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Show CHANGE OF VENUE BILL NOT APPROVED BY GILLETTE SACRAMENTO. CaL. April 1.'!. Governor Gov-ernor Gillett announced officially today that he would not sign the change of venue bill. The measure was iuiro-duced iuiro-duced in the recent legislature b.y Assemblyman As-semblyman Grove L. .Johnson. Tt gives to every defendant in a criminal action ac-tion the' right to a change of venue by simply alleging in an affidavit that ho believed the judge to be biased. Tho Citizens League of Justice of San Francisco Fran-cisco appealed officially to the governor to veto the bill, claiming that it would interfere with tho graft prosecutions. |