The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-10
WORK PAU FOR
row TO FINISH
Wilson, With Salary Sliced Again,
still Bosses an Idle
Department.
trrom "wednesday Advertsor.l

nave decided On. lhey Will nut uthW |
any money until they know who is
going to have the spending of it and
how it is going to be spent.
All the guns they could bring up
were trained upon Johnny Wilson last
night; they called him down; they
brought resolutions against him; they
did every thing bat can him. They
even asked the mayor to help them do
this last, but Fern was not taking any.
Wilson g salary was reduced still closer
to the vanishing point by the taking
away of the garbage department. from
his control which means a cut of fifty
dollars per month.
The meeting of the city fathers last
night grew sultry at times and the
post mortem held on the sidewalk af-
forwards, looked for a time as if
Dwight and Fern were going to come
to a personal scrap. Murray also
clipped in and blamed the mayor for
holding up all business, while he, in
an aggrieved voice, got hot under the
collar at the mere suggestion of such
thing.
The fact stands, however, that the
supervisors have done no work for a
month and that if matters go as at
present no work will be done in the
near future.
The actual new work accomplished at
these meetings, as a rule, could be re-
| corded on a postage stamp and last
night IS gathering was no exception.
Motions were put and carried but they
were only the shifting of the pawns in
the game of chess that is being carried
/ 3. ~ ic Va
ports were presented and passed, and a
letter from John F. Colburn, of the
| Kapiolani Estate, was read, notifying
the board that after March l, the rent
for the rooms occupied by the road
department in the Kapiolani Building
would be thirty dollars month.
Queen Liliuokalani thanked the board
for the use of the band, and the com
nrittee announced that there would be
two concerts a month at Washington
Place, and that the Queen could have
the concerts at any other place che
wished by paying the carfare of the
band boys.
Judge Lymer asked that permission
be granted to Nagaran Fernandez to ecl
as Journal clerk to the Legislature and
that some one be appointed as sub
stitute during the time the Legislature
was in session. This was referred t.
the police committee.
The roads committee were left Il
, deal with the application of Lukeli
Kekahuna for the position of roat
Waterman or some other work of lik
nature.
Wilson Acting Without Law.
!. City Attorney Cathcart made re
port in regard to Wilson and said tina
: Wilson's action in the premises j
, without the authority of the law ant
that his insubordinatiOn subjected hin
to removal by law as prescribed. TIL
communication was received and filed
The sum of $3.50 was appropriate
to pay half the travelling expenses Of
veterinarian in connection with the in
spection of cattle, which is to be mad
over the island.
The Wilson Problem.
Dwight then started off with tn
first of his bunch of resolutions in con
nection with the Wilson problem. H
pat a motion that was afterwards ear
ried that the garbage department b
transferred from Wilson'S charge t
that of the committee on sanitation an
propriated for.
The next on his list was that the sa
ary of the road superintendent be n
duced to 500 per month and that a
the other arrangements be withdraw
: and abolished. This was also carried
"A The matter of doing away with Ho
7 ace Crabbe's position, as fifth distrit
+ luna, was then put to the board an
carried. The name was not included
the resolution and the mayor wanted
know the reason why. Murray reptile
that they had not the power to
Ie away with any specified man and thi
the resolution had to stand as it rea
The next resolution from Dwight h0
10 about ten whereases embodied in
10 1t stated first of all that as the may
Y had failed and neglected to submit Il
name of another person in the place {
Wilson, as road supervisor, the law ha
AZ been violated and he called on Il
n mayor TO fulfil the requirements as la
y down by the law and name anoth
n man. The resolution demanded anoth
az nomination.
" Fern objected to this and said th
" only a moment ago they had passed
P, resolution fixing the road supervisor
y salary and by that had shown their a
= ctpbducG OF MIN. murray pO4ulcu VI
re that he only holds the position uni
another man is appointed to fill
place and that the other resolution hi
es nothing to do with the matter.
First, you wanted to make the 81
airy seventy-fve, then a hundred al
e. fifty, and now it is down to a hundr
again. IT win be down to nOthil
= soon" expostulated his honor.
n A staggerer.
After the motion had been put throul
another bunch of whereases was rel
out by the clerk. These laid down tn
Wilson had refused and declined
obey the orders of the board and hi
also neglected his dutiesj had employ
men who were unfit for their positio
and who we're only put in for polite
reasons, therefore the board asked
mayor 10 concur with them In havi
:, Wilson removed from his position.
There was 3 dead silence f6r o n
~ ment or 80 and then Fern asked I
clerk 10 read over tho last part Of I
resolution again,