Herbert C. (Herbert Coffin) Jones Papers, 1903-1954

Summary

Title:

Herbert C. (Herbert Coffin) Jones Papers

Dates:

1903-1954

Creators:

Jones, Herbert C. (Herbert Coffin)

Extent:

52.5 Linear Feet 105 manuscript boxes

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Herbert C. (Herbert Coffin) Jones Papers, M0099, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

I. Quantity, Scope, and Nature of the Collection.

The Collection consists of:

I I. The Nature of the Collection:

Mr. Jones himself speaks for the nature of the collection in excerpts From two letters.

Excerpt from a letter from Mr. Jones, San Jose, January 4, 1956, to Mr. J. Terry Bender, Chief, Division of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford University:

The period covered by my own collection deals with numerous phases of the political and economic life of California over a quarter of a century.

Excerpt from letter from Mr. Jones to Dr. Edgar E. Robinson at Stanford University, dated: San Jose, California, March 23, 1956.

The hope I had in mind in placing the material at Stanford was that it might be of assistance to students of California politics. I served under six governors, beginning with Hiram Johnson and extending down to Erank Merriam. This has been described as an "explosive period" in California politics. Certainly the Johnson campaign of 1910 and his administration ushered in a new era in California. The impact of his administration has been felt during the succeeding half century. His was the era when Theodore Roosevelt was President and we had a political up-surge that produced state governors like Charles Evans Hughes of New York, Robert LaFollette in Wisconsin, Woodrow Wilson in New Jersey, and Joe Folk in Missouri.

Their reforms, attempted or accomplished, were numerous, and the shift in public opinion and the development of the social viewpoint as against the old "Laissez-faire" doctrine were fundamental and far reaching.

There followed many problems with which the modern day students of history and government must be greatly interested. A few of these developments come readily to mind.

First, there was the implementing of public expression through the new instruments of democracy:

These instruments for the expression of public opinion were used in dealing with Prohibition, the Red Light Abatement Act, and Race Track Gambling.

There was then afforded a chance to see how they have worked out, some of the abuses and to what extent results have been disappointing. These are subjects of interest to students.

Then in the field of taxation, there are such problems us:

For example, in California, Hiram Johnson ran the entire state government during the first year of his administration for approximately 18,000,000 dollars. Governor Knight's budget today (1956) is 1,770,000, 000 dollars. If these figures are put on a chart, they are startling and show the mounting of State expenditure far exceeds the rate of population increase.

There is the study of new and expanded State activities. During Hiram Johnson's time came the first State highway. At the session in which the first gasoline tax bill was introduced for one cent a gallon sach was the public outcry that no attempt was made even to bring the bill out of Committee. The next session came around and public opinion had so changed that a bill for two cents a gallon went sailing through the Legislature with scarcely a ripple of opposition.

The whole program for State highways is a most interesting study--how little we realizer when the first bond issues for 18,000,000 and 15,000,000 dollars were approved, what the highway system was ultimately to become.

Then there has been the development of the pensions--teacher's pensions, pensions for firemen, policemen, municipal and county employees, etc. The old-age pension, required many sessions of study and investigation before the Legislature dared to act. In later years there has been a scramble among Legislators to lead the fight for even higher old age allowances.

In the field of regulation of utilities, the cry of the railroads was that the State keep its hands off. Their slogan was "that country is best governed which is governed least," that the "power to tax is the power to destroy." Then came the jitneys and motor vehicles carrying passengers and freight, and over-night there was a reversal in the traditional attitude of the railroads; they wanted their opponents taxed and regulated out of existence; it made a difference whose ox was gored.

There is a vast field of public health legislation--the inspection of public food markets, restaurants, barber shops, slaughter houses; also State supervision of fresh water streams, and subsidies to County tuberculosis hospitals.

Then followed the whole program for the supervision of adoptions, orphans' homes, rest homes.

The licensing of doctors, lawyers, banks, building and loan associations, accountants, realtors and insurance companies, extended to contractors, beauty parlors--a vast field of regulation in which there is a question of whether the protection of the public is not mixed with a desire to restrict competition.

