The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-04-09

SoyE BHLs To PAY. some blunders to be,
if possible buried, some sores to be salved
by the hard cash Of the taxpayers. This
must be the ungratefuI task presented to
the notice Of the Legislature when 1t as
sembles on the 29th inst. For what pur
poses were these expenses incurred. from
which appropriations are they to be de
frayed. and what has the government to
show to the country for the eItrayagant
outlay which has been the principal fea-
tUre Of the past biennial period. To begin
with matters Of mere wantOn extravaganza
What Is the amount Of coronation expenses
yet unpaid7 In the Interior department
two examples Of '-biIls to pay" may be
quoted The late appropriation bill aIlot-
ted $4,000 for General expenses Board
Of Health Some weeks ago the Presi-
dent Of that Boad informed the public
that the vote had been Overdrsvn to the
extent Of $1,000, here then Is one item.
Expenses Of bureau. repairs and additions
to water works were granted $4,000. and
Of this we were told only 5000 remained
in hand when the present Minister took up
his appointment eight months ago. There
must Be another serious Oyerdrsft here.
although there Is little but empty piping
to show for It.
In the Foreign department We find the
vote for -EIpenses OF Foreign Missions
Washington not includedl >251OO. To
draw from this sum. transfers from votes
for other purposes being Illegal. are the
Missions Of AIessTs- hEpena and kaulukou
to Japan. that Of Messrs Iaukea and Poor
TO nearly every Court or capital IN Europe.
British India China and Japan covering
a period Of more than year Of travelling.
sightseeing and kOw- towing
Nessrs- Tripp and Clarke have been
sent with a Protest, and a rowing com
mission to fiUtter 1t IN the faces of
ignorant and possibly gullible savages
throughout the Southwest Pacific 1t
would certainly not be honest or lawful
TO charge the expenses Of these Missions
to any other vote, plainly not TO that for
Encouragement Of Immigration for a
population Then If there be not JdI
70 = paid for these, that particular $4,000
vii have g9ss JrrtlCr. all fruitless though
the IOuTneyIngs must be. than any other
sum IN the whole appropriation
But there i another entire class OF bills
70 pay, such as have never appeared IN the
National accounts before. They have been
incurred by the incapacity and bad faith
Of the Foreign Minister, the Board of
Health and the unqualified Attorney Gen
ersl, that Is, or these are the Premier
It may have been mere incapacity in the
administration Of these three departments
which brought about the HqdrHs muddle
which vii result IN 4 BIZ 70 I-Ey by this
people Of from thirty TO forty thousand
~ n II. l. L
zen rupGdIatlOn OF formal engagements
which imposed a heavy loss on Mr.. Flow
erdew and may yet appear as another 5H
70 P'E by this very patient people.
Precisely parallel TO the last. Is the case
Of Mr.. TheObsld- who complains that he
was deceived aud caused to lose consider
ably by the bad faith.o this government.
Here may be another 5iU to pay
There are now IN the immediate future
the British steamers Crusadcr and Arnbic.
and the American City II PeEiag from
Hong Kong or Yokohama all supposed TO
be bringing numbers Of free Chinese male
labOrers, and all OF neither. to be refused
permission to land their Passengers.
II Is not the object of this article to dis
cuss the wisdom OF otherwise. of restrict
ing or forbidding the importation of these
swarIRs Of male Chinese, our opinion
broadly stated Is tins, that such confined
influx Of low class male immigrants Is an
evil Of the first magnitude. and that the
Hawaiian government should be able to
efTectuaIly control OF absolutely 10 forbid
the traffic But the question III hand now
Is how 10 control OF to forbid
One might imagine that to such an as
tute diplOmatist as our present Foreign
Minister imagines himself to be, this
ought not Z Be dificult task. If taken IN
hand earnestly and honestly But what
do We sect the old fast-and-loOse game,
regulations made, cancelled rs-issued; en-
gag.ements with steamship companies
Llalne and .JJlfiI.tsd- everything IN con
fusion no one knowing the attitude which
the government really means to assume.
We have lately seen two steamers permit
ted 10 land their Chinese male uasseugers
and now We ara told that the next uuder a
different flag VIII not be allowed to ezer-
eise her treaty nights The question Of
the advisability Of receiving so many male
laboTers Is not undeE discussion here, the
question Is as to discrimination Of one ship
OF flag against another If there be an
other Madras muddle- there VIII be anOth-
OF bH % pg. To what good purpose Is It
that the Hawaiian government parades its