The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-05-17

employers, OF course IL went To inc
credit of their respective accounts.
When these drafts were paid they
went to the debit side.
Rep. DuIe-I have been waiting
for an answer to Mr.. Castles ques-
ton--a very pertinent one-by what
authority was this money paid. This
whole arrangement is on the
strength of verbal understanding
with the japanese. There is not
word in the treaty about it. 1t is
provided under the contracts, briefly,
that one-quarter of the money shall
be retained and placed in some
fund. The Minister of Interior
says the authority for this proceed
ing is under the law of last session
for Hawaiian Postal Saving.
Bank. should like to ascertain if
the Minister has consulted his col
league, the Acknowledgement. 1t
is almost incredible that he could
deviate 50 materially from this
law, because il is entirely on a
verbal understanding with the
japanese Government. The Minis
ter gets authorityifor acting from
this Legislature, not from the
japanese Government. The Postal
Savings act authorizes the Postmas-
ter-General and his employees and
none others, and section 9 author
lies the repayment of these moneys.
There is no other authorization
whatever. Here is n law of four
teen sections restricting and guard
ing this matter in every particular
The Government are acting out
side of this law. They have not
established Il savings bank under it,
but bank in the treasury office.
1t is not a savings bank under this
law. | think the Minister of the
Interior deserves censure for ignor-
ing SO completely the laws of last
Legislature. This is not the place,
perhaps, to speak of that, but | be-
lieve in urging strictness in keeping
to the laws passed by the Legs
lature, or else there will be no end
of trouble. l suppose we are justi-
fled in believing that the Auditor
General is posted in regard to this
matter, and that these receipts have
passed under his supervision, and
that when his report comes in we
shall have full information. We
have no understanding when these
amounts may be demanded. They
may be demanded when there is no
money in the treasury, and we may
lie in position when the japanese
Government may dictate to us, OF
the Government may have to either
give the money illegally or ignore
the claims of that Government. This
postal savings bank was intended
for the benefit of the middle class
of every Observation-Disclosures
Chinese, Hawaiians-and they have
adopted new principle of starting
savings bank for japanese only.
| should like very much to know
also why the Hawaiian Postal Saw
Jugs Bank act was not carried out.
Minister Gibson wished to reply
to on point-that this was only 6
l mer ve' Dal understanding. He
reaC from his report of Foreign AT
fairs, to show that the arrangement
in question was n matter of CORES
pondence and not merely of CONVEX
satlOn.
Noble Rhodes-All these ques
i, tons and answers give n certain
amount of information, but on TIN
' whole it is very fragmentary ant
y very unsatisfactory. l think, and
Z cannot get over it, that we are pre-
u mature in discussing this Appro
priation Bill. We ought to have tn
=. reports of the Ministers in before dis
y cussing it. For my part | SHOULD
Z have had some curiosity to see hoy
Il some of these accounts would b
checked in the Auditor-General'
It books-I do not know whether h
keeps books. | should like to Sc
IS copies and extracts from his book
l. and certificates of amounts paid
c But here is certain incongruity i
II the replies given by Ministers t
II questions which have been aske
II them. There is an appropriate
IL asked for, for the payment of intel
II est on the japanese fund, of tire
l. thousand dollars. But what abou
&c the fund itself? If this Governmer
&c is acting as savings bank for tn
le japanese Government, they mus
vs. be called upon to pay part of TIL
1t money deposited in that bank. An
Is If these receipts Of deposit in til
1t treasury have been made and hay
been paid out without the sanctio
II of the Audtor-General, they hav
d been paid out altogether without til
&c authority of law. ! understand b
.e the Ministers that such payment
have been made. If these pay
sc ments have been made, they hay
y been made contrary to law. An
Is if they are to be repeated in futur
1t there ought to be provision mad
for them in the Appropriate
4 Bill. For all these reasons
9 look upon all these matters with
At great deal of dissatisfaction, and
st cannot see how the Assembly ca