TEACHERS, PENSION 1 BILLS ATTACKED SACRAMENTO,
April I.—State Controller A. B. Nye, in a sharp letter addressed jointly to Senators E. J. Tyrrell of Oakland and A. E. Boynton of Oroville, authors of the two teachers' pension bills now before the legislature, declares both measures unconstitutional and asserts that owing to faulty construction neither would be effective. Nye further states that those who drew up the bills knew "little or nothing, about public financial methods." Thousands of teachers throughout the state have taken a great interest in the two proposed laws —either of which is said to have been acceptable to a majority of the teaching profession. The principal difference lies in the method of providing the money with which to pay the pensions, and on this score Nye brands them both as impossible.
COMPENSATION BILL BY SCOTT CALL BUREAU. SACRAMENTO HOTEL.
Sacramento, April I.
Senator Boynton's workmen's compensation act, which, it was announced today, •would be amended by the committee having it in charge so as to eliminate the ranchers and farmers from its provisions, has created considerable discussion among the political leaders of the state, owing to a charge made by J. J. Scott of the democratic state central committee that it was designed to build up a political machine.
Chairman Daniel Ryan of the republican committee tonight said Scott's charge was mere rot and that the democrats were making an effort to defeat a measure which would benefit the workingmen immensely. In a letter to the editor of a paper in Crescent City, dated March 2 4 and forwarded to Senator Boynton, Scott said: "in the campaign last fall your paper had the independence of thought and action to oppose the high handed work of the present state political machine.
I therefore do not feel that I am presuming in calling your attention to one of the worst of the political measures now before the legislature of California in the hope that you will realize the importance of commenting on it editorially and seeing that your comments are communicated to the representatives of your community at Sacramento.
"The bill to which I refer is senate bill 905 by Senator Boynton.”
In enclosed editorials I have endeavored to show how, if enacted into law, its operation would tend to build up a political machine, not only impregnable, but also unprecedented in the history of the state. "In another article, submitted for editorial expression, if you see fit, I have explained the Injustice to which tens of thousands of farmers in California would be subjected by the success of so preposterous a program.
The Boynton bill is intended to per- I feet a political organization by the creation of an unlimited number of positions, at unlimited salaries and by devious other sly ramifications under the control of three commissioners, holding office at the pleasure of the governor."
Senator Boynton declined to comment on Mr. Scott's letter, but Mr. Ryan said it was absurd to suggest that there was any ulterior motive in the bill or that a political machine could be built up in any such manner.
The bill, with some minor amendments not yet made, will be recommended for passage by the committee.
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