Then there is the development of the fee system--the charging of tuition at Stanford (1 put through the bill for the Trustees legalizing this); charges for out-of-state students at the University of California; the entering wedge for tuition charges and the State University and State colleges; the attempt during the depression to impose a tuition system in high schools and to take the Budgetary control from school boards and place it with Boards of Supervisors.

One of the biggest subjects of all is water.

In the 1915 session I was made chairman of the Senate Committee on Drainage, Swamp and Overflowed Lands. This was because a Chairman was wanted who came from a part of the State not affected by the bitter controversy over the Sutter Basin development. The reclaiming of this ruly vast area area by levees was backing flood waters on the farms and orchards around Marysville. The dykes were dynamited by those whose lands were thus flooded. The Sutter Basin owners in turn patrolled the levees with armed guards. There was almost a state of civil war.

The theory then was to get rid of surplus waters. They were looked upon as the "common enemy." A long notch was cut in the east bank of the Sacramento River, known as the Tisdale Wier, through which the flood waters of the river flowed over into the Sutter Basin and moved slowly down to join the waters of the American River. Here another wier was cut, this time in the west bank of the Sacramento River, and the water allowed to flow as a vast inland sea down the Yolo Basin and on toward Suisun Bay. The theory was to rush the waters down to the Bay by "fast express' rather than "slow freight."

Six years went by. Then came Colonel Marshall before the legislature in 1921 backed by the land owners of the Tulare region whose orchards were dying from lack of water. There followed the fascinating story of his plan for transporting the surplus waters of the Sacramento Valley to the deficient areas of the San Joaquin Valley in a giant east-side canal. The Legislature appropriated approximately 1,000,000 dollars over the next ten years to have the plan studied by the State Engineer. He made his Report in 1931. In 1933 we passed the Central Valley Act.

It was I who, at the request of the State Grange and the League of Municipalities, put in the amendment in the Central Valley Act which provided for the construction by the State of the transmission line from Shasta to Antioch. This put the "fight" into the Central Act which caused the power companies to invoke the referendum. The measure, however, was sustained by the voters at the Special Election on December 19, 1933. In the midst of the depression of the `30's the State could not float bonds for 170,000,000 to build the project and so appealed to the Federal Government to take over. This it was placed in the hands of the U.S. Reclamation Bureau. The Bureau instead of transporting the water either through Marshall's proposed east-side canal, or the channel of the San Joaquin River by a series of booster dams, as recommended by the State Engineer, constructed its giant Delta-Mendota Canal running 120 miles along the west side of the San Joaquin Valley from Tracy to Mendota.

The tremendous increase in the State's population today is centering a new attention to water. Involved are all the problems of State vs. Federal financing and operation, the controversy over the "160 acre limitation," and the effort by are s of dearth to modify the "count of origin" law.

All this challenges the attention of the student of California history.

Running through all these instances just cited, is the shifting in the public viewpoint from the old "laissez-faire" doctrine toward the theory of the "Welfare State" with ever increasing public expenditure and public debt--municipal, state, and federal.

All these are problems which are pressing on our communities and states with increasing insistance. They naturally are questions in which the student of history and government in our universities must be profoundly interested if he would fit himself to plot the course of Society in the future.

An important feature whould be the interpretation that those of us who are identified with Hiram Johnson and succeeding governors, such as Stephens and Young, could give in clarifying the material.

There are many things that do not become clear unless accompanied by such personal interpretation. One example is why the candidacy of Stephen M. White for U.S. Senator and Judge McGuire for Governor ran hand in hand and were mutually supported until the very end of the campaign. Stephen M. White's support was withdrawn from McGuire. Franklin Hichborn furnishes the explanation for this.

In the case of C.C. Young, there was the incident when he was hesitating to announce his candidacy for Governor, when Franklin Hichborn summoned Senator Inman down from Sacramento and myself up from San Jose. We went into a huddle with Young who still wanted a few days to make up his mind. The others of us told Young that he would have to announce that night or it would be too late; that the next day Mayor Cryer of los Angeles expected to make his announcement. We finally shoved Young over the brink and made him issue his announcement.

The next morning Senator Inman and I called on Hiram Johnson. He scowled at us as we entered his office. His first words were, "You have nominated Young, now elect him." Johnson's choice would have been Neumiller of Stockton.

