The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-09-11

would show partiality. 1t would be bet
Ter to appropriate in detail. | therefore
move the House divide il up.
Rep. Brown said If the House followed
that plan, the number of constables in
district could not be increased, as the
number would have been fixed by the
Bill. | therefore favor
passage as the committee recommend.
The pay should be higher in the cities,
because the cost OF living is greater. 1t /
should be left to the Acknowledgement. |
Minister Peterson thought the House |
would make a great mistake If they |
should adopt the plan OF the member |
from kohala. This was one OF the cases |
where the efficiency OF the whole depart |
ment might be ruined. Ii was tried in
"a, but found complete failure The
estimates are based upon an experiment
tai system. Ii il is found 10 work badly,
it cannot be changed II the pay is speci
ally fixed in the bill. | ask the House TO
pass it as the committee recommend.
Rep. Nawahi said what the Attorney
General said was all very we'll, but there
were great many rumors abroad; per-
haps the Acknowledgement might not re-
main in Office week longer, and the
new Acknowledgement might change
everything.
Noble j. NJ. Homer thought the House
had better stick to its business as law
makers and leave the Executive to carry
out its wishes. What do we know about
the possible contingencies of the next
two years which may affect the efficiency
of the police. This is as il the steamship
owners should attempt to regulate every
trifing detail about the handling of
freights. l have known of just such in
reference in plantations from owners in
San Francisco, so that it was impossible
to carry on the plantation in a business
like manner. / move the item pass as
the committee recommend.
Rep Waipuilani thought the bill
should state just how much pay each
man was to receive. There was favorlt-
ism. Blood is thicker than water. The
salaries OF each Judge and magistrate are
voted separately. The native policemen
are Disseminated against.
Noble Kauhane favored passage as the
committee recommend. tie knew the
policemen in his district, but did not
know how much they were paid, nor
| how much they ought to be paid. He
thought it was very much the same with
| the other members. The Sheriff under
ter than they. 1 don't know of any petit
tons from the police asking that the pay
| be fixed for each man. / am willing my
authorities. The House should not at
tempt to run the police department.
Way back in 1864, MIR. Pilipo took the
stand now taken by Rep. Kahookano.
But the next session the plan was
dropped. / hope the item will pass as
| the committee recommend.
Noble Widemann said that if the
House satisfied one constable the next
would find fault and so finally all would
find fault. Fault-finding is all over the
world. You cannot satisfy everybody.
We can't legislate away human nature
nor fault-finding. I have been advocat-
ing not putting large sums of money in
the hands of Ministers, where they can
| cut ducks and brakes with it. When the
appropriation for the army was brought
| in, did not try to cut down the pay Of
every soldier. If we want good COM
mander-in-chief, we must give him some
way of carrying out such views as he
may have. When we passed the educa-
ton item, there wasn't man here who
suggested passing the pay Of each school.
master. A good policeman is not picked
up i'm the streets. They must be care.
fully selected by their superiors. We
must give the Minister discretion, and
two years hence We will see what he has
accomplished. In the meanwhile l am
the last man to tie his hands. l am
willing to give him free scope to handle
his police force in the best way he knows
how.
The item passed at $4,000.
Paw of police, Maui, $50 900; passed.
Pay of police, Oahu, 1925, 900; passed.
Pay of police, Kauai, $23 500; passed
Incidentals and civil and criminal eX.
penses; $4,000; passed.
Noble Widemann called attention tC
the report of the select committee relat.
ing to an appropriation for water survey
Rep. Brown moved the House consider
the item encouragement of coffee culture
$4,000.
The report of the committee was read
recommending the amount be paid to
homesteaders and holders of kuleanas
planting not less than five acres.
Rep. Kapaehaole said there were sew
eral bills on the coffee subject and he
moved consideration be deferred.
Rep. Brown said the idea was to en-
courage small owners and it would prob
ably be paid chiefly in Kona. 1t could
be disposed of at once.
The item passed at $4,000.
Addition to the electric light system
$44 900.
The report of the committee was read
The committee oppose the item which is
to provide for lighting houses, as il
necessitates an expenditure of $4,000 fol-
water power. They recommend $4,000
only and recommend that the Minister
of the Interior dispose of the plant.
Minister Brown moved that the item
pass at $4,000 as the committee recon-.
mend. A bill was already in the House.
Noble Marsden moved the item be
deferred until that bill came up, as if il
did not pass there would be no private
company to take the business up.
Noble Widemann thought the matter
ought to be settled now. The question
was whether we should 60 on spending
uncounted thousands or not. Ii we
couldn't sell the plant let us give i,
away, destroy it, anything rather than
keep it.
Noble J. M. Horner was not given to
seeing niger in the fence but in this
case he suspected one. The Government
report proposed should light the streets
but not the Houses. The houses
yield an income the streets don't. just
reverse that proposition and let some
private company light the streets fol
nothing. The Government may have
wasted good deal of money as every.
body does in starting new enterprise,
but when it has reached the point which
it has set out for, it will pay. Ii the
whole thing were passed over to pri-
vate company, he might have no objec-
tion Rut tn dron the only mart of the