The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-04-26

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Passed $500.
Salary OF Clerk Finance Office
| $4,000.
Mr.. Emmeluth moved it pass a
| $4,000.
Mr.. Damon opposed that.
Passed at 5000.
| Mr.. Ena moved the salary of De
putty Collector OF Customs be S500t
! instead OF s5i00. Lost.
| Mr.. Allen said the Collector haC
| told him that the storekeeper should
have $1,000. He would so move
| Lost.
Mr.. Morgan moved the Harbo
Masters salary be S5400, not $4,000.
Mr.. Waterhouse said he worked
days and nights and Sundays, with
out any clerk.
The Attorney General favored $1,000
Shipping had increased.
Mr.. Ena said the number of vessel:
had increased so per cent, and the
tonnage 100 per cent. He favored
$4,000.
Mr.. Emmeluth said s540O was ar
increase, and nothing larger was justi
fed.
Passed at $4,000.
Mr.. Ena moved to strike out the
item for an appraiser. We had gone
Minister Damon said that was just
why we should have one now.
The motion was lost and the item
changed to read, "Pay of Appraisers"
Pay of Assistant Guards, Honolulu,
was passed at $50, 240.
Mr.. Allen claimed that the items
asked for by the Collector General
were low, and less than he should
want if he had the bureau. They
were less than last year.
Salary of office boy, 1850.
Raised to $1,000.
Salary of Acknowledgement, $4,000.
The Attorney General moved it be
reduced to $1,000. Carried
Deputy Attorney General, $4,000.
The Attorney-General moved it
pass as in the bill. The criminal
business was increasing so that it was
double what it was two years ago.
The Deputy Attorney-G was
the prosecuting affair and took the
place of a District Attorney.
Passed as in the bill.
First Clerk to the Marshal, $4,000.
Passed at $1,000.
JailOr of Oahu Prison, $4,000.
Mr.. Brown moved it pass at $1,000
The incumbent had his board and
lodging at the expense of the Govern
ment.
The Attorney-Gener said the class
of prisoners was becoming. much
worse, and this class was increasing
all the time. Not one man in 1000
was fit to be jailor of a State prison.
He had great power over the prison
ers. The present incumbent had not
been surpassed in the last twenty. five
years. More intelligence and atten-
ton was being brought to bear upon
prisons and prison management every
year.
Upon a tie vote, the President voted
to pass as in the bill, $1,000.
Pay of Police of Oahu, 100000.
Passed at 100000, as recommended
by the committee.
Regarding the item for detective
service, Mr.. Brown said it was less
than had been spent before, and al
most the same as was paid in 1891.
BUREAU OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
Mr.. Emmeluth drew attention to
the fact that there was great dis
parity between salaries of principals
and assistants in schools.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Salary of Minister, $4,000, reduced
to $4,000.
MI. Lud IuOFou 10 SCTlke OuC Cuc
item, salary of Departmental Steno-
grapher, Copyist and Typewriter,
1920.
The motion was lost.
The Minister of the Interior moved
to insert salary Engineer Makiki
$3.50. Carried.
Salary Secretary Board of Health,
$4,000. Reduced to $1,000.
After completing the items, the
first sections were taken up. In Sec
ton 3, the words Except as author
ised by the Constitution" were strick-
EN- out.
Mr.. Emmeluth moved to amend
Section 4 so that no one cOnld hold
ceeded $500.
The Acknowledgement said that I'M
Ter that amendment he could not be
and President of
he Board of Health. The danger
rom abuses under the present law
vas imaginary. He would like to |
nave them pointed out.
The amendment was lost and the |
Section passed as in the Bill.
Section 5. The Minister of Finance |
shall not pay or allow to be paid from !
he Treasury any sum on account OF |
my item of this Act in excess of the |
Tue VI ltIG oPpiO-
,riated for such item for the time !
Elapsed.
Mr. Brown contended that the Sec |
ion would cripple the departments, |
md he moved it be stricken out unless |
he clause allowing such payment |
when authorized by the whole Exec |
ltive. Carried.
The clause referred to was reinsert- |
ID and the section, as amended, |
passed,
The Bill was referred to special !
of Enrolment. When it !
omes back it will be passed as a
whole.
The President appointed Messrs. |
Damon. Emmeluth and Tenney. Mr.. !
'enney asked to be excused as he was
cry busy.
The Chairman substituted Mr.. Ena.
At 3 90 the Council adjourned until |
80 today.
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