Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-19
The HEROES OF KALALAU
Representative MCCandleSS Proposes a
Monument to Their Memory.
Bill 10 Rid the Roads Of Stray Animals =
The House Swings the Pruning
Knife on Salaries.

| hOuSe tulo luOIuluB thdt they lou
passed the Cable bill, and for
warded same to the House for
their consideration. The clerk of
the Senate also informed the
House that the upper House had
tabled the bill which extended
certain provisions of the Land Act
of 1895 to private lands, which
had previously passed third read
ing in the House.
The Committee on Public Lands
reported through Chain man lJoe-
Ueustein on House Bill 81, which
grants all road authorities to take
up and impound all estrays found
on public roads, and is aimed at
The large number of animals
which are allowed to run loose on
the public highways of the Re
public. They believe the bill to
be good one, and recommend its
passage.
Representative McCandless in
troduced resolution approprist-
ing the sum of $1,000 for the erec-
ton of a school house at Laie,
Oahu,
He also introduced a resolution
providing that the sum of $3.50
be appropriated for the erection
of two tombstones to the memory
of the men who had sacrificed
their lives at Kalalau on July 4th
and 9Th, 1898, while serving their
country. He stated that at the
present time only two wood n
boards, fast decaying, marked the
last resting place of these men,
aid hat a suitable STONE should
be erected to their memory.
Representative McCaDdles5 also
wanted to know from the Board of
Health as to what steps that body
had taken to comply with the re
Communications of the special com.
mittee to the Leper Settlement at
NJ ,lokai, to the effect that mum
ter of persons now residing there
be again examined to see if they
were actually afflicted with the
disease, as all trace of it had dis
appeared from them. He request
ed that the Board of Health re-
port to the House the result of
their investigation in this regard.
Representative Achi introduced
a new bill relating to the water
works at Waikiki, Maui, which
provides that the Minister of In
terror shall be authorized to con-
denim such land and water rights as
will be necessary for the construc
ton of such water works. Bill
passed first reading and was re-
ferred to Printing Committee.
The Special Commute on Carter
Memorial Fountain asked for five
days further time in which to
report.
The appropriation bill was then
taken up and the Department of
the Attorney General trimmed
down to suit the members of the
House
The following salaries were re-
duced from the amount mention.
ed in the appropriation bill,
which in almost every case repre-
scented an increase over the pre-
sent salaries, and which the House
were unwilling to allow, namely:
Clerk to Attorney General De-
partment from $3.50 to 1925 per
month.
Deputy Marshal from Sl66.66
to $3.50 per month. ....
Deputy Sheriff Hawaii from
$3.50 to Sl25 per month.
Deputy Sheriff South Kohala
from $50 to $50 per month.
Deputy Sheriff North Hilo from
$50 to $50 per month.
Deputy Sheriff Puma from $50
to GO per month.
Depu ty Sheriff Maui from 1926
to 500 per month.
Deputy Sheriff Hawaiian from
$65 to 80 per month.
The pay of police department
on the Island of Kauai was in
creased from $500 to $4,000 per
year. .ta
The salary of the Deputy
Sheriff of Kauai was increased
from 500 to 1925 per month, and
that of the Clerk to the Sheriff
WAS increased from $500 to
1888 per month.
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