Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-08-31
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Veteran Chinese Talk
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JAPANESE LlNGrIST DOYLE
WILLING But DEBARRED
pItIoENT SEARCH FOR INTER.
PRETERs TO ASSIST JUS
TicE At THE COMING
| COURT TERM.

The plot thickens In the matter of
Interpreters in the Juoiciary Depart.
ment OF the Government, while other
matters In relation TO employees in that
branch of the public service are also
simmering a little.
A Chinese interpreter Is wanted for
the new term OF Circuit Court com
mencing next week. This is not all.
A Japanese interpreter is also desired
most strenuously and there are Por.
fuguesc, Porto Rican, Korean and 9th.
W Interpreters likely TO be needed.
Ii Cheung. who for twenty years
faithfully and satisfactorily served jus.
tice In translating from Chinese into
English ana from English into Chi.
; nose. IS not maintaining the sweetest
Attitude toward the Hawaiian Govern.
mcnt ana Is not anxious to give his
services to the courts at SO much a
day. He does not feel that he has
been treated with the kindcst consid.
Grafton IN being bounced out of Office
after a score of years OF earnest work
without any notice, merely because
the Government happened TO be short
or funds. IL Cheung did not know
that his services were dispensed WIN
until he read an announcement to that
effect In the newspapers. lie feels
that a man in any other country who
had devoted himself for so long time
10 the service OF the Government
would, II he was not pensioned. at
least be- given notice OF the cause OF
his being dropped. He Is now engaged
at the Chinese Consulate in this city.
He has been asked to interpret in the
, courts at the approaching term at SO
much per day, but gracefully declines
to submit to the employment. Search
Is therefore being diligently made for
Chinese interpreter. To get one who
/ can do as well as Ii Cheung has done.
say the judges. will be u difficult mat. |
ter.
In regard 10 japanese Interpreter |
another serious difficulty presents IL |
self. Chester Doyle was formerly OF. |
fetal Japanese interpreter. but he 10 |
now employed as criminalogist to the |
Attorney Generals Department. Doyle |
expresses himself as perfectly willing
to accommodate the Government by
exercising his interpreting talent In |
the courts, but the probabilities are
that defendants would object on the |
technical ground that he Is not quail. |
fled to act as interpreter in criminal
cases in which he has been employed |
as criminalogist TO work up and pre-
pare evidence for the Territorial pros.
ecution. Such an objection cannot be |
overcome. no matter how accommo-
dating Doyle Is willing to be. Good |
Japanese Interpreters are scarce;
there are one or two in the minds of !!
the judges who are satisfactory as to |
their understanding OF the Japanese
and English languages, but not SO sat.
isfactory IA to other mental attributed
And so there Is going on strenuous
search for japanese interpreter. and
but few days remain to round him
up.
John Bush, one OF the former Ha-
walian interpreters, has been engaged
to handle the forty-and.odd fishery
rights cases. 1t is said, while G. L. Hop
kins. the only Interpreter who was not |
dropped by the economy scheme. will
handle interpretations In English and !
Hawaiian In other civil and all crimi- |
nal matters.