The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-04
FIXING PAY
OF LABOR
Senate in Favor of IT,
Other Legislative
Business.
sENATE-NINTH DAY.

cepting the thirty thousand federal ez
pense dollars that impelled Presiden
Bishop to say it was "like swallow
ing a dose of castor oil or whethe
he was expressing, what he believed
to be, the experience of the opponent
of the resolution is not known but tn,
fact remains: There is sore spo
on the Senatorial body.
In the past, when the expense O.
the session of the Legislature was pait
from the pockets of the local tax
payers, there was no special care takeI
as to the amount of economy to BIZ
exercised. Now, it is said, there viii
be a difference, for it is not the wisf
of the Hawaiian legislators to have
Congress intimate at any time in the
future that they were extravagant dur.
ing the 1907 session. And as al
of the money has to be accounted for,
with bona fide vouchers. there is to be
an effort made to keep out OF the
list anything bordering On wilful ex-
travagance or luxnries.
One item of expense that has already
caught the eye of those members who
would make good record, is the print
ing Of bills that are frequently in
troduced as policy measures, for the
purpose of making good campaign
pledges. The introducers of such bills
have no idea they will pass bu. on
the contrary are morally certain their
death viii occur after they have left
the Printing committee This opinion
is strong enough, in some of the mem
bers, with a leaning toward con-
servatism, to warrant the belief that
there will be change of the rules
guiding the conduct of bills In the Sem
ate. The desire is to have all of them
go first to a committee, to be passed
upon, then, when reported back, go
before the Senate for action. 1T is
not until a bill has been reported upon
favorably that the members have any
particular concern in it nor any use
for a printed copy.
Another matter relates to clerk hire.
The stenographer of the House receives
ten dollars day for his services, which
is not whit too much, if he transeribes
his notes free of charge. On top of
this he is to get, it is said, ten dollars
nittees. IF this be true he will be
winner of, approximately, thirty dol
lars, some say forty odd, day, which
is easily twice the pay of the Governor
and three times the pay of the genial
A member of the lower
house said on Saturday that it was
too much to give one man when there
are so many other capable men look
ing for employment, so that aside from
The tremendous expense there seems to
be an apparent objection to the I'M
Just distribution of the biennial plums
In the Illinois Legislature such posi-
tions carry five dollars per day and
40 extras.
These were subjects for buttonhole
on Saturday which may
develop into bones to pick over before
The end of the week.
Saturday was short day and con-
sequently the Senators contented them
selves with the introduction, rather
han the passage. of bills. Those men
toned for the first time were:
BY Senator Lane, an act providing
Tor the appointment of tax collectors
md assessors, by the Governor, with
he consent of the Senate. At present
he appointment of these officials is
made by the Treasurer by and with
he consent of the Governor.
By Senator Hewitt, an act providing
Tor the exemption from taxes for five
years from January l, 1908, of all
ands used in the cultivation and pro
luction of sisal fiber, castor oil, vanilla
extract, Hawaiian starch and manioca
starch.
By Senator Lane, an act incorporat
ng the City and County of Honolulu.
This has no relation to any other bill
bearing the same brand.
Following the reading of the journal
he clerk read a communication from
the House announcing the passage of
the amended resolution covering the
acceptance of the stringed appropria
ton.
It was this that occasioned the re-
mark by Senator Coelho that the mem
bers were being held up and that the
string was tied to the resolution in
order to make the Legislature availa-
BILE only to those with money.
With the passage of the bill came
a motion from Senator Brown, guardian
of school interests on Hawaii, that a
recess of five minutes be taken in or
der that the clerk might have time
to get the resolution to the Governor.
There is q suspicion that the Sphinx
of the Senate he