The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-14

would be handed TO the committee at
once.
President Cooke announced that Gov
ernor Dole had called on him recently
and asked whether the Chamber of Com
merce could not take up the matter OF
| the fire claims. He had showed him a
! letter from Chairman Macfarlane of the
| Commission showing the status of that
body, as IL would be after the 18th of the
present month, and in consequence he
| had invited the governor to be present
and present the matter to the membrs.
Governor Dole said: 'I am very glad
of the opportunity to- appear before you
to bring up the request of the Fire
Claims Commission, and 1 think you will
be interested, as a Chamber of Com
merce, as 1 am as a member OF the gov
ernment. That is the matter of the
funds for carrying on the work OF the
Commission"
He read Mr.. Macfarlane's letter. and
stated that the funds for the Commits
sion were running out and unfortunate
ly the legislature divided the sum total
of the appropriations into different
items. and the calculations on which
these items had been based were mac
curate, so that some of the items have
hardly been drawn upon at all, and some
are entirely exhausted. Governor Dole
said further that he had been requested
10 transfer one item to another, which
he had declined TO do. believing ii was
matter for the legislature to attend to.
He had also obtained an opinion from
the attorney general who took the same
view. Mr.. Macfarlane said in effect that
the division of items had left money in
some items and had been exhausted in
others. AT an executive session of the
Commission held on Saturday last II was
decided that the work Of the Commission
could not go on after the 18th without
further funds. He stated that IT would
Il
the claims. Governor Dole
presented Mr.. Macfarlane's estimate OF
expenses:
/ months salary commissioners $3.50
6 months salary clerk ................ 800
4 months salary stenographer Q25-. 800
2 months salary janitor .............. 100
3 months salary bailiff .....--..-....-. 225
) months salary extra clerk S.5
Unpaid bills ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 400 /
~; seems TO me-" continued the gov
arnor that the commissioners have !
lone very SATISFACTORY work in this en-
.erprise. They have been well organic
ID harmonious and very industrious In
,arryine on the work. They have work
"a nights as well as in the day time. and
when it is understood that there are
900 claims before the commission the
amount of work Is apparent The work
.ouId never have reached the stage II
las now unless il was so well organized
ma systematically carried on. The COM
mission has shown great deal OF inteili-
,ence and ability and has gone on rap
dIy in the hearing OF the claimants.
1T seems 20 me that If the work of
he commission Is terminated now. when
~ nearly finished, when Il Few weeks
yin clear all the questions. and few
will adjudicate them, that IT
would be n great public misfortune for ii
o come to an end now. / think the
'hamber of Commerce and the Planters
VIII be interested in seeing
accomplish its work.
THE work has certainly had its ef-
ects on the labor conditions here, espe-
tally where Japan Is concerned. 1t has
iyen the Japanese government confi-