The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-27
COUNCIL
OF STATE
Finance Report Read
And Considered.
SMALL SALARY QUESTION
Civil EsTvice is Perfected in Post
oEcs - More items in
Bills Passed.


aoUernOon at 3 p. m. the following
Councillors answering the roll call:
nesara Allen, Isenberg. Ena, Con
solves, Jones. Kane, KaUlukou, Mott,
Kennedy, Bolte, Robertson, Achi. Min
listers hodt-Smith, Young aud Damon,
and Attorney General Cooper were in
attendance.
Tho minutes Of the last meeting were
read and approved.
Jones read the report OF the Com
ntttee on Finance Department, which
appears in full elsewhere. Mr.. Iseu-
ssrg moved that the report be laid GU
rhe table and taken up for cOnsidera-l
ton with the bill.
Robertson then read the report Of
xhe Committee on Judiciary on the
sNls for supplies for Chinese at the
quarantine station last year while the
labbar were detained by the United
states Chinese Inspector ]. X. Brown,
and pending the outcome of the writs
OF habea5 corpus before the Supreme
Court. The report Is published In an
other column.
Robertson moved the adoption OF
the report. which was carried.
Kennedy on behalf of the committee
ON the Department OF interior and in
che absence OF the chairman, asked for
further time to prepare report.
The Council, upon motion. took ur
the unfinished business with reference
line % of Act 3. Pay OF iailors,
guards, and lunas of prisoners. Mr..
Cooper stated he was no. ready 70 re
port on the item az present and asked
further time.
JONES' moved TO take up the Finance
Department items in Act 3. Carried.
In hne 20, under the caption OF Blu
reau OF Taxes. that OF Salaries ant
Commissions OF Deputy Tax Assessors
and Collectors UNPAID Commissions,
Hawaii, 1899, $3,3Sl.32. was passed.
Cooper then moved that In order to
hasten one readings OF the l.ems tina;
unless called for, the report Of the
commto.ee ON the department be done
away with. The motion carried.
Item, salaries and commi ssions OF
Deputy Tax Assessors and Collections
$4,000, was passed.
Pay OF Mail Carriers. (unpald pay
rolls, 1890, $40, Postal Bureau caption
togs1her with salary Of clerks, $4,000
Passed.
Damon asked that a new line. des-
the appolnonen emit of two clerks a. 50,
per Month, or full appropriation o
S2.40O be inserted. Mr.. Damon said
Owing to the number of natsonllitie'
Ia this country a growing practice Ia
been to have the wants of each nation
atty supplied at the post Office. TIL
expenses of the post sOffice are natur
ally large and there has never beer
any difficulty in supplying the pod
lions at the salaries agreed upon
There has been a practice TO aSvanc
those In lower positions TO the vacan
cies above them; and | hardly know o
an Office in the Government where Oh
civil service has been carried on s
Hell as In the post Office depar.m Mt Q
Hawaii. This is all for add.iOna
chrks. The clerks now are doing
craaa deal of extra work and it EN-
taila a very slow delivery by having s
6ew clerks.
Jones': II see in Bill there IS a
kem fcr $1,000, and quite part Of tina
aunourn Is due for overtime for IN
clerks. We we're informed by the Pc;
Master General that this would d
away wiAh overtime OF many OF "a
clerks. and so the incidentals woul
probably not be as large during "a
coming period. We don't know any
thing about the nationality OF tn
clerks. but AZ Ia natural to presum
that those who have been longeS
in the office would be promoted an
new men introduced. The conmltte
has attempted to show that the il
crease OF business has been very gre;
during the last biennial period an
this tncurs the necessity of a large
force to do this. and we felt 1t was n
more than right that the departmeI
should get these appropriations.
Damon: II can say this; chat u
clerks that are in the post Office al
on the pay rolls passed by the Ia
legislature. We cannot disturb tia
This IL for a new pay roll. for an a.
ditfon TO the post ofnce stan. II hi
been the policy not to increase the ps
of any members of any department
OF the Government, but only to aC
new positions"
my opinion Is. that within 80 da,
CIV Post Office and the Custom Hou
will De turned over to the Unit
State.N. Government and we will ha'
very liltle to do vita 1t. II strikes
that we don't want TO waste mus
time on the matter.
Cooper gnteyed that the item Of 81
600 be passed. Carried.
Line SO. Pay of Postmaster. Sl5,o'
Passed
Line 81. pay Of mail olrrl ers' 500
was discussed at some length. Il
committee reported but 1900 on
item.
lsenberg stated that nail CARRIES
the other islands were having greLN
difficulty on their routes at Drese
than formerly, and instead Of bein
able to feed their animals for notNin
on their runs, were now compelled
pay for the fodder To decrease the
pay at this time. was not right.
Jones stated that the appropriate
vas for $4,000. The department wa
expanding s4l SOS. an increase OF 81
t42 for the two years. 500 a month
Mr.. Kaulukou moved the item be pas: