The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-23
PETITIONS

PETITIONS.
Rep. Bipikane presented petition
from Halo, that the sum of $500 be
for mail carrierfor that
district. Referred to the Finance
Committee.
Noble Williams, from the Printing
Committee, reported bills SO and GA
printed.
Rep. Iosepa asked for further time |
in which to present reports from two
committees of which he was chair
man, on bills ID relating to tailor
shops, and (2) an Act to amend and
consolidate the election laws of the
kingdom.
Rep. Kapahu read for the first time
bills ~ to regulate water rights at
Waiohinu, Kau, and (2) to create an
additional term of the Third judicial
Circuit Court.
Rep. Kanealii gave notice of bill
relating to governors.
Minister Whiting asked for further
time to answer questions propounded
by Rep. Ashford.
Noble Horner, under suspension of
rules, presented a supplementary re-
port for the Ways and Means Com
mittee, recommending that the item
for salary of head clerk of the Foreign
office pass at $4,000, instead of $1,000,
and that the amount for other clerk
hire be $500, instead of $4,000. In
the Finance Department the commit
tee recommend reductions as follows:
Salary of Clerk, $1,000, instead of
2QQnA. 10 of Ta 60
Oahu, 5000, instead of $4,000; Tax
Asses Assessor for Hawaii, $4,000, instead do Of
$1,000; Tax Assessor for Maui, $4,000
instead of $500; Tax Assessor for
Kauai, $4,000, instead of $4,000; Incl
dentals, $4,000, instead of $500; dog
tags, $500, instead of $1,000; Subsidy
to Oahu Railroad, $4,000, instead of
$4,000; Expenses of Lantana Commits
sions, 5000, be stricken out.
The report was received and laid OH
the table with the Appropriation bill.
RESOLUTIONS.
Rep. Edmunds desired the Minister
of the Interior to state why the Wal
Iuku Water Works had not been laid.
He also gave notice of an Act to
amend section SIT of the Civil Code,
relating to splrituous liquors.
Rep. kamauoha gave notice of an
Act to change the law In regard to
truants; also an Act to abolish per-
manent settlements.
Rep. Akina read by title an Act to-
amend section 8, chapter 8, of the
Laws of 1888, relating to the police;
also, resolved, that $4,000 be inserted
in the Appropriation bill to assist
Kauai Industrial School. Referred to
the Committee on Education.
Rep. Waipuilani read by title q
proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton (articles IS and 76).
Rep. kamauoha gave notice of an
Act to abolish the office of President
of the Board of Health and transfer
the duties of such Office to the Minis
ter of the Interior; also an Act to
amend the Homestead Act.
AT l0:30 the House proceeded to the
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Rep. Waipuilani said there was an
disposition of the answer of the At
torney- General to questions in regard
to the police.
The motion to refer to the Printing
Committee, and afterwards to the
Committee on Ways and Means, was
carried.
Consideration of the Appropriation
bill in Committee of the Whole, Rep.
Smith in the chair.
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Salary of Minister, $4,000.
Moved it pass at $4,000.
Moved 1t pass at $4,000.
Moved 1t pass as in the bill.
Noble ThurstOn said these reduc-
tions would cut the salary down way
below what the talent which ought to
be there was getting at other employ.
ments. In some countries there were
men who would be glad to get the
office for nothing, for the glory of it,
but, fortunately or unfortunately,
that class did not exist here. Here,
in order to get business men to man
age these offices, one must be able to
go into the market and compete.
Take the Office of Acknowledgement
There was no lawyer in the town
competent to discharge the duties
who would not make sacrifice by
taking the Office at $500 year. In
the Attorney Generals Office the best
available talent was required. II
would be cheaper to have a good law
yer there at $4,000 a year than 8
poor one at $500. The man who drew
his own deeds was said to be the sal
walton of the bar. He knew of a mar
who drew mortgage of his own. He
saved SIS in the first instance anC
lost $4,000 in the end. A poor law.
yer would get the Government int
serapes which would cost more thar
his salary ten times over.
Rep. Ashford said $1,000 year wa:
not large salary for competent men
and indeed it was not large enough
There was theory that large salaries
would attract competent men. TIL,
salary of $1,000 year had conspicu
ously failed to do so, however, in tn,
case of the present Cabinet, with tn,
possible exception of the Minister o
Foreign Affairs, whose competenc,
was not first-rate, but shining in com
parison with the others.
Noble Marsden said the membe
was out of order.
Noble Neumann moved his word
be taken down.
Rep. Ashford: That was what
used them for.
The chairman ruled that it was per
fectly proper to discuss the off1cia
capacity and acts of any Minister, bu
not to go any further than that.
Rep. Ashford said he was referrin
to the Minister the Attorney Genera
in his official capacity. He had n
personal grievance against him; bu
his official grievance was great an
growing. The same thing applied +
hn MfnicfnFs of fIan INT T.