Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-21
BIG SLASH
IN PUBLIC
EXPENSES
Senate Committee Reports Out
General Appropriation Bill
with Economy in Every
Line
MANY OFFICIALS TO
FEEL SALARY CUTS
Heads of Departments Suffer
in Wholesale Pruning of Ter
ritoriaI Payrolls

Cutting down the general appropri.
alton for the current expenses of the
government for the next :,iennial per-
iod to $2,5S9,6Sl, or a sum $141 1850
less than called for by senate bill 3S.
the ways and means committee sub
mitted its report this morning through
Chairman Rice.
81 1t marked the beginning OF what
promises to be long fight and may
cause and extra session of the legis-
lature to be ordered, as only eight
days remain within which time to
pass the bill through two readings in
the senate and three In the house, and
present II to the governor for his sig
nature.
Slashing of salaries began with the
first words Of the report and did not
end until the last. Colonel ]. w.
Jones, adjutant general OF the national
guard, was the greatest sufferer, his
salary being reduced from $3.50 to
800 month, and most Of the depart
ment heads have had their salary cut
$25 or $50 a month.
The committee is merciless in its
slashing OF salaries OF territorial Of
ficials, practically all the heads OF the
departments suffering horizontal cut
in the amount of their monthly war
rants, except the superintendent of
public works Payrolls are pruned
down with the energy with which the
Democratic party Is going about the
pruning Of the sugar tariff. Items Of
repairs, maintenance, ETC., In all de.
partments are scrupulously and thor
oughly shaved off. Two of the big
salary cuts proposed but not reached
this morning are: land commissioner
from $3.50 to $500 monthly; president
board of health, from $3.50 to sS25
monthly.
Sitting as a committee OF the
whole the senate spent the last hour
rf the morning session passing on the
report. Fighting began with the first
lines, when the military department
lost $4,000 for the biennial period
from its expense allowance and for
pay of officers and enlisted men. Sen
ator Chillingworth protested against
the reductions, but the senators back
ed up the committee and the report
was adopted so far as it concerns
the military department
The cutting in the military depart
ment was declared to be in part due
to the poor showing the national
guard made in its drill during carnival
week, and the general disfavor with
which the department has been look
ed upon by the senate. During the
first part of the session, resolution
was introduced calling for an ex-
animation of the condition of the ma
tional guard, and Colonel Jones was
directed to supply the senate with
correspondence incident to the ex-
animation of the troops by United
States officers. 1t was stated today
that, the adjutant general had with
drawn the, correspondence from the
senate and had not returned it. Sen
ators Coke, Judd and others express
ed their approval of the action of the
committee. 1t was announced by Sen
ator Judd that he would support the
recommendations Of the committee in
every instance possible.
So long did the arguments last on
this department that the solons had
only proceeded fifth way through
the report when noon adjournment
was taken. Up to that time the sal
airy of the librarian of the public ar
chives was fixed at S175 month, the
committee having recommended that
1t be raised to 5000. This was one
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