The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-11-19

JlOn ana arrangement Oh 1OVeTn-
ment archives and preparing a Ha-
waiian photography.
The apparent reduction of S52,695
is made up of the following items:
a reduction of $1,000 or 10 percent
from the Minister'S salary; $1,000 or
Is percent from the Secretary's sal
ary; striking out an item of $1,000
for clerical aid and expenses at
Washington, thus making the posi-
tion of the highest and most import
ant representative of the country
abroad of lower value than that of
his commercial subordinate at San
Franchises; reducing the item of
state entertainments $4,000 or 60 per
cent; striking off $4,000 or 10 per
cent from the appropriation for the
Queens Guards, and S13,950 or 2S
percent from the appropriation for
Band, flags and salutes; and, count
ing the appropriations for the ex-
penses of foreign agents and the
Worlds Fair as one against that for
the last period for the same objects,
viz: Expenses of Foreign Agents
and the Paris Exposition, striking
off $1,000 from this item; emitting
altogether the appropriations in the
last period of $4,000 for the educa-
tion of Hawaiian youths abroad, and
5000 for the relief and return of in
digent Hawaiians; and the non
insertion of any similar appropri
ations to the following, which were
inserted in last period but have not
been required this period, viz: $4245
for the claims of G. G. Moreno and
A. w. Herring, and $500 for aid to
volunteer military companies now
abrogated by law. The other appro-
priat ons are the same in name and
amount for both periods. These re-
ductions amount to S5S,695, against
which must be set off the increase
caused by the new item of $4,000 for
the preservation of government ar
chives, leaving the balance, $52, ,695.
1t will be seen from what has been
stated above that $2l,745 of this
amount is not due to actual reduc-
ton, but is caused by the omission
of objects previously appropriated
for, leaving $36,950 to the credit OF
the Legislatures desire for retrench
ment which they have partly offset
by making an appropriation of $4,000
for an entirely new purpose. The
reductions made may be classified
as follows: S25,95O off the expendi
ture for the Military and Band
$1,000 off salaries, $4,000 by making
the Minister'S post at Washington
worthl ess than his commercial subor
dinates at San Francisco, $1,000 les
for agents in foreign countries, ano
$1,000 less for entertaining distin
guished guests and other state func
# tions. 1t will be remembered tha
t the reduction in the amount for tn,
band caused strike of the bant
boys at the time it was passed which
was only got over by the then Min
lister promising to have the amour
: of reduction materially lessened OF
the third reading of the bill, so tina
even this small reduction of $3O,95
will partly disappear before the bill
is passed. We have made no com
ments as to the policy of the variou
reductions, leaving that for the pres
'' ent to individual opinion, simpl.
pointing out the nature of each an,
its effect. Another fact. TO be remem
: bered is that many of these amount
simply represents the limit whicl
p the Legislature has set to Ministeria
: expenditure for the objects nance
f snd it does not necessarily follow tina
d the full amount appropriated wi
n be spent.
a The appropriations for Foreig
Affairs including military matter
= were in 1860, $64, ,728.15; in 1877:
! $94, 100; in 1874, $67,O7O; in 1871
\ 1913, ,O86.36; in 1873, SlO5,6OO; in 1881
: $133, 100; in 1882, $259, 1850; i
a 1884, $245, 5,934.36; in 1886, 1920, O,84S.3.
q in 1888, $1s7, ,933.34. 1t will be OF
" served that the increase was stead
n with the exception of 1874 frol
"a 1862 to 1886, but the proportion ths
10 the amounts for the military (inclut
a ing Volunteer Companies, Ban'
If Flags, Salutes, Munitions of Wa
= etc.) bear to the whole has shown
in rather steady decrease, as will b
ir seen from the following. Thirty
i two years ago the military item
l. footed up $46,528.l5 or about 73 pc
n cent; twenty years ago, $68,OOO {
h about ~ percent, ten years ag
"a $l22, ,266.50 or about 48 percent; ri
n ing in 1886 with $189,498.34)
% about 60 percent, and, even in til
Raform rarinna in 1899 Imith S111