The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1910-12-21
|PDOR CATHCART
IS BLAMED
AGAIN
City Attorneys Department Is
Accused of Holding Up
Ordinance.
Supervisors SAY THINGS
CHARGE Is That Outside Business
lnterferes With Duties
of Advisers.

j Citt Attorney Cathcart 5 department
was iunlped on last night by the board
of supervisors for holding up the build
mo ordinance, Supervisor Quinn stating
tbat he didn t intend TO be ''bam-
boOzled.' any longer by that depart
i nent. He severely criticized the mem
] hers of the city attorneys staff. Ay-
Z lett iumped in and helped Quinn, and
others wanted to know why the attor-
4 VS. department never seemed to have
. anv time to devote to the business of
: the board.
Almost when the members were rls-
ing from the meeting last night, Aylett
said he wanted to know what had be
some of the building ordinance which
had been presented to the board several
montbs ago. lie said he had been told
that il was in the hands of the archl-
teets then in the hands OF the carpen-
ters. and he didn t know how many
more of the skilled trades were looking
it over.
Kane.
This aroused the ire Of Quinn who
stated positively that the city attor-
4 news department was bdmboozllng the
h whole board,
Outside Business.
''They claim they are busy, SAID
q the chairman of the road committee.
/ eBut | notice that they are getting
! outside business all the time and there
] fore they must have time TO devote to
orr business if they want to. Ihey
have time to go to Waialua and to
K0na and all sorts of places. Then l
notice they don It have to prosecute any
more IN the circuit courts, and there
fore am sure they must have time.
"We have been trying to get that
before the board for the past two
months What are they doing' We
were elected 10 serve the people until
we 90 out on January ,. The idea OF
any member of this board saying that
we should let things 90 on the slide!
That is not right. The last board work
ed like Troians right up to the Iast
minute
Then Avlett vindicated himself, and
redeemed himself for lapses Of the past
~ think it is very simple matter
TO get this before the board. Let us
get it before US and read it by title,
and then refer it back to the city at
ternev, if we have to. But no, they
4 keen on SAYING: 'No time, no time.
Jump Is. Unanimous.
~ would like to have the honor of
Il >
i bt ght III the original of that bill,
but the county attorney says he has
no time, and that 5. all the satisfaction
We get out of it.
Even Mayor Fern suggested that he
Il supposed the ordinance would be up be
s fore the board before this time.
"Why we have even begged the
4 county attorney to report it back to
u.s. said Quinn again.
Deputy City Attorney Milverton then
Z arose to defend his chief and depart
ment He said it was prepared by
Z architects and experts have been work
ing on il for some time. 1t was
Il bulky ordinance. and was really mass
s Of Specifications. which had to be gone
II over carefully. There We're l21 pages
and he had gone through about one
q third of it. He found many lncon-
4 sstencies from legal standpoint and
d many features were in conflict with eX-
sting laws on the subject of building
He said that IN example of hurried
& eglslation came when the food pro
teetion bill was passed and then was
8 vetoed because Of technical lapses. The
4 emlding ordinance had really been IN
d.