The difficulty in interpreting the collections of "contemporary history" is that unfortunately the men of that era are fast dropping from the scene. Mr. Hichborn is 87 years of age with health not too good. Senator Inman has passed away. My colleague and seatmate, Senator W.J. Carr of Pasadena, whom I visited last December, I found in bed and kept alive by an oxygen tank. Senator Frank Benson of Santa Clara County, one of the leaders in the Hiram Johnson administration, suffers from a stroke of paralysis that makes it difficult for him to get around.

This invaluable aid in interpreting the documents and events of the Johnson era will shortly be gone.

Biographical / historical:

Herbert C. Jones was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, where his father taught in Penn College. He received his grammar school and high school education in San Jose, California, and his university training at Stanford University, where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1902. In 1904 he graduated from the Stanford school of Law. After graduation, Mr. Jones spent a short period in the County Clerk's Office, Santa Clara County, then began to practice law in San Jose where he since has maintained law offices. Mr. Jones took a leading part in the civic and community affairs of San Jose and Santa Clara County and manifested an interest, as well, in state and national political events. On January 2, 1913 he was elected to the California State Senate, in the first recall election of a state legislative official in California. Senator Jones served as State Senator for twenty-two years, 1913 through 1934. The Jones Papers include material from 1912 to 1954, however, because Mr. Jones continued to follow closely state political activity after his term of official service.

Mr. Jones gave his papers to the Stanford Libraries' California Collection in 1955, for the interest and use of students of California history and politics in the twentieth century.

The papers were catalogued during the summers, 1956-and 1957, by a graduate student (Donna Keyes) in the Stanford Department of History.

Custodial history:

Gift of Herbert C. Jones, 1954.

Arrangement:

File Drawers no. 1 through 17: 1912 - 1954

Organization of the Correspondence and Reference Material

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1. All Correspondence and Reference Material is arranged Chronologically From 1912 through 1954.
2. All Correspondence and Reference Material is arranged Alphabetically within the Chronological divisions.
3. From the beginning year of Senator Herbert C. Jones' term in the California legislature (1913) to 1925, Correspondence is filed alphabetically by name of the correspondence. For this period, 1913-1925, the Correspondence is filed according to name of the sender or recepient of the letters, regardless of the topic or subject matter of the letters. Pamphlets, Newspaper clippings, etc. that pertain to a given legislative topic are filed in folders identified as "Reference Material." Example: "1917, Reference File." These Reference Material folders are place in the file drawers after the Correspondence folders for each of the years of Legislature from 1913 to 1925.
4. Beginning with 1925, the material in the collection was more clearly arranged (upon receipt of the collection) according to subject matter. Therefore, most of the material from 1925 on could be filed alphabetically according to subject matter or topic, rather than by the name of the correspondent. Of course, not all of the material could be filed by subject matter. So it has been done in this manner: Whenever there was no evident subject or topic of a given letter, the letter was filed under the name of the correspondent. From 1925 on, there are for each legislative year three groups of folders:
   1. A group of folders of Correspondence filed according to the name of the person or group to whom Senator Jones wrote or from whom he received letters.
   2. A group of folders of Correspondence and Reference Materials, integrated, filed according to Subject Matter of the correspondence.
   3. A group of folders of Correspondence in which there are letters filed according to subject matter if such is evident, or by name of correspondent.

Because the material in the collection after 1925 was more clearly arranged according to legislative or other topics of concern to Senator Jones, the bulk of the material from 1925 on has been filed topically, that is, by subject matter. This made unnecessary the earlier method of filing (1913-1925) some material (pamphlets, clippings, etc., relating to given legislative topics) in folders separate from Correspondence, known as Reference Files. Subsequent to 1925, these two groupings have been incorporated into one grouping of folders known as "Legislative Correspondence, filed by Subject Matter." That is, Correspondence and reference material on "Adoption" or "Initiative and Referendum," have been filed together. It was necessary, however, to continue filing; some letters by name of Correspondent rather than by subject matter. In many cases the letters do not pertain to a given legislative measure or topic and thus for each legislative year there is a group of folders of correspondnece arranged alphabetically according to the name of the correspondent. These are the letters referred to in 1) above, and are identified as: "legislative Correspondence, files according name of correspondent."

