Senater Knudsen moved that the appointment of "James R. Judd, M. D.. Medical Examiner," be confirmed. Seconded by Senator Lane and carried. Senator Smith moved that the appointment of "Olaf L. Sorenson, Commissioner of Street and Sidewalk Lines and Grades, Honolulu," be confirmed. Seconded by Senator Dowsett and carried. Senator Smith moved that the appointment of J. H. Howland, Commissioner of Street and Sidewalk Lines and Grades, Honolulu," be confirmed. Seconded by Senator Chillingworth. Senator Lane moved to defer action on the appointment until the Joint Committee on the Nuuanu Dam reports. Seconded by Senator Makekau. Senator Smith here withdrew his motion to confirm the appointment. Senator Dowsett moved to defer action on the appointment. until Monday, March 25th, 1907. Seconded by Senator Coelho. Senator Coelho moved to reconsider the action taken on the appointment of "Olaf L. Sorenson, Commissioner of Street and Sidewalk Lines and Grades, Honolulu." Seconded by Senator Dowsett and carried. Senator Coelho moved that all appointments as "Commissioners of Streets and Sidewalk Lines and Grades, Honolulu," be deferred until Monday, March 25th, 1907. Seconded by Senator Woods and carried. Under suspension of the Rules, Senator Woods offered the following Resolution (No. 22) requesting the Treasurer of the Territory to furnish the Senate with certain information as to the Bonded Indebtedness of the Territory, etc.: RESOLUTION. BE IT RESOLVED that the Treasurer of the Territory of. Hawaii be and is hereby requested to furnish the Senate with a statement showing: 1. tory. 2. 3. from from The amount of the bonded indebtedness of the Terri The interest thereon and when payable. The amount remaining unexpended in the treasury Honolulu, March 18th, 1907. PALMER P. WOODS, Senator Makekau moved that the Resolution be adopted. Seconded by Senator Woods and carried. At 2:22 o'clock, upon motion of Senator Hayselden, seconded by Senator Dowsett the Senate adjourned. WILLIAM SAVIDGE, Clerk of the Senate. Approved by the Senate. S. E. KALAMA, Vice-President of the Senate. TWENTY-THIRD DAY. Tuesday, March 19th, 1907. The Senate met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o'clock, the Vice-President in the Chair. After prayer by the Chaplain, the Roll was called showing Senator Brown, (reported sick), Dowsett and Bishop (reported sick), absent. The Journal of the Twenty-second Day was read and, upon motion of Senator Lane, seconded by Senator Hewitt, approved as read. A communication (No. 14) from the Secretary of Hawaii, notifying the Senate that the Governor had signed Acts 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, was read by the Clerk as follows: SECRETARY OF HAWAII, Honolulu, T. H., March 18th, 1907. Honorable E. Faxon Bishop, President of the Senate, Legislature of Hawaii. Sir: I take pleasure in informing your Honorable Body that the Governor has this day signed the following Bills: House Bill No. 17, Act 12, An Act to Amend Section 1824 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii Relating to Indemnity Bond. House Bill No. 4, Act 13, An Act to Amend Sections 1412 and 1418 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii. House Bill No. 60, Act 14, An Act to Amend Section 1369 for the House tion of I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, A. L. C. ATKINSON, The communication was ordered received and placed on file. A communication (No. 88) from the House of Representatives, notifying the Senate that it had sustained the veto of the Governor on Senate Bill No. 14, was read by the Clerk as fol lows: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Honolulu, T. H., March 16th, 1907. To the Honorable Preisident and Members of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. I have the honor to notify your Honorable Body that the House of Representatives of the Territory of Hawaii, on an Aye and No Vote, sustained the veto of the Governor on Sen ate Bill No. 14. Respectfully, JOHN H. WISE, The communication was ordered received and placed on file. A communication (No. 89) from the House of Representatives, notifying the Senate of its concurrence in the amendment made to House Bill No. 97, was read by the Clerk as follows: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Honolulu, T. H., March 18th, 1907. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. I have the honor to notify your Honorable Body that the Respectfully, JOHN H. WISE, Clerk, House of Representatives. The communication was ordered received and placed on file. A Memorial (No. 18) from a Committee of the Maui Teachers' Association, asking for an increase in salaries for the Teachers of the Territory of Hawaii, was read by the Clerk as follows: TO THE HONORABLE THE LEGISLATURE OF THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII. WHEREAS, three years ago the salaries of the teachers of the Territory of Hawaii were reduced twenty per cent; and WHEREAS, this reduction was stated at the time by the authorities to be only temporary; and, WHEREAS, the salaries at present are, in the majority of cases, less than the necessary expenses of living, and WHEREAS, this Territory makes no provision whatever for the support of its teachers who become incapacitated through sickness, accident or length of service; and, WHEREAS, in many cases the teachers must furnish their pupils with medical supplies as well as with materials for supplementary study; and, WHEREAS, the isolation of the positions of very many of the teachers is such as to necessitate the expenditure of considerable sums for travel; and, WHEREAS, the public emphatically demand that teachers shall conform to a respectable standard of dress, society and living, which standard cannot be attained upon the present diminished scale of the teachers' salaries; and, WHEREAS, in comparison with the salaries of corresponding positions on the mainland, our salaries were too low, even before the reduction; and, WHEREAS, many of the most capable teachers of Hawail are leaving the profession or the Territory through inability to subsist on the inadequate salaries now paid; and, WHEREAS, satisfactory service in the important work of education in this Territory can be expected only from teachers properly qualified and adequately paid; therefore be it RESOLVED, that we, the teachers of the County of Maui, regular annual convention assembled, do as voters and citizens of this Territory, hereby demand that the Legislature fulfill the ante-election pledges of the several party platforms on which its members were elected, by appropriating sufficient funds: in our First, to restore the teachers' salaries to the figure at which they stood prior to the reduction; and, Second, to provide for the increase in salaries as scheduled by the regulations of the Department of Public Instruction; and Third, to provide for the proper increase of those salaries which were absurdly inadequate even prior to the reduction, especially the salaries of those brave and ambitious young teachers, who, in most undesirable locations and under most difficult circumstances have struggled on, trusting to the promise of the Legislature that they should have justice as the financial condition of the Territory would permit, and, be it further soon as RESOLVED, that we strongly depreciate the language used by some members of the Legislature, referring to some old and faithful teachers as "fussy old maids," etc., as belittling the influence of teachers generally, and diminishing the proper regard in which the teachers and their work ought to be held. Most respectfully, F. P. ROSECRANS, CATHERINE L. MCKAY, W. I. WELLS, C. E. COPELAND. Committee, Maui Teachers Association. Wailuku, Maui, H. T., March 15th, 1907. |