San Francisco Call, Volume 100, Number 1, 1 June 1906 — WORD "COLLECT" EXCITES SOLONS [ARTICLE]

WORD "COLLECT" EXCITES SOLONS

Governors Messages Are Marked" tin paid Aby - ; Mistake.

Ruffled <Legisiatdrs. AI4 \ .turned JJridpened. -

OAKLAND. C May 3 1.— Governor Pat^ dee Kays^ that sending, telegram's' to ",}^B-. Islitd i-s i> JlKeV'tlirMvlri'if ?.a rock. at ahduse; bUiidod'by hornets, tit^ admits that ifteh tclekrams^scnS by fiiiii should he^prepaid, bu- his.beliefjjn that subject > didn't ' prevent •'- a.n'u "operator's mistake bririgring a-buzss abdut;his -.head." '- Tho Gov : einor."Sit6lcgraina;fr6m Oaiiidrid a few Hays ago ahnpuiiclnf to thfe aitd Assemblyman; that", the. special session of, the LfP»rislaiiTre>.w6uld ' bt; caileif r for. Saturday we're, all labeled for collection at the other end.:, v,;''; : • The. -'flrdtv intimation that, these dispatches.' were-<to be. tile .cause of trbubljE" Came tp'thHuOvcrnar lastidisht, when he received Avord* At his' hotel that a riumber of telegrams had; be*ri returned to him; because tile. addressees Were. out of town. ..The Governor was. astpUnded to receive the news that- be .must, pay the 3 charge?, as, air of • the dispatches, through .inadvertence, had been. 'sent '.'collect." X' x -"-,y.-. ::■■*.■': - - ; '■-"■ ': .- ■.-■ : "-/:-/-.[-.-.-. ;: Tbday the .statesmen began to swarm ■In upon' the Governor. • They, desired 'to know why. their'-disrnity. had beqn assailed : so' outrageously, , 'They, wahted t6 khd\v. 'why official sunimonff :tb ;tht> State's -srrvicij' had been' s»nt "collect." They'^ "were -anxious ; to. ascertain c why. tlieyshquld hayfj'ljefeh suhjefted.tp the necessity "Qf dlgglng\ into.thelr; pocketa , for tlie cost of the. telegram^pt 1 call, to duty before- they -cotild:- receive -the aforesaid summons. - And" there.- was no ' explanation' ivhlch' would' appease ithe affronted Soldne.at .lt-ast.so it .appeared, to the. pertiirbed' chief executive... . „'- .r .An; investigation was Setjafoot.. .\Tlic rriystery w^S Sal ved by a much-embar-rassed; telegraph operator;, who salQ the' uiessages over. the.Governdr's-Signature hid been. sent. "collect" b/ mistake.. Qn the heels of *tbe Original messagef^others have been telegraphed; . notliying the aggrieved, statesifii-n that i.icy. may recover the .tolls -tlify have 'paid U"pn application, and that It was all'a griey011$»error of ra* telegraph^ operator," unt familiar with- the^ custom andlpracticc concerning, such Offlcliil business.. "'.- . The Goverhdr ia still disturbed,, le^t som« ,of his? telegrams.:, to: persons side tlie State, rnlght have gone "collect , and tlie entire mass of : work, done dur r . ink tHbi lastitbree" or fpur-weeks.Js.be-. ing examined^at the telegraph .-.office.;'-;-. 1 Governor ' Pardee iS feometUil^ Of-r a wdg." He .has decided .that during the special .session at '.least h& iwill forego 'anything, that .' Savors 6t levity ■ In " his riieetlhss !witui members *bf the .State Legislature. :iti vthe langaagfti.of the curbstone": '.-''/THey-havg it on him. , .