The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-06-18

nom the material laid before them II Is
evident that It might have been very much
extended Enough however. Is shown In
the fifty threeIpages that. the Report com
prises, to prove that the charges Of waste
fitness, corruption and Illegal dealing
which have been brought against the Glib
son Ministry are fully substzntiated.
We find that the Committee character
izes the contract system Of the Government
a. ~disgrscetul- That contracts would
not have been awarded at such prices IN
less some profit accrued tberetrom to the
Minister who signed them that the result
Of the Audit Act has been TO provide "a
way for proAigate Ministers to shift re
sponsibilify OF Illegal acts to the shoulders
u weak and incompetent official Such
language has only one meaning. There
L no euphemism about II. If directly
charges the Ministers with Illegal action.
and IN one case with something very Ike
bribery,
But We must not pursue genersliies, let
u come to facts. and these We lay before
our readers II the order that the Commit
tee have treated the various matters.
The Department Of the Attorney Gen
eral Is first reviewed Here. within the
last ten months $500 have been expended
Tor outside legal help, The bonds case,
the GAzETTE charter case, advice TO T. H
Hayselden. tax assessor. and such ike civil
-netters have been charged to criminal ex-
penses- Expenses Of Attorney General
were light I'll Paul Neamann camein- He
IN three months charged 500 expenses to
kauai. instead Of the usual $50. and with
! his assistants ran mp bill of $50 for ex-
press hire Capt Tnpp got 800 from this
| department. what for Is unknown and dur
/ Ing Mr.. Gibson's incumbeney Of the of6ce
81 were psidto zone Carson ian employe
Of the P G -4doaftszrI for certain fraitless
secret service expeditions On this latter
item we can throw q little light. Carson.
/ before starting on the secret service. :
/ came to our Office and offered his services
a. correspondent. We refused. but be
represented himself In the light of an or
| ponent Of the Ministry on Maui and Ha-
wan trying to worm out Of our eorrespon-
dents and others on those islands Their
/ plans for the election campaign. and stated
I that he rspuesented the GAZETTE, For
I N---1 --N--- ia u VIVA nave
pad out OF the public funds
The most glazing outrage, committed
during the time W N Gibson acted q
Attorney General was that the public
funds were used for dc9.dIag Csspar, the
Hilo homicide. This mans hands were
| dyed with the blood Of two men: and the
same PIE t0-z. Attorney General refused to
prosecute him and allowed him to Wall
out Of the country scot free Why vas
public money used TO defend him why
was he allowed to get off The answer
seems 70 be very simple. he also was spy
Of the Government, and TO have put him
on tua would have revealed things that
II were better were untold For somewhsi
similar reasons the Chinese Constables
AkzDs and Ahona got one hundred dollars
/. worth Of legal advice, when charged with
crime. As the Report most Justly SAYS
the appropriation was for the egpreLeasioa
Of criminals not for their prseoz5oz= Tei
the latter view was the one that VI. II
Gibson took when he was II ofice-
lie armed force amounted police
have been looked into and the fact that
$500, proportion Of cost Of battery has
been charged to this fund, calls for the