The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-03-07
MOST PRACTICAL
BILL SUBMITTED
COMMISSION oovnnNNuNr ~
SHOWN 10 BE SIMPLE AND
ECONOMICAL
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with the third near.commission gov
ernment bin introduced in tho house Of
representatives yesterday, by r. X.
Archer, the judiciary committee will
have a lively time Of IL, when hearings
are commenced, to thresh out the one
and only bill for the house to act upon
eventually.
The bill submitted by Representative
Archer yesterday, and known as house
bill number 100, is the nearest approach
to the real commission form Of govern
nent of all those now before the house.
1t goes much farther than either Rep
resentative Castle or Representative
Long went in their bills.
For instance it limits the officers to
be elected by the city and county Of
Honolulu to a mayor, a board of four
supervisors and an auditor, the board of
supervisors to consist of the mayor and
the other four members. These must
provide bonds in $4,000, but the audi
tor must find $25, 900 bonds. The salary
of the mayor shall be $4,000 a year,
while the salaries of the supervisors and
auditor shall be $2400 year.
The main points of the new bill con
centrate the power of the governing
body to the smallest limit. Section No.
rs says:
Given Full Powers.
"The board Of supervisors shall have
and possess and the board and its men,
bers shall exercise all executive, legisla-
tive and judicial powers and duties now
had possessed and exercised by the
mayor, board Of supervisors, the treas
urer, the city and county attorney, the
city and county clerk, the sheriff and
deputy sheriffs and all other officers un-
der the city and county, whether they
are elected or appointed under the pro
visions of act lis and all amendments
thereto.
"The executive and administrative
powers, authority and duties in the city
and county shall be distributed into and
among FIVE departments as follows:
Department of public affairs.
Department of accounts and
finances.
Department of public safety.
Department Of streets and public
| improvements.
department of health, parks and
garbage"
Then follows clause which compels
the board of supervisors to determine
the powers and duties to be performed
by the various officers and to assign
them to the appropriate departments.
But section No. 10 relieves the board
of special responsibility in regard to
the mayor and says:
Special For Mayor.
"The mayor shall be superintendent
of the department of public affairs and
the board shall at its first regular meet
ing designate by majority vote ont
supervisor to be superintendent OF eact
OF the other departments.
The bill provides for the selection OF
all the other city and county officers
by a majority vote of the board, IN
ciuding city clerk, city attorney
treasurer, civil engineer, electrician
J superintendent of the water and sewer
works chief of the fire department, city
physician, sheriff and shall appoint
district judge, or judges, in each dis
trict.
Another power the bill gives the su
J pervisors is to create or discontinue an.
office and employees may be removed a
D any time by a majority vote Of th'
D board.
) The bill is to take effect as soon a
D approved by the Governor.
0 There was very little discussion owe
0 the bill in the house, yesterday, ant
0 it ic understood that all three bills ar
0 now up to the Judiciary committee, o
0 will be when they are received from tn
0 printing committee and pass secon
0 reading. 1t is possible that a publi
hearing ON the bills win be called later