The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-19


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AFTERNOON SESSION
senate RM 90. Mccarthy. providing
for bonds for licensed dealers in In
toXicatirR liquors, passed first reading
Senate llll 81. kuudscn. paralleling
House bin 90 validate the charters
of corporations affected by the Su-
prcme Court decision in the Pearl
harbor Trnction ease. passed first read
ing
There was a rccohNideration of House
BID 1913, which passed third reading
in the morning and the bill was
killed.
Cohen Bill Dead.
Cohen 5 original hill knocking out
all income taxation was reported upon
by the Finance Committee. the report
recommending the tahling Of the bill
with the consent of the introducer. The
report was adopted and the bill tabled.
To atone for this, the committee rec
commended Cohen 5 compromise income
tax bill. which raises the exemption
from $1,000 10 $500.
Afonso's ideas about incomes were
also turned down by the committee,
with Alfonso s consent, the report rec
ommending the table for them. They
went there.
Plea for Coffee Tariff.
The Agricultural Committee present.
ed a report on former Concurrent Res
olution asking Congress to impose a
duty upon coffee substituting another
concurrent resolution in its place. The
new resolution asks for tarf of six
cents a pound, which would bring an
income of between fifty and sixty mill
lion dollars year to the country,
which would build up the industry here
and encourage small farmingq.
The resolution passed on the adoption
of the report.
Committee of the Whole.
Before the House went into commit
tee of the whole on the Appropriation
Bill, Like formally resigned as chair
man and Cohen was named in his stead
Cohen started off hrskly and the first
thing done was TO eliminate the second
deputy of the Attorney General. knock
out one stenographer and then attack
the item for expenses in the Attorney
Generals department. This was down
in the bill at $l1 1,400.
Rice stated that with one deputy less
and one stenographer gone there would
he less expense. He moved to cut the
item to $4,000. Kaleiopu went one bet
ter and moved to cut to $4,000. Atom
so wanted to put the figure at $500
The item was deferred after Chairman
Cohen had called the committee to or
der harshly and instructed the members
to attend to business. The instruction
was needed. The pay of the clerk was
cut back to 500.
Archivist Under Fire.
Kaleiopu then attacked the item of
the salary of the librarian in the Arch
ives, moving that it be put at 800 u
month. He saw no sense in paying
more to any man who could not make
a Hawaiian translation. He believed in
cutting from top to bottom and if the
translator was to be cut out as econ
omy, he wanted to cut the Archivist's
salary also in economy.
Waiwaiole objected to cutting with
ont consideration. He regretted the
slashing of the Attorney Generals
items after the items had been approved
when the Attorney General was pres
ent.
Coney defended the Archivist He
said it was not a personal matter but
one of the good of the department. If
the department was not needed, cut it.
out altogether; if it was necessary the
salary should be a decent one.
Moanauli disagreed. He thought the
House should consider the man first and
the Office afterwards. If the man is
I incompetent the appropriation should
be based on that fact.
Mott-Smith to Rescue.
Secretary Mott-Smith was invited
into the House to explain the duties
| of the official under the axe. lie eX-
| planned what was being done and the
Importance of the work. This work
| needed good man and he would have
| to be paid, especially as the Archives
were to become revenue producing
| Office.
The meat in Kaleiopu' IS chestnut was
shown when number of questions rela-
to Translator John Wise and fear that
he would lose his job or have his salary
| cut were asked.
The Secretary explained that the
item of $2160 for expenses provided
| $75 month for Wise and 1850 for
other expenses.
Kaleiopu wanted to know first if a
Hawaiian dictionary cost $3.50 and
next if Mr.. Lydecker could talk Ha-
waiian. He was told that it did and
that he could not.
Shingle moved the Librarian s salary
be put at $l25 a month and Kaniho
moved that it be put at 500. Kaniho
said that he had called at the Archives
and that if he was not mistaken the
Archivist did nothing but sit in chair
and let John Wise do all the work. He