The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-05-19

The salaries bill Is. B>No. 2) at last
is fairly before the House of Repre-
sentatives and the fate that it is to
meet will be watched with a good deal
of interest by great many people.
The bill when it came to the House, as
it will be remembered, was submitted
to special committee of seven and
that committee reported yesterday
afternoon shortly after the House re-
sumed its session at 3 O'Clock.
SOME BIG INCREASES.
The report was lengthy one, as it
was reproduction of the bill in its
entirety, as already published, with a
number of changes. The total amount
of salaries was increased from 81, $780,
$50 to $1,525,3S3. The most important
increases are in the pay of road en-
gineers, craftsmen, inspectors and
chairmen for the Public Works Depart
ment, from $4,000 to $4,000, and of
the payroll of school teachers from
$530,000 to 100000.
The bill passed second reading and
the fight on items will come up on third
reading.
CUTS MAUI'S CLAIM OUT.
The joint conference committee on
the unpaid bills bill SENATE Bill No.
81 submitted its report.
The items dealt with were as follows:
Roads and bridges, Puma, John Moore
$45. Stricken out.
Reimbursement Kohala Sugar Co., re-
pairing Honokane road $1l26.20. Strick-
en- out.
To pay American Hawaiian Engineer
ing and Construction Co., Ltd, $4267.
Reduced to $500.
Road damages, Hama, w. X. Keoho
claim, 800. Reduced to $50.40.
Road damages, Waikiki, $500
Stricken out.
Road damages, Kauai; Hawaiian
road board, 800. Stricken out.
Road damages, Kona, Kaopumoana
claim, $500, reduced to 800. Kama
halo claim, 1915, reduced to $75. Mai
ole claim, $157, stricken out.
Expenses of county government,
Maui, in 1904, all stricken out. Com
menting on this the committees re-
port says:
"These items were inserted to cover
expenses of county government on
Maui, in view of the fact that county
government viii be in force on and
after July !, 1905, it will be better to
leave the payment of the items to the
counties rather than burden the Ter
ritory with any further expense at tn,
present time
Incidentals, Hilo Electric Light Com.
pany, $1,000. Stricken out.
Total of $23,627.22 reduced to $1s,'
364.19.
The report was adopted and the bill
passed third reading.
Senate Bill No. 8, for the appropria'
ton of $4,000 for the Attorney Gen.
erals Department, to be applied to the
payment of expenses of witnesses in
criminal cases, passed third reading
WANT MOSQUITO KILLERS.
The Health Committee submitted a
report on tie message of Governor
Garter recommending the introduction
of a certain small fish of the "stickle
back" variety from Mexico for the
purpose of destroying the larvae OF
mosquitoes. The committee stated that
it had carefully enquired into the mat
ter and found that there was no feaI
of the fish eating the spawn of such
fish as the opae. 1t recommended the
insertion of an item Of $500 to bring
the fish here.
THE ELEU'S REPAIRS.
The conference committee on the de
ficiency bill reported in favor of it,
passage with amendments.
The amendments reduced the tota
from $44,990.11 to $44,605.11.
The following items were dealt with
To reimburse p. N. Kahahuohuna
$3.50. Stricken out.
To repair Molokai Settlement tele
phone system, 500. Reduced to $50
To reimburse Alexander Lindsay, Jr
for salary, $lS5. Stricken out.
The report was thus identical with
that submitted by the former confer.
ence committee with the exception that
the sum for repairs to the tug Eleu
was left in the bill instead of being
stricken out
The Honse adopted the report and
passed the third reading Of the bill.
THAT POI MACHINE.
President Pinkham of the Board Of
Health wrote a letter pointing out the
necessity for an appropriation for a
poi machine at the Settlement and it
was read to the House of Representa-.
tives yesterday morning. He stated
that during the past few months over
$1,000 worth of paiai had been spoiled
either in transit or owing to the i'm
possibility of landing freight on ac-
count of bad weather. The installation
of q machine would stop any such
losses and the Board would then pur-