The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-20
The CABINET
Two important
Yesterday.
Annual Report of Minister Damon
The Executive Council Asks
For More Money.

The Cabinet met yesterday morning
and again in the afternoon at O'Clock.
All the members were present at both
meetings. The minutes of the meet
ings of the 14th and 18th instants were
read and approved.
The Minister of Finance presented
his annual report for 1899 20 the Pres
idert in which he stated:
The question of what is to be done
towards meeting the payment of clerks,
mail carriers and postmasters for the
coming period, necessiLated by the u
creased work of the department and
the insufficiency of the appropriations
to meet these expenditures has again
come up and upon consultation with
the Postmaster General he recommend
ed that the shortage to carry on the
work, as outlined in the meeting of the
14th should be deducted from the pay
of each postmaster and mail carrier, in
the former case 20 per cent and in the
latter case 10 per cent, trusting to the
next legislature to recoup them for the
proportion which they have not been
able to draw; 1t would mean the clos
ing up of twenty-five post offices if we
should dismiss the postmasters and
this is the one way in which we can
carry on the service
The foregoing was presented to the
Executive Council for it's information
and it was decided to leave it to the
judgment of the Minister of Finance
as to the course to be adopted.
Mr.. Mott-Smith read a communica-
| ton from the British Consul dated
| February 18th relative to the claim
OF Mr.. j. Cranstoun, for damages aris-
| ing out of the insurrection of 1895.
| 1t was voted that upon the reQuisi-
ton OF the Minister of Foreign Affairs
the Minister of Finance be authorized
| to pay the following amounts:
SeVenty-two dollars, the further ex-
cess of the amount required for the
Support of Military pay rolls for the
month of January, 1900, over the pro
rata amount of the appropriation.
Two thousand, nine hundred and fif-
| ty-five dollars and eighteen cents, the
excess of the amount required for the
Support of Military pay rolls for the
| month of February, 1900, over the pro
rata amount of the appropriation.
| The Minister of the Interior was au-
| thorized to make the following expend-
itures under Act So of the Session
Laws of 1898: Harbor improvements,
Honolulu, $61, 130; sewerage of Honolu-
lu, the balance of the appropriation.
1t was voted that the Cabinet ap-
prove of the appointment by the Pres
ident of Mr.. J. Aiu, as second district
magistrate for the district of North
Kona, Hawaii.
Mr.. Mott-Smith read a letter from
Mr.. Mkt Saito, Japanese Consul, in re
resolution passed by the Board of
Health prohibiting goods from infect
| ed countries landing here, and it was
| referred to the Board OF Health.
The Afternoon Session.
Voted that the action taken in the
Executive Council on the 18th inst, in
regard to an appropriation for sewer
age, be reconsidered.
1t was voted that the Executive
| Council recommend to the Council of
State the appropriation of $345, 253. "a
for the completion of the sewerage sys-
| tenn under the present contract and the
estimated cost of the extension of the
| sewerage system, as outlined in Mr..
Rudolph Hering's plans for the sewer
age OF Honolulu; also for the proposed
extension of sewerage to outlying dis
tricts; the same to be subject to the
final approval of President Mckinley.
Mr.. Dole read letter of even date
from DR.. Wood, president of the Board
of Health, asking for a further appro-
priatfon for the suppression of bubon-
1c plague, and it was voted that the
Executive Council recommend to the
~ AnA@ I,
100000 to be placed to the credit of
the fund for the suppression of bu-
bonic plague.