The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-31
TEACHERS SALARIES To
BE LITERALLY PROVIDED
FOR BY LEGISLATURE
Announced That 500
900 Would Be Added
for Purpose to Esti-
mates Of Governor.

[ The total appropriation to pay teach
ers salaries for the coming biennial
period win be seven hundred and
i seventy five thousand dollars, all that
/ is asked for by Chairman Long, of the
/ House Committee on Education, enough
i to pay the. teachers the three per cent.
advance all around that is now being
! held back out of their monthly checks,
/ called for in the teachers schedule and
sixty-nine thousand dollars more than
the Governor has asked for in his esti-
/ mates.
! This was the significant announce
ment made in committee of the whole
of the House yesterday afternoon by
Representative Single who,s in com
pany with Senator Fairchild, of the
Senate Ways and Means Committee,
has interviewed the Governor and gone
over the financial situation in view of
the proposed changes in the County and
City and County Acts.
Another announcement, interesting if
not as important to the public general
", is that the proposed combination of
the Land, Survey and Public Works de-
partments is off,
The Governor, after his consultation
with Fairchi1d and Shingle, revised his
estimates for departmental expenses
and salaries, cutting off six hundred
thousand dollars, after raising the
amount for teachers salaries some six
mine thousand dollars and providing
for contingency fund of $4,000.
Fair progress was made yesterday
with the appropriation bill, especially
in view of the fact that the first even
ing meeting for the session was held
of the committee of the whole. A
, resolution was passed that the House
should meet every night this week if
! necessary to nave the bill passed and
ready to go to the Senate the first of
next week.
There was little of the debate of the
day before when the question of knock
ing out the license inspectors was re-
!, sumed, the item providing for them be-
ing summarily cut from $4,000 to
$4,000 This was one of the incidents
of the day. Another was the passing
of the Library of Hawaii bill, in the
| debate over which Single and Rice
, FLASHED and spared back and forth like
true parliamentarians.. Kaniho also
took part in this debate, opposing
/ the bill because it carried no appro-
priation to translate the books of the
proposed library into Hawaiian. In the
course of his remarks, the honorable
, gentleman from Kohala said that he
, neither knew nor took much stock in
anybody called Carnegie.
: Vaccination Bill Approved.
The Health and Police Committee
reported faverably on Coelho IS VAGINA
tion bill. recommending only that scar
ifiers'' be included to be used equally
with sfpoints' in the operation. The
manner of vaccination, as now prescrib-
ed in the bill, is:
! "No child shall be vaccinated except
after an opportunity has been given
to the parent or guardian to be present
at such vaccination, unless such parent
| or guardian SnaH nave consented III
writing to such vaccination, and then
only by duly licensed and authorized
physician VINO shall use for such vaeci-
nation bovine virus only, obtained from
standard manufacturers; such VAGINA
ton shall be only by means of scarf
fer and points put up in Theoretically
sealed tubes or other antiseptic recep-
: tacles, each receptacle shall be opened
immediately before a scarifer or point
is to be used. ia the presence of the
| person to be vaecinated. and no scarf
fer or point shall be used for the vac
cination of more than one person.
Show Bill Favored.
The Finance Committee cleared up a
large number of bills and other matter
in its hands. Among the reports pre-
scented was one recommending for pas
sage Furtado S show license bill. An
other bin recommended was: An
/ Act for the relief of the Volcano
Stables and Transportation Company.
Petitions Nos. Is, 10, 90, 80, "a, 40,
Al. AZ and so. and the resolution of the
Republican Central executive commit
tee, all asking that the liquor law be
left alone. were reported on, the com
mittee recommending that these be en-
tered in the records of the House.
Bills recommended for the table
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