The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-07

luur memorial had br.u sent uH
iu Washington asking thn riIou.
tH investigate existing land laws lf
Hawaii 'ru donate money fpf Tho pro.
uutiuu uf existing evils wus o. mos.
erroneous policy There was not a
homestead BOO Hawaii to-day 300 the true
American sense nf The word Th.
Home Run" party was uu'tifylng itso
by creating salaries, conditions AMI
offices Tor Republicans Two years
from now the Republicans would walk
un with the entire Home Rule party
IN it's pocket. The Home Rule prophet
said that h. was not that kind OF am
Independent.
Dickoy replied by saying that In tho
vicinity OF kula there were "A hundred
or more people who were growing well
ed Dickey moved that the salary ~
the public land commissioner be placed
I at $1,000
Mossman said $1,000 was not enough.
/ The officer was without an assistant.
| IL requires more work than appears at
first sight.
Speaker Akina punctured Mossman's
rush of oratory by saying that there
was not a single homestead on Ha-
wall.
Dickey said the position was worth
$4,000; no more. During the period that
had just come to an end, the salary
was at the figures quoted. There was
no reason for making change now,
especially as the work would be less,
owing to a better system.
Makekau answered this by saying
that the system might be simpler, but
the increase of settlers would make
the duties much harder than they had
been before.
Prendergast thought Sc, 900 was too
much. He moved that the remunera
tion be reduced to $4,000. The motion
was lost, and the salary remained at
5000, the salary suggested by his ex-
cellency, Governor Dole.
The salary OF the secretary and sub
agent of the Fifth Land District was
kept at $4,000
The salary of the clerk was passed
at 81, 400.
Emmeluth appeared quite disgrunt-
led because the seed he had Sown a
few minutes before had fallen among
thorns and stony places He criticised
the Home Rulers, saying that they
We're not giving salaries in just man
ner. The pay of some of the officers,
which had hitherto been reduced,
ought to be raised.
Bcckley said that the people in the
land commissioner Office were not be-
ing overworkod They went to work
at II O'Clock and quit at 3 o'clock
Beckley said he had worked in the Of
flee for three years, and knew what
he was talking about.
The pay of the sub-agent of the Sec
ond Land District was placed at 81 200.
The pay of the sub-agent I'm the Third
Land District was placed at 1860. The
pay Of the sub-agent in the Fourth
Land District was placed at 81 200 The
pay of the sub-agent OF the Sixth
Land District was placed at $500.
The pay of the rangers or the differ
ent land districts was fixed at $500.
Emmcluth objected to the salaries be
ing paid, speaking of them as ''doleful
pittances." This burst of humor was
lost on the legislators who don't un-
derstand puns.
The commissioner of agriculture
came into line at this stage of the
days work. The commissioner will
draw 5000. The entomologist will
have to struggle along on $4,000. The
chief forester will be rewarded for his
labOrs with $500
We're touched uponffband ID s .adetao
Emmeluth was critical again when
the salaries of the survey department
We're touched upon. There was no
reason. he said, for paying the salaries
at the figures mentioned, just because
Governor Dole had suggested it, Some
thing ought to be done to find out the
facts in the case. Try to find out
anything from these people and they
would draw into their shells like a
snail. There was too much or this
thing. anyway. said Emmeluth. Eacn
and every little bureau in the whole
governmental scheme thought that it
was the great am" of the Territory,
Prendergast said that while the Of
flee had been in existence for thirty
Al.
petent people to fill it. Prendergast
then spoke in behalf of that Home
Rule standby, Bridges and roads"
Continuing, he said mat there was
nothing To show for all the surveying
that had been done in the last thirty
years Even here in Honolulu lots
could not be picked out, even when
they appeared ON the map.
Dickey moved that the positions In
the survey department be referred TO
a special committee. This was done
The committee was composed of Dick
cy, Prendergast and Beckley.
The committee on the Board or
Health then reported a hornets nest
was stirred up when this branch of the
public service was touched upon
Prendergast said there was no use In
having an executive officer, with
salary of $4,000 Such a position had
bonic plague. The speaker rambled off
into an attack on those who had the
public health under their charge at the
time of the plague, Prendergast said
the plague was/a preconcerted scheme
to get people out of the country AZ
that time, as sugar stocks We're fall
ing Certain bankers and capitalists
used the plague as bug-a-boo to
scare objectionable haoles away.
MllSpEO1l unu6a tho last lnnp cpaaph
of the day. He referred to Beckley's
interview with the President, and ask
ed that the expenses of the Territory
be kept down, as the nations chief had
ordered. At the same time he felt that
the salaries of the officers of the Board
of Health should not be done away
with.
The salary OF the executive officer
of the Board of Health, by an almost
unanimous vote, was reduced from
81, 400 to S4,SOO,
The salary of the secretary Of the
Board Of Health was next debated
The debate assumed decidedly per-
sonal turn, Beckley. Mossman ana
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