The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-01-22
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make just such an exchange for .
year. OF course. il didn Z take tho
first piece of property with that in
tention, but it took it thinking that
possibly some time it might need IL
and never has needed it, and | think
the department forgot it had it for a
long time, but still that shows the pos
sibility. If we are going to spend a
lot of money on public improvements
on land, we ought to own the land
Then if the Federal Government wants
a piece of land, it can take some other
piece or pay us for what we have i'm
proved. 1t means to do the right thing
by us, as we mean to do the right
I thing by it, but at the same time, diff
ferences may arise rs to what is the
right thing.
Another question arises here. and
that is whether, after all, it is best
TO have this property turned over IA
the Territory. Some conservative peo.
pie may very well say: ''why, if you
turn this property over to the Terri.
tory the first thing you know the
Territory will turn it over to the
county, and perhaps that isn't desira.
BILE. Shall we permit them to turn
the Honolulu Water Works over to the
county, and so on. To meet that oh.
lection, double check is provided,
The concurrence of both the Governor
and the Legislature is required. 1t
might be wordcd a little differently,
perhaps, but that is the idea. 1t may
be said that the Governor is grasping
for power, but the idea was to word
it so MS to meet all objections as far
as possible. Some people want to go
too far in one direction and some don I
want to 80 far enough; / was trying
to steer through the golden mean. On
this question of property, the Legisla-
ture at its last session passed n con.
current resolution recommending some
such provision as this. and bill was
introduced a year ago in Congress, to
carry out this general purpose, by the
Delegate.
Salaries.
Section 10 amends Section % in re.
gard to salaries. This section was in.
troduced as n separate bill year ago
in pursuance of resolutions of the
Chamber of Commerce and the Bar AS.
socation and was included here A. the
suggestion of the Delegate and Mr.. Me
Clellan, because it was thought best to
consolidate and not have too many sep.
arate bills.
My own salary is involved in this
and naturally don't care to say much
about it, as | told the committee, but
they asked me to go ahead and say
something about it; but / can say
word for the Secretary, if he doesn't
object. | think it is shame that the
Secretary, who is Acting Governor
good part of the time and who, even
when the Governor is here is one of the
hardest-worked officials in the Terri
tory, should receive only $4,000 a year.
In Porto Rico they have a secretary and
assistant. The secretary gets $4,000 and
the assistant $500. / want to say
word in regard to the judges, too. If
this bill doesn u go through, we stand a
pretty good chance of losing a number
of our good judges of the Supreme and
Circuit courts in the very near future,
which ! regret very much and | hope
it may not be the case, but there is
grave danger of it. There is a general
on the mainland at the pres.
ent time to increase the salaries of
judges generally.
Health and Sanitation.
Section i amends Section 81 of the
Organic Act. That section is the one
which distributes the health authority
between the Federal and Territorial
governments by giving to the Federal
government quarantine matters and to
the local government internal health
The amendment provides that
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may be necessary, not exceeding $685. 900,
which shall be at the disposal of the
governor here, to be used for health
particularly in the case of
and through either the Fed.
eral or the Territorial health officials,
as the occasion may require. Thereis
an emergency fund under the Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service OF
the Federal government. They are ask.
ing for an increase from 100000 to
100000. We have thus far never been
able to get cent of it, and none of it
IAN be used until an epidemic actually
breaks out. We ought to have n fund
lcre to prevent epidemics. Prevention
is better than cure You know how
hard up this government is for money,
since the customs revenues have been
turned INTO the Federal government.
You know how the government in health
matters has had to call upon the wharf
of Honolulu and Hilo and
even then there has not been sufficient.
lust at present there are very pressing
needs in the matter of infectious dis
'ases. Now, the question is whether the
Federal government couldn u be asked
% help out to some extent in internai
lealth matters and for these reasons,
Imong others, not merely because we
re short of money, but because the
federal government is particularly in
crested in maintaining good internal
calth conditions, and especially now
hat ii is going to have so many men
tationed here of the army and navy.
The very presence of those men win 4
equire greater expenditures upon the
art of the Territorial government, and
seems only right that since the pur-
oses of the Federal government require
hese increased expenditures. the Fed
raj government should help pay for
hem. Then, again. Hawaii is in a very
ocular position, being here, as | told
he committee, practically the filter for