The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-05

D1ll I'D IlGTOuuc6 anu ESTABLISH u lou
terry under Government management.
This was defeated, not without eXer-
lion, by the Independent party"
Both these statements are false.
Ministers discountenanced the Lot
terry Bill from the first, and as 20 how
the Bill was defeated we need not go
any farther than the division list on
the occasion to prove the Haaoaita,a's
statement untrue.
'HThe session was wound up by an
indemnity bill, condoning the waste
and Irregularities exposed by the
Finance Committee, and practically
encouraging similar jobberies and
extravaganza for another biennial
period"
The Indemnity Bill condoned
nothing except what was disclosed
in the statement laid before the
House,by the Minister of Finance at
the opening of the session, and moth
ing was ever brought forward to show
that a single item of the unauthor-
ICED expenditures covered by it were
not absolutely necessary ones, or that
a single instance of WASTE occurred
in connection. with any one of them.
The opposition We're indeed peculiarly
shy about going into the details of
these expenditures. They raved about
them as if they were peculations--to
go into the merits of the items them
selves would h ave taken ali the wind
out of their hypocritical declama-
ton.
"TO invent frequent postponements
and evasions on the Madras cores
pondence."
Here again reference to published
documents, which every newspaper
writer ought to have at hand, shows
the untruth of the statement. The
last letter in the published cores
pOndence bears date March 18th, and
was addressed to Major Wodehouse
by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The answer to it bears date of De-
cember 9th. The postponement,
therefore, if any, was on the other
plenty of good reason for it. The
Opposition editors having, fignra-
lively speaking, staked their last
cent ON the Government getting into
trouble through their patriotic con-
duet in the ''Madras' case, are very
anxious that the communication
from the British Government should
be answered inconsiderately. This is
not the first hint that we have seen
of this desire. Perhaps the writer in
the Havoi5dn may object to his
words being called a lie, because,
after all, they do but insinuate one.
But of all lies, the lie insinuatory is
the most damnable. There are some
theirs of the same class in the subse-
quent portion of the article. We
will only clip one more extract from
among them.
s'The only thing the Government
can do is to cut down expenses, and
take immediate steps TO lessen the
currency difficulty. Neither Course
of action seems likely to be taken in
hand"
From the day that they were pre-
scented to the Legislature with an APP
priation act calling for the expedi-
ture of double the, revenue, Ministers
have ''taken in hand' the cutting
down of expenses. If they had not
done so with most sedulous care there |
would have been trouble in the coun-
try before now. The success with |
which they have grappied with the
difficult problem put before them is
as tgall and wormwood1 to OPPOSE |
ton editors and would-be Opposition |
leaders. AS to the currency diff |
Guilty" let us hope they will succeed |
IN their endeavor to save the tax
payers in general from being mulcted |
III any more profits and commissions. |
Already an enormous draft has been |
made on the Treasury to sustain the |
the profits made by those gentleman |
who imported the various denomina-
tions of silver coin which have been |
called in. The Currency Act was |
bring the Government into embar- |
rassment; a fact which neither it's |
promoter, DR.. Mott Smith, |
nor Ministers seem to have been /
sharp enough to notice at the time. |
Where the erroneous information |
gathered by the Committee of the |
Legislature as to the quantity of |
Mexican and ether fereign silver in
the country came from, we do not |
pretend to know. We believe the |
members of that Committee were |
sincere in their desire to make the
Act workable one, and one which
would enable the country to get over
the great change to be imposed upon
it, without any serious strain. So
far as they failed in this they failed
for want of having the actual facts
Of the case before them, and it has
fallen on the shoulders of Ministers
to steer the country through the diff
ficulty. They haze ''taken in hand'
the matter, and we have every conf
dence that they will 'lessen" it con-
until it disappears.
Trouble i'm Plymouth Church.