The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-05-26

= Oar legislative report will be found on
tbe first page. bringing the proceedings down 70
TUESDAY II Il amusing TO notice the facility
with which tie Assembly votes large sums
for various worthy and unworthy objects. and
provides for increased salaries. Tie total Of the
appropriations for 1867 promises new 10 reach
nearly S9e0, Goa rather liberal sum for q
small people. in debt 70 the extent OF half 4 years
income. No one supposes that there Is any IN
tention Of spending $500, coo. The only motive
then in passing II Is TO enable the Ministers TO
have 4 large appropriation AZ their Command TO
be Used - they choose. The income Of the Gov
eminent during the current two years viii not be
far from $3.50, 900. This should be the limit Of
new appropriations. The balance in the treas
-ury should be held 10 meet the public debt (SlS!,-
765 25) and the interest accruing on the same
(S25 ,0O0.) as it may fall due.
i special effort will be made 10 engineer
through the paper money bill, and with strong
probability Of success, as. it Is said, the patronage
Of the Ministers viii be used with that object in
view. II IS rumored that important inducements
have already been held out 70 certain members,
evidently with q view 10 influence their votes.
When discussing the hOopifmeaai OF parasite
motion last week. Minister Harris said that the
Ministers were poor. and therefore could not be
charged with attempting to influence votes Of
members. The Ministers hare patronage in their
control, and though it may not be legally a bride
TO offer a representative the gift of tax-collector
or the nomination Of that officer. it is the next
thing to a bribe. If the paper money bill passes,
the public will not be ar a loss TO guess how it is
done.
Speaking of paper money, the Gazette says that
- paper is convenient and of small expense, while
specie Is cumbersome, and costs the people twelve
per cent. interest per annum on the amour. in 4
circulation" Does it pretend that the interest
on paper is or will be less than on gold? Such
Is absurd, and must have been penned
in q cell Of the Insane Asylum.
Paper money viii be the greatest curse ever in
on this people-the maj Pake, venereal and
smallpox not excepted. 1t will not be twenty
after its issue, before counterfeits will be
in circulation, and natives will never be able TO
tell the genuine from the spurious. And before
that period elapses paper money viii be az a
discount, and gold at d premium, or a law max
them legal tender, and compelling every one
to receive them when offered. will be forced
through the Legislature. If the Ministers are
on issuing paper money, let them go
ahead. They have once attempted to make a
copper currency, and also a dime currency, with
2ut ~success-perhaps they will succeed better
with shin-plasters.
On Thursday the sum of $4,000 a year was
7oted for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and a proposition
made to vote 1900 a year for a clerk for the
same officer. Is il the intention of Government
o import a ready made Attorney, one who is
conversant with the Hawaiian Ian
,uage, as the Acknowledgement Act requires,
md vigil versed in Hawaiian law? OF course
le mkt be of the Church and State tripe.