The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-11-08

salary warrants Tor the last halt OF the !
month, with scarcely a hitch, the meet |
ing of the Board of Supervisors last |
night ended in a hopeless wrangle over |
the estimates for the present month. |
The various estimates for the various
departments were in some instances,
higher than those of the past month and
when Supervisor Jack Lucas asked for
$4,000 for the road work i'm Honolulu
Adams who was in charge of forming
the estimates, raised a roar of protest
and declared that if such an amount
was insisted upon it would be impos-
sible for the county to give the help
the middle of the month pay day. Jack
Lucas insisted however that there was
plenty of money in sight. According
to Lucas, the county would have for
November from $4,000 to $4,000. e.
r. Adams declared however, that this
was only conjecture as there was only
$35, 900 due from the Territory, that
could be depended upon with certainty.
Lucas said that he had understood from
Supervisor Moore that the county would
receive from the Territory for Novem-
Der SAL 900 and asked Moore regarding
this matter.
Moore said that he had understood
Territorial Auditor Fisher to make such
statement the other morning on the
train, but added that while he felt posi-
tive that such a statement had been
made to him he would prefer to have
the auditor interviewed again on the
subject Adams tried to persuade
Lucas to consent to accept $4,000 for
the month but Lucas stated that his
department had spent $4,000 already
this month. Lucas declared that if
they wanted to try and run the depart
ment on any such small sum they could
get somebody else to do it for he would
quit.
Adams was trying to hold the esti-
mates down, in order to guarantee the
midmonthly payment of the help and
Archer who had originally demanded
81, 500 for the Eva and Waianae Road
districts agreed to accept a cut to
81, 900 and later to $500, if other dis
tricts were cut. This concession did
not causce a stampede of economy how
ever and the matter was finally post
poned until Thursday night upon mo-
ton of Moore who introduced "a resolu-
ton to the effect that the committee of
ways and means be- directed to inter-
view the territorial auditor and as
crtain exactly how much money the
county would receive from the Terri
tory. This motion prevailed and the
board stood adjourned.
Following the meeting of the board
of supervisors the chair called the
board together again and directed
Road Supervisor Sam Johnson to shut
down on the work in Honolulu for two
days until the exact condition and pros
poets can be ascertained by the COM
mittee on ways and means.
Previous to the wrangle over the es-
Inmates the various members quickly
came to an agreement regarding prac-
tically all of the other estimates for
the various departments as follows for
the expenses during the month of No
vember police SS,165; fire department
$4,55O electric light $1623; garbage ST.
$50; band 81 $50; police and fire alarm
system $275; keepers of parks 5000;
pound master $50; rent of county offices
500; house numbering 5000; Eva and
Waianae road district 81 500; Waialua
49, 900; KOolaupoko district $1,000; Koo-
lauloa $500; Waianae road $500; Palu'
kea road $1,000; county clerks Office
$195; county auditor 500; county trea-
surer 500; county attorney $500; fixed
salaries $1,679; Kapiolani Park $780,
county clerks expenses $3.50; cpditor's
expenses $25; county attorneys eX-
penses 500; treasurer's expenses $25.
1t was when Lucas was asked for his
estimates for the road department in
Honolulu that the hitch came. Archer
intimated that there was a combination
among four of the members evidently
himself, Cox ,Paele and Moore, to vote
their demands through. The appro-
priations up to this point had totalled
| $23,94O and if Lucas was granted the
$4,000 which he first demanded or
the 81, 900 which it was later suggested,
it would have eaten into the balance of
about $4,000 with which it was pro-
posed to meet the mid-monthly pay
day. The wrangling was finally stop
ped by Moore's resolution.
The warrants for the month of Oc-
tober were the first business taken up
! by the board at the meeting last night.
The salaries passed last night aggre-
gated $18,793.16 which together with the
maintenance demands for the entire
month and the salaries for the first
half of the month, already passed
brought the grand total of cost of the
county for October up to $42, 15O.41
The bond of Treasurer Trent was in
! creased, at his request from $4,000 to
$50 900. Sam Kawakoa the road sup
| ervisor Of the Kakukea road stated that
he expected to have the fencing COM
pleted in about two weeks. Lucas
called attention to the condition of Pa
kukea road and the necessity for inn
proving it. In the discussion of the
Kapiolani Park warrant Archer said
that he was opposed to giving them any
thing if the commission employed Jap
| anese. Chairman Smith said that it
was in the power of the committee on
parks to request the commission not to
employ any but citizen labor. The
reports of the auditor sheriff, county
treasurer and road supervisor were pre-
scented and those of the auditor and