After-Session Correspondence. Correspondence (with some reference material) after the biennial legislative session closes (may-june). This division is the material referred to in section 3) above. The "After-Session Correspondence" usually dates from the close of a given legislative session to the opening of another. For example, this group of folders will contain correspondence From June 1920 through 1928, to the opening (January) session of legislature in 1981. However, correspondence dated 1928, which pertains specifically to a topic of legislation to be dealt with in the 1929, the coming session, will be filed with the correspondence of the 1929 session. That is, letters of the late months of 1928 that pertain to coming legislative business will be filed with the 1929 legislative folders, in the "Legislative Correspondence filed by Subject Matter, 1929," if the topic of the letter can be ascertained; -- if the letter is about a general matter which does not become a principal topic of legislation in the 1929 session, it will remain grouped with the other 1928 letters in the 1927-1928 After-Session Correspondence file.

In the 1918-1925 Folders, before the creation of a grouping known as "After-Session Correspondence," the correspondence from non-legislature years is arranged thus:

Since the California Legislature met biennially, the bulk of Senator Jones' correspondence falls under odd-numbered years. 1913, 1915, 1917, etc.; usually the correspondence in even-numbered years, 1916, 1918, 1920, etc., has been incorporated with Folders of correspondence dated in the odd-numbered, legislative session years.

Example: Part of the correspondence dated 1916 is filed with the 1915 and part of it with the 1917 folders, depending upon the month in which a certain letter was written. Most even-numbered year correspondence in the collection pertains to legislative business of the previous or coming legislative session. Therefore, the first six months of correspondence dated 1916 will be found filed with the 1915 legislative correspondence folder. The correspondence dated in the last six months of 1916 is filed with the 1917 correspondnece folders.

Example of the Division of the correspondnece from even-numbered non-legislative session years into the previous and subsequent odd-numbered legislative session, year's folders : In the 1915 Correspondence folders, the bulk of the letters are dated during the annual legislative session (January-June, 1915).

In addition to these Letters, the 1915 folders contain letters dated in the last months of 1914 (usually July through December), and the letters dated in the first six months of 1916 (January through June). This arrangement of the material is followed from 1913-1925 material.

After 1925, as has been explained, a group of folders identified as "After-Session Correspondence," has been created to contain the correspondence of legislative years after the session closes (June thru December of the legislative year), and to contain the correspondence of the even-numbered year which follows a given legislative year. For example, the 1927 After-Session Correspondence folders will contain letters dated from June, 1927 through 1928, up to the opening of the 1929 Legislative Session in January, 1929.

In a few non-legislative session years such as 1926 and 1932, Senator Jones did receive a greater quantity of correspondence on a given topic than in other even-numbered, non-legislative years. Therefore, in this case a group of folders for the Correspondence and Reference Materials for these even-numbered years has been arranged, separate from the usual incorporation of non-legislative years (correspondence in the folders for legislative years.

Further Notes about the filing of the Correspondence:

Enclosures (clippings, other letters, etc.) in letters sent to Senator Jones have been kept, in most cases, with the letter by the use of a folded yellow sheet. If the enclosures mentioned in certain letters to and from Mr. Jones are not with the letter, refer to the Reference File (1913-1925 material) of the year in which the letter was written, checking under the initial letter and/or title of the subject in question. Or the yellow sheet with a letter will where the original enclosure may be found. Example: If an enclosure on Education is mentioned in a letter to Senator Jones, and this enclosure is not attached to the letter, see the Reference File for the year, under "E".

As stated earlier, the material in the collection is filed first chronoligically. However, when material would seem to be more valuabe or meaningful if kept together in one folder rather than distributed in separate folders within various years, this material over different years (such as "Consolidation, 1927-1934") is kept together in one folder, filed with folders in the latter year (1934). The cases in which material is kept together although it ranges over a period of years, are few; chronological organization of material has been maintained unless there were good reasons for exception.

Letters which are not dated at all, or are of uncertain dates, are kept with the correspondence of the year with which they were originally received; for filing they are placed at the front of a given folder (for example: with A if the correspondents name begins with this letter--in the 1918-1925 material; or according to the initial letter of the subject of the letter in the 1925-1954 material). Although a letter be of uncertain date, if it can be ascertained from other letters, approximately what month it was written in, the letter is placed at the end of a group of other letters in a given month.

