Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-02
Forty ighth Day of Convention
Session Sees Only Fourth
of Measure Finished

The charter convention VII meet
! tonight for the forty-eighth day with
/ just about cne-fourth OF the majority
report read and adopted. hut IN spite
Of the apparent impossibility of finish
| Ing the work OF framing a charter.
leading men OF the convention still
hope il may be done, and are WORKING
with vigor. Continued discussion Of
trivial issues. arguing parliamentary
| points. and Interruptions and exclama-
tons from all sides delayed the work
+, or the convention last night, when %
sections were adopted. Delegate Kei-
kfs speeches, which were scattered
through the proceedings like commas
in a complicated sentence. were the
outstanding feature OF last nights SEES
sion.
Delegate Andrews, Immediately af-
ter the session opened, moved that
the amendment raising the mayors
salary from $4,000 TO $500 be recon.
sidered. Andrews admitted that he
not only voted for the Increase Of sal
airy; but seconded the motion when
the amendment was offered.
Might Mean Other Raises.
He said that he. had changed his
mind after thinking 1t over. not be-
cause he did not think the mayor
should have more salary. but because
ne believed that n the salary OF one
official vas raised, others would de-
mand Q raise also. He said that he
did not think the legislature would ap-
prove the charter II it provided for ey-
penditnres greater than the appropri-
alton OF last year allowed.
Andrews motion to reconsider was
lost, the vote being: Aye 81, no 20.
Delegate Keiki began his first
speech when Andrews put his motion.
and after being repeatedly called to.
order. took the floor and said that he
had q right 10 speak and that he in
tended to. Amid cries OF s;sit down"
and the tapping Of the chairman's CAV
Ell. Keiki spoke so loudly that he
drowned all other sounds. until he
was persuaded by Chillingworth t..
take his seat.
Achfs motion to strike out OF the
charter the Hines which fixed the sal
aries of deputy sheriffs, was carried
after debate. Achi gave as. his reason
for asking that the lines be deleted
that the charter should no more at
tempt to fix sthe deputies salaries
than 1t should the salaries of road
bosses, or any other subordinate en-
ploye.
Arnold Takes stand.
The FIRST vote on the question was
so close that the. chair called for a
division. previous to which Supervisor
Arnold got the door. He said that the
supervisors should tx the salaries OF
deputy sherins, and cited an Instance
where the deputy was receiving no
more than the policemen under him,
the supervisors being powerless to
make any change because they are
bound by the city charter Arnold's
speech was so effective that only one
voted no on the second ballot
Kaleo moved that the city attorneys
salary be cut from $500 to $4,000, and
the change was made, every member
Of the majority voting for the reduc-
ton. The vote seemed close, but all
though someone shouted division, no
division was called for definitely. and
Kaleo's motion to cut the salary of the
superintendent Of city works caused
so much discussion that the city att
torney was forgotten
Good Enough for STAR.
Uluihi protested against the cut, on
the grounds that the superintendent
Of city works had necessarily to be an
expert, familiar with engineering and
construction problems. and as such
should have a halter salary even than
$500. In reply, Kaleo said that the
position was new one, and that
$4,000 would be enough to start with,
more to be paid IL the man who was
given the place proved himself cap
able.
Chairman Pacheco said that while