The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-08-23
THE LEGISLATURE.
SEVENTY SECOND DAY.
TUESDAY, Aug. 23d, 1892.
Morning Session.

Prayer by Chaplain. Minutes read
by Clerk and Interpreter and, as
usual, approved as read
Noble Marsden presented a report
from the Special Committee to
whom was referred a petition of one
F. Turrill, praying for remuneration
for his share in 400 half ID. tins
opium known as the i. T. opium,
and to the effect that on or about
April I'd, 1890, 30 chests invoiced as
tea arrived by the Oceanic and
marked with the initials of the Port
Surveyor, +. I, Mr.. Good opened
the cases and found containers one
of which he caused to be opened; it
contained opium. 1t is indisputa-
BILE that Mr.. Good made use of I'M
warrantable ostentation, his course
was blamable in the highest degree
and one calculated to defeat the
ends of justice, namely, the appre-
hension and conviction of the owner.
A standing order Of many years that
no cases be opened till the same was
permitted was good. 1t is
evident to your Committee that
something was radically wrong in
the manner of making seizures dur
ing Mr. Turrill's incumbency. Under
date of April ID, the following entry
occurs in the journal of Port Sur
veyor: Found in mark f. 7. 30
boxes of tea, $40 tins of opium, all
boxes sent to the Custom House.
Opened by Collector-General, no
one else present. Port Surveyor not
notified that the cases were to be
opened" Mr. Turrill stated he
wrote the entry on April Ind, but
when it was pointedly put to him
that he must have known or had
previous knowledge of the number
of tins in the consignment, as the
cases were not opened till four or
five days after that date in order to
have been able to write $50" tins,
Mr.. Turrill was very much astonish-
ed and very much confused at the
question, and later he admitted that
he had written the final entry some
days later. Your committee are uu-
,lN III, 10 f,N.l., 1
Mr.. Turrill arrived at the magic ex-
actness of $40 half-pound tins unless
he had previous knowledge of the
contents, or was gifted with the
power of seeing through layers of
tea and ascertaining the exact con
tents. He must indeed be a gifted
person: the alchemist of ancient
times would pale before him: the
prodigies in figures would reln-
quish their claim of superiority to
him, and Bishop, the mind reader,
if alive, would be his most humble
scholar. One gifted as he could,
with such powers, transmute, trans
late and transmogrify the opium
stored at the Station House and at
the Custom House into other sub
stances, which were afterwards
found and with like facilities, might
he not have transposed also? On
May 20, 1890, the BULLETIN published
areport relative to the opium stolen
from the Custom House, and valued
at from $4,000 to $4,000. The
committee recommend that the
prayer be refused.
On motion the report was ordered
to be translated and printed.
Noble Cornwell, from a select
committee, reported favorably on
the insertion of an item in the APP
preparation Bill for the purpose OF
bringing water from IA certain spring
to certain lands in Kula, Maui, pro
vided that the Minister of the In
terror deemed it expedicnt. Report
adopted.
President Walker announced tn,
following as the Committee on thu
Hawaiian Banking Act, viz: Minis
ter Parker, Mobiles D. M. Horner
Peterson, Williams, Kauhane, Reps
A. S. Wilcox, Iosepa, Kauhi ant
Ashford.
Rep. Kapahu offered resolution
that $1,000 be appropriated for TIN
purpose of subsidising an inter-islanc
steamer to touch at Mahukona OF
its way to and from Kona and Kau
Referred to select committee con
sisting of Reps. Kapahu, Wilder, Ed
monds, and Mobiles Ena and Hoa
pill,
Under suspension of the rules ReI
Kamauoha presented and read 70
the first time, without previous nc
tice, a bill to appropriate $4,000 t.
pay for certain road work in the dis
trict of Honolulu. Read a secon'
time and referred, without printing
to a select committee consisting O
Rep. Kamauoha, Mobiles Neuman