Reference Material:

Bills. A list of the bills introduced by Senator Jones in a given legislative session are arranged in folder labeled "B" in the Reference folders, from 1918-1925. For Bills after 1925, 1925-1954, Bills are filed in a separate folder labeled "Bills" in sectio "B" of the group of folders known as "Legislative Correspondence, filed by Subject Matter."

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1. CORRESPONDENCE. Letters to and from Senator Jones. Correspondence with individuals, groups, organizations, companies, fellow legislators, etc., pertaining principally to past, current, or future legislation in the years 1912 through 1954. Also there are letters such as those from applicants for appointive positions in State committees or apencies, and letters of congratulation to Senator Jones upon his re-election to Legislature, or letters of appreciation for his work in defeating or promoting a given legislative measure. All Correspondence is filed in chronological order.
2. REFERENCE MATERIAL. Legislation, copies of Senate and assembly Bills and Constitutional Amendments, material relating to Bills, explaining or justifying them; Newspaper clippings and magazine articles pertaining to specific legislative measures; proceedings, hearings, reports, etc. of Senate and/or Assembly permmanent or temporary committees. Reference Material is filed chronologically and within this division, alphabetically according to topic,
3. HANDBOOKS for Legislature. Sessions: 1903, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1941. The Handbooks for each legislative session are useful guides in discovering on which Senate Committees Mr. Jones served as Chairman or was member.
4. BOOKS. All books in the Jones Collection are listed in the Bibliography Card File.
5. PAMPHLETS, PERIODICALS, GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, and other material of this nature are arranged chronologically from 1903 through 1953 in the Pamphlet Boxes, nos. 1 through 45. Pamphlet Box no. 46 is a collection of Directories of State and County Officials of California, from 1925 through 1937.
6. BIBLIOGRAPHY CARD FILE. A list of all Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, Government Publications (State and Federal), etc. in the Collection that are not filed in folders along with the Correspondence and Reference Materials. The cards are arranged 1) Chronologically 1903 through 1953; and 2) Alphabetically by title or author of each publication, within the years.
7. NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS. Individual Newspaper Clippings which have been preserved because they pertain to a given legislative matters, are filed in the Correspondence or the Reference Material files, in some cases alphabetically according to topic of the clipping and in other cases attached to letters as enclosures. Newspaper Clippings which report on an entire Legislative Session during a given year are arranged in the eight Leather-Bound Scrapbooks in the Collection. (see page 3 of this Guide) Newspaper Clippings which could not be identified by topic, date or source are placed in the four Brown Paper Folios in the Collection (see page 3 of this Guide).
8. PHOTOGRAPH of John Randolph Heynes, friend of Mr. Franklin Hichborn and of Mr. Jones.

List of Newspaper clippings in leather-backed scrapbook

1. Bills, (copies of) Introduced by Senator H.C. Jones, Legislative Session, 1921.
2. Newspaper Clippings on topics and action of Legislature, 1923, book no. 1
3. Newspaper Clippings on topics and action of Legislature, 1923, book no. 2
4. Newspaper Clippings on Legislature, 1925
5. Jones, H.C. Political Campaign for Senatorship, 1926. 28th Senatorial District. Newspaper Clippings, several letters.
6. Newspaper Clippings on topics and action of Legislature, 1931. Clippings from San Francisco Chronicle, S.F. Examiner, and The Sacramento Bee.
7. Newspaper Clippings on Legislature, 1933.
8. Senate Investigating Committee. Newspaper Clippings of progress of the Investigation of the Rolph Administration, 1933.

List of Newspaper Clippings in Brown Paper Folios

1. Newspaper Clippings, pamphlets, etc. For 1914, 1915, 1916. 1917, 1918.
2. Newspaper Clippings on Legislation, 1921 Session. King Tax Bill, etc.
3. Newspaper Clippings from The Sacramento Bee, 1929 and Miscellaneous Clippings, 1931.
4. Newspaper Article and Clippings, Miscellaneous, Business notes of Senator Jones.

