The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-04
THE LEGISLATURE.

ILL ALAN1Jlll OlSlA
One Hundred and Sixfy-First
Day.
TUESDAY, Jan. 3.
The House met at 9 A. NJ. Roll call,
twenty-three members present. Quo
rum at 9:15 A. NJ. The minutes were
read and approved.
PETITIONS.
Rep. Nahinu presented a petition
from Waialua, Molokai, praying for
the erection of an English school
house. Referred to the Educational
Committee.
Rep. Iosepa presented a petition
from George Kekipi, superintendent
of Sunday schools on Molokai, pray
ing that he be permitted to enter the
Leper Settlement ON certain occasions.
Referred to the Sanitary Committee.
Clerk Mccarthy read the following
communication from the members of
the Board of Education:
BUREAU PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,
HONOLULU, Dec. 81, 1892.
Hon. ]. s. WALKER, President of the
Legislature.
Board of Education beg respectfully to
present to the notice of the honorable
members of the Legislature, in view of
an Act limiting the appointing power of
the Board TO teachers, the following facts:
In presenting this petition the Board
does not wish it to appear that it desires
to dictate in any way, but solely to pre-
sent the facts for the consideration of the
honorable members of the Assembly.
The principle has been well established
for years in all the appointments thai
our Hawaiians and those of Hawaiian
descent, when fitted re occupy positions,
should receive the preference. This, in
the Interest of economy is quite an
point, for it is not easy in
many of our districts to provide boarding
accommodations for foreign teachers,
and with the limited means at the dis
posal of the Board, buildings required for
some of the teachers will have to be
postponed.
From many Hawaiian parents and
| guardians communications have been
addressed to your petitioners praying that
foreign teachers may be sent, who can
instruct their children in the English
language correctly, for though they do
not complain of their present teachers as
to debortment, they still desire that the
young children shall learn the first prin-
ciples from person versed in the lam
guage to be taught.
Your petitioners would also present
the fact that the supply of Hawaiian
teachers, skilled in the art of teaching,
has as yet never been equal to the de-
mand, and we do not know of a single
case where properly qualified Hawaiian
has been refused position when there
has been one available. At the present
time the Board has $50 teachers on its
roll, of which 120 are Hawaiians or of
Hawaiian descent, and % of Hawaiian
birth. This law, if enacted, will apply
to all but three Government schools in
the Kingdom, and out of 7,14S scholars
in the Government schools, only 612 are
not in the primary grades.
It will thus, we trust, appear to your
honorable body that the Board has al
ways endeavored to carry out the gen.
eral policy indicated in the proposed
Act.
In view of these facts we respectfully
submit that the proposed action on the
part of your honorable body would be an
unnecessary and injurious interference
with the appointing power of the Execu-
tive branch of this Government.
(Signed) WALTER HILL,
VIM. w. HALL,
w. ID. ALEXANDER,
s. M. DAMON.
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