The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-12
STANDARD
OIL BILL
DoWsett Presents Able
Report---Teachers'
Salaries.
SENATE-SIxTEENTH DAY.

Senator CoelhO has taken an inter
est in the public schools of the Ter
ritory in way that seems to have
Maui News, who evidently favors the
system now in use. The genial Sen
ator is not to be disturbed by the at
tack, however, and he proposes to go
ahead, doing the best he can to help
the schools away from the shadow of
the building where the Board of Edu-
time redeem the pledge he made to the
voters during the campaign. The Sen
at0r Is not an enemy to the schools
or the teachers any more than is one
Senator who opposes the pay schedule
arranged on the ground that term of
service should not be factor in the
salary making. This Senator is of the
opinion that ladies fresh from a uni
versity, with the right kind of GER
tifcate and a modicum of common
sense, are as much entitled to a high
salary as those who have wrestled with
the peculiarities of youngsters so many
years that they have become fussy old
maids And the Senator is not alone
in this opinion.
The Education bill will be called up
in the Senate as soon as the Ways and
Means committee, upon which two of
hp oil
are engaged, reports on the Appropria-
tion bill Some of the Education COM
mittee favor putting the salaries back
to the point where they were before
the twenty per cent. cut and abandon
the idea of a further increase. In
cases where the teachers have had an
increase of ten per cent. since the cut
was made they are to get another IN
crease Of like amount, so they may
be just where they were before the
spirit of economy took such slide.
Some of the members are said to be
willing to have the salaries remain
as they are unless there is assurance
given that there will be an improve
ment. Their right to this opinion IS
based, they say, on the fact that
majority of the children of Govern
ment officials, including those of the
members of the Board of Education,
are pupils in private schools.
One of the best committee reports
so far turned out in the Senate was
that submitted by Senator Dowsett
Yesterday from the Ways and Means
committee on the Standard Oil meas
ure. The bill was introduced by Sen
ator ChilIingworth and is so-called be-
cause it provides that the Standard
PEOPLE shall build a five thousand dol |
lar storehouse and pay the Govern
ment nothing for storage. The blH is
not worded just that way but that is
what it means, for there are few hrms
in Honolulu, certainly none OF the |
small dealers. who can afford to put up |
4 building worth so much money ana
alnder the conditions prescribed py the
Standard Oil Company who had the
bill prepared. The introducer OF the
hill has stuck to it like brother
and Yesterday when 1t was calied Tor
third reading after the committee hao
reported adversely, he moved post
nopement until , o'clock tomorrow.
The reason for this is sald to De
combination on the part OF the com
panies with a plan for joining IN the
erection of a building. Senator DO"
sett suggests that the three companies
Standard Oil CO., the Associated VII
COMPANIES and the Union on Co., com
bine and build warehouse subJect
to the approval of the superintendent
IF Public Works, and rent 1t 10 Tue
Government at a fair prlce, the pres
mt storage system to continue lhefe
8 no doubt about the present build
ngs being unsuitable. Complaints are
made regarding them hu'
Senator Dowsctt is wrong to limit the
,yVnership of the building to three +
companies. That might prevent any
f the dozen others operating III Gan {
ornia from coming into this hei". 1t
5 understood that the Standard an"
he Associated are one and the same 5
he only Independent company being l
he Union.
The adjournment of the House at
n early hour yesterday morning car !
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led with it a rumor that is not ered't-
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