The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-29
BOARD MIDDLE
is GETTING
WORSE
(FrOm Thursdays Advertiser,


The Honorables, the Mayor and the
Board of Supervisors of the City and
County of Honolulu maundered on in
their inane course last night for
couple of hours, the session being not
even amusing. No step was taken to
advance the matter of the ultimate
payment of any one of the factions
in the city employment, but good care
was taken to have the Board adjourn
to date before the end Of the month
so that the Supervisors themselves can
draw down their stipends.
On par with the other great re.
suits of the concIa~e was the confirma.
tion of the nomination of Willie Craw-
| ford to n position in the office of the
City Attorney, the clerk for giving him
place at the public trough being
labeled messenger.
Throughout the meeting the Mayor
declined to put alternate questions
and Logan went through his motions,
presenting the resolutions and other
matters which had been carefully type
written out, by someone who could
shape coherent sentence, and passed
around among the members. The meet
ing was as edifying as q blank bill
board, as amusing as a second-class
funeral and as important in result ac.
complished as the meetings of this
Board usually are.
The whole thing has ceased to be
joke.
When the hour of converting arrived,
there were at the council table only
the Mayor, his secretary and Super
visor Mcclellan. The rest of the
Board, including the City Clerk, were
in the office of the City Attorneys
office being primed for their part in
the general business of qualification.
They filed in in tow of Deputy City
Attorney Milverton after His Honor
and the minority had sat through a
solemn five minutes waiting. The
minutes told that this was the seven.
tenth meeting since January
Payrolls and salary demands were put
in by four committees, representing all
the branches of the municipal service
and totalling $S119.07.
The Mayor refused to put the mo-
tions that the committee reports be
airy and three times on each formally,
making sixteen refusals and twelve
demands. Each report was followed by
an order to the Auditor to pay the
sums voted, bringing the refusals up
to thirty-two and the respectful de-
mands" of Logan up to two dozen.
At every preliminary refusal His Honor
announced that he was not blocking
ha cr,,r of oh 4 ,,aI
being promptly met by the statement
that he was, Logan, Aylett and Kane
being the spokesman. "You are block
ing business,' said the last named.
cit is my intention that you are. -
The Mayor complained that he knew
nothing of what was going on prior to
the presentation of reports at the meet
ing, contrasting this state of affairs
with what prevailed in the days of
Hustace, who kept his finger on the
treasury pulse at all times. Aylett re-
minded the Mayor that it was his own
fault because he had never asked any
of the committee to confer with him.
The facts are that the Mayor will not
recognize any of the committees and
none of the committeeman will SO de-
mean themselves as to go to the Mayor
as supervisors. Ihey VIII appear as
members of standing committees or not
at all.
. Finally the payrolls and salary de.
mands were worried through the maze
of refusals to put and respectful de-
mands.
Cathcart's New Assistant.
The announcement of the formal rec
ignition of the claims of Willie Craw-
ford upon the criminal prosecuting end
of the municipal government came in
letter from the County Attorney, in
part as follows:
81 beg to inform you that under the
power given me by the charter, have
appointed W. H. Crawford, as messenger
in the office of the City and County
ANGEVES II