The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-26

leII II. WOulU ask tUdI Tue dpprO
priation be made, as the executive mad
it-s372 600 1 am willing to make i
S12, 900 more, but am satisfied they cal
get along with less than they have ask
ed for. If Rycroft's amendment haC
passed, matters would be different il
the Board of Education. l am satisfied
that the Board, with a little rust
| ling" can get on with the 1884, 900
which l am perfectly willing they
should have. l admit that it will re
uuire careful management, but that is
what is required. find upon investiga-
ton that there are $50 paid employees OF
the pay roll of the Board of Education
but of this number only 252 are classed
as teachers; the balance is made up OF
janitors, ETC. President Alexander has
told me that he can get along with
1884, O0O
Rep. Kamanohu wanted to know
where the Committee on Education got
it's figures.
Rep. Bond-From the Board of Edu-
cation.
Rep. Kamanohu-I think the matter
should be sent back to the committee
for further information. | want to know
what the number of teachers is, and the
average number of pupils to each of
them. This is large increase in the
appropriation, though the Government
has ceased giving aid to private schools.
Really, the appropriation should be less.
The committee comes in with lot of
figures and tells us they have found
out this or that, but l want something
more definite.
Rep. Rycroft-ft has been said that
saey are providing for possible increase
in the number of pupils.
Rep. Kamanohu-For years they have
been building new school houses-it's
been going on year after year, until
I am sure there can be no district left
unprovided for.
Rep. Bond-If that man will give me
a chance will answer him, but he talks
and talks without saying anything, and
there's no end to him. Everything he
says he wants is furnished in our re-
port, and the information is authentic
We are not on the subject of school
houses; that will come later; we are on
the salaries of teachers, and [ have
shown that the average pay received is
$50 per month, and that each teacher
has an average attendance of thirty-f1ve.
vide for about twenty more teachers.
We have shown the necessity for from
thirty to fifty more teachers. We have
shown where there are children who
cannot go to school because there is no
room for them. There is class here.
admitted to citizenship, who came here
void of education; they have
been foisted upon the country by the
to it's burning shame. We
want no such people here unless their
offspring may be educated, and they
cannot have these advantages unless
here are facilities. We want their chill |
lren provided for, and the law says
they must be. We do not believe 1T |
light to neglect this department of the |
Government. This House hopes to have |
before the session closes an increase of |
'evenue unthought of by the Minister |
when the budget was fixed up.
Minister Damon-We have appropri- |
ted $33 900 more than we did last year,
ind the still further addition of $12,-
100 would entail upon us dangerous
'oint, Notwithstanding the schemes the
member may have for raising money, /
his is money that must be paid every
Month; the Secretary comes every
month for his money, and will not
7ait a day If it is not ready for him,
hen there are 252 teachers without
heir salary. A gentleman came to the
flee today, a New York man, and
INSCRIBED for $4,000 worth of bonds
nd remarked as he did so that it was
because he had seen during his stay
ere that the Government was running /
is affairs economically. l wish to
ay to you that if you appropriate
nore money than you have, or than
our revenue can be, there will be
rouble.
Rep. Cluney-I know that out Pa s
ana way there is not room enough in
he schools to accommodate the chill 6
rem [ do not believe in cutting down j
there it will deprive children of the &
dvantages of an education. If there
to be a cut, let it be somewhere else.
Rep. Rycroft-I was present with the I
ommittee when it called on the Board {
f Education, and 1 was satisfied that '
ne demand was just. The Board has 6
o representation here, unfortunately, c
nd it depends upon the committee of |
lie House to look after it's interests. |
% not surprised at what Rep. Cluney t
as Sd1u, IuOuSn L uau uOC hOoAO VI II
efore, but after l had heard that 100 /
lildren in the neighborhood of the ice
orks were deprived of an education &
ecause there is no school house, l am
0t surprised at anything. If taxes were c
roperly collected there would be nc t
ouble about school appropriations, for c
lere is not a country richer in re- u
,urces on the face of Gods earth than 4
lis one of ours, Sugar is our main n
dustry now, but 1 tell you that twenty L
ears from now sugar will not be in it. S
Minister Damon-It may be very we'll
say that Hawaii is the richest Gov r
nment on the face of the earth, but b
hen it comes to getting taxes it takes \
hard pull, and do not know who are p
e stronger, the men who come to our +
ndow with drafts on the treasury, or
e people we send out to collect the "
xes; it seems to me like an even pull. D