The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-08-31
ONE, TWO, THREE
BUSINESS AGAIN
rrrom saturdal's Aaysrilssrl

tfrom Saturday, AdNefueefl
Mayor Porn pomisos new toun con
test 10 determine the night Of the Board
Of Supervisors to rescind all appoint
mcnts TO rccontly.crcated county offices
which we're Transferred from the Ter.
ritory under provisions Of the last
Legislature, and their claimed power
TO appoint persons to hll the same,
without reference to the Mayor. Acting
under the recently passed sanitary ord
nance Of the Board, Supervisor Aylett
last evening presented a resolution re
scinding all the appointments to the CT
fees of city aud county physician, meat
inspector, fish inspector, plumbing in
spector, two sanitary inspectors and
morgue attendant, and presented new
list of names which included several
incumbents but made changes in the
fish inspectorship aud sanitary division.
This action brought a protest from the
Mayor. who states that he was right
and the Supervisors wrong, which end
"a
Honor aud Aylett, father Of the SAM
tary ordinance.
Aylett was backed up by Deputy
County Attorney Milverton, who said
the Supervisor was absolutely correct.
lie quoted from Act lis, Session Laws
of 1909, which amends subsection ! of
the Session Laws of 1907, otherwise
the Municipal Charter Act, relating TO
the powers of the Board of Supervisors,
as follows:
81. to make and enforce
within the limits of the City and Coun-
ty of Honolulu all necessary ordinances
covering all local police matters and of
matters of sanitation and health, in
spection of buildings, condemnation OF
unsafe structures, diaries, milk, fish
| cemeteries, etc. to appoint
city and county physicians, sanitary
and other inspectors as may be neces'
sary to carry into effect ordinances
made as aforesaid, who shall have the
same power as given by law to agents
Of the Board Of Health"
The Mayor contention as to his own
rights was based on the provisions OF
section 81 of the Municipal Act Of 1907
which gives him the right to appoint al
officers of the city and county.
Aylett's resolution showed the "nig
ger in the woodpile" of the new law
as it provides an opening wedge for the
Supervisors tolget even with the Mayor
for his successful test in the courts tC
make appointments. Further than this
persons who have studied other new
ordinances declare there are NOR,
Africans concealed who will be trotteC
out at the psychological moment Il
confuse the work of the municipality
or at least to block the Mayor, wh'
declared last evening that he had beer
reminded by the Board members tina
he was but fgure.head" and with
out vote.
The Mayor was not without backing
however, among the Supervisors, 70
Mr.. Cox asked to be excused from vot
ing on the new appointments on tn
ground that he was not sure of tn
legality Of Aylett's motion. Aylett'
motion included the following list:
City and County Physician, d.
Bruce Mackall Gncumbent); Meat In
spector, DIR. w. Il. Monsarrat Gncum
bent); Fish Inspector, Lot Q. Lam
(new appointee); Assistant Fish In
spector, Albert Woodward, (new ap
pointee); Sanitary Inspectors, T. ]
Cummins NEW appointee); John Vivi
chaves (incumbent); morgue attendant
Louis X. Kane (incumbent). TIL
changes were I. p. Cummins, forme
road supervisor to take the place o
j. +. Durao as a sanitary inspector, an
Lot c. Lane as fish inspector, vice Wi.
liams.
The board rescinded the list o
Mayor IS appointees and then proceede
/, to vote on the new list. The Mayo
said he had acquiesced in his appoint
ments to the wishes of the politics
majority of the board and the boar
ought to abide by the appointment
and not throw ont even the last Demo
crat in office. He said he did not wis
to be understood as talking politic
9 but showed the members wherein h
had deferred to their wishes when h
had the full power of appointment
D Logan said he did not believe in turf
: ing n man out when he had been gi'
: ing good service.
: When the Mayor suggested that
I. test case was sure to come, Aylett SUI
I gested, in a rather hating name
n that if any blame was to follow,
= shohh Dt pun oh the III
on the board, The principal elemeI
I of dispute was over the firsh inspecto
;. ship. The Mayor declared it was
$ poor payment for services to throw
good man out for n within.
I After putting the Mackall and Mo-
sarrat appointments, Kane offered IL
g name of William Isaacs as fish inspe
!. tor and both his name and Lanes wei
| hnf H.
A putting the motion, declining to do S
a Logan got in his famous ~, 2, 8" m
tion and Lane was selected.
When the assistant inspectorshI
. came up Aylett said he knew the fl
y inspector was paying a small sum OF
= of his own salary for an assistan
:, He said that in previous years the On
nese fshmarket men had paid the sal
rles of the inspector and assistan
Then he went on TO say that there WI
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