The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-05
THE SOLONS
HAVE AN AXE
May Cut Down Some
of the Territorial
Departments.
SENATE-TENTH DAY.
Morning Session.

PASSED THIRD READING.
Senate Bill No. 36 appropriating mon
ey for departmental uses.
INTRODUCED.
Senate Bill relating to the appoint
Ynent of tax assessors in each election
district.
It looks to a layman as though the
House is getting ready to put work
in the hands of the Senate in way
that will make the members think they
would more than earn the extra two
hundred dollars which the appropria-
ton by Congress has deprived them
of. For instance:
There is to be an effort made IN the
lower house to so reduce the staff IN
the Attorney Generals Department
that it will be hardly recognized as a
portion of the Government that has
had next to first place. 1t occurs to
the Representatives that there is no
necessity for SO many deputies and Tor
that reason they hope to eliminate from
the appropriation bill any sum intend
ed for the payment of those officials.
In addition to that, it is expected they
will cut from the bill all moneys to
he appropriated for luxurious inciden-
tails.
The Senators feel differently about
the department and the bill. So diff
ferent. indeed, that there will be no
hope of a concurrence in the recon-
rnendations by the House. Down be-
low. some of the members do not real
ize the growth of business. They re-
member that during the monarchical
days there was an Attorney General
and one deputy, and messenger Who
at times, manipulated the typewriting
machine and they are of the opinion
that because there are county attor-
neys who look after much of the bus1-
ness that goes before the courts the
occasion for so much assistance in the
office of the chief is not necessary.
They say that the matters coming be-
fore the grand jury should, by rights,
be looked after by the county attor-
news so there is no call upon the de-
partment for attention to that work
And then the Department Of Public
Works is to come in for roast In the
House and very likely in the Senate
where the first move was to cut i've
hundred from the Superintendent's pay.
One member has declared that the ap-
preparation for that department should
be cut about seventy-five per cent
When he made this remark he didn't
Joint committee to the Nuuanu dam
operations did not increase the amount
of confidence the members had in the
department, or the men connected with
it. They learned that when the re-
port from Mr.. Kellogg was received the
Governor listened to the advice from
officials from the department and de-
cided to act upon it. The result was
tions as met the ideas of the head and
sub-heads would be carried out Im-
mediately after reaching this conclu-
sion he realized that it would be better
if the recommendations were adopted
in full and he so ordered.
So far the changes have cost in the
OF fifty thousand dollars
and it transpires that the suggestions
of Kellogg have not been carried ont
to the letter as the Governor ordered.
or anywhere near it and there Is moth |
ing to show where the fifty thousand /
dollars have gone. To the committee
remarked There and point |
ed to a hole in the ground. The
will find out, If possible, |
what has been done and compare notes. /
1t seems that when Mr. Kellogg pre- /
pared his report he had a certified copy
made and after sealing deposited it In /
a safe-deposit vault for reference in
the future. The committee on the dam
viii meet tonight and do things.
When the appropriation Dill was
called yesterday morning for consid-
Grafton it was decided that all items
showing an increase over the previous
session would be referred to the Ways
and Means committee. The President
ruled that that would be the course
With this rule 10 follow the
business went along as smoothly as
water on a duck until items IN the Ju-
lieiary Department were reached. Then
t appeared to Senator Smith that the
committee to handle that part of the
business was the Judiciary. Senator
oowsett objected to splitting the ap-
'ropriation bill among so many COM
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