The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-13

in continuous uproar. There is no
statute that authorizes a Judge to make
them stay and by cutting salaries you
not only do injustice to those who are
at work but make all the employees of the
department FESTIVE and anxious to get
away. and l submit to you as citizen,
as well as q Senator. that if you wish TO
have case tried for yourself, you would
want the best officers, the best lawyers
and the best of everything to try it. You
cannot gauge the business in Hilo by
Kauai and Maui. l do more business in
my court in one year than the Thlrd
and Second Circuits combined. l wish TO
impress upon you the Importance of deal
ing with US in this matter in business
like way. This is not a question of poll
tics 1t is a question of plain business,
and I don think the salaries OF the sub
ordinate officers of the court ought TO be
cut. It may be possible that some Of
those Honolulu fellows could stand cut
because they all get such tremendous
salaries. but the idea of making the clerk
of the Circuit Court which has a terri
tory as big as all the rest combined
work for S15 a month, when Henry Smith,
0 the smallest circuit of the group, gets
81, 900 year. and he does one-half the
work physically that Dan Porter does in
Hilo in handling the business of the re-
spective offices.
Now I am anxious that the Sheriff of
Hawaii ant all my other court officers
be given good salaries. In cutting, 1
only refer TO the High Sheriff and At
torney General, because both of them
get too much pay. In offices like that
the cut should be made, bit not in SUBJ
ordinate Offices, which are usually filed
by poor men financially. The Attorney
General, as we all know. is not worth
= he sal ,,
a month; and the High Sheriff's office
ought to be abolished. 1t is un-American
and un-Republican, but if cuts are to be
made, these are the class and character
of offices which should receive them.
/ wish you would present my conlpH-
ments to all my friends and explain TO
them the sentiments which l have pre-
sented herein. I have not the time to
visit Honolulu and discuss this interest
of ours with you in person, but 1 am
pleading in the cause of justice and right
and not in the interest OF politics or OF
party. If I had 1000 votes ON the floor
Of the House and Senate chamber, /
would vote them in favor of cutting the
heads of departments and not the subor-
dinate offices.
With kindest regards.
GILBERT F. LITTLE.
The letter caused considerable mer-
riment' but was not spread upon the
minutes of the Legislature
THE FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.
Ewaliko moved that the district
judge of Hilo have an increase in sal
airy. few days ago it was made
$500. Ewanko wished 10 MAKE II
$1,000. The motion was lost
Mossman moved that the salary OF
the physician at Waialua be raised
from $3.50 TO $1,000. The motion was
carried
1t was moved by Kaumakaole that
the district magistrate of Kipahulu be
given larger stipend. He was, SAID
the Representative, the smallest-paiC
officer in the Territory The motor
was carried
Keliikoa moved that the salary Of
the judge of the Third Circuit Court
be reduced from $500 to $500 H,
worked but two weeks out of eacf
year, and the first mentioned figure.
were entirely too much. Emmelutr
said the brother member who suggest
ed a reduction should be given a media
for the same. The motion was lost
Beckley moved that the position o.
: district magistrate be raised from IN,