The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-10-23
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
One Hundred and Ninth Day.

WEDNESDAY,. Oct. %.
The House met at 10 A. NJ. Prayer by
the Chaplain. Minutes read and APP
proved.
Rep. Kahookano reported from the
Education Committee on petition 253,
containing the prayer of one Kaniho, OF |
North Kohala, for the return of por-
ton of his land taken by DR.. Bond. the |
school agent. The committee recon- |
mend the petition be laid on the table.
On motion OF Minister Peterson, the |
report was adopted
Rep. kahookano, from the Judiciary
Committee, reported on bill No. loo.
relating to the irreconcilable difference
between English and Hawaiian laws.
laid on the table.
Rep. Brown moved the report be
adopted.
Rep. Baker moved it be received and
laid on the table, to be considered with
minority report.
The report was adopted.
Rep. Kahookano reported from the
Select Committee on Petition 403, that
s. L. Kalaola be paid for carrying the
mails for eighteen months on the Island
of Maui. The committee find there is
nothing to substantiate his claim, and
recommend the petition be laid on the
table.
The report, on motion OF Rep. Brown,
was adopted.
Rep. Lucas, from the Printing Com
mittee, reported several bills printed.
| Ordered distributed.
Noble Macfarlane, from Finance Com
mittee, reported progress on the several
tax bills
The House proceeded to the order of
the day. Third reading of the Appro-
priation Bill.
Salary Of the President OF the Board Of
Health.
Rep. Brown moved it pass at $1,000.
Rep. Kanealii moved $4,000. They
had been passing laws to pay money out,
but there was none to bring money in.
He did not see where the money was
coming from.
Noble Pua said since the present
President of the Board had come into
office he had not done his duty. He had
not removed those Objectionable nurses
at Kalihi, nor G.. B Reynolds, or re-
instated DR.. Lutz and Sister Rose Ger
trude. He knew plenty of people here
who would do the work without salary
for the sake of the position. He moved
the item remain at $4,000.
Noble J NJ Horner said this item for
an increase Of salary having been opened
for reconsideration, | move it pass at
$4,000. | have given the subject OF
Government official salaries considerable
thought, and have come to the conclu-
sion that, in the interest of peace, most
Of the large Government salaries should
be reduced until the office seeks the
man, not the man the office. | further
believe that high Government salaries
are curse to Honolulu, as, under the
name of politics, the community divides
but it is spoils, not politics, that creates
the division. Those in office, for the
sake of the pay, want to hold on, and
their friends uphold them. Those out o.
office want to get in and realize the ex
orbitant salaries for five hours supposed
, labor, and their friends want them tt
get in. Thus this high salary divides
the community. And in this beautiful
lively little town, where peace and social
happiness should dwell in every heart
we find the most bitter feuds, kept alive
by talsehoods peddled around both ir
III 81 ha ohor rfa
is blackened, enmity is engendered, whit,
is made to appear black; chickering's anC
, bad feelings are created, and genera
belief that it is party politics pervadin.
the political atmosphere, when it is only
the high salaries, or some lucrative posi-
tions that the leaders of these feuds hop,
to obtain for themselves or their friends
If many OF what are called excessive
4 salaries were reduced until no one woul,
contend for them, and let the Office seel
the man, we would have more peace
/ and our public business as well done a
, it is now. 1t is partly for this reason
= that have opposed an increase Of tn
i official salaries in the country. If the
get too high then we may have feuds
pickering and contention, as now exist
g in Honolulu. In the country we no,
4 have peace, and peace would reign her
if salaries were proportionally low
q Here, where SO many good people dwell
men are made offenders for a word, an
the Just turned aside for thing of nought
J What shame that such heavenly pros
G poets should be turned into hell of cor
tention on account of excessive salaries
;, High government salaries in this con
@ munity makes Satan laugh. He see
his opportunity and makes a rich hal
vest As to the item now under consiC
n Grafton, am not joking when | move
- years when filled by a layman no none
d was appropriated for his pay. He an
a the President of the Board OF Educatio
filled their offices without pay, as tn
70 Road Boards and the President of til
# Board of Education do now, but forme
legislature decided that the President
d the Board of Health should be phys
it elan. The office was SO filled, and
salary provided for his pay. But no
IL that the "sow that was washed has r.
IS turned to her wallOwing in the mire,"
. is for this House to decide whether a
- things shall be restored as it was befo
s. the change, or whether the President
81 the Board of Health shall now be pa
salary, and if salary, how much.
is manifest that the President OF tt
Board OF Health has but little more to
than other members of the Board, al
should be paid accordingly. l move Il
IS item pass at s. 900. 1t should not pa
10 for more, and l feel a squirm OF COZ
-, science when | promise to vote for tn
D. sum, as the President of the Board