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1. The complete circle traveled by the Prohibition or liquor control movement, beginning with the regulation of such matters as the hours of liquor sale, proximit to universities and schools, then on to the local option movements in cities, supervisorial districts and counties, and then to state regulation and on to national prohibition, then the repeal of national prohibition and back to the starting point.
2. The slow and steady increase in the political influence of organized labor.
3. The development of flood control, including the levees along the Sacramento, the bitter struggle between the Sutter Basin, leveeing the waters from its area, only to force higher levels on orchards and farm areas around Marysville, the dynamiting of such levees, and, in turn, the patrolling of them by men armed with rifles.
4. The growth of the pension movement for teachers, municipal employees, old-age pensions.
5. The insistence on increasing governmental regulation--inspection of foods, protection of drinking water, sanitation along our rivers and shore fronts, safety codes in building, fruit standardization, minimum prices, fair trade laws, etc.
6. The converting of the old Railroad Commission into the Public Utilities Commission
7. The regulating of banks, building and loan associations, insurance companies--how much for the protection of the public, and how much to stifle competition?
8. The increase of State expenditure and State taxes--18,000,000 dollars for State expenses in Hiram Johnson's first administration and 1,081,000,000 under Governor Warren--why the increase out-runs population. The foregoing are but examples of the trends covered during my own period of service in the Legislature.

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1. The Initiative
2. The Referendum
3. The Recall
4. Women's Suffrage
5. Direct election of U.S. Senators
6. Regulation of expenditures in political campaigns and publicizing the same.

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1. The mounting public debt
2. Whether republics are able successfully to cope with these burdens.

Indexed terms

Indexes:

Subject Index to H.C. Jones Reference Material

Papers is filed chronologically and then alphabetically by subject, thus related subjects can and do appear in five or more years. This index is designed to assist the searcher in locating subject matter without the necessity of reading the entire Register. Numbers correspond to folders in the collection. After obtaining the desired numbers, it is advisable to check the major portion of the Register for fuller details.

