The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-29

! ganic Act the clause presenting a sub
| stitute land law. The other clause:
! dealing with the present land laws
one repeating them in toto, were lef
| in the bill
Douthitt, Kaleiopu and Castro were
| named TO point out the inconsistencie;
| in their action for the Senate.
Appropriation vetoes.
| A message from the Governor, bring
ing down the result of the matches
work Of the past forty-eight hours or
the appropriation bill was received
| the House coming to order out of a
recess TO receive il.
The Governors message was as fol
lows:
To the Legislature:
1 herewith return House Bill No
| "A, entitled AN act making appropri
ations for current expenses for the
biennial period ending June 80, 1911, -
which 1 have approved with the excep.
ton of the following items, which ]
do not approve and hereby veto:
Attorney Generals Department
High Sheriff, Prisons: Deputy High
Sheriff and clerk (S1G0D, s2400.
Treasury Department
Bookkeeper. deputy insurance COM
missioner {s175), $4,000.
Bureau of Taxes: Third Taxati
Division, Hawaii-Clerk and interpr.-
ter $500, s1440.
Public Works, Public Lands and Sur
vey-
Landings and Wharves: Landings
and concrete walls. Mahukona, Ha-
wall, provided, however. that no such
money shall be expended unless said
landing is constructed on government
land, $4,000: new landing and ware
house, Hanalei, Kauai, $4,000.
Board of Health
Hospitals: Queens Hospital, s24,-
GOO; Malulani Hospital, Maui (for pc
Rod ending December 81, 1909), s2S75;
Hilo Hospital, Hawaii (for pediod end
ing December 81, 1900, $2s75.
The Courts
Circuit Courts: First Circuit Court
and Land Court-Three clerks to as
sist in the courtroom and clerks Of
Assistant clerk, messenger and in
terpfeter (SIUU1, Sz4OU.
While the Legislature has endeavor-
ed with a commendable business-lika
spirit to bring the appropriations
within the revenues and by various
enactments to place the Territory ami
the counties, singly and in relation to
each other, upon sound financial
basis, it has been found impossible
to do all. in the direction that either
your honorable body or the admins
tration desires. Financial safety and
stability seem to require that the
amount appropriated in the bill in
question should be reduced to an APP
preciable extent-at least, in order 10
Justify turning over to the counties
considerable additional revenue. 1t is
difficult to determine which items may
best be dispensed with, and 1 have
concluded to veto those mentioned
only after most careful consideration,
and in some cases with great regret
that financial conditions oblige me to
take this step.
Duties Are Less.
The item for the salary of the dep
uty high sheriff and clerk may well
be omitted on its own merits as be-
ing unnecessary now that the duties
of the High Sheriff have been greatly
reduced by the transfer of jails and
prisoners in the care OF
the counties, and in view of the pro-
posed policy of relieving him for the
most part of the duty of serving
process for the courts by leaving that
duty to the county sheriffs, where it
more properly belongs.
In the Treasury Department. the
item of the salary of the bookkeeper
and deputy insurance commissioner is
the only one that can safely be dis
pensed with under the wording of the
bill.
Under the Bureau of Taxes, Third
Taxation Division, there is no occasion
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.
Refers to Loan Bill.
Under the Public Works Department,
the items for landings at Mahukona
and Hanalei are somewhat exceptional
in this appropriation bill and might bet
ter, in view of the financial 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 selecting these two places
in particular. Other equally or more
important items remain unprovlded for
the failure of the loan bill.
Under the Board of Health, the policy |
has been adopted by the Legislature
of turning over hospitals to the coun-
ties and there appears to be no sufficient
reason why the hospitals at Waikiki
and HiIo should not be so turned over
at the beginning of the period as well
as six months later. There will be |
ample time to make the necessary ar
Much can be said against the dis |
pensing with the item for the Queens |
hospital, and it is with great reluc
tance that / veto this; but if the |
Territorial expenditures are to be kept |
within the revenue, it is necessary to
omit some items and this is one of those
which may most appropriately be, omit
ted-not, indeed, with the idea that
that hospital should cease receiving
government aid, but with the idea that
the City and County of Honolulu should
furnish such aid. The additional reve-
nue. which that city and county will
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