Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
CRISIS FACED
BY CALF FORNIA
ON FINANCES
legislature Made No Effort To
Avoid Bankrupt Condition
Due To Deficit.
AID VALOREM TAX SURE
Record Number OF Bills Pre-
Sented During Final Session
At Sacramento.
BY HOMER L. ROBERTS
United Press Stiff Correspondent

United Press Stiff Correspondent
SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 30
U.P)-The work of analyzing more
than $500 assorted bills, resolutions
and constitutional amendments in
troduced into the state legislature
during the last four weeks, began
today with the start of the 30-day
constitutional recess.
All that was left of the legisla-
ture in the state capitol was the
cleanup crew." a skeleton force
of clerks, stenographers and at
taches, whose duty is to carry on
during the recess.
The first half of the legislative
session adjourned late Saturday
after one of the greatest orgies of
bill-introducing in the states his
tory. During the day nearly 1000
measures were introduced.
The session adjourned without
taking a single step to avert the
financial crisis expected June 80,
as the result of a deficit of $780,
600 in the general fund.
AS result the state will virtu-
ally go into bankruptcy on that
date. Instead of paying salaries
and other bills, the state will reg
lister warrants" which is tanta-
mount to issuing promissory notes
to pay when it gets the money.
Interesting sidelights were pro-
vided by a senate investigation in
to Governor Rolph's administra-
ton, and the launching of a pro-
posed recall movement by George
Sehlmeyer, master of the Califor-
MIA State Grange.
A 20-year record was broken in
the total number of bills introduce
ed during the session, 3,476 mea-
sures piling up the two houses. OF
these, the assembly contributed
1912 and the senate 1,164, not
to mention a large number of res
olutions and constitutional amend
mentS. .4.@. - -.--4
When the legislature reconvenes
February %, debate will start at
once on the various bills. During
the final half of the session, each
of the 80 assemblyman and 20
senators is limited to introduction
of two bills, unless he gets special
permission from the house.
Tax Inevitable
An ad valorem tax was viewed
as inevitable by state officials, as
the result of failure of the legis-
lature to meet the $60,000000 gap
between income and outgo for the
rest of this and the next biennium.
The tax, it was explained, would
affect owners of every type of real
estate in California, the levy be-
ing predicted at approximately 80
cents for every 500 of assessed
valuation.
ASsemblyman Lawrence Cobb,
Los Angeles, chairman of the as
sembly ways and means committee,
expressed the opinion that legis-
lators generally were better inform
ed about the financial plight of
the state then when they came
to Sacramento January 2.
1T is the duty of every member
to go back home and tell his peo-
pie the true situation facing the
state, and Invite suggestions for a
remedy" he said. California is
$10,000,000 in the hole for the pres
ent biennium and we havn't got
the money.
Every property owner in the
state might as well get ready for
ad valorem taxes, because they'll
get the sad news on their Deem
ber tax bills"
Senator j. NJ Inman, Sacrament
to, set February %, the day of
reconvening as the date for joint
hearings on his proposal to add
s12,000,000 to public utility taxes
in an effort to bring their burden
to the level borne by common pro-
perty.