The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-17

and payrolls, Mr.. Makekau resumins
the chair. Whether the selection OF
Makekau was to keep him off the floor
or to influence the vote of his faction
to the speakers side did not fully ap-
pear, but when the Honorable gentle
man from Hamakua" objected to be-
ing chairman, and suggested that the
speaker appoint different member
each day, the speaker promptly ruled
that it was his privilege to designate
the chairman of the committee of the
whole, and he would appoint whom he
pleased
The House had proceeded as far as
Second District Magistrate, Honolu-
lu,' the day before, and promptly re-
sumed the tactics of the former day
in disregarding the recommendations
of the finance committee and restoring
the item to the Governors recommen-
dation. They went the Governor one
better on three country judges, rails
ing the Eva magistrate to s2,400, as
against the Governors recommends
ton of s., $50; and the Koolaupoko
magistrate from $1,000 to $1,000.
This completed the work for the
morning, and a recess was taken utnil
2 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House was nearly half hour
late in getting together in the after
!
they adjourned, spent the entire after
noon on two items in the bill, salaries
of district magistrates for Waialua
and Waianae.
Waialua was raised from $500 to
$1,000 for the two years, and an at
tempt was made to do the same with
Waianae but some wanted to cut out
the item entirely. Dickey (Rep.)
favored striking out the item, while
Robertson (Rep.) favored its retention,
but did not favor an increase. His
ideas finally prevailed. 1t is to be
noted that Mr.. Robertson has been
pretty successful throughout the pres
ent Legislature, and when he advocat-
ed anything not strictly a party issue,
his ideas have as a rule been accepted
by the independents majority.
The Waianae judge was the last item
on the list. under the head of the First
Judicial Circuit. Before the circuit
had been finally disposed of Mr.. Eva
like, of the Makekau faction of the
Independents, moved to pass the bal
ance of the bill as in the Governors
estimates. Robertson, mistaking the
motion for one to pass the bill as rec
commended by the committee on
finance, seconded the motion, and fig
ured it out that it would take eighty
days at the rate the House mad been
going, one item an hour, to complete
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reading. He said that the thing was
not properly managed; that the Senate
should have been at work on one Dill
and the House on another, so as 10
have the bills meet and save time, ana
he considered that whichever house
got it's bill to the other first would
have that much advantage, as the
other house would have to consider the
bill which had passed one house, IN.
stead of the one which had not yet
passed their own.
The motion, however, was lost at that
point Later, Mr.. Maikainai, who sat
next to the speaker, and who has
practical head for anything which
comes to his committee for report, re
newed the motion to pass the bill. he
said that he had been figuring on the
Governors estimates and comparing II
with the report of the Treasurer 10
the House, and had discovered that III
order to make ends meet, it required a
reduction in salaries of SO per cent
This he declared to be impossible. he
said that he was originally in favor OF
a reduction in the salaries, in hopes OF
making ends meet, but 1t had no"
come to a point of cutting to 55 pei
cent, or not cutting at all. SUCH cut
he declared to be out of the question
for nobody worth having could be Cd
tanned to fill the positions at any sucn
reduction. He declared that the GOV
ernor was supposed to know what ne
was doing when he recommended 30