The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-08-23
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
sixty first Day.
FRIDAY, Aug. 90.

OF the DarDed wire fence law be lald on /
the table. Report was laid on the table. |
2. The same committee reports on the |
petition asking that 81 900 be appropri-
ated for landing at Laupahoehoe, and |
recommend that the money be spent. |
On the resolution asking for $l5, 900 for
roads at Hilea, the committee say that the |
item has been inserted in the Appropri- |
alton Bill.
Noble Mccarthy for the Military Com |
mittee reports that the committee has
inspected the military companies and
their buildings, and find the arms and
accoutrements in fair condition. The
committee recommend that the volun
teer companies be disbanded. The COM
mttee also visited the barracks, and
found them i'm need of repairs. AS a
good many OF the soldiers were married,
and were living in miserable sheds
(women not being allowed in the bar
racks the committee recommend that
suitable quarters be erected. The com
mittee further recommend that the drill
shed, large iron building in an unfn-
ished condition, be sold, as it is of no
use to the Government, and they further
recommend the sale OF eight field pieces
as well as OF considerable supply of
ammunition and military stores.
The report was adopted.
Noble Muller for the Committee on
Commerce reports on the Act pertaining
to liens for highway improvements, re-
commencing it's passage. The report was
adopted.
Noble Macfarlane reported for the COM
mittee on the petition of Il. X. Meyers
for $3.50 salary. The committee find that
the money is due and should be paid.
Noble Marsden moved it be laid on the
table to be considered with the Appro-
priation Bill.
Rep. Brown did not agree with the re-
| port. No Minister has the right to agree
with a clerk as to his salary. If clerk
| does SO, he does so on his own RESPONSE
| bility. Mr.. Myers had kept his office
after the Legislature had appropriated
$l25, instead Of $3.50 per month. Ignor-
ance of the law is no excuse. The sal
airy is appropriated every two years. If
this claim is granted, any Minister can
agree to pay $1,000 when the Legislature
has only appropriated 800. move the
| report be laid on the table.
Noble Macfarlane thought the hon.
| member was inconsistent. The other
| day in discussing lump sums, he thought
the Minister could fix any salary he
| pleased. This salary was paid out OF a
lump sum and Mr.. Myers was promised
$3.50 The House appropriated $125. He
should be paid the $25 difference.
Noble Widemann agreed with Rep.
Brown that if Minister promised $50
and the House only appropriated 1925,
the clerk has no remedy from the House.
Any other system would lead to abuses.
Noble Mccarthy stated that Mr..
Meyers was hired at $3.50 per month,
paid out of incidentals, and that he
worked from March 31st till September
30th, drawing $3.50 per month. Then he
worked three months more and at the
end of that time he expected to receive
1915, three months salary at $l25, out
the Minister only paid S225, deducting
$3.50 for six months back pay (from
March 31st to September 30th), which
he claimed he had overdrawn. This is
what the committee object to.
Noble Marsden thought 1t a very just
claim.
Noble Baldwin thought that the House
could not be too careful in paying claims
of this sort. We must not be governed
by feeling in the matter. We must not
establish any wrong precedent. | woul(
rather help pay the claim out OF my own
pocket. l think that before the appro
priation bill was passed, he was entitled
to this full $3.50, but after that he Wa
not.
Mobiles Marsden and McCarthy-Tha
is all he is asking.
. president Walker asked Noble kau
hane tie take the chair.
President Walker said-I know some
thing about it as | was Auditor-Genera
at the time and had something TO d'
with getting this young man into tn,
Water Works Bureau which were il
very bad shape. l knew he was com
petent man and got the Minister OF tn,
} Interior to engage him. He was paiC
$3.50 TO the end of March 3lst, as wei
as all other officers were and continued
like all others at the same rate until the
new bill passed. Then he was informe,
tina the would get only S125. He worke,
three months after the bill passed an'
, | only claimed 1878, as per bill. But a
the end OF the quarter he was told h
could not get the 1915, but that S2o pc
: month must be deducted for the ST!
months from March 31st to Septembe
30th | claim the Minister took retro
spective action in the matter. The Ques
ton is not before the House whether hi
work was well done Though can as
3 sure the House that it was very wei
done).
Noble Isenberg asked if when he wa
| | engaged there was no appropriation TO
, | his salary.
Noble Mccarthy said there wa
none.
, Noble Walker-The young man wa
deserving of this money. There was al
: implied promise TO pay him up to De
I | cember S1st.
Noble Widemann said the Financ
Committee treated this as persona
, | matter He had no objection to tn
young man receiving his money, bat no
TO his obtaining 1t by coming into tbs
: . House and asking for more than the
: had appropriated.
| Noble Isenberg- The $3.50 WAS pai
before any salary was appropriated. Tn
Minister agreed TO pay him and he di
the work, and the money was due hin
until the Legislature appropriated ney
salary. That is all he claims and it
due TO him.
! Noble Mccarthy The matter stand
just as Noble Isenberg has stated. Their
were powerful persons who wanted I
: get rid OF Mr.. Myers, among them all
: Gibson. and they took this way TO get II
OF him. There being nothing bat luml
, appropriation, the Minister had Il perfe,
right to agree to pay $3.50 per month
Noble Widemann admitted that tn
] MiniSts.- had done wr.nnrr In Ga6ncEIn