The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-01-10
MAYOR THREATENS
TO HOLD UP CASH
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been elected to this position for two
years by the people and at certain
salary. How is the legislature going
to turn round now and tell me that
can't have it2 As for their other
idea, why it wouldn't cut any ice
il they would only look at it the
right way Suppose they get n bill
passed which takes away all my power
from me, how are they going to get ON
when it comes to their turn2 Say, that
when the next mayor is elected he is "A
Republican, and that the majority of
the board are Democratsl What sort
of feeling are the Republicans going to
have for the people that proposed this
matterl one thing is certain, the leg
islature wouldn't go and alter it back
again, That would be too raw.
May Block Appropriation.
"At the same time 1 don't want a
scrap. / have had enough of it for
there seems to have been nothing else
going on lately. The whole trouble
with them is that before they were
elected they went and promised posi-
tons to about fifty people and now
they are trying to make good. This
must be the ease or else they would
: have agreed to some of my nomina-
| tions. Out of the eleven that | had in
my power to make where there was a
Republican, and l made a change, why
put Republican back in his place
But this did not satisfy them, they
wanted the Jobs for some of their prom
ised mem and therefore good Repub
Leans appointed by me didn t cut any
ice with them. 1t makes me tired,
81 want to work in with them if il
| is possible. Just at the present time
, however, there doesn t seem to be any
chance They won't listen to anything
that comes from me. Well, i will let
them go on and then l will get sick of
it all one day and show them their
place,
"They passed an appropriation bill
| last Friday. 1t will take two weeks
for this to reach its third reading and
then it has to come before me to sign
am allowed ten days in which to dc
this.
"'But what are they going to do if
turn round and refuse to sign it.! II
| goes back to them for another twenty
other thirty days before it can bC
passed again.
"Altogether ] can block them fol-
two months, during which time no one
will get any money Mind yop. l don Y
say l am going to do it this time, al
| though / did it once before ard will dc
it again now if they don't come tt
reason and stop their fOoling about.
am perfectly willing to meet them and
| have had them in here one by one and
Al III hs.Nv
nothing to do with me. Even worm
will turn and can tell you can bite
! harder than a worm, once l start'i on
the job.
"I have certain power, as mayor, and
the sooner the board realizes this the
better it will be for all hands, and the
sooner will the work igct alorg and
everybody be satisfied. / am quite
willing to work in with them, but II
they are going to hold out the shut
fist, instead of the glad hand. then
can shut my fist too and we will put al
a scrap while the ratepayers look OF
and wait
Hunting the Leaks,
The members Of the roads committee
of the board Of supervisors took look
around yesterday to see where some OF
the alleged leaks in the road depart
ment maintenance were to be found
They spent only short time but found
one instance where four men and luna
were riding around on steam roller
at the public expense, doing patching
Job. 1t took two men to operate the
roller. two men to see that they hit
the right spots in the patchwork and
one man TO see that the other two saw
The committeeman intend to keep on
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