| Show SWAMPED the le legislature 0 of california dis dispatched patched business with bach sach rapidity towards the close of the session that gov weller who is reported as being a fast man was completely overwhelmed with the verbose nature and multiplicity of the bills that were sent to him for his consideration and approval altho aitho extremely annoyed with the presentation of such au an amount of legislative productions duct ions at that late hour much of which A aich was so mystified and obscurely written that it was no easy matter to ascertain the true intent and meaning his excellency took it coolly and what hat he had bad not time to read and fully comprehend he returned accompanied with a message of which the following were the closing in paragraphs 1 I have to remark that in many of these bills there are clerical errors which ought to 0 o have been corrected before presentation to me but I 1 have not felt at liberty to withold my approval on that account in some of them words have been erased and others substituted whether with or without tha consent of the legislature Legisla tur I 1 cannot determine sixty five bills some of them of great length were placed in my hands on friday saturday and sunday of this number thirty eight were delivered on yesterday and notwithstanding standing I 1 devoted the whole of sunday to their consideration I 1 find this morning that it is physically impossible to read much rauch less understand them all the enclosed list will show your honorable body the number and character of the bills which I 1 have been able to read by their titles only it is probable that nearly all these would have received my approval if an opportunity had bad been afforded to examine them but it will be seen by their titles that many of them are of an important character and require investigation As a matter of course it cannot be expected that I 1 will approve an act until I 1 comprehend its contents As I 1 learn earn unofficially however that the D Lis libre re is about to adjourn I 1 have deemed it my duty to advise you of these facts there ia is another subject to which I 1 must respectfully call your attention I 1 have made every effert effort in my power to secure the passage of 1 some law lav which would settle the state prison difficulty but the legislature is about to adjourn without disposing of this question and under the decision of the Su supreme court unless reversed on rehearsal the prison in a few days will pass into the hands bands of the lessee mcca mccalley mccainey iley in the meanwhile the governor anti and some of his friends who ho happened to be with ith him when he took possession under the order of the last legislature will be harrasser harr assed with lawsuits the system of leasing the convicts and giving the control of them to private individuals Y ia is as obnoxious to the peoples peo pleas it is to torm torn m and I 1 must earnestly invoke your youn our honorable body to take the necessary steps to prevent this calamity to bulter suffer that prison to fall again into the hands of the lessees lessels will 2 in i my 0 opinion 1 don be a distract dis grac to the state slate the state h has a already expended a large sum of money in an effort to break up this sy aftem and I 1 hope the good work will not be abandoned there is still another subject to which eh I 1 must call your attention there are outstanding controllers Controller 3 warrants and audited cla cia claims ims against the State amounting to some for the payment ot aich which no provision has been made the honor of the state demands that some act should be passed to satisfy these just demands I 1 it may not be amiss to add that during the past three months nearly six hundred convicts at san Q quentin lentin have been almost wholly unemployed because of the failure of the legislature to author authorize ze the directors to purchase has or condemn lands adjacent to the pris on 21 |
