The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-11-25
THE APPROPRIATION BILL Y


period (including S2l, ,140 voted under
the Interior Department for prison
expenses for the first six months of
last period)-an apparent reduction
of S92, 2,26l.l6
To consider this departments APP
preparations properly we shall have
to take them up island by island, as
the Legislature have, this period, de-
cided to revert to the pernicious
methods of the sessions of 1882 and
1884, and, by appropriating his salary
separately, cause each subordinate
police official to have a direct and
immediate interest in lobbying the
Legislature to get an increase or to
prevent decrease in his wages, and
to further induce him in the future to
take practical and personal interst
and share in politics, secretly or
openly, by helping to secure the re-
turn of candidates favorable to his
interests, or defeat those opposed to
him, and so put an end to the benefits
to the country secured by the legis-
lation in 1888 and 1890 on interfer-
ence by officials in elections, and re-
turn to the corrupt and personal
legislative action of the three pre-
vious sessions.
We shall first take up the provi-
sions for the Attorney Generals
Office. These include $4,000 for the
salary of the Attorney General, $1,000
for his deputy, and S2i00 for clerk
translator and copyist, $4,000 for a
Jailor for Oahu Prison, incidentals
$4,000, coroner's inquests $500, dit
to unpaid bills $l7O, support, care,
and maintenance of prisoners $780,
600, ditto unpaid bills S72OS.S4. A
nominal reduction of $4,000 is
shown which consists of: A reduc-
ton of $1,000 or 10 percent
on the Attorney Generals salary
$1,000 or IA percent on his deputy's
5000 or 16 percent on the jailor's
$4,000 or so percent stricken off the
incidentals, which it must be remem-
bered include those of the Marshal
and various Sheriffs as well as those
of the Attorney General, Gn fact in
cluding every expenditure of the
department except salaries, in Office
Court, and out door work in every
district of the Kingdom.) Against
this must be set off the amounts
for the unpaid bills of the coroners
and the support, etc. of prisoners
which are an increase of S737S.S4 on
the amounts voted for those purposes
last period. This gives total re.
duction of S522116.
The next is the provision fol
policing the island of Oahu Under
this head is provided for, Marshal
at $4,000, his deputy at $500, first
clerk at $1,000, Deputy Sheriffs fol
Koolaupoko, Koolauloa, Waialua anG
: Eva at $1,000 each, and one for Wal
L amaze at $40, two clerks for Receiv
: ing Station, Honolulu, $3.50, Su
: preme Court officer, $2l6O, Hacl
Inspector, $2400, Physician for Police
and Prison, S24OO, and pay of Police
S6S,2SO.
Two items appearing in the ap
> preparations for last period, a Police
Court Prosecutor at $1,000, and ;
i second clerk to Marshal at $24O(
have been stricken out entirely. The
reductions are, $1,000 or IA percen
Z from the Marshal and $4OO or II
percent from his first clerk. The
. other items were formerly included
y under the heading Pay of Police
3 Oahu, which amounted to $125,O0'
for last period. By footing up tn,
items for this period total of $87,
$40 is reached, showing a reduction
= of $37 500 or over 80 percent, and t,
r this must be added $1,000, half O
n physicians salary formerly paid ou
g of support of prisons. By compar
: ing the figures given early in thu
+ session, in the Attorney General.
e answer to Rep. Waipuilani's ques
t tions in re pay of police, with thu
d figures and recommendations giver
# in the report of the Committee OF
e Ways and Means on the same sub
Q ject, which formed the basis OF
J which the appropriations were made
: in this section, we find that this ap
n parent saving has been accomplish
y ed by striking out one Deputy Mar
e shal at $500, taking $1,000 or 25 per
Il cent off the other; by dismissins
n every foreign policeman on the fore,
r excepting one superannuated office
S in the Supreme Court, and on,
y Chinese, one japanese, and ont
4 Portuguese; by doing away entirel,
t with the special police force fo
t Waikiki; by striking out the salarie
( of all clerical assistants needed t.
5 keep the records; by reducing th'
GO a arinc Of tho nHnnro a;nnI g.,