The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-07-16

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district physicians, and get his en-
nifty, because that same party may
need the services of the physician the
next day, and it would be very un-
pleasant TO be subject to his ill-will
AT this point the House took re-
cess until p. IN.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House re-assemblcd at 1:1O
p. IN. and resumed the considera-
tion of the Governor bills.
Noble Smith, continuing, said:
He did not wish to occupy much
more time. There were ONLY two or
three points more upon which he
wished to speak. One point raised
in objection was the expense. He
would like to call the attention of
the House to the report of the
Auditor General. There were $3O,- r
600 assessed which were not col
lected. The assessors may have
done their dnty, but the Minister of
Finance cannot tell whether they
have or not. He believed that the
supervision of a capable man would
save his salary many times over.
So much for expenses. Some
of the duties are provided
to be performed by the sher-
ifs. They may do very well in
performing some of them, but the
principal item, that of assessing and
collecting of taxes is left with the
Minister of Finance in Honolulu. ,
The question will be asked, Why
don't you put all these duties on the
| sherlffs? The speaker thought it
would be very unwise TO do so, as
the sheriffs have by virtue of their
office very large and arbitrary pow
ers and if they do their duty as
such officers, they have all they can
do. A sheriff should be young
man, not necessarily in years, but
in activity and thought, while the
Governor should be a man of large
ability, staid, and steady in habits,
and conversant with the needs of
the Government. If any one at
tempts to coustrue these remarks as
an attack on the Ministry he does q
wrong. This is the same as the
Minister'S report on the audit Act,
and cannot be construed as an at
tack on them, any more than that
report is an attack on the Auditor
General. He then quoted the words
of the Minister of Finance regard
ing that Office. lie also quoted the
words of the committee to whom the
report of the report of the Minister
was referred, where they say that
they do not deem it advisable to do
away with the office of Auditor at
present. Does this report condemn
the Ministry? 1 think not. Now
the Ministry want the office of Gov
ernor abolished, the committee re-
commend the continuance of the
office, but the abolishing of its
abuses, and it is done in the same
spirit as the report from the select
committee on the Finance Minis
ters report. He therefore moved
to take up the substitute bill.
Rep. Kinney saidthat Noble Smith
wished to have supervisor over
each of the islands. He said that
the contention was for q local gov
ernment for each island, and to
take the control, or self govern
ment from Honolulu. When we
come down to the pith of this argu-
ment it resolves itself into local
self government as opposed to the
General Government. He did not
think this q display of insincerity
on the part of the Ministry, when
they step into the breach and say
this must not be so. They say if
that is the issue why don't you es-
tablish local self government, at
once? He said that was a dangerous
eNpedieut, but self government had
already been established in the out
districts, so far as it is consistent
with the class of people making up
the population. All the world over
there is always wide distinction
between matters to be left to local
self government and what shall not.
Our contention is, there are ccr-
tain rights that should go to local
self government and there are GER
tain things that should not 90 there.
This bill gives all rights to local
government and in this respect is
in. error. He spoke of local self
government in other countries and
how it worked. The committee
bill puts sole authority into the
hands of one man. The honorable
Noble Smith says that there are no.
, officials who need more Watching
than the doctors. Iagree with him,
but the manner in which he wishes
the control OF this important branch
of the government placed, is wholly
wrong. They should be governed
by the head of the department and
not by local authority. If Cover
nor goes around among the natives
and he sees the grief, and listens to
the stories of people who have been,
or are going to be sent away as lepers,
it is not in human nature to resist
the appeals of these poor afflicted
people, and no local officer should
be placed in such q position as to
control the ontionc of cuob N nhuci