The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-07-03

! the responsiveness are not 81 great.
Passed as in the bill.
Clerks in Foreign Office, salaries, 81 800.
Rep. Kamauoha asked how many clerks
| there are.
Minister Austin said there are two. This
! item in last appropriation bill was $2.4OO,
| but some So 900 more was inserted under
! other headings, but all for the same pur-
pose. He put this in for just what it is for.
The item, as also salary OF messenger,
| 81 200; salary of Envoy to Washington,
| SD 600; clerical aid and expenses OF Lega-
| ton, So, 900, passed as in the bill.
| Salary of Consul-General at San Fran
| cisco, IS, 600.
Minister Austin said the Consul has
| hitherto been allowed half the receipts OF
| the consulate. The intention now is to pay
him a fixed salary, the receipts to be paid
| into the treasury.
Rep. Kinney-What are the receipts9
Minister Austin-Nearly $35'Ooo TOR the
two years. The new arrangement Will
probably not take effect until the LIST of
August He moved the item be changed,
| for this reason, to 1886 81. Carried;
Clerical aid and expenses at San Fran
cisco, So, 900.
Minister Austin moved this item be
changed to 81 ,166 81. Passed.
Diplomatic and consular services, So 900;
expenses of foreign agents, 81 900; inciden-
tails foreign office, $4,000, passed as in the
bill.
Education of Hawaiian Youths Abroad,
$4,000.
Noble Hitchcock asked how many of
these wards are there and what are they
studying.
Minister Austin said this information is
given in the biennial report of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs The 'youths" are
Mr. Henry CRUDE Marchant, studying en-
CRAVING in Boston; Mr. Matthew +. Max
alua, studying medicine In London, Eng
land; Mr.. Herring, studying sculpture, and
Miss Maili Nowlein, studying art and
music in Italy. The last named two have
been recalled. Excellent accounts have
been received from Makalua and Marchant.
The amount here asked for is to pay the
expenses of these two in completing their
respective courses and to pay the expenses
home of the other two.
Noble Townsend asked if it is intended
to send any more youths abroad TO be edu-
Gated.
Minister Austin said 1T is not SO con-
templated under the present appropriation.
If the House determines on sending any
more, provision will have to be made for
them.
Rep. Kalaukoa asked if Makalua is going
to be married.
Minister Austin had received letter
from the gentleman asking his consent as
Minister of Foreign Affairs to his marriage,
assuring him that the marriage would in
vOlve no additional expense to this gov
eminent. Ii young Hawaiian has ac-
quired sufficient education and polish to go
and pick up a nice wife in England it is
Rep. Kalaukoa was opposed to this
country educating young men for the ben
eft Of England. They ought, when edu-
Gated, to be sent home: He asked of what
craving going to be to the Government
here?
Rep. Kinney asked for information re-
garding Herring.
Minister Austin said Hering's father had
applied to the Government for his sons |
passage money home with permission for |
him to remain in Italy at his, the fathers, |
expense. This request had been complied
with. AS for the advantages to be derived /!
from CRUDE learning engraving, he thought |
it would be great advantage to the bust |
ness of this country. 1t is engraving in the |
commercial sense, rather than in ne art |
lStc, that the young man Is Learn
Minister ThurStOn said the Go -rnment |
drew a line between sculpture and engrav- |
ing, the one being luxury and the other |
a commercial necessity. Some of the ma
tive papers are tearing their hair about the |
Government abandoning the education of
HaWalians. Referring to the kameha- !
meha schools, he wished he had the advan- |
tages offered by them when he was Il |
youth. Six scholarships are provided at
PunahOu Eighteen or twenty boys could |
be sent to the kamehameha schools for !
what it has cost to send two or three !
abroad.
Noble Smith said the appropriations for |
this purpose were i'll $780, SIS 900; in 1882. |
Total 500, 900. What have we show for it q? !
He did not know how many thousands of |
this were spent on Mr.WIlcOX What was he !
worth tO US when he came back? boy sent /
to the Kamehameha schools 9 months ago !
was employed few days ago by one of the |
master builders Of the city. Were it not /
for obligations to youths abroad now, he ,
would not vote another cert for this OBJ |
ject.
Rep Kauhane agreed with previous |
speakers that money had been thrown away |
but probably the reason was that it was
not properly managed. He Is not In favor
of any more expenditures unless a system
of examination is adopted to determine
upon the qualifications of candidates.
Minister Austin said it had been arrang-
ed that Miss Nowlein was to accompany the
Consul from Turin to London and there
to be placed in charge OF Bishop and Mrs.
Willis who would bring her home.
Noble Young favored the item as in the
bill, but would say to Hawaiians to keep
their young men and young women at
home. Hawaiians are able to learn
trades as other people, One of the govern
ment wards, an engineer, had returned
from Glasgow, and came into the Honolulu
iron works. He knew more devilment
than all the rest of the men in the estab-
lishment. One Hawaiian that had come
in as an apprentice is now one of the best |
paid and best behaved men in the shop.
Some people say the kanaka cannot learn, |
but 1t Is fact that they can learn and they
do learn. He hoped the next appropria-
ton bill would have an item providing for
an establishment to teach HaWaiians var
iOus branches of industry.
Noble Townsend endorsed what had been
said by Noble Young about industrial edu-
cation. Industrial occupations can be
learned here better than abroad. One of
the boys of the HilO boarding school, after
attending there two years. was a little late
in returning for the next term. 1t was
learned that he was engaged, as carpen-
ter, in building house for his mother and
that he had built it well. The time is COM
ing when something more must be done in
this line at the public expense.
The item passed in the bill.
Relief and return OF INDECENT HaWaiians,
81 900.
Rep. KamanOha asked how many indi-