The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-27

If good salary were not paid it
would not be possible 10 get good
man to DO the work.
Rep. KamauOha moved 10 reduce TO
5000.
Noble Neumann said if you wanted
a man for judge who could not earn
his salt as lawyer vote for S39'o.
Five thousand dollars year was
paltry amount for the salary Of man
who had the responsibilities these
judges would have.
Rep. Waipuilani moved the section
read '.the judges shall receive such
yearly salaries a. the Legislature
shall from time to time appropriate
Rep. Kanauoha favored paying the
Oahu judges 5000 year and the
others 5000.
Rep. 4. W. Wilcox did not favor
these heavy reductions a. they would
interfere with getting competent men
Noble Negmann claimed that the
speakers asking for reduction were
all wrong. The Chinese had the best
system; the judge got no salary, but
the man with the best filed purse got
the decision. OF course he understood
that the House did not want a system
were men who would take the judge
ships at less salary. No doubt.
There were always plenty Of
men who thought themselves TT
for anything with a salary attached
TO il. 4 lawyer was once asked by q
Judge whom he did not like, what he
was going to do with his boy. He
answered, DWELL, If he has any sense,
I'll make a lawyer out Of him; if not,
PHI make a Judge OF him. This story
is not out OF any almanac. | hope the
reporter will make note OF that. The
object Of this Act was not to make
salaries fo= anybody, but to remedy
existing abuses and enable clients ID
get speedy justice. You must put in
people who are Al, and not men who
will have to exc out a living by dig
ging in a potato patch. The member
was not speaking for himself: he was
not an applicant. He had debarred
himself from taking office in this
Kingdom by allowing himself to be
/ elected for six years. 1t might be
asked why this separation Of the
/ Courts. The reason was that it was
not just to compel man taking an
appeal to submit his case to a Court
/ Of three judges, one of whom had
already decided the case against him
| below. A juror was not allowed TO
| sit twice on case. Why should .
/ judge?
Noble Thurston said this was day
which he had waited for for good
/ many years. He began studying law
/ in Judge HartwelPs office in 1876, and
/ he had not been studying many days
/ before it came to his ears that there
/ was dissatisfaction with the judicial
system here. He knew cases where
one Judge sat in the Intermediary
Court and another in Chambers or
before a jury, so that when the SUI
preme Court in Banco was reached
/ there was only one new judge. This
/ was no appeal at all. All the Bar was
! dissatisfied with this system, and it
would have been abolished years ago
if it had not been for Judge Judd and
| one or two others. AS 10 the amount,
he would vote for $4,000.
! Noble Marsden's amendment passed
after a wearisome debate, on the fol-
| lowing division:
Ayes-Ministers Parker, Widemann
/ and Spencer; Mobiles Macfarlane, Will
liams, Neumann, J. n. Homer, Mars
den. Young, w. Y. Homer, Cornwell,
| W dlOIIuSSJ AHuSiSOllg 1AuiStOi oHu
G.. Y. Wilcox; Reps. Ashford, Aki. s.
/ K. Pua, r. w. Wilcox, Bush, a. Hor
ner, Kaunamano, Kamauoha, Akina
Smith and A. S. WilcoX-26.
Noes-Nobles D. w. Pua, Hind anC
HoapilI; Reps. BIpikane, Kauhi, Koa
hou, Waipuilani, White, Kanealii
| Edmonds and Iosepa-11.
Absent Mobiles Berger, Ena, Peter
SON Cummius Baldwin KauOa anC
Dreier; Reps. Nawahi, Kapahu, Ma
hinu and Kaluna.
Noble Homer moved the salary o
the judges of the other circuits bt
$500 a year, instead Of $1,000.
At 3:5S the House adjourned, with
out voting ON Section 80.