The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-28
THE SENATE DOES WORK

ing and ordered printed. 1t provides
: that members of the Board of Health
shall serve without pay
THE CASTOR OIL BILL
Senator Achi's bin to promote the cul-
( tivation of castor oil plants also passed
/ its first reading. 1t provides that all
land used in the cultivation of the
plant, and in the production of castor
oil within the Territory, shall be ex-
empt from taxation.
PAY woRKMEN WEEKLY.
| The House resolution providing for
the payment of laborers employed by
the government weekly instead of semi
monthly was adopted after some dis
cussion. The resolution as it passed
the House calls upon the Auditor and
| Superintendent of Public Works TO pro-
! vide for payment at the end of each
, week in view of the fact that many
| of the employees are compelled to dis
| count their salary warrants at exorbi-
| tant rates of interest
Senator Dickey stated that he was
| opposed to the passage of the resolu-
ton without properly considering it.
| If paid by the week he was afraid that
| the laborers would spend all their earn
| ings in Nuuanu street saloons so that
the old lady don't get any of it," If
paid monthly he thought that the la
borers would have something left to
take home TO their families, and If
these employees were so improvident that
they gave away all their money they
were not the right kind of people to
be employed by the government. He
moved that the resolution be referred
to the Public Works Committee.
Senator Crabbe said he was in favor
of the resolution. He stated that dur
ing the campaign it had been brought
to his attention that laborers who re-
ceived no specific salary borrowed
money from lenders at twenty-five per
cent and this was because they were
not paid weekly. I'VE all know" he
said, that since the passage of a GER
tain law by the last legislature, no Ia
borers can get credit for more than a
week al a time, and they have to Dor
row money now to pay their rent and
food.
LAS to the matter of their spending
money in saloons it may be so, and
it may not probably some of them do
but they still need the money to pay
their bills 1 move that the resolution
pass
Senator Dickey withdrew his motion,
saying that the statement made by
Senator Crabbe had placed the matter
in an entirely different light, and that
he could see how such change would
be of advantage to them. He under
stood that all employees had been re-
ferred to.
Senator Achi was of the opinion that
the resolution was in opposition to the
terms of the Audit act. and that the
resolution should be referred to the
Judiciary Committee. Senator Brown
stated on behalf of the committee that
the resolution did not conflict and the
only difference it would make was that
road boards would be required to make
out their payrolls four times a month |
instead of twice. He said that former
ly there had been a monthly pay day, |
which was finally changed to semi |
and if ordered by the legis- |
lature the road boards would make out |
their payrolls once week.
Senator McCandless stated he had |
heard of instances where as much as |
fifty per cent was paid by employees for |
their warrants and he did
mt believe that a man getting only |
from six to nine dollars week could /
spend 4 very great amount in the
saloons.
The resolution was then put on it's
passage all voting in favor of it but
Senator Achi.
TWO LANGUAGE DISCUSSION.
Senator Achi raised a storm among
he native members when he introduce
ID resolution providing that after
he fifteenth day of the session all bills i
hould be translated into Hawaiian be-
ore being introduced.
Senator McCandless favored the reso- i
ution, stating that hundreds of dollars I
ould be saved in that manner for bills
we're now introduced and translated, I
when there was not the remotest /
nance of their ever becoming a law. G
Senator c. Brown favored the resolu t
ion but with an amendment that the Y
enate could order otherwise If it de- Z
ired. He said he did not believe a /
enator should be required to pay out II
f his own pocket for translation of APP V
ropriation or other bills introduced at
he instance of the government. Pri- b
ate bills where some one was to bene- G
I he bought should be translated be- o
)re IL reduced.
Senator Kalauokalani objected to the t
leasure saying that the Senate should a
AXE all translations and pay for them. fl
lie argued that the native members a
1uld not introduce all the bills they O
ished and ii would curtail their priV1- Il
ges if they were compelled to pay for n
anslationS out of their own pockets.
e proposed as an amendment that the RI
anate should pay for all translations 81
the rate of fifty cents folio. Sena- fc
II Crabbe stated that if the bill was OF
good one the Senate would order it a
anslated, and if was only a trifiing
easure it would be money wasted to is
I'VE it translated and printed. He said tC
at all members would suffer alike, ! II
Id Senator Achi added that the ma m
We members would get the best of the di
al. as they could do their own trans W
ting.
Senator Kalauokalani replied that the
embers were there for the public o..
cd, and that if a Senator translated -