The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-26

BY this time senator smith discover
ed the merit in the motion by Senator
Hewitt and seconded it.
Senator Hewitt said he objected TO
striking out the pay of the clerk and
stenographer. If the sum is to be in
creased over the present allowance he
wanted those salaries to be included
in it.
| Senator Dowsett said the system in
| the superintendent office is not COR
rectly carried on and that expenses of
some of the work charged to loan ac-
| count should have been charged to SAL
airy account.
Senator Lane observed that the Sem
ators seemed to be getting mixed and
moved TO defer until Thursday but was
opposed by Senator Hewitt who wanted
the matter threshed out at the time.
Senator Lane then moved that the
item pass as in the bill. The motion
was lost. Senator Hewitt moved that
| the report of the committee as to s12,-
900 be adopted, the sum to carry with
| it the pay of architect, clerk and stem
| ographer. Carried.
| The salary of the Superintendent Of
| the Hilo waterworks was boosted by
| Senator Brown from SIS to 1925 per
month and he was given a clerk at $40
| a month. The superintendent of the
Lahafna system was advanced on mo-
| ton of Senator Hayselden to SS5 a
month.
| At noon a recess was taken until two
| in the afternoon.
Afternoon Session.
There was lot of wrangling over the
/ pay of the pilot at Hilo, Senator Brown
asking that the pay be increased to
$500 month on account of the volume
of work and the responsibility of the
position. Senator Smith knocked out
the volume of work by reference to the
| report of the Superintendent of Public
Works. 1t passed at $3.50. Kahului
pilot was down for 5000 but on motion
Of Senator Lane was settled at s175.
| Pilot boy at Hilo was raised from
$32.50 to $500 month.
There was rather a warm argument
over the items in the Lands Depart
ment and Senator Makekau said he
would have the consideration of them
deferred until Thursday regardless of
the fact that such action might make
/ an extra session necessary. He did
certain measures affecting county gov
eminent were acted upon. When that
was done they would know how much
money would be needed His motion
to defer was lost.
He then moved to reduce the salary
of the Commissioner of Public Lands
and Brown followed suit, but the mo-
ton was lost after a rather lively
debate, Senator Smith remarking that
he had heard a number Of complaints
as to the administration of affairs in
the Land Office, but the Senators
should consider the office and not the
man in making the appropriation for
the salary. The item was passed as
| in the bill.
The pay of Portuguese interpreter
in the Judiciary department was new
item inserted. The pay will be $S5 a
| month.
Senator Makekau made a good talk
about the appropriations for the dep
uty clerk of the Third Circuit and had
the pay raised to 500. In this he had
the warm support of Senator Brown.
In the matter of deputies to the Attor-
ney Generals department there was a
hard fight. The salary of the first
deputy was increased to $3.50 and
third struck out.
Senator Makekau made a splendid
effort to support Brown and referred
| to the fact that there are deputies IN
each of the counties who are expected
to do the work. He did not think the
| work now is as hard as it was when
Senator Smith was in office. The mo-
ton to strike out was lost and that
| referring to the clerk to the Attorney
General, $3.50, carried.
SCHOOL SALARIES.
| There was a great debate on the
matter of education. This time it was
| Senator Dowsett who became a chang
| ed man. The salary of Superintendent
Rabbit was fixed in the bill at $500
and an effort was made to cut it to
$3.50, but it failed. Then came the
| item of support of teachers $1,000
This amount will allow the return to
the former salary schedule and allow
employment of new teachers. In the
| interim some teachers have been re-
| ducd in salary and their pay will be
put back to the old schedule. The ones
| who suffered by the stroke Of economy
were the young girls getting twenty
| five and thirty dollars a month and
who are expected to dress well on
that He wanted the teachers who had
stuck to their posts in spite of the
| cut of twenty per cent. to come In on
| this increase. The Senator then moved
that the sum of $706,000 be reduced to
S6O6,O and that this item is appro-
| priated upon condition that
| l. No person employed as a teacher
by the Board of Education shall re-
ceive a salary in excess of $500 per
| month.
2 No person employed as a teacher
by the Board of Education in receipt
of a salary of not less than $125 per
month shall receive an increase Of such
salary in respect of the position now
| held by him or her.
g. No person employed as a teacher
by the Board of Education shall re-
ceive a greater salary than $125 per
month in any position of teacher where
the salary of the present incumbent
does not exceed 1925 per month.
Senator Mccarthy asked if this would
Include the pay of those teachers whose
salaries had been paid from current
receipts.
Senator Smith wanted to know if this