The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-29
OUR GOVERNOR
HAS A SINECURE.
Delegates Of Other Ter
rltOrieS WranSlo
Over HiS Salary.

On January 4lh, there was a con-
siderable wrnpgls in the House OF
Representatives at Washington over
tho salary OF the Governor OF Ari.
IONA, in which Hawaii conspicuously
figured, Several Copgresameu re
marked that our own Footb all
George drew q big salary and did
nothing while the Governors OF New
Mexico aud Arizona worked like
slaves and received little pay for it.
After the subject had been opened
Mr. Wilson, OF Arizona, gained the
floor and said:
Mr. Speaker, the amend snt offer
ed yesterday was not to increase the
salary OF the governor OF this Terri
tory, but to increase the appropris-
ton 30 ss to ooyer the salary allow
ed by law. The law OF the land gives
to the governor OF Arizona $500
year; end cay it is not enough.
Governor Brodie has today services
to perform such as are required OF
scarcely any governor OF any OF tho
States, besasSs OF the many reports,
etc, that are required from him by
the Federal Government, 10 addi-
ton TO hid duties in attending TO
the government Of the people OF the
Territory. In area aud 10 the amount
OF official business that Territory is
beyond almost any OF the States.
The salary allowed by law is $500.
II the law is highland Congress
passed the law-tben it is right to
pay the salary, for it would be a
farce to say that the law gives you
something and tho Appropriation
Committee takes it away, The law
ia either right or wrong, and the law
gives it The appropriation should
be made to cover it, and that is all
we ask.
Novel; understood it has been
said thot the governor gets a thou.
sand dollars on the side, want to
say to the gentleman who made that
statement that he is mistaken. The
Thousand dollars on the side that lie
spoken OF is a;eontinRent fund, to
DO used for purposes not beneficial
to the governor at all; to be used
for the payment OF rewards and
things OF that character. 1t does
not attach to his salary at all or pay
for his services in any respect
Therefore, cay, that can not accrue
to him. II it is right to ignore
law, to refuse to pay the laws de-
mand, to taxa away the requirements
of the law, then it is right to vote
down this amendment and say to
the governor OF Arizona, "You have
it by law, but by the action OF this
House you shall not have it," l APP
peal to the fairness OF the Hou,e for
the payment of this honest dem and i.
1t 10 nothing more than request TO
this House to comply with the de-
mands OF the Law, ard to give that
which the law maintains and for
which the law provides.
What does the governor OF Porto
Rico do more than the governor Of
Arizona 7 He is paid $1,000 a year,
and all OF the duties imposed upon
the governor OF Arizona are not i'm.
poGed upon him, The governor OF
Hawaii, sitting at ease in Honolulu,
is paid virtually $780, We at home,
coming under the flag, who have
maintained it, who have gone and
bled upon foreign soil for the main
tenauoe OF national law, the flag,
sad national honor,are here aud only
ask for our governor what the law
gives him, what the law requires,
| Applause. Governor Brodie, who
went with the President to the field
OF battle in the Antilles, who was
shot by the Spanish, maintained the
honor OF the oountry, remembered
the Maine, and he only asks what
the law gives him. Are you going
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