accountants -	353
adoption -
adult education -
advisory boards -	216
Agnew State Hospital -
agriculture, dept. of -
aircraft -	262
alien teachers -	79
All-American Canal -	695
almshouse -	112
Americanism -	162
anatomy bill -	353
animal trainers bill -	314
Anti-Saloon League (under A, correspondence files 1920's) See also Briggs, A.H.
apples -	162
apprentices -	79
arbitration -
architects -	79
assessors -	262
automobiles (includes "Jitney") -
automobiles (includes "Jitney") liens -	354
automobiles (includes "Jitney") stealing of -	162
aviation -	354
Bank of Italy -	382
banks and banking -
Bar Association -
barbers -
Bartlett, Louis -	654
Bayshore Highway -	309
bee keeper -	163
beer -	507
berry baskets -	217
berry growers -	163
Better America Federation -
Bible in public schools -
Big Basin -
billboards -	28
birds and arbor conservation -
blindness -	80
Blue Sky Law -
Board of Equalization -	632
bootleg (see also stills) -	382
Boiler inspection -	28
boxing -	263
Briggs, A.H. (State Superintendent of the California Anti-Saloon League). -	440
Briggs, C.R., -	654
Bromley "Spoils System" bill -	696
budget, State -
budget, uniform laws for counties -	357
building and loan -
Bureau of Commerce -	516
business colleges -	309
The California Liberator -	190
California Oriental Exclusion League -	188
California Polytechnic School -	276
Cameron, W.H. -	654
capital punishment -
Caranhan, H.L. -	165
Catholics -
Cattlemen's Association -	218
cement trust -
cemeteries -
cemetery protection -
cemetery removal -	218
Central Valley water project -	654
chain stores -
Chamber of Commerce -
charities and correction -
chattel mortgage -
Child Hygiene Board -	165
child labor -
child welfare -
Chile, aid to -	165
chiropractors -	521
Christian Science -	268
civil service -	466
Clear Lake -	165
collection agencies -	218
colleges, at Sacramento -	81;
Sec. -	466
Colorado River project -	268
commercial arbitration -	190
commercial federation -	165
Commonwealth Club -	218
community property -
compensation insurance -	81
comptroller -	218
conservation -	29
constitutional convention -	635
cooperatives -
corporation bills -	81
corporation taxes -
counties -	218
county clerks -	268
county government -
county water district -	524
courts (see also judges) -	268
Cox, James -	190
coyotes -	218
Crail, Joe -	494
Creel, George -	658
crime and criminals (see also capital punishment) -
dairy council -	270
dairy laws -
daylight savings -	442
deaf and blind -
death penalty (see capital punishment) -
deciduous fruit -
delinquent women -
dental mechanics -	270
district attorneys -	82
divorce -	270
Domestic Court -	270
draft -	124
dredges -	270
dried fruit -	467
drinking cup law -	115
dry candidates -	137
dry zone -	30
Dumbarton bridge -	115
Eberhard, Roy C. -	659
education -
Education, State Department of -	561
education investigation committee -	179-187
education, part-time (see also Adult education) -	276
eight hour law -
elections (of 1918 - 135-36) -
Ellis, W.R. -	659
embalmer's bill -	31
employment agencies -
Equalization, State Board of -	82
eugenics -	31
exemption, doctors -	311
expert testimony (witnesses) -
fair trade -	527
farm labor -	117
farmers -
Farmer's Union -	117
farms and farming -
Federal aid -	180
Federal practice liens -	270
feed standards -
fees, official -	170
ferries -	32
fire boats -	170
firearms -	363
fish and game -
fish and game law -	117
food control -	219
foot and mouth disease -	270
forest fire legislation -	182
forestry -
forests -	270
fraternities -	32
Free, Arthur, M. -	494
fruit standardization -	483
gambling -
gasoline -
gasoline tax -
German, teaching of in California schools -	171
Givens, Willard E. -	660
Glasson, Maude C. -	660
grade crossings -	364
grand jury -
Grange (see also farmers) -	411
Grant, E.E. recall election -	83
Grape Growers' Association -	219
grape growing -	117
Haight, Raymond -	662
Happy Valley Irrigation District -	117
Harding's liquor record - California -	190
Hardy, Judge Carlos S., trial of -	412
Harris bill -	220
hay -	171
Haynes, John Randolph -	662
Haynes, John Randolph foundation -	532
health insurance -
Hetch Hetchy -	271
Hichborn, Franklin -
high schools -	220
highway patrol -	533
highways -
Hill, Andrew P. -	171
historical association -	533
history textbooks -	271
holding companies -	533
holidays -	533
homesteads -	171
Hoover, Herbert -	190;
clippings -	385
horticulture -	220
humane pound -	534-535
Hunter's Point project -	171
hydro-electricity -	220
income tax -	537
indemnity certificates -	221
indeterminate sentence -	221
Indian Basin -	83
Indians -	118
Industrial Accident Commission -
industrial strikes -	314
inheritance tax -	365
initiative -
injunction -
Inman -	500
installment taxes -	542
Institute of Technology -	229
insurance -
I.W.W. -	171
investment trusts -	473
Irish -	271
irrigation -
jail -	119
Japanese -
immigration -
Jews -	221
Jitneys (see automobiles) -
Johnson, Charles G. -	665
Johnson, Hiram -
Jones, H.C., bills -
Jones, H.C., election campaigns - 1912 -	2a
Jones, H.C., election campaigns - 1914 -	49-52
Jones, H.C., election campaigns - 1926 and 1090 -	339-341
