The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29
RUNNING
On CREDIT
Courts Are Having
No Trouble at
Present.
JURORS CONTENT
TO WAIT FOR PAY
Chief Justice Frear Will Ask the
Legislature to Appropriate
Money Needed.

Territorial courts are being run on
credit now. Since the total extinction
of the $500 appropriation for general
expenses Of Supreme and Circuit
Courts through the extravagances of
been obtainable to conduct the courts
and they have been conducted so far
upon the faith of the community IL the
action of the next legislature.
When Judge Gear decided to quit
business last August because of the lack
of funds, the courts We're closed, but
only for a few. days, the second judge
coming UP smiling at that time with
a new proposition, namely, that jurors
must serve without pay. The jurors
for the remainder of the term We're
compelled to serve gratuitously, but
they did not relish the idea very much,
though under Gears ruling they could
not refuse to serve without liability to
punishment for contempt.
Both Judge De Bolt and Judge Rob-
inson have mad jurors of fifteen to
eighteen men during the entire present
ternn,y besides the grand jury of sixteen
without pay, but not without hope of
reward. A record is being kept of their
service, and the legislature will be
asked to provide for the payment of the
fees So far there has not been a sim
gle complaint from the jurymen, be-
cause of the long wait for their dues,
all OF them being satisfied with the
statement of the court that the legisla-
ture would be asked to appropriate
the money needed for their payment
In one or two cases where jurors were
unable to wait for their pay, and were
liable to private loss by reason of their
service, excuses were readily granted
by the judge.
The ordinary court machinery is pro-
vided for in a specific salary appropria-
judges, Supreme and Circuit, draw their
salaries from the United States treas
ury, while the salaries of clerks, stenog-
raphers and interpreters come out OF
an appropriation which could not be
touched by either of the circuit judges,
and consequently remains intact. The
5ailiffs are the only ones not provided
for among the regular court employees.
They were paid from the expense fund,
the Supreme Court refusing to sustain
the circuit court, ruling that they
should be paid from some other source.
The Supreme Court bailiff is provided
for in the salary appropriation, and
Bailiffs Ellis and Hopkins are the only
ones whose salaries are not provided
for in this district. They receive their
vouchers as usual every month, the
banks readily discounting them with
the expectation of realizing when the
legislature meets. One extra stenogra-
pher and an additional interpreter are
also employed who are required to wait
for their money.
The incidental expenses of the courts
are not met at present, though in case
of necessity vouchers are issued as be-
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where they please. Such work as print
ing is done On credit entirely. The sta
tionery account is not yet exhausted
and Henry Smith, the clerk of the de-
partment, said yesterday that he ex-
pected it to last until February.
In the other Islands the courts are
also being run on credit. On Kauai
sufficient money was borrowed to pro-
vide for the last term. Judge Little
ton was exhausted, but he, it is said
has a promise of funds from private
sources.
A new term is to begin soon on Maui
and funds will also be provided there
privately, with the expectation of re-
endorsement by the legislature.
Chief Justice Frear is now at work
upon his biennial report of the work OF
the courts which will be presented to
the legislature This report will con-
tain recommendations for the appropri-
alton of sum sufficient to provide fol
the expenses incurred since the money
ran out, to be appropriated under the
head of unpaid bills
GOSH bet Zeke that he could stay
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