The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-13

weekly statements of receipts and ex-
penditures
Salaries in some cases may be fur
ther reduced: and We should REQUIRE
all salaried county officials to give their
time exclusively to the work OF the
county.
The supervisors should have power
TO reduce the number of officials. or
their salaries, but not to increase them
without legislative sanction OF course
no reduction should be allowed within
term of Office.
The introduction of county govern
ment will unfortunately bear hard up
on the salaries of territorial officials
The legislature will be compelled to
make material reductions in them. and
in that way prevent the machinery Of
government from being oppressive up
on the tax payers.
Il do not think that there should be
any excessive bonds provided for. or
allowed. They should be reasonable
so as to allow the poor but honest
and intelligent man to take a hand in
the government. There should, how
ever, be penal provisions against wilful
mistake. against bribery and embez-
element. Our act should stand for in
telligent, efficient and honest admins
tration Of public affairs.
Many citizens seem to have the idea,
that this commission can frame a bill
for towns and cities. I said to a lead
er OF one of our political parties, who
urged this matter upon me. that the
join resolution under which we are ap-
pointed, limits US TO county govern
ment; that, if he wanted more than
this, he should have exerted himself
at the meeting of the legislature to
have passed a resolution carrying
wider scope
IF we succeed in framing a county
act which shall take its place perma-
nently among the statutes of our Ter
ritory, we shall have done all that has
been required of US; and it will be a
long step towards learning the lesson
which Governor Carter said at Hilo
We need to learn so much, when he
used these memorable words: THE
lesson we need to learn in Hawaii is
that the government is the people, and
the people are the government There
has been a different conception. which
considered the government as an in
stftution separate and apart from the
people. If We can get all the people to
realize that the governments interest
and the peoples interests are Identical
and that it is the purpose of my adj
ministration to make the will of the
people the will of the government we
shall be satisfied"
Following his address Mr.. Stewart
moved the following resolution:
Resolved, That this commission re-
quest the citizens, hereinafter named
and any others willing so to do, to
favor it with their views, orally or in
writing, upon the questions below
stated; and that the hearings thereof
be commenced at the regular meeting
of this body on Tuesday evening" July
18th, 1904, at 7:30 o'clock; namely:
i. Under the organic act, can a
county board of supervisors be elected
by the voters?
2. If the organic act prohibit cleo
ton, shall a county act be drawn pro-
viding for the election of supervisors
by the voters, and be submitted to
Congress for ratification?
g. Shall a. county act be drawn car
rying the governors right to appoint,
and Congress be requested to amend
the organic act so that the voters may
elect county boards?
4. Shall we base our county system
permanently on the right of the Gov
ernor to appoint all county boards?
5. Shall the county act provide for
county control of education, health,
and roads, bridges and wharves?
w. r. Castle, j. G. Pratt, j. J. Dunno,
J. NJ. Poepoe. w. H. Smith, D. H. Case,
J. D. Willard, F. J. Lowrey, A. V. Gear,
Lorrin Thurston, and Harry Armitage;
and the following gentlemen, who We're
elected District Attorneys of their
respective Counties, namely: W. T.
Rawlins, J. U. Smith, Guy F. May
dwell, John Richardson, and S. K.
Kaeo
Messrs. Watson and Beckley op-
posed the portion of the resolution spe-
cially naming persons to be invited to
address the Commission, on the
grounds that there were many per-
sons not named in the resolution who
are interested in County Government
and might be offended if an invitation
was extended to others and not to
themselves. AS finally amended and
passed the names We're left out and all
citizens We're generally invited with
the understanding that each member
of the Commission could invite anyone
he wished to address the Commission.
The meeting then adjourned.