The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-07-03

THE SAME
SALARIES
Territorial Officials Pay
Unchanged,
FntAl lTIInr aClInT ATT
LEGISLATURE MUST ACT
Some viii in the Interim Draw
Larger Compensation than
President.

The question of salaries for the heads
OF the various departments which Gov
ernor Dole has filled since June il came
up at the conference of those officials
with the Governor yesterday morning
Those present were the Governor, Sec
rotary of the Territory Cooper. Super
intendent of Public Works McCandless
Treasurer Lansing, Commissioner
Brown, and Wray Taylor, the new
Commissioner of Agriculture, the last
head of department to be appointed,
who was introduced to the rest Of the
official family.
Governor Dole opened the meeting by
reading the correspondence between
former Minister of Foreign Ahairs
Mott-Smith, and Secretary of State
John Hay relating to the payment OF
salaries of officials now serving in Of
flee. This correspondence refers to the
salary of Treasurer Lansing, Superin-
tendent of Public Works McCandless,
Attorney General Dole, Commissioner
of Lands Brown, Superintendent of
Public instruction Atkinson, Commits
sioner of Agriculture Taylor, the Wa
ter Works Department, Surveyors De-
partment, Tax Assessor, and nearly
every Office of the kind which was APP
pointive by Governor Dole.
For these salaries there is no proyi-
sion made after June IA until the next
session of the Legislature, and Minister
Mott-Smith made careful inquiries
from Secretary Hay as to how these
salaries should be paid, and whence the
funds should come from.
The reply received from the Secretary
of State was that the United States
Government did not wish to have any
thing to do about the matter and did
not desire to handle it at Washington,
preferring to leave it to Legislative ac-
ton. This being the case the only in
depreciation the local government
places on the situation is that the sala-
ries of officials in the same positions
under the Republic shall remain
unchanged. For instance the pres
ent Attorney General will draw the
salary of the Attorney General under
the Republic which is $4,000. The Su-
perintendent of Public Works will on
the same reasoning draw the same
as his predecessor in Office, the Minister
of the Interior was entitled to.
Ministed Mott-Smith's letter to Sec
rotary Hay contained the information
that under the Territorial form of gov
eminent the Governors salary would be
less than that OF some of the heads of
departments, and asked that the sala-
ries be scaled down accordingly. Sec
rotary Hays letter which the Governor
read, showed an indisposition on the
part of the Washington officials to in
terfere, believing it to be a matter for
the legislature to fight out. AS a result
the various heads of these departments
will draw extra compensation for sew
eral months.
There is a question as to whether the
Superintendent of Public instruction
will draw the salary of the former Min
lister of Foreign Affairs who had charge
of the educational department. 1t is
not thought his salary will fall to him,
as Secretary Cooper is occupying the
same relative position in the Territory
as Mr.. Mott-Smith held under the Re-
public. The Surveyor, Tax Assessor,
Land Agent and other commissioners
will draw the same amounts as before.
Governor Dole, Secretary Cooper,
Postmaster Dat and Collector of Gus
toms Stackabe receive their salaries
directly from Uncle Sam.