Jones, H.C., election campaigns - 1930 -	443-447
Jones, H.C., election campaigns - 1933 -	654
Jones, H.C., speech -	572
judges - appointment of -
Judiciary Committee -
Judiciary reform -	35
jury system -
justice of the peace -
juvenile court -
kindergarten legislation -
King tax bill -	272
Klu Klux Klan -	272
Kosher -	367
labor -
labor legislation and labor record of legislature -
Lake County land settlement -	222
land settlement act -	120
"Lawyer's bill," -	710
legal reform -
League of Nations -	165
League of Women Voters -	314
Lick Observatory -	85
liquor -
loan sharks -	85
lobbying -	272
Loma Prieta Game Refuge -	272
lotteries -	272
McPherson, Aimee Semple -	412
manufacturers -	223
market act -
marketing price -	223
Marshall Plan -	223
masks, safety -	273
maternity -	273
Matton act -	551
Meadow Larks -	173
mechanic's lien law -	37
mediation -	121
medical -
Merriam, Frank -	668
military training (1917) -	122
military training (1917) in schools -
milk bill -
minimum wage law -
Mooney case -
morons -	121
mortgage and loan -	315
Mother lode mine -	273
mother's pension -	121
motion pictures -
motor carriers -	712
motor vehicles (taxation of, 274) -
Muir, John, trail -	86
music teachers -	477
mutual insurance -	368
narcotics -
hospital -	553
National Guard -	224
The National Republican -	226
nautical school -	553
Negro -	658
newspapers -	369
non-partisan -
Normal schools -
nurses -
oil -
old age pensions -
oleomargarine -
Olson, Cuthbert L. -	715
optometry -	316
osteopaths -	225
Owens Valley Power and Recreation -	715-716
Pacheco Rancho -	174
Pacific Epileptic Colony -	276
paint -	174
Palo Alto annexatio -	370
Parent-Teachers in schools -	124
Parks and Park Commission -
partisanship (see also non-partisan) -	276
peace -
pension; for teachers -	40
(pension; for widows -
pest control -	480
petroleum central -	190
picketing -	276
Pine road -	276
pipe line bill -	40
poet laureate of California -
police -	124
political campaigns (1914) -	53;
political campaigns (1920-1938) -	720-726
political prisoners -	276
power trusts -
primary, direct -	225
primary laws -
prison bill (womens) -	422
prison bill (womens) labor -	316
prisons -
probate orders -	225
photographs -	174
probate procedure -	174
probation -
Progressive Commonwealth Party -	675
Progressive Party, 1
Progressive Voters League -
Progressives -	225
prohibition -
proportional representation -	276
prostitution -	225
psychopathic hospital, state -	174
public defenders -
public health -
public ownership -
public utilities -
public works -
pure food -	225
Quinn, John R., 1039
railroad commission -
railroads -
railroads, government control -	171
real estate -
reapportionment -
reclamation -
reconstruction, post World War I -	175
recorders -	175
recreational inquiry committee -	45-48
Red Cross -	175
Redwood League -
Redwood Park -
referendum (see also initiative) -	642
rehabilitation, industrial -	226
religious education -	371
reporters, court -
Republican Party -	277
Republicans -	175
retail license tax -	481
revenue -	277
revolver law -
Riley Tax bill -	562
roads and highways -
Rolph administration investigation -
Roosevelt, T. club -	731
Rosecrucians -	732-734
sabotage -	282
San Francisco harbor -
San Jose port -
Santa Clara boundary -	265
Santa Clara township -	229
school administration -	383
schools -
schools, county elementary -	409
Seavy, Clyde L. -	680
sewage research -	429
shearer content -	176
short ballot -
Sinclair, Upton -	681
Sloane, W. A. -	176
slot machines -	372
social evil -	42
social insurance -	229
social welfare -	567
socialism -
Soviet health insurance -	176
spiritualists -	372
spoils system -	282
Spreckels, Rudolph -	685
state fair -	42
state government reorganization -	228
stills -	372
subsidized officials -	282
Sunday Closing law -
supervisors, county -	282
supreme court -	372
surety companies -	176
surplus corporation -	282
Sutter Basin -	130
syndicalism, criminal -
taxes and taxation -
Tax Commission -
teachers -	994;
agencies -	283;
retirement -	561;
tenure -
(pension for -
textbooks -	131
tidelands -	177
Tioga Road -	131
title companies -
toll bridges -	374
Torrens Land Title Law -
trading stamps -
trappers -	131
trucks -	570
trusts -	131
tuberculosis -
Tulare Lake District -	131
unemployment -	572
uniform condition sales act -	234
University, State, budget,	572
usury -	91
utilities, taxation of -	573
vaccination -
VD -	177
veterans -	574
vivisection -
vocational training -	284
Volstead Act (see also prohibition) -
war gardens -	178
war loan organization -	234
war risk insurance -	178
water -
water and power -	284
water conservation -
water development act -	234
water plan, State -	576-580
water supply -	91
Whitney, Charlotte Anita, case of -	190
Whittier school -	178
women, employment -
women's bill -	134
Women's Relief Corp. -	284
women's suffrage -	178
Working Reserve, U.S. Boys -	178
workmen's compensation -
Young, C. C. -
Y.M.C.A. -	134
Pamphlet on The Progressive Voters League, 1923-26 in first copy of registers.

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