The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-20
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FRIDAY, JUNE 20. 1881.

lax Collectors and Assessors was
only raised in nine districts. These
are as follows: Honolulu, Koolau-
poke, Lahaina, Wailubu, Makawao,
Hilo, Kau South Kohala and Ha-
maltua.
With reference to His Excellcncv,
the Minister of Finances statement
concerning the resolution of the
Cabinet Council authorizing draft
upon the Loan Fund for 500 900.
which he maintains was perfectly
correct, | should like to ask his
Excellency what loan funds were
then in the Treasury? BY his report
he informs us that $1,000 worth
of bonds had been sold. He also
informs us by the same valuable re-
port that $780, 4S 90 had already
been dishursed from that fund. Now,
should like to know where the
$4,000 were to come from? 1t is
thus demonstrated that the Loan
Fund at that time owed the Hawaiian
Treasury the sum of 100000.
Under this resolution, of 5000
the sum of $62, 900 was drawn from
the Treasury for Government build
ings and hospitals, telephones and
telegeaphs. How was this money ex-
pended? Was it expended for the
purposes for which it was drawn? A
reference to page II of the finance
report will show the House for what
it was expended, The Hawaiian Car
rage Company got 81, 09 oS; Mr..
George Lucas received on accent of
contract S7,369 03; Lovejoy &
Co., for the cancellation of the lease
of their premises on Merchant street,
were paid 50, $50; Geo. w. Mac
farlane & Co., for warfage On water
pipe and interest on drafts, payment
of which had been refused, were paid
1926 so, and the pacfic Bridge
Company got $500.
l don't propose, Mr.. Chairman,
to devote very much time to the
remarks of His Excellency the Min
lister of Foreign Affairs. His verbo-
sity is proverbial, and he has not
gone behind his record on this occa-
sion. He has talked a great deal
and said little. He would divert the
attention of the House from matters
of grave Importance to indulge in
the puerile discussion of things of a
trivial nature. He talks turkey at
$3.50 bird, and avoids the subject
Of the disgracetul duplication of the
.4dUertiser'S bills. He also grew
lachrymose in the touching defense
of the corsets and the hustle which
were supposed in his sense of poll
teal economy, to pay for $4,000
worth of h0hilis at the coronation.
If these items, Mr.. Chairman, had
been charged to the coronation ac-
count, the Committee of Finance
would never have alluded to them,
but these articles were charged to
the incidentals of the Foreign Office,
and that is what has raised the ire of
the committee and that of every
honest member of the Assembly.
And appropriation was made to
defray the expenses of the coronation
of His Majesty. God save the King
If the appropriation was not suffi-
cient for the purpose intended, why
did not the Ministers charge every
penny expended for that laudable
purpose to the proper account, anC
then come before this House fol
indemnity. And, Mr.. Chairman
there is not patriotic member OF
this House who would not have
cheerfully given his vote for tha
object. But what did they do
They attempted to conceal and hide
their actions by spreading their dis
bursemonts for the coronation owe
several appropriations, as if the,
were ashamed of what they wer
doing. Honesty is the best policy
and if the Ministry had FOLLOWED
thot old adage, these remarks woul
have been unnecessary.
The Minister of Foreign Affair
has said that we have hunted tn
vouchers in his office as though W
were hunting Tor neeale III ia
stack. / thank him for the similC
for L can assure this House thu
looking for any document in thu
office is very much like trying to fin
needle in hay stack. 1t is eve
worse than the biblical parable abol
trying to pass camel through IL
eve of needle, for the camePs tas
would be Intimately easier than TIL
of the searcher after truth in Il
office of the Minister of Forcie
Affairs. Diogenes would not ha'
given up the job; he would new
have undertaken it. With referen
TO the charge of $3.50 for book
rules for volunteers, His EXcellen