The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-18

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authoritativeiy stated on this ficor
that we are today wasting from sl00,.
100000 70 sS0O,OO0,OO0 in the admins.
tfation OF this government. In other
words, we are today spending 100000.
OVO where Jefferson calculated 90 spend
| only fl,OOO,Oc0 in conducting the affairs
of this government. We have made tire.
mendous advance; we have prospered
beyond all estimates or imagination
even. But / submit we have NOT nd.
vaneed in any such proportion as that.
We are wasting today 800. 000, 900
where we required in jefferson s day
81 100000 as necessary operating ex.
penses of the government. This same
sort of tendency we see cropping out in
every direction, and here it is proposed
to raise the pay of the legislators of
the Territory of Hawaii 5000 for each
member every time the legislature
! meets.
The number of circuit judges for that
territory seems to me out of proportion
and unnecessary. There are five coun-
ties in the Territory, with population
of some 10000 men, women and chill
dren-about $4,000 or 10000 Ameri-
cans, about 10000 or less native Ha-
waiians, and then japanese. Chinese,
Portuguese and what pot. There are
probably 10000 to 10000 electors, quail
fed voters, in the Territory, and these
people, with an electorate. say. of 49,
600, are required to pay $3s.500 every
year more than they are now paying
for the administration of their gov
, eminent
The circuit Judges are seven. There
are five counties in the Territory. It
would seem proper to decrease the num-
Der of circuit judges rather than to in
crease the salaries of those they now
have. In most of the States circuit
judges have jurisdiction extending over
four or five counties. In the whole
| State of Florida, with a population of
nearly million, we have only eight
circuits, with eight circuit Judges. some
of the circuits having four to five coun-
ties. and here Territory. with popu-
lation of $4,000 wants seven circuit
| judges, and they want them paid $4,000
each annually.
/ submit, Mr.. President, that this is
lunwarranted and it is unreasonable, and
I shall offer amendments to this section
prividing that the governor 8 salary,
| instead of $4,000 as now, shall be $1,000.
l understand the governor has to do
good deal of entertaining; that he has
no mansion; that the Territory provides
for him only an office and no residence,
and he has to pay rent.
| 1t is said that Hawaii is the most
expensive country in the world to live
in. do not know why that should
be. The climate is splendid. The soil.
where it can be cultivated at all, is
fertile. They ought to grow everything
they need or require for food purposes.
7 suppose, like any State or Territory
that depends upon one industry alone
sugar, in this instance-other things
| are unusually high. It might be an in
| ducement to those officials who, it is
fair to assume. are foremost in enter
prise and in the industrial development
of the islands, if denied this enormous
| increase in salaries, to bend their ener-
gies toward the Investigation of the
industries of the Territory.
| There is no reason why that Terri
tory should not produce everything the
people require for their food; but it is
reported, and I can not dispute it, that
it is an expensive part of the world to
live in. At the same time, salary of
$4,000 per annum is not verv meager
compensation. The salaries of the gov
ernors of most of the States do not ex-
coed $4,000 I think only 10 States in
the Union paw more than $4,000, % pay
| less than $4,000. and large number of
them pay about $4,000. Quite num-
ber of them pay precisely $4,000
The Governor of Hawaii certainly has
no greater responsibilities and no more
work to do than the governor of the
average State, take it. am willing,
however, to be reasonable about it and
to make his salary $1,000 instead of
$5000 but I do think 100000 is an I'M
warranted increase. So as to the salary
of the secretary of the Territory, in
lieu of $4,000 I would make it $4,000,
instead of $4,000 as suggested by this
bill 7 would make the salary of the
chief justice of the supreme court Of
the Territory $500. instead of $4,000
as proposed and in lieu of $4,000 as it
now is; of the justices of the supreme
court. $4,000 instead of $4,000 as pro-
posed; of judges of the circuit court
$500 instead of $4,000 as proposed here
and in lieu of $4,000 as under the pres
ent law And so on. Instead of fixing
the salary of the United States marshal
at $4000--he now receives $2500-make
it $4,000. And make the allowance to
the governor for stationery $500, as in
the present law, especially if you in
crease his salary.