The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-28
AFTERNOON SESSION.


The House reassembled at 100 PM,
Rep. Smith in the chair.
The item for salary of Minister at
Washington was referred to the Com
mittee on Ways and Means.
Expenses of Foreign Agents, $1,000.
Referred to same committee.
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.
Salary of Minister, $4,000. Passed
as in bill.
Salary of Auditor. General, $4,000,
and Deputy Auditor General, $4,000.
Noble Marsden moved that the items
be deferred till the bill abolishing the
office is brought up. Carried.
Salary of Registrar of Public Ac-
counts, $4,000. Passed as in the bill.
Clerk of Finance Office, $780,
Passed at $4,000.
Salary of Tax Assessor, Oahu, $4,000.
Rep. White moved that the four
items assessors for Oahu, Hawaii,
Maui and Kauai) be deferred till the
bill referring to abolition of the office
comes up. Carried.
Salary of Deputy Assessors and Col
lectors, $45, 900.
Minister Widemann read the sala-
ries received by deputy assessors dur
in the past biennial period, the total
amount paid being Sal ,260.
Rep. White asked the Minister,
if the law abolishing the office be
passed, what would the deputies then
be called?
Minister Widemann replied that
they could be called by their proper
names.
The item was deferred for considera-
ton with the bill.
Salary of Deputy Assessors, Oahu,
and Clerk, $4,000.
Rep. Waipuilani asked why was
| the item inserted at all?
Minister Widemann replied that
the item was passed. at the last session.
1t was no new item.
Rep. Ashford failed to understand
the meaning of the item.
Noble Marsden said the item was
for two assistant clerks who are work.
ing hard for S62. 80 each per month.
They are several years behind in their
work.
Rep. Ashford asked whether the
Deputy Assessor is receiving the same
commission as those in outer districts
Is per cent?.
Noble Marsden replied that he is
receiving D per cent. commission.
Rep. Ashford wished to know the
real amount of work done by the
Assessor-in- Chief, or whether he was
only an ornamental officer If only
the assessor and his deputy do faith.
full work, there would be no neces.
sity OF calling for extra help.
Rep. White said that in former
times, when the duties were per-
formed by governors, they used to dc
some real hard work but the present
Assessor-in-Chiefd does nothing for hi:
salary but sit down in his chair al
day long, and let the clerks do the
work.
The item was referred to COMMITTEES
on Ways and Means for further con
sideration.
Tax Appeal Boards, $500. Car
ried.
Incidentals of Finance Department
$500. Passed at $4,000.
Incidentals of Tax Assessors offices
$4,000. Passed as in the bill on stand
ing vote.
Incidentals of Audltor-Generap.
Office, 5000. Item was deferred.
Stamps and dies, $500. 1t wa
stricken out.
Dog Tags, $1,000. Passed at 5000.
Messenger of Finance office, $1,000
Carried.
Printing certificates of Department
and Boards, $4,000. Passed.
Interest on Public Debt, including
commissions for remittance to Lon
don, S375,000. Passed as in bill.
National debt falling due, $40, 200
Passed.
Return of taxes illegally collected
S305S.1S.
Minister Widemann asked that tn,
consideration of this item be deferred
till Wednesday. Granted.
Hospital Fund estimated, provided
that the Queens Hospital shall draw
the full amount of the Hospital Fund
that may be collected, S5624.
Noble Thurston moved that the
item be stricken out, because the hos
pital tax was not q revenue of thu
Government.
The item was stricken out.
Subsidy to Oahu Railway & Lane
Co., 5000.
The item passed at $4,000.
Expenses of the Lantana Commits
sion, $500.
Consideration was deferred.
Salaries, last period, not paid:
District Justice, Lihue, $3.50.
Minister Widemann wished to defe
consideration as he had received
new items which ought to be inserted
carried.
POSTAL BUREAU.
Salary of Postmaster General, $1,000
The Committee on Ways and Mean
!, reported that item pass at $4,000.
Noble Macfarlane said that whil
: the recommendations of the Ways ant
Means Committee had been Away
T sound, yet he could not favor reducing