The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-26
COUNTY WAGES UP
TO SUPREME COURT
Continued from Page One.l

sentation of an agreed statement of
facts. for all the various contentious
included in the vetoes of the Mayor
and all the incidents Of the progress
of the long fight between Mayor and
Supervisors would have to be gone in
to and the copious minutes of the
Clerk would have to be boiled down
into the statement, and then it might
be a month before the Supreme Court
would get to a decision on the vari-
GUS points involved. Besides, an agreed
statement of facts is not necessarily
a real issue and the courts are look
ing for actual cases and not hypothe-
teal arguments to determine.
An opportunity is now presented to
some good philanthropist, and perhaps
he had better also be prophet, to adj
vance money for the pay of the set
of City and County laborers he deems
the rightful claimants, otherwise, who
happens to be right or who happens
to be wrong, the laborer, though wOr-
thy of his hire win have to wait and
then perhaps not get his wage.
Meanwhile there are enough EN-
ployes engaged to run City and
County and a half, and, to all intents,
the work of the municipality is going
on apace. Unless the contest is set
tied within a week the condition OF
affairs may change and the City and
County may be without the natural
functions of road repair, garbage re-
moval and the like.
In the City and County officers in
the second story of the Mcintyre
building the telephone people are put
ting in desk phones most generously,
linking the offices so that the County
Attorney, for example, may talk with
the Mayor or his secretary the Clerk
or the Auditor, the Deputy Attorney
or the Engineer; a counter is being
| installed in the reception room of the
Attorneys office; the Mayor and his
secretary have taken unto themselves
new furniture; extra clerks are work
ing in the City and County Clerk s
Office and, II would appear everybody
has assistance except Mayors secre-
tary..
The Clerks assistants were included
in the ordinance fixing the salaries OF
deputies and assistants of elective Of
ficers, as nobody up till then had no
ticed the provisions in the charter
which made an invidious distinction
between the other officers and the
. Clerk relative to assistance.
When the approval of the Mayor
was discovered to be required for eX
ira help for the Clerk, the items were
yet retained because it was felt tina
the Mayor would probably accede t
the Clerks request for the same stat
as the County Clerk had. Confdenc,
! in this matter was encouraged by thu
fact that Mayor Fern had for tw,
, years as a member of the Board Of Su
lpervisors been acquainted with tn
size OF staff the Clerks Office carried
and it was not known that he hal
ever complained or protested tina
-, there were too many assistants there
, To hold back the ordinance to wal
the Mayors pleasure in the matter
according to the Supervisors, would b
. to give in to his tactics of blockin
the business of the Board.
: As time passed and the Mayor eithe
= neglected or refused to give his deci
sion, the Board had 10 find a way, a
. in other matters, to do what it con
sidered to be it's business. 1t there
fore passed to publication an ordir
ance appointing assistants to the Cler
under the following provision of tn
charter: SEC. 8. The Board shall
1. Appoint, when authorized to do s