The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-06-28
THE LEGISLATURE.
TWENTY FOURTH DAY.
MONDAY, June 81, 1892.
Afternoon session.

Afternoon session.
The committee reconvened at lao
O'Clock and Rep. White continued
argument to refer the items under
discussion, viz. Envoy at Washing
ton SIP 1000" and Clerical Aid and
Expenses Legation S2OOO," to the
Ways and Means Committee. Mo-
ton carried.
Items in the Department of FL
nance were now taken up for consid-
Grafton and the following action was
recommended:
Salary of Minister 50, 900; passed.
Salary of Auditor General S10,-
600; deferred.
Salary Deputy Auditor-General
including services last term, So, 900;
deferred.
Salary Registrar of Public Ac-
counts, 5000; passed.
Salary Clerk, Finance Office, S.
600; passed $4,000.
The items referring to the Tax
Assessor-in-Chief of Oahu, Hawaii,
Maui, Kauai, were deferred for flu
ture consideration, as also the items
of Deputy-Assessors and Collectors
and Deputy-Assessors, Oahu, and
Clerk.
Tax Appeal Boards, 81 800, pass
ed.
Incdentals Finance Dept, 50, 900,
passed at 5000.
Tax Assessors Offices $4,000,
passed.
Incdentals Auditors Office, 5000,
deferred.
Stamps and Dies, $500, struck
out.
Dog Tags, 1000, passed at 5000.
Messenger Finance Office, 81 POO,
passed.
Printing Certificates of Deposit
and Bonds, 81 900, passed.
Interest on Public Debt including
commissions for remittance 10 Lon
don, $3.50, 900, passed.
National Debt falling due, 10000,
passed.
Return of Taxes illegally collected,
So, 058.18, deferred.
Hospital Fund estimated, provided
that the Queens Hospital shall draw
the full amount of the Hospital Fund
that may be collected, $5,624.
This item was struck out and will
be supplemented by an amendment
to be presented by Noble Thurston.
Subsidy to Oahu Railway & Land
Co., 1000, was passed at $4,000,
being all that was due them under
the law for mileage laid.
Expenses Lantana Commission,
5000, deferred.
AS also the following items under
the head of "Salaries last period not
paid" VIZ:
District Justice Lihue, $3.50.
District Justice East Kau, S8S.
District Justice North Kona, 500.
District Justice Honuaula, $34.
District Justice Molokai, $50.
District Justice Hanalei, 1925.
District Justice Waimea, 1925.
Clerk Second Judicial Circuit,
500.
Envoy at Washington, $506.05.
Items under the head of ''Postal
Bureau" now came up, the first being
Salary of Postmaster General,
$1,000.
Rep. Wilder said that he was in
favor of economy, and as rule he
would favor the recommendation of
the Ways and Means Committee who
had favored $4,000 for the salary.
He however looked upon the position
of Postmaster General as in every
way as responsible as any of the
Cabinet positions. Did not think it
right and proper to cut those who
had charge of departments low down
in salary. He was in favor of and
moved the amount as presented in
the Bill.
Noble Macfarlane considered the
recommendations made by the Com
mittee were, as rule, sound, and
carried conviction with them. But
in this instance they seemed to be
going in the face of their own report,
40 Incy IepOTG InaI Jne department
is well managed but postmasters I'M
derpaid. He would be opposed to
any attempt to cut down the salary
of such an efficient officer in so i'm
portant a department. He was in
favor of the motion of Rep. Wilder.
The speaker also mentioned that the
Postmaster had charge also of two i'm
portant departments, viz, the Money
Order office and the Postal Saving
Bank, and the responsibilities of the
office were as great, in one sense, as
that of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Minister Widemann made state
ment to show the difference in re-
sponsibility.
Rep. Kanealii was in favor of the
report of the item passing at $4,000
but his reasons were not interpreted.
Rep. Robert Wilcox said that at
first he was in favor of the report of
the Ways and Means Committee but
had noticed that the Postmaster, in
salary, had been placed on par with
the chief clerk of the Finance Office
and the chief clerk of the Supreme