The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-17

has been made here cannot but |
,hake the confidence of depositors,
and our postal bank can never be-
come a success until we have
learned that its head must be
above the plane of partizan war
fare, not to be elected with every
change of ministry.
The Auditor urges that all
school funds be paid into the
treasury and points out that the
present Board of Education en-
dorses this view and recommends
that it be carried out.
With regard to the road tax and
the law of the Road Board, the at
tention of the Legislature is also
called to the fact that the large
amount of funds at the disposal of
the various road boards are practi-
cally subject to the dictation OF
the board without any check what
soever, and suggests what is very
true, that the road board law is
one which looks toward decentrali-
cation, but that it could hardly
have been the intention of the Act
to get rid of a responsibility in the
expenditure of public moneys. 1t
is pointed out that in one instance
where the Minister of Interior en-
deavored to compel some supervis-
| ion of expenditure by rendering of
accounts to Honolulu, the chair
man of the country road board
coolly drew upon the Minister of
Finance directly and got his money.
The attention of the Legislature
is also drawn to the matter of con-
tingent appropriations, which are
covered by Section 4 of the APP
preparation Bill. The Auditor
thinks that the object of Section 1
is to provide all of the moneys
needed by the Government for the
biennial period, but in case any
unforeseen emergency should arise
requiring greater expenditure than
the allowance covered by Section 1,
and without which expenditure
| great hardship would result, some
additional and further appropria-
tons were made by Section 4. 1t
appears in fact that the Cabinet
treats Section 4 as a simple appen-
| dix of Section /, and draws upon
| those appropriations as though
they belonged to Section 1.
The subject of general appropri-
atoms is also commented upon,
and the suggestion is thrown out
that public interests and economy
might be subserved by the direct
appropriation of funds for large
works which, by the decision of
the Supreme Court and the I'M
questionable intention of all Legis-
latures, limits the amount to be-
expended upon particular work.
The particular instance covered is
that of the Waikiki sea wall, which
consumed about half of the appro-
priation for roads and bridges for
this district.
The Auditor further points to a
very few instances where he has re-
fused to audit, and practically lays
the matter before the Legislature
for its consideration. The most
important perhaps of these refusals
| is that of the bills for the new
treasury vault. The law of the
country requires that all contracts
for Government work, furnishing
material, ETC., to the extent of $500
or over SHALL BE OFFERED FOR PUB
Lie COMPETITION BY ADVERTISEMENT
No such public offer was made in
the case of the new vault in the
treasury, bus contract was made
with the Raymond & Wiltshire
Safe Co. AS it appears that this
matter was not offered for public
competition, the Auditor very prop
erly refused to audit the bill. AS
Mr.. G. o. Berger, the representative
of the Raymond & Wiltshire Safe
Co. was member of the Legisla-
ture, it would certainly appear that
much more strictness ought to have
been observed in carrying out the
: law. The Legislature, however,
will probably in some form ex-
press its opinion upon this subject
| The suggestion is finally made
that the fiscal period would or
many accounts be more convenient
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