The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-04-02
HOUSE

The total appropriation to pay teach
ers salaries for the coming biennial
period will be seven hundred and
seventy-fve thousand dollars, all that
is asked for by Chairman Long, of the
House Committee on Education, enough
to pay the teachers the three per cent.
advance all around that is now being
held back out of their monthly checks,
enough to meet the advances in salaries
called for in the teachers schedule and
siXty-nine thousand dollars more than
the Governor has asked for in >his esti-
mates.
This was the significant announce
ment made in committee of the whole
of the House yesterday afternoon by
Representative Shingle who, in COM
pany with Senator Fairchild, of the
Senate Ways and Means Committee,
has interviewed the Governor and gone
over the financial situation in view of
the proposed changes in the County and
City and County Acts.
Another announcement, interesting if
not as important to the public general.
ly, is that the proposed combination of
the Land, Survey and Public Works de-
partments is of
The Governor, after his consultation
with Fairchild and Shingle, revised his
estimates for departmental expenses
and salaries, cutting off six hundred
thousand dollars, after raising the
amount for teachers salaries some six
ty.nine thousand dollars and providing
for contingency fund of $4,000.
Fair progress was made yesterday
with the appropriation bill, especially
in view of the fact that the first even
ing meeting for the session was held
of the committee of the whole A
resolution was passed that the House
should meet every night this week il
necessary to nave the bill passed and
ready to go to the Senate the first OF
| next week.
There was little of the debate of the
day before when the question of knock
ing out the license inspectors was re
sumed, the item providing for them be
ing summarily cut from $4,000 tC
| $4,000. This was one of the incident!
of the day. Another was the passing
of the Library Of Hawaii bill, in tho
debate over which Shingle and Rice
clashed and spared back and forth lik,
tihN ihbhAhp aio'
took part in this debate, opposing
the bill because it carried no appro
| priation to translate the books of tn,
proposed library into Hawaiian. In th'
course of his remarks, the honorabl
gentleman from Kohala said that h.
neither knew nor took much stock il
anybody called Carnegie.
Vaccination Bill Approved.
The Health and Police Committe
reported favorably ON Coelho S vaccina
tion bill, recommending only that "scaI
ifcrs - be included to be used eauall
with points in the operation. Tn
manner of vaccination, as now proscrit
ed in the bill, is:
"No child shall be vaccinated excep
: after an opportunity has been give
to the parent or guardian to be presen
at such vaccination, unless such paren
or guardian shall have consented i
writing to such vaccination, and the
only by a duly licensed and authorize
physician who shall use for such vacc
nation bovine virus only, obtained frol
standard manufacturers; such vaccin;
iiou shall be only by means of scar
fer and points put up in hermeticall
sealed tubes or other antiseptic reeel
tacles; each receptacle shall be opene
, Immediately before a scariher or poiI
is to be used, in the presence of II
, nerson to be vaccipated, and no scar
. fer or point shall be used for rhe va
I. cination Of more than one person.
a Show Bill Favored.
The Finance Committee cleared up
n large number of bills and other matt,