The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-15
Important Meeting Held
Yesterday.
News From Washington--The Oar
antine Wharf Statement OF the
Post-0fice Shortage.

w. o. Smith dated February 9Th, saying
that the House Committee on Terri
tories would make unanimous report
on the Hawaiian Territorial act and
the amendments thereto.
Information from Mr.. Hartwell is to |
the effect that the House Committees |
report mentioned above would probably |
be handed IN within day or two after |
February End. The meetings of the |
subcommittee, who prepared the |
amended bill, occupied several days. |
A good deal of the time was given to |
revising the election rules and upon |
negotiations concerning the various
amendments. There is an amendment
giving power to the Governor to call,
on thirty days notice, a special e ection
for a special session of the Legislature.
Another amendment is that the Ter
ritorial Bill shall take effect sixty days
after approval.
The Cabinet spent some time dis
cussing the Washington news, and con-
siderable disappointment was felt that
no word was received from the author
tiles at Washington regarding the call
ing together of the Legislature in the
| present emergency and establishing the
| court of claims asked.
The subject of British and other
claims was discussed and it was voted
that the additional correspondence that
has been submitted on the subject of
| the British and other claims be re-
| ferred to the President. Minister o.
FOREIGN Affairs and Attorney General
FOR their advice.
The Quarantine Wharf.
| Mr.. Damon read resolution from
the Chamber of Commerce, embodied
in letter of February 18th lnquiring
| as to upon what conditions, ETC., the
| channel quarantine wharf can be used
| by the Chamber of Commerce, and pre-
| scented the following resolution:
Resolved that. application having
been made on behalf of the Chamber
Of Commerce rep esenting the mer-
chants of Honolulu, by Messrs. Giffard
Ena and Suhr, that proper system
might be adopted at the channel quar-
antine wharf for the control of foreign
freight, the entry of goods and superin-
tendenee by the Board of Health; it is
recommended that the Collector Cen
eral appoint one inspector, four guards
and one day laborer. The pay of these
men to be advanced by the Chamber
of Commerce on properly executed
blanks whsch will be presented to the
Legislature; the maintenance to be
at the expense of the Chamber of Com
merce. The Board of Health to appoint
such guards as they may deem neces-
sary for the safe guarding of the wharf
md men in the employ of the Chamber
of Commerce and to facilitate and pro
tect the trans-shipment of goods; the
pay of these men to be advanced by
the Chamber of Commerce, to be paiC
for at the option of the Board of Health
from the appropriation under buboni'
plague. or by application to the Legis
lature at subsequent date.
1.-THE Collector General will max,
all charges connected with Wharfage
ard storage as is the usual practict
with other public wharves.
THE Minister OF Finance will place
at the disposal Of the commi, lee Of tn
Chamber of Commerce the whar
known as the Channel Quarantine
Wharf now under process of con
structioD. subject TO the rules and regu
Iat4ors issued by the Collector-Genera
| on public wharves."
l It was voted that this resolution b.
4 ADOPTED.
AAo xOob OIuC0 01AJG0T.
With reference to the Postofice, MI
Damon stated:
The salaries of the clerks are in ex
cess Of the appropriation to the amour
OF 1896 a month at present. This ha
grown up in this way: in the early par
OF last period the appropriation wa
more than sufficient for the pay of tn
clerks, and towards the end, as tn
business increased, we were enabled
draw on the surplus that was left fror
q the early part of the period to pa
these salaries; but now that we ar
down to the pro rata we cannot do
without being short.
= The excess pay of postmasters on tn
a other islands amounts to $350.S4
month: mail carriers $500 a month; an
- the pay for overtime for men who wor
{ at night in the Dostoffice asserting tn
mails would be S227.71 a month.
, have met these various matters
Z this way: l have notified the Pos
master General that after the first {
b March under no consideration Is he
Z. overdraw his pro rata, and have not
fed him to stop on the 9th of Februar
b all overtime pay for night work. Whs
f.. Is due now will be charged to incider
- nc 'dN iOf tue Clci Ms IOI Jdi
b nary will also be charged to the inc
i, dentals; this practically takes up tn
. January incidentals. and 7 cannot g
n beyond that without getting myse
, tito trouble as to incidental expense
. for mail bags and other necessar
q things.
" is nv intention to elem no every
= thing hy the end Of February by e'the
n drawing on the incidentals or by &C
: varciro It personally as 7 have don
y in the Custom House: hut after the frs
= Of March nothing will be drawn owe
the arpronriat'on.
" was voted that the action Of til
Minister of Finance in this matter b
approved.
Minister Young read letters dnte
81 February 14th IN from Mr.. The
10 Pirhar6s IN REGARD tn detention com
- n W.