The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-21

Rep. Thurston---You cannot buy
me with a tax assessorship.
Rep. Hayselden-What do YOU
mean, sir?
Rep. Thurston--What ever Won
like to make it.
Rep. Hayselden-Do you mean to
say was bought with the assessor
ship?
Rep. Thurston-You may apply
the remark any way you please.
Rep. Hayselden-I demand to
know what you mean by such an in
situation.
Rep. Thurston--I should like to
know what right the member for
Honolulu has to question me. /
have no other answer to give him if
he waits till doomsday.
Rep. Hayselden continued to de-
mand an explanation of the remark,
until the chairman raped for order,
saying there was evidently mis-
understanding between the honorable
members.
Rep. Brown said that the combin-
ed amount for tax assessors and
collectors in the Appropriation Bill
of 1884 was $64, 900, which was
afterward reduced, according to re-
vised estimates, to S54, 900. The
expenditure was $50, 4S4.93, being
$4,000 less than the amount asked
for by the present bill, and the
amount recommended in the revised
estimates was $4,000.
Rep. Hayselden said if the tax
bill passed the Government would
be in receipt of more taxes, and it
might be necessary, therefore, to
have an increased appropriation.
Rep. Castle had been tax assessor
in Honolulu himself, and knew thatat
that time there was considerable
more than four months work. He
considered that the assessor of Ho-
nolulu should be salaried officer.
He would move this item pass at
100000, and for special item of
$4,000 for salary of Honolulu asses
sor, with $1,000 for clerk hire and
assistance.
Rep. Aholo thought the PROPOSE
ton of the hon. member for Wal
luku would increase the expenses.
He favored S33, 900 for all.
Rep. Thurston said the expense
last period exclusive of Honolulu
was only $4,000. If they adopted
the member for Wailuku's proposal
the service would only cost S25, 800.
Rep. Dickey objected to tax
assessors voting on this question.
Rep. Castle said that was part of
the law. No member having an in
terest in a question could vote on
it.
Rep. Aholo said he was not in the
house in the capacity of an assessor,
but representative.
Rep. Hayselden said the matter
was in the hands of the Minister of
Finance, who could pay half per-
cent if he chose.
Rep. Castle moved the pay of
tax collectors pass at $26, 900, as in
the revised estimates, instead of
$31 900.
Rep. Hayselden moved it pass as
in the bill.
Passed at S31 900.
The item of $1,000, pay of tax
appeal board, passed.
Rep. Thurston, on the item of
$267, 900, national debt falling due,
asked the Ministers if that included
debt falling due during this period;
also, how the floating debt reported
to the house was to be paid.
Minister Gibson answered in the
affirmative to the first question,
and, with regard to the second, that
the floating debt would be paid after
the Appropriation Bill was passed.
In answer to further question, as
to the authority upon which the
Ministry had overdrawn the Appro-
priation Bill to the amount of $780,
600 before its passage, he referred
the house to the Indemnity Bill.
Rep. Dickey said the Indemnity
Bill was for money paid out of the
treasury.
Rep. Thurston said the Minister
of the Interior was up to his old
game of lodging. The Ministry
had robbed the appropriations in ad.
vance. BY the Government acting
in this way the Legislature was
made mere puppets, spending day
after day discussing whether this or
that should be expended, while the
Ministers went on spending money
as they pleased. So long as the
Ministers were doing this, the mem
bers of the Assembly were only
making fools of themselves. 18Th ~
Minister Creighton called the hon.
members attention to the fact that
the vote was for national debt fall
ing due.
Rep. Thurston intended to vote
for this, but those facts coming out
he had to protest against the course
of the Government.
Minister Gibson said the hon.
member had INDUCED in q deal of
rant, or, to use his own expression,
rot. Although he was not in the
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