The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-03-31
THE HOUSE
TH1RTY-FIFTH DAY.
Afternoon and Night Session.

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The teachers will probably have
their three per cent salary deductions
put an end to, the education committee
of the House may succeed in getting all
It asks Ior scnool appropriations, and
sixty-nine thousand dollars more than
the Governor asked for will likely go
into the appropriation bill for educa-
ton. Such was the statement made
in Committee of the Whole in the
House yesterday afternoon by Single,
when the biennial expense appropria-
ton bill was under consideration.
Shingle of the House and Fairchild
of the Senate had called on the Gov
ernor and together they had gone over
the financial situation in connection
with changes contemplated in the
County Act and in the City and County
Act.
At the same time, the proposed COM
bination of the offices of the Public
Works, Land Commissioner and Sur
veyor is abandoned.
The Governor went over his esti-
mates for expenses and salaries Of de-
lpartments, raising the amount for
teachers about $4,000 and providing
for a contingency fund of $4,000.
The appropriation bill, Cohen in the
chair at the clerks desk, was con-
sidered yesterday afternoon and last
night, the House having resolved to
hold evening sessions all this week, II
it should be necessary, in order to get
the bill through.
At the el, ming session Hihio COM
planned that the Ii, = estimates OF the
governor had not been Translated into
Hawaiian and he actually wanted ~
committee to rise without doing any
thing. His motion was defeated and
so he vainly asked to be excused from
attendance, being very sulky. Kama
also, had to raise objection on similar
grounds, that he had no copy OF the
estimates. Nakaleka kindly offered to
lend him a copy but this Kama scorned-
Rice and Cohen endeavored to show
that all the typewritists were working
over time to make copies Of the Cover
nor's new estimates and the work OF
the committee was to try and make the
appropriations fit the estimates.
When the Governor prepared his
first estimates, he did not realize thai
the idea was to turn so much in the
way of public affairs over to the coun'
ties, and now that he had ascertaineC
what was wanted he had prepared new
estimates.
Rices motion to appropriate a lumI
sum for the Public Works carried a
$22,92O.
There was at one time in the even
ing a call for the Sergeant-at-Arms II
make Alfonso take his seat; Cohen, a
chairman, cried to the members to ge
to business, but Hihio wanted to ris
about every five minutes to shout hi
grievous wrongs for the reason tina
there were no Hawaiian translation
for him to go by. There was little o
nothing accomplished at the evenin
meeting.
Coneys amendment made yesterda
to make the Liquor law appropriation
S12 900 instead of $4,000 was lost.
The item passed at $4,000 reduction
of $4,000.
Under public instruction items, Ric
moved to strick out secretary, $1,000
stenographer and book clerk, $3.50
school and purchasing agent, $1,000
school agents, $500 and general ez
penses, $500" and put in, instead
Secretary, stenographers and expense
$780,"
Moanauli and Douthitt objected
thus Jumping matters.
Long moved to defer the items unit
: he could consult with the Governor. A