Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-28

er and deputy insurance commission
er Is the only one that can safely be
dispensed with under the wording of
the appropriation bill.
Under the Bureau of Taxes, Third
Taxation Division, there is no occa-
sion for the separate item for the
salary OF the clerk and Interpreter.
That division may well be placed on
the same status in this respect as the
other divisions.
Under the Public Works Depart
ment, the items for landings at Ma
hukona and Hanalei are somewhat
exceptional in this appropriation bill
and might better, in view of the fin
ancial situation. have been put in
loan bill. They are less needed than
landings at some other points. There
seems to be no urgent reason for Sc
lecting these two places in particu-
lar. Other equally or more impor-
tant items remain unprovided for
through the failure of the loan bill.
Under the Board of Health. the mol.
Icy has been adopted by the legislature
OF turning over hospitals to the coun-
ties and there appears to be no SUN.
eient reason why the hospitals at Wal.
luku and Hilo should not be so turned
over at the beginning of the period as
well as six months later. There viii,
be ample time to make the necessary
arrangements.
Much can be said against dispensing
with the item for the Queens Hospital
ana IL Is with great reluctance that I
veto This; but II the Territorial expend-
lures are to be kept within the reve-
nues, 1t Is necessary to omit some
items and this Is one OF those which
may most appropriately be Omitted
not indeed with the idea that that hos.
pitai should cease receiving govern.
ment aid, but with the idea that the
CITY and County of Honolulu should
furnish such aid. The additional reye.
nue. which that city and county will
receive during the next biennial period
IN excess of what It has received dur
ing the current period will far exceed
the amount of its increased expendi.'
lures, including this item, occasioned
by laws passed at the present session
ana That city and county Is in a far
Detter financial situation to extend this
aid than is the Territory.
Under the Judiciary Department the
item which may best be dispensed with
is that Tor the salaries OF three clerks
10 assist In the court room and clerks
once In the first circuit court There
Is indeed no necessity for this item.
Althoush there is less business in that
court now than there was for some
years recently this legislature has In
the Dill now In question given that
court one additional clerk for the
clerks Office and has increased the
salaries OF three of its Interpreters
rms additional clerk and the Ave In.
terpreters' who have much spare time,
may easily render the services intend.
eu 10 be performed by these three
assistant clerks, whose duties are IN.
tended to be mainly those of baiIiffs
out II not, additional assistance NAV
ne furnished by the City and County
OF Honolulu, one of the duties of wbosa
sheriff is, by express provision in tho
CITY and County Act, to attend tbe
circuit court, '"'
The item for the salary of the As.
slstant Clerk of the Fourth Circui,
Court may also be dispensed with with
GU, GRIPPING the work of that court
The question is not what is desired
nut what Is necessary in view of the
financial conditions.