The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-17


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better on ihnrr country JUDGES rails
inH tho Eva magistrate tb tatHn. a
against the uDtrfnrff frrnmmenda
,lnn ~ 1880. and thr Koolaupot.
magistrate from 81 O0o tu 81. 200
This completed the work fnf IN
d morning nhd p rrcrss was taken utnl
y m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Thr House was nearly half boui
late Va getting together nv the after.
noon and untn hnlf.past four when
they adjourned, spent the entire after.
noon On two items IN the hill salaries
" din,rlrt magistrates Tor Wnialuu
ana WHianac.
Wamlun was raised from $500 III
Si2n0 FOR the two years, and an at
tempt was made tu de- the same with
Waiuuut, but some wanted To- cut ont
the Item entirely. bickcy tRrpl
favored striking out the item. while
Robertson tllppD favored It's retention,
but did not favor an increase. Ills
Ideas iiuHlly prevailed. 1t rs 60 bo
noted that Mr.. Robertson has been
pretty successful throughout the pres
ont Legislature, and when he ndvoCat
ed anything not strictly party issue.
his ideas have as rule been accepted
10y the Independent majority
The Waianac Judge was the last item
on the list under the head of the First
Judicial Circuit. Before the circuit
had been finally disposed OF MIR. Eva
lilto. Of the Makokau faction OF the
Independents. moved to pass the bal
auce of the bill as In the Governor
estimates Robertson, MISLEADING tho
motion for one TO pass the bin as rec
commended by the committee on
finance, seconded the motion, and fig
ured II out that 1t would take eighty
days at the rate the House nad been
going, one item an hour, to complete
consideration Of this one bin on second
reading. He said that the thing was
not properly managed; that the Senate
should have been AT work on one bill
and the House on another, so as TO
have the bills meet and save time, and
got its bill to the other first would
have that much advantage. as the
other house would have to consider the
bill which had passed one house in
stead of the one which had not yet
passed their own.
The motion, however was lost at that
point. Later, Mr.. Maikainai who sat
next to the speaker. and who has "A
practical head for anything which
comes to his committee for report re-
newed the motion to pass the bill. He
said that he had been figuring on the
Governors estimates and comparing 1t
with the report of the Treasurer to
the House. and had discovered that in
order to make ends meet, II required n
reduction in salaries of SO per cent.
This he declared to be impossible He
said that he was originally in favor of
n reduction in the salaries, in hopes or
making ends meet, but II had now
come to n point of cutting to SO per
cent, or not cutting at all. Such a cut
he declared to be out Of the question.
for nobody worth having could be OBJ
tanned to fill the positions at any such
reduction. He declared that the Gov
ernor was supposed to know what he
was doing when he recommended So
100000 worth of appropriations with
only a little over $3,0OO000, according
to the Treasurer'S estimate, to pay
them out of, and he did not see why
the House should worry it's head over
the matter. Let the Governor find
out where the money is to come from
and If he does not know. why did he
make an appropriation bill for $4,000,
000?' said he. Pass the bill at the
figures laid down by the Governor. II
we cut salaries SO per cent, who is GO
ing to I'LL the positions?" ("The Porto
Ricans," interjected Kumulae. Re-
publican) The motion OF Makainai TO
pass the bill with the items as to the
estimates was lost after
several votes had been taken to ascer-
tain the result.
The House started in on another
wordy discussion, when Mr.. Monsarrat
got In a motion that the committee
rise. Kumulae promptly seconded 1t,
but Robertson wanted the committee
to rise and recommend to the House
to lay the bill on the table until the
public improvements bill had been dis
posed Of This. in turn. was seconded
by Mr.. Emmeluth, who seemed to see
he was losing ground, At this point,
Speaker Akina, for about the seven
teenth time during the period the bill
has been pending, moved that the COM
mittee report that they recommend
that the balance Of the bin pass at the
figures. The interesting
thing about Akna as n parliamenta-
rian, is that he does not get ruffled by
defeat, but simply waits like an ex-
pert fencer to make the home thrust.
After all his feints had been foiled, he
made his home thrust this time, and
by a vote of 10 to 8 the committee. as
they had finished consideration of the
bill, and recommended that II pass at
the Governors figures. except as al
ready amended, which includes SIS, 600
for the ex-Queen.
The report was adopted. and that
brought Mr.. Emmeluth to his feet with |
The question, II would like to ask this
House what sort OF fools they think
his committee OF finance is7 have
worked nights and Sundays In the In
.erests OF this country, In the interests |
II my constituents, worked with the |
inance committee In hopes OF making !
ends meet. I have worked when other |
of this House have been root |
ng around down town, or at thea
.er. or some other place" Here Ku-
nulae suggested that he was out OF
rider. II am out. OF order. Mr.. Speak
r. And I am out of the finance com
nittee. I am not going to make an ass
tut OF myself any longer. I am pau
With the finance committee. You,
'ourself. Mr.. Speaker. called a caucus
II the Home Rule members for last
light in this hall. and who was here?
was here, but few others. You ought
o be ashamed OF yourself
The speaker suggested that Mr.. EN-
neluth was hot" Mr.. Emmeluth ad-
nitted that he was hot, whereupon the
peaker remarked that he was glad he
M Gle he |