The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-17

I committee or hYe be appointed. hep
Robertson amended the motion to three
/ Carried.
At noon the House adjourned until
/ 100 p. m
Afternoon Session.
Salary of Attorney General $4,000
! passed. Salary Deputy $4,000; passed.
Salary Of Marshal $4,000; passed. Sal
airy Deputy Marshal 1920; passed.
Rep. Richards asked if the Deputy
Marshal did the prosecuting? Attor-
ney General Smith said il was the
custom except in cases Of sickness.
There was 10 other person employed
specially for that purpose.
Salary first clerk To Marshal $4,000 /;
passed.
salary of JaiIor $4,000; passed.
Salary Sheriff of Hawaii $4,000 (;
passed.
salary Sheriff of Kauai $4,000;
passed.
Salary Sheriff's clerk Hawaii $1,000
Rep. Richards objected to the item
as unnecessary. With all the assist
ants around the sheriff'5 Office the
item could be done away with. Sug-
gested that the stenographer could
do the work or it might be done by
the Deputy Sheriff. Would not move
to strike il out now but would like
70 hear further.
Minister Smith said: Twenty five
vear- ago was sheriff on Kauai and
did all the work himself, but since
that time the work had materially
increased and the responsibility was
greater. There is much to do and a
number Of years ago the @ ,vernment
resolved to have clerks do the work
fo Il
sheriff in each district is public
prosecutor as we'll and cannot act as
clerk. / have asked for an increase
in pay of deputy sheriff of Hawaii,
because his position warrants it.
These deputies must be competent to
attend to matters in the departmen ut
of Justice when the sheriffs are away
and it is not right to have men with !
small salaries do that work. Under |
the Judiciary department an appro |
priatiOn has been asked for a stenO- |
grapher. AS there are four terms on |
Hawaii and, as this stenOgrapher must |
attend sessions in chambers as well, |
YOU will readily see how impossible it |
would be for him to attend to the
iuties as clerk in the sheriff's office.
Rep. Richards: / see these people
sitting around all the time and you
:annot make me believe that one of
the policeman or the people who hang
around the Office all the time cannot
DO the work. Make them earn their
money as we have to. You will tell
Is the policemen are needed whether
hey work or Lot. 1 move to strike
he item out.
Rep Rycroft agreed with previous
peaker, but he could not expect a
$50 man to be there all the time.
Sheriffs and deputies were absent
rom Hilo more than present. We
rave established a port of entry at
Xailua, but it will be hard work to
keep vessel there at all times sim
lily to keep the deputy collector busy.
am as anxious to practice economy
; Rep. Richards, but there will be |
10 economy in cutting off this item
Reps Richards: The point is as
would express it. Because Kailua is
port of entry is no reason why J
ustom house should be built. The
OllectOr at Mahukona could go there
nd attend to the work.
Rep. Rycroft: Will you hire an
ther police man or have a $50 a
lonth man stand his watch and then {
eep books?
Rep. Richards: I am not hiring
Olicemen.
Rep. Rycroft: 1 do not see any real c
eason for knocking this peculiar tie m
ut. t
Item passed as in the bill.
Salary of clerk to sheriff of Maui
1900. Passed.
Salary clerk of sheriff of Kauai 5000.
Rep. McBryde wanted to know why 8
here should be such difference in I
be appropriations so long as Maui [
nd Kauai paid taxes to the, same I
mount? /
Minister Smith Because the island t
) smaller and the settlements more
Ompact. Was pleased to say that he +
anne from Kauai, and it might be
artly due to the more orderly charac S
er of the people of that island that a c
reater proport on of taxes was col [
ected. t
Rep. McBryde: But Kauai pays I
5000 more taxes.
Rep. Richards: It is rot question L
taxes, but one of usefulness ami
ibor.
Minister Smith spoke of the advan-
ages of distances on Kauai, and, to G
erform the same duties, does not re- t
uire as much work or time as on
Iani L
Item passed as in the bill. i
Salary of Deputy Sheriff, Hawaii, 4
$500.
Minister Smith explained the rea-
On for increase of $500 over last pc t
cd as due to increased population.
he deputy should be quite as COM {
etent as the sheriff.
Passed as in the bill.
Salary deputy sheriff North Kohala, 2
400; passed. t
Salary deputy South Kohals, $1OSO;
assed. d
Deputy sheriff Hamakua, $24OO; e
assed. q
Deputy sheriff North Hilo, $144O;
assed. p
Deputy sheriff North Kona, $1440;
lssed. p
Deputy sheriff South Kona, $144O;
lssed G.
Salary deputy sheriff Kau, 5000; s.
lssed. 81
Salary deputy sheriff Puma, $3.50. g
Rep. Rycroft asked an increase, on
e grounds that he had more riding g
do than any man in the district, a
Id over twenty-seven miles of the s.