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

ing legislation.
SOME REPORTS.
| Senator Smith reported on Senate
Bill II, relating to salaries of the
county officers as follows:
The sole object sought to be OBJ
tanned by this bill is expressed in Sec
ton /, as follows: ''To fix the sal
aries of all county officers, not here
in otherwise provided for, provided,
however, no appointive officer shall re
ceive more pay than the salary paid
or allowed to the treasurer of the coun
ty where such officer is appointed. y
We can not recommend the passage
of this bill and therefore recommend
that it be laid upon the table.
From the special county committee
he reported on Senate BIZ "A, relating
to the appointment of deputy county
attorneys as follows:
1.-THE bill provides that the County
Attorney of the County of Oahu may
appoint and remove two deputies, who
shall be authorized to do and per-
form any act required by law to be
done by said county attorney The
bill also provides that a salary of $4,000
year be paid to each of said deputies.
The bill for the Incorporating of the
City and County of Honolulu is pend
ing before the Senate, and in that bill
the matter of the attorney and his
deputies is fully provided for; and if
that bill becomes law the bill under
consideration will not be needed. We
therefore recommend that Bill No. "A
be laid upon the table to await the
action taken on the City and County
bill.''
Senate Bill IS, relating to the salary
of the county attorney, had been re-
ferred to the same committee and was
reported upon by Senator Smith as
under:
1.-The sole purpose of the bill is to
provide for increasing the salary Of the
County Attorney of the County Of
Oahu from $24oO a year to $500 a
year. We recommend that this bill be
laid upon the table to be considered
with the appropriation BILL
Senator Coelho said there is no ap-
preparation bill before the Senate for
salaries of county officers and moved
that the bill be laid on the table to be
CO.. In ;Df~ LII
Senator Smith, from the special COM
mittee on counties, reported on House
Bill % as follows:
The provisions of this bill are all
contained in section 1, which reads, All
county employees doing manual labor
in the Territory of Hawaii shall be
paid their wages on the last day of
each week. and while we believe that
it is a good plan that those who de-
pend upon their daily earning should
be paid each week, it seems inexpe-
dent to enact a law of this kind and
require that all such wages shall be
paid on Saturday of each week. 1t
may be impracticable in some cases to
carry out the requirements, and more
over the power to employ, discharge
and pay employees is given to the
Board of Supervisors and the matter
of the times of payment should be left
for them to decide"
The report was laid on the table to
be considered with the bill.
Senator Makekau, under permission
of the Chair, amended the title of the
h he int CO.. yrr law roIa r
ing to trusts.
SALARY APPROPRIATION BILL.
When this was called up Senator
Dowsett moved that it be considered
section by section and wanted to go
back to items passed last week. Sena-
tor Makekau questioned the legality of
any action tending toward going back
to those passed on first reading, of
which there is a number. Nothing
could be done now beyond considering
the recommendations of the Ways and
Means committee. If changes are to
be made they must come on third read
ing. The correctness of the argument
was recognized by everyone and the
Senator's objections carried against
the motion of Senator Dowsett.
The first item to meet objections was
rian of the archives, whose salary in
the past had been just half that
amount. Senator Mccarthy and Sena-
| tor Dowsett defended the appropria-
| ton. They said it was necessary to
! have a man of intelligence in the posi-
| ton. That the incumbent had
saved to the Government in one sin
gle instance the sum of twenty-seven
| thousand dollars. The item passed.
The next snag was the appropriation
| of $500 per month for a superintendent
| of the Board of immigration. Senator
Mccarthy in supporting the item said
it was the intention of the Governor to
appoint a man to the place who would
| have the ability to direct the matter
| of laborers and settlers. The man
| who would be suited to the place
would command twice the salary and
the planters would be called upon to
| pay the balance. He would be per-
son who would aid in influencing
homeseekers to come here and who
would assist in AmericaniZing Hawaii
| Senator Smith said the position was
one that contemplated more than the
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