Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-07
ECONOMY FIGHT In SENATE
HOUSE REDUCES SOME ITEMS
SENATE.
Extra Session.
Sixth Day.
Afternoon Session.


salary bill was resumed.
Senator Achi objected that the item
for detective services should be under
the High Sheriff and not the Attorney
General
Senator Cecil Brown suggested that
some detectives should be allowed to
the Sheriff.
President Crabbe said that this ser.
vice should remain secret, and that
the United States had secret service
agents in Hawaii at this very time.
Senator Isenberg wanted II left with
the Attorney General, and said that
since Andrews took uiTice gambling
had been stopped in Honolulu. He
said that his servants had told him,
Gambling all pau; man in Executive
building too hu HUI now" Great credit
should be given Andrews for his work
in suppressing gambling and convict
ing the offenders. The item passed as
In the bill.
Senator Dickey moved to cut the
salary Of Treasurer from s2.250 to ST.
500 for the half-year He said Califor-
MIA officials get but $4,000 year while
Hawaiian officials wanted $4,000.
President Crabbe reported that there
were perquisites for California off,
GERS. Senator Achi moved to make 1t
5000.
Senator Baldwin said there was al
ways cry for economy, but before the
session ended the salaries we're always
put back to the old scale. Senator
Dickey, he said, started out with a
carving knife three feet long; then on
second reading he would use only q
pocket knife and in the end would
throw that away too.
| Senator McCandless moved to make
II $4,000 n year. He said circuit judges
get only $4,000 year and went after
the positions even to Washington. He
said there were some twenty-five ap-
plicants for the Attorney Generalship.
Senator Crabbe replied there were
but three, two Of them Just from the
law school. Andrews had not been an
applicant and the office sought him.
Senator Isenberg said the judges had
difficulty to make both ends meet u
they were to remain honest.
Senator Brown added that the as
pirants for Office we're after honor, not
money. Only the young men or new
Corners sought political preferment; tho
kamaainas didn't want anything to do
with 1t.
Senator Dickey said he had made in.
| trfa IN at Ia
and but twenty-four of them made over
$4,000 a year, and OF these seven were
judges. There were fifty-three then to
choose an Attorney General from al
$4,000 year. The item for treasurer
carried at $3.50. 10 to 3, only Dickey,
Achi and McCandless voting no"
, Senator Dickey moved to cut the sal
: airy OF Superintendent Of Public Works
from $3.50 to $780, He demanded
, roll call on the motion to pass as In the
bill and there were the same three noes
Senator Achi moved to cut the salary
, OF bookkeeper In Public Works Office
from $1,000 to sl050. Lost Senators
with the three economical Senators.
Senator lsenberg moved 10 increase
: the sewer pay roll from $3.50 to S2lS4
Carried.
Senator Achi moved to make the pay
of shipping tenders the same, but was
told by the Chair that he didn't know
} what he was talking about, and thai
} one of the men worked at night.
The item OF $iO5 for Superintendent
i, Waimea, Kauai, water works, wal
! stricken out.
! Senator Achi moved to strike out tn,
item of $1,000 for bookkeeper land Of
I fee. Senator Dickey said a bette
e bookkeeper was needed, not an add
, tional one. Carried.
;, Adjournment was taken at this tim
e just as the Board Of Health items wer
| reached