The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-07-31

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pairing this country with others, he
thought one judge ought to do for
the whole country.
Mr.. Baker spoke against the bill,
after which the question was put and
resulted in the bill being indefinitely
postponed.
The House adjourned at a O'Clock
until 10 O'Clock Am. on Thursday.
THURSDAY, July 81.
The House met at 10 A. NJ.
After prayer by the Chaplain, the
minutes of the preceding day were
read and adopted.
Mr.. Cecil Brown, by request, was
granted two weeks leave of absence.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The House went into Committee
of the Whole for the consideration
of the Appropriation Bill, Mr.. Naka-
leka in the chair.
Mr.. Hitchcock moved to insert an
item for Professor of Chemistry in
Oahu College, $4,000.
Minister Kapena said that item
would be more appropriate among
appropriations for the Board of Edu-
cation He added that the keeper
of the museum had suggested that
she would be thankful if $500 for
the biennial period was granted for
boy to assist her.
Mr.. Hitchcock allowed his motion
to lie over.
Appropriations for the Finance
Department were taken up.
Salary of Minister, $4,000.
Moved by Mr.. Cecil Brown, and
carried, that the item be reduced to
$1,000.
Salary of Auditor General, SlO,-
900. Mr.. Kanealii moved the item
be struck out of the bill. Mr.. Kau
lukou moved that it pass as in the
bill.
The question was warmly discussed
for nearly an hour by Messrs. Ma
wahi, Kapena, Palohau, Kauhane,
Kalua, Kaulukou and Kaunamano in
Hawaiian.
Mr.. Dole said the object of the
office of Auditor General was to be
a check upon the payment of public
moneys. With some amendments
the law would be benefit. A bill
to amend the Act was before this
House few days ago and killed. 1t
provided that the Auditor General
should be appointed by the Legisla.
ture instead of by the Government.
The reason why such all amendment
was necessary was that the officers
upon whom the Auditor General was
intended to be check are not the
proper ones to appoint him. Now,
the Ministers know this as well as
anyone, but they do not want any
check, and so by the assistance of their
paid follows they killed that amend
ment. This House has a perfect
right to appropriate moneys and to
refuse to appropriate moneys. II
this House find out that the work of
| the Auditor General for the last two
years has been useless, it should not
make q new appropriation for the
office. If hire servant to do q
| certain kind of work and he does
not do it, l need not pay him. The
Auditor General has been paid to dc
q certain kind of work and he has
not done it. If we find this money
has been of no use, we ought
to save it to the country. In
the old countries there is class
of men whose business it is to patch
up marble statues when they are
broken and to fill up cracks. SC
far as l can see this Ministry repre-.
sents some cracked marble statuary
and the Auditor-General has de-
voted his whole time to patching up
and making things smooth. This is
not what we pay him for, and we dc
not want that work to go on for the
next two years. / am satisfied that
if we take ten thousand dollars ir
silver certificates, seal them up and
pitch them over the Pail, it would
do just as much good as the pro-