The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01

Morgan when the Hawaiian Commits
son was here and 1 met him then.
toll him about the mileage matter and
he asked me how the clerk had figured
the mileage from Honolulu to San
Francisco. I told him as 20S0 miles. He
exclaimed, "Why, that is nautical
miles. You are entitled to statute
miles, 1 said something about not
wanting to claim too much, but he said
it was a matter of la wand if allowed
it to stand at 2OSO miles, the next man
from Hawaii would have a hard time
to change the precedent, and had bet
ter be fixed at once. So he and I went
to the office of the Coast and Geodetic
Survey and got table of distances
Then we went to the Sergeant-at-Arms
and he calculated the whole distance
over again. So it occurred that had
the biggest mileage of any of the mem
bers of the House. for figuring by stat
ue miles the distance from Honolulu
TO San francisco is something like 240o,
making about 5000 miles in all.
The Office Of the Sergeant-at-Arms is
a regular bank. ana handles lots of
money in a year. The members salar-
les are payable once a month and the
mileage at zoe per mile both going and
coming nome is PAYABLE as soon as you
post and when you w-nt to pay q, bill
you simply write check on the Ser
geant-at-' rms, who has tellerS II his
office just like any other banking insti-
tuition When you consider that there
are 356 members and in the next house
there will be $50. you can see what IN
amount OF coin goes through his hands
every year.
I knew that the matter of the protest
of Gear was coming on and 7 wanted to
find out about nv salary. IT seems the
Speaker has something TO do with the
fixing of the salary. He gave orders
that my salarv wes t. begin the da! I
was sworn in. However. another Ken
lucky man, by the name of Turner an
elo member and lawyer nv profession.
claimed that nv GALAXY should begin
with the 14th of June. the dav the Or
eanic At went into effect. 7 asked him
how he made that out. and he said if
member o, Congress died that the sal
arv of the new nan BEGAN Tro.h the
date of the Coneressman's death. al
though he were not elected for some
months after that.
I then met the Oklahoma ~elegate,
Dennis T. Flynn. who is a Republican.
and he said he thought that was so too.
I told him the Speaker had fixed it at
the date was sworn in. and Flynn re-
pIie1 that Speaker He -erson knew
nothing about being delegate from a
Territory. as Iowa hao be m State
since before Henderson was born Mr..
Turner took me over r. Representotive
DaAr~,ond Of Missouri member from
the Democratic side of the Committee
on Judiciary. eXrlai1ed that the
connr,itteA then had case very similar
NJ 80 h.
der consideration was decided my case
would be settIo' seems that Cen
eral Joseph Wheeled was elected to
CONGRESS-. but never took his seat He
ann1ied to tho War Department and
was sent to the Philippines as Briga
dier-Genera1 without being sworn in as
a member of the House. The man who
was elected to Whee lers seat claimed
salary from the date of Wheeler's cleo
ton. 1t was finallv decided by a ma
joritv of the committee that salary was
to begin the day he was elected, so t
mine was also fixed to begin on the 9Th
Df November, 49, the day I was elect
I'd. {
They are very careful to fix these pre-
,edents because some time Alaska may S
ng great effort to secure the same S
thing which Hawaii has. Porto Rico t
low has only commissioner. He gets a
The same pay as a delegate, but no C
MILEAGE. He has the right to see the S
read OF any department. but he has no t
seat on the floor of the House I met
hr. Degetau. the Porto Rican Commits t
ioner. through Delegate Perea, who, b
peaking Spanish, has h. n IF consid- c
rable assistance to the Commissioner \
)egetau speaks English. but of course n
peaks Spanish better Degetau told me v