The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-12-10
APPROPRIATION
BILL DISCUSSED
Warm Meeting of Supervisors
Results in Its Passing on
First Reading.
MANY RAISES TO BE NOTED
Comfortable Boosts in Salary
Are Received by Various
City Officials.
IANY RAISES TO BE NOTED
(From Wednesdays Advertiser.)

After a genuine circus, the board of
supervisors last night passed the gen.
eral appropriation for the next six
months on the first reading and order
ed it printed. The sum total, minus
two inspectors salaries that were add.
ed afterwards, amounts to $34S,136.
Several county officers get boosts in
salaries. Much time was wasted and
trouble raised over matters that could
have been settled by word and which
as a rule had no bearing on the case.
1t is expected that there will be some
more changes in the bill at future
readings.
Aylett's Aylettism.
With three men pleading with him
to be good and behave himself and a
roomful laughing at him until the tears
ran down their faces, Supervisor Ay-
lett at meeting of the board of super.
visors last night, INDUCED in monu-
mental clownishness and delayed the
proceedings of the board thirty-three
minutes by the clock.
After the routine had been disposed
of, in which he had caused his usual
share of trouble, the first reading of
the general appropriation bill for the
six months commencing on January l.,
was taken up and he put in his very
fanciest work. The clerk was just
about to read the first item, when Ay-
lett bounced out of his seat in an
indignant manner and said he wouldn I
do it.
Solicitous Inquiries as to his health
~, hn
didn I want to vote on the bill at the
time. "'What kind of deal was
this1" asked Aylett in good faith and
bad grammar.
AS the supervisors couldn't tell him,
because they didn' know, they start
ed in to inquire. He explained
"What is this blank here fori' he
demanded. "Three times was l in the
Legislature and never saw anything like
it. ] refuse to vote on anything like
this"
The blank he referred to was the
line left in the introduction of the bill
for the total after the board had de-
cided upon the items and until the total
was made certain, could not be filed
in. Logan got up and carefully ex-
planned the causes of the omission but
Aylett let out wild yell and demand
ed that Logan be called out of order.
| Cox got up and pleaded with him,
"We're not children, we re men," he
said.
"Tee hee,' said Aylett.
Logan got up once more and resumed
his explanation. Ten minutes had
| passed by now and Logan was getting
IL Ill Ln ln.
three minutes, Aylett had stood on the
floor with his hands behind his back
saying nary a word. When Logan got
| up and commenced to talk Aylett told
him to shut up and sit down and then
wanted him ruled out of order again,
because he (Aylett) had the floor.
Kane, who had been "agin the gov
ernment" all night and for some reason
or other had started the trouble with
slight remark, moved that the bill
60 over and the supervisors hold an
other caucus over it Thursday night.
All this because the blank line had
not been filed in.
Logan, usually peaceful and mild,
suddenly branched out and began to
tell Aylett what he thought about it.
al have been sitting up nights over
| that bill" said Logan. 81 spent all
Thanksgiving Day on it and you peo-
Pile can hold all the caucuses over it
YOU want-I won't be there. I'm get
ting tired of working my head off over
bill and have lot of d OBJ.
structionists hold it up.'
"Splut, bizz, rhmmump," went Ay.
lett.
Logan subsidized, Aylett didn t.
Finally the matter came to the
question and AHA, Aylett and Ka-
ne voted to pass it over to Thursday
and the other three (McClellan was
absent), voted against it, Kane losing
his motion.
| The clerk commenced to read Off the
items and got four kokuaed passed by
! the board when Aylett got another in
| spiration and again took the floor
which was now getting warm. The item
before the board was the county attor
ney's payroll and Aylett offered n reso
luton to amend it. His point was well
taken but as a resolution was already
before the board il was out of order to
offer another one. Logan again tried
to explain but Aylett told him TO shut
up.
~ want to explain myself, | have
done it before, said Aylett.
The total IN the bin was $3.50 a
month and the total of Ayleit 5 items
when added, equaled the same amount
II was noticed that there was no item
that VIII Crawford might take unto
himself, the county attorney, FIRST dep
uty stenographer and others being pro
Ylded for, with the only salary boost
going TO the fienognpher.
Again the board, with the exception
Of Kane, started in 10 plead with Ay
lett They told aim many insiTnetiv,
things bal be dilu mind them Thi
time be wac ln the noor eaaeHy six
teen minutes and hually subsidized whel
| NllrGtan assured him HAT he sil
lad o chance 20 Introduce his rnsolu
iiou without doing 4 nov, The linn
Nas absolutely wasted
The hilI was then gone over item b
ITEM and the nfeehsafY changes mad
and lhe sums lnlHled lhr bin va
approved bY vote and Qunu then mad
| ihp motion a. uHsh IA fHF mint Aklet