The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-08-23

saw them. He had other accounts
which were submitted to them pre-
viously, but those had all been in
serted in the Appropriation Bill the
other day. These bills were first
shown to him by the Minister of
/ Foreign Affairs, and he had examined
them along with his colleagues and
they seemed to be only matters Of
personal expenses.
Messrs. Plipo, Nakaleka and
Aholo spoke in favor of referring
the accounts to the Finance Com
mittee.
Mr. Gibson wanted to say few
words, first in reply to the honorable
member for Lihue (Mr. Dole), who
in his usual vehement style was
making charges against the Minis.
ters for incompetence, neglect and
so forth. There was a matter Of
accounts, no one of which had origi-
mated in any of the Departments.
They had been brought to him by
His Majesty's Chamberlain, who lie
thought was the proper party to
bring them before this House. The
accounts were given him few days
ago and he gave them tn the Finance
| Committee. 1t was not matter for
the Department of the Interior. He
admitted that it was rather late
day, but the members of the Finance
Committee had an opportunity to
look at them. He did not get the
opinion of any member of tha FL
nance Committee, but left the mat
ter to themselves. He should like
to get their opinion, and should
therefore support the motion to refer
the matter to them.
Mr.. Hitchcock said he would like
to know what this House had to do
with any expenses originating at the
palace. What had they to do with
any money not expended by the
Government? Was His Majesty's
Chamberlain to go Oh laying out
money at the palace and come in
here and ask this House to pay il?
Mr.. Iscnberg-It is brought in
here by the Minister of the Interior
Mr.. Hitchcock--Not as from the
Government, but from His Majesty's
Chamberlain. Why not pass him
the keys of the safe at once and let
him help himself. If this is not
brought in by member of the
Government, why should they pay
the bills? Every member who would
vote for that would transgress his
oath. Where was the end to he if
this carried? There was no way to
put stop to unauthorized eXpendi-
lures if they paid accounts like that.
There was an amount appropriated
for Government buildings, and this
was Government building, and why
not have this expenditure, if
Legitimate, paid in that way? Nothing
is said about this large item until
they were almost ready to close the
session. He had been in that House
nearly five months, and it was not
fair to ask members TO spend time
now discussing those matters that
had no right to be there. There
were all sorts of items in the state
ment, such as reception Of foreign
guests at Coronation, and there were
no less than six different headings
under which those bills were charged.
A. large portion of those items came
purely under household expenses of
His Majesty. To refer the accounts
to the Committee at this late day
was useless. What was the use of
giving them accounts going back as
far as 1882 to report ON now? What
they felt most keenly was that this
matter should have been left till the
last moment, too late for investiga-
ton. Balances that might involve
searching out accounts for years
back, they were asked to report
upon in few hours. The reception
of foreign guests at Coronation came
under the Department of Foreign
Affairs. (Minister Gibson said he
did not know such were in the bills. }
1t was not. proper for the House to
pay those bills. If any injustice