The Daily bulletin., 1892-11-16

thus accounted for.
The next section, that of Perma-
nent Settlements Ga term by custom
here equivalent to the pension list
of other countries), amounts to
S9iOO, against $500 appropriated in
the last period. The present list
contains new items of 5000 for the
Queen Dowager and 800 for Mrs.
Kaulua. These are partially Offset !
by the omission of items amounting
to $500 in last period caused by the /.
lamented deaths of the Prince Con |
sort and the Hon. II. Kuihelani. |
This section therefore shows an in
crease of $4,000.
The next division provides for the
expenses of the Legislature and the
Privy Council, which are set down
at S35, ,450 against $4,000 for last
period. 1t is worth while noticing
that in 1870 these expenses amount.
ed to only Sl5,500, or less than half
! the present cost, and had been so
since 1866. For the information of
! those who desire to note the increase
of cost of the expense of legislation
we insert the amounts appropriated
since 1874; since which the increase,
though not regular, has never fallen
to the amount of 20 years ago:
1876, S23,162; 1878, S16,5OO; 1880,
$4,000; 1882, S25, 200; 1884, $4,000;
1886, S5O,3OO; 1888, S25,300. The
growth has been mainly due to the
successive increases in the compen-
sation of Representatives but part
is also due to the increased length
of sessions.
The items devoted to the expenses
of the Judiciary Department call
for Sl54,500 mot S154,000 as footed
in the printed copy now before the
House which we followed in the
first article) as against SlS9,441.S5
appropriated for last period. This
provides for a Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court at a salary of S12,-
600 for the period, two Associate
Justices at $4,000 each, a clerk at
$4,000, deputy clerk at $1,000 and
one at S3600,' a shorthand reporter
at $500, a Hawaiian interpreter at
$4,000, Chinese interpreter at $500,
a Portuguese interpreter at $500,
two circuit judges at $1,000, circuit
Judge at $1,000, nine police justices
at from $1,000 to 5000, twenty-one
district justices at from 5000 to
$500, circuit clerk at $1,000, two
circuit clerks at 5000, and police
court clerk at S2400. 1t provides
also $4,000 for the expenses of the
Supreme Court, $4,000 for circuit
courts, 5000 for witnesses in Grimm
al cases, $1,000 for the purchase of
law books, $500 for stationery, etc,
$4,000 for printing and binding Sth
volume Reports, $1,000 for extra in
terpreters, and $2400 for pay of mes
= sengers.
= The apparent reduction of $780,
: Hiss on last period is made up as
: follows: A reduction of $4,000, as
: there are now only three Supreme
Court Judges instead of five; $500
caused by striking out one circuit
Judge for Hawaii at 1920, and re,
ducing the other $500, the Maui
t judge 500, and the Kauai judge
g 5000; $1,000 less for purchasing law
e books, $500 less for stationery; re.
t duction of $4,000, caused by docking
G the chief clerk $1,000, or IA percent
: the shorthand reporter $1,000, or 2(
e percent, the Hawaiian interpreter
n $1,000, or Is percent, the Portuguese
e interpreter $500, or 25 percent, the
d clerk and interpreter Of the Homo
: lulu Police Court 5000, or 20 per
# cent; $4160 saved on police and dis
& trict justices salaries by decreasing
l. the Police Judge of Honolulu $1,000
e or l6 percent, taking 5000 off tn,
J. Wailuku Police Justice or 70 percent
n $500 apiece off eight other Justices
It salaries, and S400 off one, $500 off an
e other, 500 from another, and $lG(
e from fourth. One judge for Ka
r laupapa, Molokai, at 5000, has beer
y struck out altogether, and new on'
h inserted at $500 for Central Hilo
g and an increase of $500 given to tn,
y Waimea, Kauai, Justice. An in
|. crease of S6lS.l5 for printing Re
e ports is made.
s 1t will thus be seen that owe
st three-fourths, $25, 700, of this reduc
"a tion is apparent and not real, bein.
|. caused by the reduction in the nun
% Der of Supreme Court Judges anC
> Circuit Judges and Circuit Justices
10 salaries; and even this will be NOR
k than Offset by the sum required t,
1t pay the new Circuit Judges, and TIN
If increase in the salaries of the presen