The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-28
NOBODY KNOWS
WHAT IS BEING DONE

Auditor Bicknell and his assistants
were busy yesterday getting out the
salary and pay warrants authorized by
the Board of Supervisors, countersigned
by the Mayor, Q. <. d by the City
Attorney, signed and delivered by the
City Clerk and passed up to him. He
is getting the warrants ready, but that
is no sign that he is going to sign
them or issue them. He simply wants
to have them on hand, along with but
separated from the ones authorized last
night and the ones that will be author
lied again at the middle of next month,
and SO on until someone gets the matter
before the courts and there is decision
rendered. Around the city Offices no
one knows when anyone is going to be
paid and no one in a position to give
an opinion will
81 lost eleven fifty three years ago
by paying an unlawful warrant said
the Auditor yesterday afternoon, and
I tried to get the Supervisors to make
it up for me, but they wouldn't. /
haven forgotten that eleven fifty and
| don t intend to have any more of my
money follow it,
eff demand for one Of these war
rants is made, you will refuse it theng''
he was asked.
Il don It know. I have someone
looking that up for me- said the
| cautious official.
Well, who viii have to take this
into court, if it gets there?''
g | don t know
"If one Of the city employees brings
a suit, who viii pay his expenses in the
| mattera VIII the City Attorney be for
him or against him, or either?"
~ don t know
Hash t anyone found some way TO
do something towards paying the men
who are working?''
- I don't know
We'll, what is the public getting out
of this city government that they
! didn't have under the county govern
ment, anyhow, besides a Mayor?''
Il don t know. All | recolleet now
is that I saw the last of eleven fifty
| three years ago.
The state of mind of the Auditor
yesterday was very much the same as
that of the other city officials. They
were all in the - don't know frame
| of mind.
The Mayor confessed that he didn 4
| know, lit Is up TO the Auditor and
the members of the Board" he said
although # you ask them they viii
| probably say that it is up to me. j."
The Mayor was busy experimenting
the hanging of enlarged photographs Of
the members of the last County Board
Of Supervisors, which are to decorate
the outer room of his office suite. II
his sanetum he has a large portrait OF
himself, set in a background of fern:
of the maidenhair variety, the wall:
OF the inner room being otherwise IN
garnished.
| The City Clerk professed the deepes
| ignorance of the status of the situation
Even the secretary Of the Mayor was
unable to see any short cuts to TIT
money bags.
I The fixed salaries. those Of the Mayor
J and Supervisors. the elected officers anG
those mentioned in the law. such a
the secretary Of the Mayor. viii all b.
paid promptly at the end of the month
Under these circumstances, possibly
there Is no particular reason for thu
powers to worry about hurrying up thu
other matter of the pay of the appoint
ed employees.
In the meanwhile Johnny Wilson ant
his crew are still holding down VIVA
they think are Jobs and viii press along
with the throng for their divvy out 0.
| the public purse.