Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-28
MANUAHI FOR ALL
OFFICERS OF HOUSE
FetChingSpeaker's Cough
Medicine Worth
More Than $40
HOUSE
59th Day-Afternoon Session

HlBnl, LOT AT IL CLOCK Midnight the
Legislature of 1909 will adjourn
sine die, leaving behind it record
better than that of its predecessors,
even though there is still much room
for Improvement.
The loose ends were gathered up
yesterday afternoon in the House and
the work of the session concluded,
with the exception of few possible
disagreements with the Senate over
certain measures, which will have to
be patched today, and the considera-
ton of possible vetoes yet to come
from the Governor. There was only
one thing yesterday that everybody
was anxiously waiting for-the Gov
ernor's action on the Appropriation
Bill. 1t was known downstairs that
His EXcellency was working in his
private office over the Appropriation
Bill; that he had his coat OFF and
his sleeves up, and the general sus-
picion was that he was not doing
thing to the bill but using the blue
pencil on 1t. All sorts of confer
ences were going on between the
Governor and the financiers of the
Territory and of the Legislature, and
it will not be surprising If. when
the bill comes back to the Legisla-
ture, 1t looks like the proof of gal
ley of type set up by the devil in
h country newspaper Office after the
proofreader gets through with 1t.
The expected and inevitable ma
nuwahi" resolutions were brought
in yesterday afternoon. There seems
to be the notion at every session of
the Legislature that the overpaid
and underworked officers of the House
ought to be given a nice little lump
of spending money at the end OF the
session to pay them for their strenu-
Gus labors.
Nawahine 1t was who sprung the
resolutions yesterday, Introducing two
carrying an aggregate of $3.50 for
manuwahi. The sergeant-at-arms,
whose principal duties have consisted
in filling the Speakers rose-jar with
flowers about once a week, distribute
ing billsonce or twice a day, carrying
an occasional message, fetching the
Speakers cough medicine and cigar
ettes,-all for the miserable pittance
of $40 day. Surely he ought to
get the extra $50 that Nawahine pro-
poses to give him.
And the janitor-why, he gets
only 5000 for the session, and he has
to sweep out the legislative hall once
day. or course, the House might
have got a japanese to do the job
for $50 a month, but japanese has
no vote. so such thing would be
unthinkable. The fact that the jan
itor's chief labors have consisted in
warming a chair most of the day is
surely no reason why he shouldn't
receive the $50 extra pay 1t is pro-
posed to give him.
The messenger, too, comes in for
luton goes through. In view of the
fact that 1t took such hard work to
persuade Mr.. Apao to accept the re-
sponsibe position, and that he final
ly sacrificed himself on the altar of
patriotism and consented to serve his
country, the House should have no
hesitation in making him a farewell
present OF twenty simoleons.
The Interpreter comes in for SEQ,
according to the terms of the resolu-
ton. He is the one who Is probably
most entitled to 1t, for he really has
done extra work, and, besides, his
labors have been the most arduous
of anybody's. The House talks all
the time, and everything the honor,
able and eloquent members say he
has to translate, so none of theiI
words of wisdom will be lost.
The resolutions were referred tc
the Committee on Public Expendit
ures and Accounts.
Somnolent Session
The session was sleepy one. Two
honorable members slept serenely
and several times the Speaker wal
Obliged to send the sergeant-at-armi
to arouse Hihio, who was sleepini
audibly.
On recommendation of the Healtl
and Police Committee. Senate Bill
141, providing for the assessment o
property benefited by the Honolulu,
sewer system, was tabled. No ex
planation was made.
4 resolution was introduced b.
Makekau, and adopted by the House
, that the Printing Committee be au
, thorized to order the printing ant
binding of 800 pamphlets containing
, the proceedings in connection will
. the address last Monday of Hon. c
w Fairbanks, the address to b.