The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-06
nerve Of
SENATE TOUCHED
by SALARY BILL.
Riot Of Technique Follows Arrival
Of Petrie's Measure In
Upper House
PROPOSED LAW ENERGIES
WITHOUT MUCH CHANGE.
%.Hstloa lpsf ip9 1871 S4l a6wD,trss
No More viii Commissioners
Draw Fat Fees For At
tending Meetings

'Tis an old saying that there is no
quarrel 70 bitter as a fence line quarrel
between neighbors. Following senator.
ial precedent established yesterday, the
saying might be amended 20 read that
there is no political nerve so tender
as the pocket nerve and no subject Of
differences 50 acute rs the subject of
| salaries.
| More tactical technique and more tech
nioal tactics were employed yesterday
in debating Representative Petrie's n.
B. 225, which proposed that no govern.
ment employee should serve on the pub
| lie utilities commission, and that no
member Of the commission should re-
ceiye pay for his services, than have
been brought out by the Great War or
any other single subject yet discussed
this session on the floor of the senate.
| As result Of all the thrnsts and
counter.thrusts, the feints and parties,
charges and countercharges, strategic
retirements, surprise attacks, objec-
tons, questions of personal privilege,
motions 10 defer, motions to refer, mo-
tons to re-refer, notices of resentment
cherished, motions to amend, motions
to amend the amendments, points of
order, motions to table and calls for
the question, the bill energies finally
pretty much rs il went in.
Bashful Cancellation
This conclusion is stated with diff
Rdence. In fact II is merely put for
ward; il may be wrong. And IL il
should be, nobody need blush, for there
! was time in the dust Of the debate,
when the presiding officer, who happen
ed to be Senator Shingle for the mo.
ment, finding himself confronted with
two simultaneous amendments, offered
by the same senator conformity and
with malice prepepse, in the intent to
amend previous amendment of the
Judiciary committees, became slightly
clustered when further presented with a
motion to table the, first Of the second
synehronoiis amendments 10 the pre-
vious amendment, and loudly voted
No, with the support of the book Of
rules, but against his own inner pur-
pose. tt
/ But such as are the conclusions here
yentured, 1t is safe to assert that mo-
| body but the clerk Of the senate--who
has IL all down in shorthand-wiil ven.
ture to contradict them and then agree
to account consecutively and nationally
for his contradiction. So it is herein,
after further ventufed:
THAT, unless Governor Pinkhnm
should veto the bill, William T. Garden,
the person most prominently mentioned
in the proceedings, and elsewhere re
ferred II as the second deputy city at.
torney, will no longer be member OF
the public utilities commission; and
2-That Charles r. Forbes, superin-
tendent of public works, Is a shipmate
with him in the same boat
No More Fat Fees &l
3-That whoever may succeed them
by appointment Of the Governor and
confirmation of the senate (being care
full to remember the confrmation) viii
draw down no more ten dollars pen
diem for meetings attended.
The bill came up yesterday on third
reading. The Senate already has ap
proved the report of its Judiciary com
mittee, amending the bill 80 as to con
form with declaration of policy by
Senator Shingle Of the ways and mean'
X committee, to the effect that each mem
Der should receive FIVE dollars a day
for every meeting attended.
President Chilhngworth took thu
door against the bill, on the grounds
THAT it was personal measure, aimee
solely at Garden, unequal in its appli
cation, Illegal, unworthy of the dignit,
n of the senate, and unsound in genera
! policy.
chillingworth Stands Pat
Senator Chillingworth, his memor,
} refreshed by quotations from the bill
very good naturally accepted the ex
position of the law handed down L
J HIM by the chairman of the judiciar,
} committee, but still held to his con
tention that the bill was a persona
measure.
Senator Coney resented the implica
} ton that the Judiciary committee ha,
] been touched by such unworthy con
siderations. f
I, senator Paehec6 opposed the bill, a
/, reported by the judiciary committee
!. and offered his double ointed amend
: ment to the committees amendment.
l Senator Single, in the chair, sus
tanned Senator Castles point of orde
Z that there were two motions before tn
5 chamber, and, on Castles motion I
5 table, ruled that Pacheco's amendment
: must be bisected, and the two joint
+ voted on separately,
!. The senate then proceeded to vote o
d Castles motion TO table the first join
}, Of Paeheco 3 amendment. The amend
Q ment was az that the clause of th
bill forbidding county or territorii
Officers or employees TO sit on the con
mission be deleted and l2) that tn
committee s amendment allowing th
= commissioners IS a day also be d.
leted and the effect Of the motion
! table was to permit present practise
. continue. .
g senator Shingle had voted for II
a committee 5 report, which condemne
,, this practise, but on the roll call }
e voted "No," loudly, II not conf
l. IDENTIFY,
y The first joint Of the amendmeI
l. Was tabled, but the second joint, r
n hitting TO fees, carried. Hence, no Ca
den, no Forbes and no fees.