The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-05
Marshal Ray Does
Not Intend to
Leave.
SALARY LOW BUT
HEALTH BETTER
Rumor at Washington Comes
From Daughters Desire to
Have Him There.
Especial Correspondence.)

AA fASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. a.
wv There is rumor here that
w there may be a change in the
office of the United States
Marshal of the Territory of Hawaii
within a short time. The rumor has it
that Marshal Ray is not too we'll
pleased in his Island home and that he
would not object to relinquishing his
place so as to return to his duties here.
Marshal Ray was the secretary and
political manager of Senator Cullom
The rumor which comes primarily
from his old home in Illinois, is that
the place he held is open, should he
wish to be back in this country.
E. M. BOYD.
Marshal Ray was seen last night in
regard to the above dispatch. He re-
piled in answer to a question as to
whether he intended resigning the
Marshalship that there was nothing
definite about it at all. The first in
timation he had had as to his leaving
Hawaii and returning to Washington
was in a letter from Senator Cullom
himself and one or two other Wash
ington correspondent He believes
that the ''feeler'' to him came through
fttS 'OduSlteTy MISS 1tlltdn RAY, Wuo
is now in Washington and about to be
reinstated in her old position in the
Pension Department. She visited Sen
ator Cullom and expressed a desire that
her father come back to Washington,
and this evidently started the rumor
that Marshal Ray was to resign his
office as Marshal of the Territory of
Hawaii
iC
this latest news from Washington to
the effect that Marshal Ray has al
ways felt that he had not been dealt
with properly on the salary question.
His salary is much lower than that of
members of the United States Court.
Even the clerk of that court receives
a larger salary than himself. He states
that the duties are not particularly
onerous but the responsibility attaches
as if there were ten times the amount
of present business. Marshal Ray ex-
pected when he left Washington that
a movement would be started to raise
the salary as at first apportioned to
something like $1,000 more. This has
not been done and the Marshal is actu
ally receiving less money, in proportion
to his expenses, than what he COM
manded in Washington. His place in
Senator Cullom's private office and
committee room is open to him at any
time he wishes to return to it. Even
though this promise is held out to him,
Marshal Ray is 10th to leave Honolulu,
where his health has oeen better than
for some time past.
Z You can say for me- said the Mar
shal, there is absolutely nothing def
mite. Better salaried places have been
held out to me from Washington than
the position l hold here in Honolulu,
but the first intimation / have had of
them came to me in my last mail. l
am pretty well satisfieu in Hawaii and
providing my health hold out, believe
that / will continue as Marshal Of Ha-
wall for some time to come"
Marshal Ray has been Senator Cul-
lom's political manager for many
years and as such was the acting
chairman of the Illinois Republican
Central Committee. He was also chief
of the surveying division of the Gen
eral Land Office during the Harrison
administration and has always been
prominent in the political affairs of IL
inois.