The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-18

pointed TO investigate ana TSPoies oiis1
their report was supposed to carry
some weight with it.
Kaniho Und.) then introduced a res
olution fixing the salaries or the offI-
GERS of the House at the same rate as
| in the regular session. This went
! through without opposition. The House
| has Topped off three clerks, at totai
salary of $21 per day. The Senate had
| Topped off one officer whose salary was
| $40 per day.
The House then started in to find out
| where they had left the salary and
! payroll appropriation bill when they
adjourned the day before, after such
a dramatic incident. The journal show
| ed that the bill had not been ordered
| typewriter, which is the usual prac-
| tice after a bill passes second reading,
so Kumulae (Rep) moved that the bill
| be typewriter and placed on the cal
/ endar for Monday Dickey tRep.)
thought it would not take long to type
write the bill, and wanted it ready for
today The bill was finally taken uI
/ for consideration without typewritine
| it, The clerk started in to read the
] twenty odd pages of the printed bill
but when the item of stenographers for
the first circuit court was reached, the
stenographer'S notes were called for to
! ascertain whether the amendment pro-
posed by Mr.. Emmeluth had been ac-
cepted.
4 lnlS tIQIlSlulH was u
| the effect that instead OF paying the
! stenographers so much per month
| $4,000 and allowing II cents folio for
! transcript, they were to receive $40 per
day when actually in court, and &c
| cents folio for transcript. This is
the same rate that is paid IN the Unit
ed States Court here and in California.
1t was also a departure from the eS-
tablished custom of sending stenogra
pliers from Honolulu to the other cir
cults, for each circuit judge is en-
powered to appoint his own stenogra-
pher Of course, he could appoint Hoo
nolulu man if he SO desired, but If he
desired to appoint some local stenog-
rapher who was competent, he could do
so. 1t is further change by which
the Territory will hereafter pay only
for criminal cases and cases to which
the Territory is party. This cuts the
appropriation down from $500 to $4.-
600. The balance of the work done in
the courts by the stenographers will be
paid for by the litigants, as is now
done in the United States Court here.
The bill does not fix the rate for that
class of cases, leaving it to agreement
between the parties, or to rule of the
court, as Judge Estee fixed the rate
for stenographers fees in his court.
The item was passed for the time be-
ing, but when the clerk had finished
reading the bill it came UP again.
The partial amendment of the bill
had made the salaries appropriated for
magistrates of the same class different
in amounts. The Governor had recon-
mended that magistrates or the first
class be paid $1,000 (two years.. The
committee had recommended "a 500, but
the House had restored it to the origi-
nal figure. doubtless on account of the
personal popularity of Judge Wilcox,
who was affected. For the second class,
CnUpynnT> recommended ST 440
year, but the House had agreed to the
finance committee cut to $3.50 per
year. This placed Judge Dickey at a
lower salary than the judges of the
same class on the other Islands, Judge
Kalua of Wailuku for instance. The
Eva judge had been raised from the
fourth class to the third class, but his
salary had been put at the committee
figure, 81 200 per year, while the Gov
ernor only recommended $4,000 for the
two years, and that is the figure other
judges of the same class receive.
Mr.. Emmeluth Qnd.) called attention
to this, and suggested an amendment
to restore Judge Dickeys salary to the
Governors figure. To this Mr.. Dickey
(Rep) sarcastically replied that he was
in favor of it as the father of Judge
Dickey, but as a member of the House
essary to be consistent; that IL the
House We're to be consistent, they
would take the Governors figures as
they stood, and ont change them, but
the House had no intention of being
consistent. The item passed as il
stood.
i Mr. Makekau Und) then moved to
strike out the new clause in regard to
the stenographers of the First Circuit
and restore the item to the form in
which it had come down from the Gov
ernor; that is, two stenographers at
5000 per month each. He claimed that
it required experts for this work, and
they could not be gotten at a lower
figure. Kaniho Qnd.) thought the sal
airy sufficient at $4,000. Kumulae (Rep.)
said that these stenographers were
busy every day of the year, and should
be paid accordingly. Ayiett CRep.)
i thought that inasmuch as the salary
of the Supreme Court stenographer
had been cut to $3.50 per month"; that
the same amount was enough for the
Circuit Court men.
Prendergast Und), who has been alb
sent most of the time the last few days
attending a case in court, then made a
long speech declaring that he thought
/ the country could we'll get along with
out any stenographers in the courts
He said that in the good old days the
clerks used to sit up nights writing UP
the testimony into books, and anyboI
could get it by looking at the books,
jul tIdl iiON dOdyS lueSe notes were
taken in shorthand, and nobody could
get transcript unless they paid for 1t
Hogs (Rep) desired permission to
ask question, which was granted He
then wanted to know why not get
along without any waterworks pump
ing plant, since in the old days we did
not use to have any such an institu-
ton. To this Prendergast replied that
in the olden days, under the monarchy.
we used to have plenty OF RAIN, and
a waterworks was not necessary, blu,
since the monarchy had been over
thrown, dry weather had prevailed
and the pumps had to be started He
said that since the organization of the
Territory and the restoration of the
Hawaiian people to their suffrage
rights, there had been plenty of rain,
and he had no doubt that this was due
solely to the election of a Home Rule
Independent majority in the Legisla-
ture. Hoogs said he was properly
squelched, and Prendergast proceeded
to say that he had just paid $50 good
money for the transcript of the record
of case of his in the court, and the
stenographer had told him that the fee
should have been SIS, but that he had
mistaken the number of pages, and
inasmuch as he had made the rate of
$50, he would stick to it. He declared
that these high prices for transcripts
prevented tf1a moor reopla fro,,o h