The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-07-19
FHE LEGL@LATURB.
THIRTY-ToURTI DAY.
FErpAY. July IL.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

LaluS COHluilltCC Oll Nlit hidlNCt /,
question carried.
Minister Spencer announced print !
Cd aud ready for distribution the
report of the President of the Board
of Immigration.
Rep. kalua reported that he was
unable to get meeting of the judi
ciary committees, to consider bills
relating to the seats of justice in the
Second and Third Judicial Circuits
respectively. He announced that n
meeting of the committee would be
held Saturday morning.
Rep. Rosa had pleasure in pre-
senting the report of the committee
on resolution for an inquiry into
certain public rumors regarding the
abstraction OF contiscated opium
from the custody of the Custom
House and Police Station:
Hon. j. $. WALKER, President of
the Legislative Assembly-Sir The
special committee appointed under
the following resolution:
Whereas the public press of this
city has lately tccmed with charges
of alleged thefts of opium from the
custody of the police and customs Of
ficials of the kingdom, and especial
ly from the Police Station and Gus
tom House of Honolulu, therefore,
Resolved, That Il select committee
of five members of the House be ap-
pointed with instructions to inves-
tigate thoroughly all facts connected
with the seizure, custody, sale, cN-
port and accounting for all opium
which during the last two years has
come into possession of the police or
customs officials of Honolulu. to re-
port from time to time the facts
found by them, and to report such
recommendations by bill or other
wise, as to such committee shall
seem proper,
Beg leave to report as follows:
The first place visited was the Gus
tom House, where considerable evil
! dence was taken, and the care and
custody of the opium investigated,
and here it seems right to condemn
the loose manner in which opium is
and has been taken care of by the
customs officials, it having been kept
in a room which is accessible to any
and all employees and at all times.
We had our attention particularly
directed to the facts concerning two
lots of opium which we will call re-
spectively the Kahului and f. T..
opium. The first or Kahului lot,
consisting of 298 tins, was seized at
kahului in June, 1889, and sent to
the Marshal, who kept it at the
Station House for nearly year, and
then sent it to the Custom House.
From the evidence presented to the
committee, we are Of the opinion
that the opium was packed in nor
west boxes and sent to, and duly
received by the Police Department
by which it was kept, and that there
after, at the request of the Custom
House officials, boxes were on OF
about the first day of April, 1890,
sent down to the Custom House.
From the evidence adduced, which
is very conflicting, it is difficult fol
this committee to say whether the
boxes sent to- the Custom House
from the Station House were the
same as received from Kahului. The
evidence of the Marshal, his subor
dinates and others establish the fac
that one of the boxes was leallin.
opium and was stamped on the out
side at the time Of the transfer anC
that they were the same as sent from
Kahului and had address mark on t.
u. II. Soper, Marshal" but tina
the boxes now at the Custom Hous
were not the same which were sen
from the Station House.
They were delivered by the Mar
shall to Mr.. Turrill, representing tn
Custom House, in a baggage wagon
driven by young Portuguese boy
who was accompanied by Mr.. Turril
and Capt. Hopkins of the Polio
Department to the Custom House
where Mr., Turrill disappeared, leav
ing Captain Hopkins to deliver them
Captain Hopkins asked the custom
officials to sign receipt, alread
written out by the Marshal, for tn
boxes of opium, which the Custor
House officials refused to give, an
afterwards receipt was given 70
the boxes "said to contain opium.
The evidence at the Custom Hous
is to the effect that the boxes deliv
cred there were redwood, had no ad
dress mark, and that one was leak
ing and stained on the outside, tina
they were taken upstairs to the Col
lector-GeneraPs office, who seein
that one of the boxes was leakin
ordered them moved into the SC
called opium room. The opiur
room where the leaking box was sc
down shows the marks of opium O
the floor. One of the native EN-
ployees testified that when the leak
ing box was placed there, that Their
was no opium on the floor.
On the 18th of May the so Gale
Kahului opium boxes were opene
and found to contain bricks an
straw. The Marshal g. ii. Soper
being notified, went down to tn
Custom House and upon examinin
them, informed the Customs official
that those (two redwood) boxe
were not the ones sent down frol