The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-20

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friend, the Duke of Cornwall would
not have enough ready cash when he
passed through Honolulu to have the
kind of good time he ought to have
F1oogs, and not the Territory, will
have to look out for the Duke when
he reaches this port.
For the preservation of archives,
the House voted the sum of $1,000.
In the expenses of election, the Gov
ernor had placed the sum of $4,000 as
the limit of expenditure. The COM
mittee lowered this to $4,000, put the
House thought that the Governor was
right, and placed the figures at the
original amount.
The same department will be allowed
81, 400, instead of $1,000.
Nothing was allowed for compiling
and revising the laws of the Terri
tory.
The axe was sharpened for the judi
ciary department next. The expenses
of the Supreme Court, and the Cir
cult Courts will be $4,000. In the fu-
ture the pay Of grand jurors will be
the same as those of trial jurors.
For the purchase of law books for
the Supreme Court. the sum Of $1,000
was appropriated. The First Circuit
Court was allowed $500 for the same
purpose.
The printing of the Hawaiian Re-
ports will cost the Territory $500.
Stationery and incidentals to the judi
ciary will be provided for by an appro-
priation of $500. Makekau caused a
ripple of merriment by calling inciden-
tails, "accidentals."
When the travelling expenses Of the
district magistrates came up there
was quite a pause in the progress of
the day. Heretofore, the Judiciary has
been allowed the sum of $50,400. The
Home Rule pruning knife had Topped
off all but $780, After a long and hard
| fight. the entire matter was compro-
| missed by not giving the judges any
thing with which to pay their ex-
| penSeS.
/ The midday recess followed
! AFTERNOON SESSION.
| When the House was called to order
| by Chairman Dickey, a few minutes
before o'clock. 1t was moved and sec
onded that the matter Of the travelling
| expenses of the different district mag
istrates be reconsidered There had
been, evidently, some wirepulling dur
| ing the noon recess. and the legislat-
ors felt, after the dinners had been
eaten, that to give the judges nothing
| for expenses, would be hardly right.
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donate an itemiZed account of $500.
The Legislature had expressed its OPP
position to voting lump sums, time
and again. Now they were trying to
do the very thing to which they had
previously expressed themselves as OPP
posed.
Akina was in favor of substituting
a district magistrate to be eligible TO
/ try cases on all circuits when the pre-
/ sir ind ad -
should be allowed $500 for expenses.
The motion passed
/ The travelling expenses of the clerk
to the same was placed at $500
The Department of the Attorney
General was next upon the roll. For
! the support and maintenance of priS-
oners, $4,000, instead of 800, 000 This
was considered sufficient. Prendergast
objected to the revised figures, on the
| grounds that poi, rice, and meat We're
advancing in price. So much noise
was made over the matter before the
figures of the Governor were accepted
| that Dickey said:
us this a beer garden, or a commit
tee/of the whole?"
| It's a kindergarten" said Gilfillan.
| Incidentals, civil and criminal ex-
penses were allowed at $4,000, the re-
vised estimate, and was passed with
out argument. The coroner's estimates
were allowed at $4,000, instead of So
0OO
The expenses of witnesses In crimi-
nal cases We're given as $1,000 by Gov
ernor Dole. Makekau was strongly in
favor of retaining these figures, on the
ground that there was not $1,000 set
aside for this purpose. It simply de-
fined the amount that could not be
drawn. Keliikoa said that he feared
$1,000 would be too much; better make
| the amount $4,000, and spend the re-
mainder on roads and bridges.
! Akina supported the report of the
committee in making the fund $4,000.
! He said that it would not be a bad
| idea to have some money for other
things. Aylett said that it was we'll
to have enough, even if the entire
amount was not used. Akina said that
from 1896 to the present date, there
had never been more than $4,000
drawn. When a vote was taken, the
sum Of $4,000 was the one generally ac-
ceptable.
Regarding detective service, Akina
proposed that the figures of the Gov
ernor, $4,000. should be accepted, in
stead of $4,000. The Governors figures
were accepted.
The police alarm system created a
bit of interest. The amount voted for
this was $4,000. This gives Honolulu
system OF nrty boxes.
III. M. Dow was over-charged $439 95
for taxes by the auditor, and wanted
relief. The mistake, it was claimed by
his supporters in the House, was due
to an error in the auditors depart
ment Paele said the mistake had been
made prior to 1898, in which year
Legislature had been held. Hihio said
that the mistake was not discovered
until after 1898. Emmeluth informed
the House that the mistake was made
in February, 1899. The chairman said
that while a member of the finance
committee during the regular session
he found out that the mistake had
been made prior to 1898, but not dis
covered until 1899.
When the Treasury Department was
reached the first reduction was made
In the incidental expenses From
$1,000, the figures were reduced to
SO, O0O
The appropriation for discount on
mutilated or abraded coins was dis
pensed with.
The interest on the bonded debt,
commission and exchange, was made
100000. instead of 100000. The Incl
dentals to the tax office were set at
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