
submission at the November election in
the way of charter changes were the
measures TO relieve the city of the
obligation to treat with existing public
utilities before proceeding to construct
its own: to empower the formation of
a ssessment districts for tunnel con-
struction and other improvements to
permit street work on the 10 year
levy Of cents in halves, one for Golden
Gate park and the other for the minor
pleasure grounds; to create free pub
lie employment bureau, and 10 Increase
salaries and 10 give civil service"
status 30 scores of municipal employees
in many departments, the total salary
increases being (for the Offices con-
cernedD from ses9,1s3 to si,202.e12.
ALL FOR BOND ISSUE
Everybody was for the Panama Pa
( cific bond issue of 100000 The
charter amendment to enable the board
TO submit this proposition to the people
was unanimously approved end it was
/ ordered placed at the head of the bal
| lot. The bond issue election itself was
set for November Is.
William Denman's suggestion that
this day be made a holiday so that
large number of workingmen might
vote on the proposition and that of
r. g. Hale and Leon Sloss that the
proposal be given the place of honor
I in the line of the charter submissions
at the general election were alike ia
vorably received.
The only dissent of the afternoon
came over the proposition on which
Mayor Mccarthy called a council of the
faithful in the morning. When the
/ four year term proposal came up in
! but the mayor was to have a doubled
/ period in Office from January s. 1912,
/ O-Dowd, as IL the idea had just struck
/ him. first suggested that the mayor be
included in the four year termers.
Murdoch. who was fathering this
/ proposition of the charter convention,
accepted the suggestion, but baked at
O'Dowd's next proposal. This was that
| there should be no short and long
] term about the board of supervisors
/ taking Office at the above date. They
ought all to be for two years" said
! O'Dowd (''The longer a supervisor
stays in Office the worse he serves the
/ people" was ODowds answer to Muir
docks plea for nine experienced menu
'but If four year men, let them all go
! out and in together. Murdoch ex-
planned that that would Illustrate the
whole purpose.
WALSH OUT OF LINE
At the private conference in the
mayors office Mccarthy had failed to
swing Walsh into line for the "aII to-
gether" plan. O'Dowd's motion secured
nine votes against the negatives of
Walsh, Bancroft Murdoch and Hooks
and perforce fell for lack of the 10
affirmative votes necessary for any
board action.
! At next Tuesdays regular session,
which Supervisors Kelly and McLaugh-
! lin have returned from Sacramento
where yesterday they were in confer
ence with the state board of equaliza-
ton, the administration will try put
ting through the proposition again
| O'Dowd secured second place" for
his favorite measure reconstituting the
! library board, by reducing the life
/ terms to six years and putting the
power of appointment with the mayor
! instead of the surviving members
The special school tax levy proposal
sets aside 80 cents for salaries,.6 cents
for maintenance and 5 cents for build
ing.
A conditional tax provision submitted
provides that if the senate amendment
TO the state constitution segregating
the taxation of all public service cor
porations carry, thereby depriving San
Francisco's assessment roll of some
$50, coo. GOO. levy. half the state levy.
thereby lifted shall be added TO the
dollar limit