The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-09
SENATE:
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wise and extravagant expenditure OF
moneys, and are led to believe that al
moneys requisite and necessary for the
internal improvement of the various
counties should be raised either by the
issuance of county bonds, or an increase
in the tax rate sufficient to raise the
necessary funds. The plan for inereas
ing the tax rate for such purpose ap'
peals to your committee, especially II
such extra tax is restricted to the pur-
pose of internal improvements, and Is
safeguarded against squandering by
means of salaries and other devious
methods of wastefulness.
Slap at System.
f'Under the present system of raising
revenue for internal Improvements, a
general loan bill is an invitation for
the people of each county to grab all
they can from the common pot. Theo-
retieally it is wiser to make each county
responsible for it's expenditures and the
payment Of its obligations. No one
county or municipality should be devel-
oped at the expense of another; other
wise there is no incentive for any com
munity to conduct its affairs along the
lines of good business policy, when, IN
directly, it must share the burden OF
extravaganza or ineompeteney of an
other community which is run by in
competents.
"Under the proposed plan of county
taxation the provident counties will
not need to increase their taxes, and
they should serve as arguments against
the extravagant tendencies of other
counties.
"When all the land or property hold
ers of each county are directly taxed
for their county Improvements, ineffi-
cient and extravagant Boards of Super
pisors will no longer be popular.
4TUnder loan bills the burden is not
personally felt by large number of
our taxpayers as it win be under an
increase in the county tax rate as pro-
posed. -
The committee majority recommend
ed that the bill be tabled and intro
dueed substitute bill enabling the
counties to increase their tax rate one
fourth of one per cent to provide money
for the construction of public works.
The Substitute Bill.
The bill as submitted provides that
in addition to the tax of one per cent
eolleetible under the provisions of
Chapter 90 of the Revised Laws, the
special tax Of not more than one quarter
of one per cent can be used by the
counties for the construction of new
schoolhouses, hospitals, district court
houses, jails, water works, sewers and
other public improvements.
Senators Coelho and Brown in the
minority report of the Ways and Means
Committee, recommended that the bill
pass with the title amended to read
AN act making special appropriations
for public Improvements
The bill, if passed as recommended by
the minority, would dispose of the sum
of $613,o00. distributed. as follows:
College of Hawaii, permanent building,
$125, 900; Boys Industrial School, 81,
900; Kapiolani Girls, Home, $4,000,
addition to Normal School, $4,000; Ar
mory, on condition THAT the Fedora.
Government restores to the Territory
the barracks lot or a>suffieient and suit
able part thereof for the armory, $40,.
600; Hilo Union School, $4,000; Hilo
water works. $4,000; Kula pipe line,
100000; Lahaina Court House, $685.
600; Lahaina Armory, $1,000; Paia
Court House and Jail, $4,000; altera-
tions, repairs and furniture, judiciary
Building, $4,000; Honolulu wharf and
harbor Improvements. 100000.
Both reports were laid on the table
to be considered with the bill.
Increases Salaries.
The special committee of the Hawai-
ian delegation reported favorably on
Senate Bill No. 127, amending the
County Act The bill provides for in
ereasing the salaries of the County
Clerk of the County of Hawaii, Deputy
Sheriff of the dictrict of North Hilo,
Deputy Sheriff of the district of South
Kohala, and the Deputy Sheriff Of the
district of Hamakua, all of which the
special committee approved.
Makekau wanted to take the bill up
at oRce. but President Smith suggest
ed that because of the accumulation of
business all bills should be considered
npon the regular order. Makekau
withdrew his motion and Chairman
Knudsen of the committee of the whole
on the direct primary bill submitted
his report. recommending that the bill
in its amended form pass second read
ing
President Smith suggested that the
bill be laid on Che table, stating that
if the report was q, -edTthe Senate
would be bound by ding that hasty
action should be jayoio i.
r,;ract pr!;vao~x Ki1Jed
Quinn moved for the adoption of the
of the whole report, and
Senator mccarthy was next recognized
by President : nth AMI he proceeded
to fay the direct primary bill as it
before the Senate.
II have not heard single Senator
express favorable opinion on this
Bill, . said Mccarthy. ''We are vast
ing time with it as it stands, and I
move thar the committee report and
the bill b. Indefinitely postponed"
Chillingworth called for an aye and
no vote, Quinn took the rather
humorous stand of an uneompromising
defender of the integrity of the Re-
publican platform, which contained
direct primary plank.
81 don t see how we can go back
on it, said Quinn, and the Senate
smiled with the recollection of the anti
Honor law revision ulank in tho Same