The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1871-11-15

to enter the wedge and to conduct the country. b,
gradual and nsidious means into the trap which /
: now diselosed-the pretended necessity for incur
ring national debt"
There has been no time when any
5 Cabinet has LEFT Office In this country
: Such writing is a mere imitation Of
writers in other countries. The changes
in the Hawaiian Cabinet have always
been personal and gradual DIR. Judd
left the Treasury Sept. 9th, 1853, and was
succeeded by Mr. Allen, the rest of the
Cabinet remaining as before. Mr.. Young
died IN August, 1857, and his present
Majesty, then Prince Kamehameha. who
had for some time been performing his
duties, succeeded to the office; In
1857 chiefJustice Lee died, and Nh.
Allen was transferred from the Treasury
to the Bench, and Mr.. Gregg took Judge
Aliens place in the Treasury. In Nov.
1862, Mr.. Gregg resigned, and Mr. Hop
klns was appointed to the Treasury
Upon the death of Kamehameha "
November 80, 1868, Judge Robertson
accepted the situation of Minister of the
Interior, which he held for short time
and then went back to the Bench. his
services there having been found to be
indispensable. Mr.. Hopkins left the
Finance Department in 1888. and was
succeeded by Mr. de Varigny. and upon
the transfer of Judge Robertson back to
the Bench, Mr.. Hopkins took charge of
the Interior Department, and continued
IN charge until he was about to leave the
country in company with her Majesty
Queen Emma, when the present Minister
OF Interior took the office. Mr.. Willie
died Oct. 1e, 1865, when Mr.. de varigny
was transferred from the Treasury to the
Foreign Office, and Mr.. Harris from the
Attorney-General's Office to the Treasury,
and Mr.. Philips took the Attorney-Gene-
rails place. Mr.. de yarigny resigned
the Foreign Office in Nov, 1869, and Mr..
Harris was transferred from the Treasury
to the Foreign Office, DIR. Smith taking |
the Treasury Thus it viii be seen that
no Cabinet has ever left office at all: that
out of the changes made, four have been
caused by death and two by leaving the
the changes have always
been gradual. so that the sentence
g Each succeeding Cabinet left Office with
money in the Treasury, and not dollar
in debt" is mere rodomontade.
With regard to the national debt.
there has been no time since 1855
when it can, with any truth, be said that
none existed. In that year the pur-
chase of the WaikahaluIu water lots.
directly makai of the Court House, for
$4,000, was made by bonds bearing /;
'emi-annual interest, and the improvement |
If those water lots, which now constitute {
he Esplanade, was started. On March !
list, 1858, the amount of Exchequer bills {
,ut was $28,75O, of which $4,000 bore c
interest at IS per cent, the balance at L
? per cent. On March 3Ist, 1860, the e
ublic debt amounted to $I2s,777 SO. v
10000 of which were for the water o
works. According to Mr. Gregg's last r
eport on March 10, 1862, the public t
ebt amounted to $1s9,o42 70, and it is n
yortby Of remark that the amount of is
ertifcates Of deposit which the writer in a
uestion says I" is straw indicating the a
ERECTION of the coming breeze" amounted G
/ that yearto 81 ,696. In 1864, March 3Ist, a
Ir. de Varigny reported the public debt D
5 $l66,649 o. In 1866, Mr.. Harris S,
sported the public debt to be, on March h
LIST, slS2,9T4 co, adding at the same d
me that $4,000 had been issued, in r,
bedience to law, to retrieve the Royal Il
oman from membranes. In 1868, IL
Lr Phillips, acting for Mr.. Harris, re- "
orted the public debt at $l2O,s15 90. o
| 1870 DIR. Smith reported on March al
LIST, the public debt to amount to
Il2, 800 What sense, therefore, in the
ce of the above facts, is there in this
sit remained for the present
Rulers to enter the wedge and conduct an
the country, by gradual and insidious R
means, into the trap, which is now dis ha
closed = the pretended necessity for ., .,