The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-13
|H|LO LIT TIE
HAS A KICK
Protests Against
Legislative
Cuts.
AMUSING LETTER
TO EMMELUTH
Senate Takes Things Easy and
House WransIes Over the
Appropriation Bill.

| Appropriation Bill.
The Home Rulers were all broke UP
yesterday morning. Between the holt
Iday of the day before and the guilIotfn
ling of Wilcox, they We're not in either
the best of humor or a condition to do
much Legislative work During the
day several indirect references were
made 10 the decapitation of the late
secretary OF the Board of Health. but
only once was the matter referred to
personally, when Mossman used the
incident as a cudgel with which TO get
his fellow members into the way of
thinking that a certain salary should
be raised. 1t was thought that the day
would not pass without some reference
Ibeipe made to the matter in an official
way, but there was none. Whether
the Independents are laying low, or
intend to let the matter go by alto
Igether, remains to be seen.
In the forenoon the Legislature did
nothing but cut salaries on all sides.
Once or twice reference was made 10
McKinley's advice. When the after
inoon came all this was changed. The
lawmakers had found some friends
whose salaries they thought ought TO
be raised, and they raised them. There
was no talk about What Will Wash
lington say" if salaries are not cut to
the lowest figure. Beckley even went
so far as to suggest that man should
be paid what he was worth to the
Territory.
| H.
will be through with the Appropria
tion bill in few days.
MORNING SESSION.
The Legislature was half an hour
late in meeting yesterday amorning
When the business of the day was
taken up. the survey department was
the subject upon which reduction of
lsalaries was based. There was quite a
difference of opinion regarding the dis
tposltion of salaries and positions. En-
meluth made the first long speech of
the morning, in which he stated that
the survey department was not the
source of information it should be.
Only recently. he had gone to that de-
apartment, and asked for certain data.
Instead of getting them, he was forced
to pay one of the employees of the Of
flee the sum of $500, by engaging him
as a private individual. The speaker
said that it was an outrage TO have
linen employed in a public department
and then be forced to pay him an adj
lditionaI fee in order to get information
that was supposed to be part and par
lceI of the public archives,
The speaker also suggested that
there be a schedule of fees fixed, so
that the public n2ight be thereby pro-
tected from overcharges on the part
lof clerks and deputies.
! Prendergast agreed with everything
that the previous speaker had said.
Dickey followed. and explained that
the man who was employed to do En-
imeluths work was the meteorologist.
1.-The meteorological works in the survey
department voluntarily. and having a
thorough knowledge of the Hawaiian
Language, he is of great assistance TO
the natives The speaker then said
that the gentleman under discussion was
not the sort of man to overcharge any
one who had employed him. The abol-
fishing of this department would be a
great disaster to the Territory. One
man could not do all the work. 1t
would be impossible for him. Dickey
concluded by stating that the Organic
-
surveyor"
Prendergast once more took the
floor. and said. This department
should be turned over to the road en-
gineer The survey department has
|, been doing work of late that 1 very
much condemn. I refer particularly to
the extension of School street, that has
been proposed Instead of running ii
on straight line. they have turned the
road into King street. cutting through
: 1.-THE property of private individuals, in
many cases running the same. All this
= is done that the Rapid Transit Com
lpany may be benefited
. Then Prendergast took a huge blue
: lpriat from his desk, showing the lands
. and the streets in question. He con-
ciuded by saying that the committee
: lhad had another and better route sur
Iveyed The cut by this latter route
was higher up. cutting through somt
; government land. The saving TO tbs
lGovernments by this second plan would
. amount to something like $4,000.
Remarks in behalf of the survey de-
Ipartment followed from Dickey. Tbs
surveyors received their instruction:
from the Department of Public Works
After some more discussing, the sal
lary of surveyor was fixed at $500. TIT
following items were iserted in tbs
hin. Forester. 81 .040; expert forester
= 70 e40. tantaIus Iaborer. S52S; three Ia
horers 81 .29e; office boy and messen
r ger. 500; wagon driver, S52s: surveyor
400
AFTERNOON SESSION.