The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
GOVERNORS Want
A SALARY LIKE
CARRIERS
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and national honor, are here to ask for
our governor what re 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 country,
remembered the Maine, and he only
asks what the law gives him. Are
you going to take 1t away? We will
see. daughter and applause)
Mr.. Speaker, l appeal to the man.
hood and fairness of this House to pay
the obligations that the law imposes.
That Is all. 1t is question of duty.
VIII you obey the law? We will wait
and see.
MIR. Bingham. Mr.. Speaker, I yield
five minutes to the gentleman from
New Mexico (Mr Rodey).
Mr.. Rodey. The Delegates have just
come in on bell call from the Commit
tee on Territories and we do not know
what has been said, but I sincerely
hope that the House will sustain the
put on this bill in the COM
mittee. Any gentleman may look at
section 1916 Of the Revised Statutes and
he will find there that the salaries of
the governors and secretaries of all
Territories are fixed at $500 for the
governor and $500 for the secretary
of every Territory. That is the stat
ute. Now Congress has been appro-
priating less sum than that for some
reason. The salary Is wholly made
quate to the duty performed by these
men at home there in the Territories.
These two Territories are older than
the other Territories, and they should
not be treated differently. Look at
Porto Rico for a moment. Since you
organized 1t it has never paid any rev.
enues into the National Treasury, as
we have done for half a century. L
really believe that today If you could
reckon up the equities in the revenues
that have been paid into the National
Treasury by New Mexico as compared
with what you have given back to her,
she would have a large balance in her
favor.
If this amendment as to Arizona
fails, then the amendment as to New
Mexico will fail. 1t is only $500 and is
but what the law requires to be paid
to the governor and 800 in each case
for the secretary. 1t is unfair to APP
propriate less than the law allows.
The governor of Hawaii gets $1,000 and
all sorts of perquisites. He has a pri-
vate secretary for himself, apart from
the secretary of the Territory, who is
given $4,000, making nearly $4,000 in
all that goes to his office, and that
Territory has never paid a dollar into
the National Treasury, either, as it has
cost more than it's revenues, having no
public lands or mines to be sold or
taken up.
Look at the small budget every year
for New Mexico. 1t is said you only
pay 100000 in off years and 100000 in
legislative years, which you would not
have to pay even If we were a State,
and we would gladly relieve you from
that IL you will permit us to become a
State. You have been taking the rev.
enues of her public lands and stamp
taxes and custom duties and everything
else for fifty-eight years. We have, /
believe, large balance to our credit
but Congress at times acts toward the
Territories as If they had no friends.
l certainly hope every friend we have
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committee. 1t is just and right For
/ say to you, gentlemen, if you go down
there and see the duties these men per-
form you would have no hesitancy in
voting for it just like it is. The law
fixes IL at the amount that we ask for
1t is the law today. 1t is not new leg
islation. l appeal to every friend we
have got on the floor of the House on
both sides TO sustain this amendment.
(Applause)
Mr.. Bingham. Mr.. Speaker, / desire
to submit to the House in connection
with the paragraph under considera-
ton, upon which there will be a yea
vote if necessary by the
House, that the neighbors of New
Mexico and Arizona, as states today,
having gone through their period as
Territories, knowing the value and rec
ognizing all the demands and require
ments of their governors as well as
their secretaries, have, after careful
reached the conclusion
under which they are administered to-
day.
Wyoming pays $500 to her governor;
Utah, $1,000 South Dakota, s.. 500:
'''' '''N''"' So'''N' tllI by reason OF
legislation of this body, $4,000 is given
to the governor of Oklahoma. | am of
the opinion that the States know the
value and the requirements of their
different officials as well as this House
seemed to know during the past fifteen
or twenty years in the matter of legis-
Iation covering New Mexico and Ari-
IONA.
l desire this bill to come before the
House consistent from the first para
graph TO the last; and | think that
there has been no evidence or any
statement upon this floor wherein there
has been any loss to the interests of
hose two great Territories. When they
come into statehood, which now seems
probably of early date, these people can |
TX the compensation for their own Of /
icials.
But 1t seems to me TO be wise to fol-
low what seems TO be the idea of the !
great West and Northwest so far a . |