The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-16
AT THE CAPITOL.
IMPORTANT RECOMMEND ALTON
OF MINISTER DAMON.
P~ntine Business-Passsge OF Bills to
Final Reading. Etc, Etc.
THuRspAY. june 18th


he councils convened at 2:06
eek. Present - Ministers Dole,
non, King and Smith; Council
Waterhouse, Emmeluth, Men
lea, Morgan, Suhr, Young, Ten
and Hatch.
Che minutes Of the previous meet
were read and approved.
dinister Damon reported @ recon-
ndation from the finance commit
that the sum of $500 90 due Mr..
L. Carter for expenses as commits
Iner to Washington be appropri-
3D. Carried.
The minister of finance said he
so wished to call the attention of
councils to a matter which had
cupied his mind ever since the
ne he had been minister In 1888.
q referred especially to the neces-
Nv that existed for some system of
-hecking accounts In the auditors
7eDartment. He had conferred with
the auditor general on the matter,
nd that official had told him that the
auditor had no time to attend to the
E q ais of such a system. The minis
.sr did not wish to make such sys-
ZEN so formal a matter as was pro
vi led for under the old law, but
wished to report and recommend the
following method, which would be
racticable, and could be used at any
time:
ADMINISTRATIONS.
The finance committee recommend
that the minister OF finance through
some properly authorized deputy, lil-
rouire from time TO time from the diff
ferent depa rtments, OH notification TO
the chief of the department; concern-
ing
Ist. The date to which the books
are posted, preceding the date OF IN
quiry.
i'm hand, with the balance called for
by the cash book.
Ord. The general condition or the
books and system of keeping ac-
counts.
4th. improvements or changes
that be suggested in the manner or
form of keeping accounts.
Minister Damon said these recon-
meudstiops were made with view to
bringing the different departments
into touch with the finance depart
ment. Two years was entirely too
long a time to run awaiting for the
Legislative finance committee to make
Investigations and report, as provid-
ed nv law, therefore, this plan was
recommended. He thought it would !
hold error in check In the depart
ments and an investigation could be
had at any time and could be made |
public by bringing the matter at
once before the councils. be pre-
sented the plan as report and re
commentator of the finance com !
mittee.
MIR. Waterhouse asked If the in |
tention was to make Investigations |
in the form of expert examinations;
Minister Damon said they could
take either form.
Mr.. Emmeluth moved the adoption
of the report. Carried.
Attorney General Smith said he
had a sort of semi report to offer.
There was a small account of S34 81
due the road board account. He
moved that the matter be referred,
together with letter on the subject
from road supervisor Cummings, to
the finance committee. Carried.
Second reading of an act relating
to pounds, estrays, brands and
marks. Passed to its final reading
by three fourths majority.
Second reading of an act to III
crease the facilities to depositors and
providing for term deposits in the
Hawaiian postal savings bank.
Passed to final reading.
Attorney General Smith moved
that the bill relating to the use and
possession of explosives be taken
from the table and considered section
by section. Carried.
MIR. Smith moved the first section
be amended so that the maximum
penalty be increased from ten TO
twenty years. He said twenty years
was not too long period where dy-
Mantle was used for destroying life.
This would make the penalty the
same as for manslaughter In the first
degree. The court could use discre
tiop, as it now could in such cases.
The amendment was carried.
MIR. Smith moved, as an amend
ment to section 2, new section re-
latipg purely to the possession of dy-
Mantle with intent to use the same.
In this amendment his proposal was
to eliminate all hardship from the
original bill. This was now taken
away and the section would apply
simply to the possession of dynamite
with intent to use it. The use of
for firearms was now ex
empt. He moved the passage OF the
section.
President Dole said he did not
think that the section, as amended,
covered the whole ground. Section
should be included.
Mr.. Smith said be saw 20 Objection
to making section 3 a part Of section
2, as an amendment to the original
bill
Mr.. Young asked if he would be
liable under the law if he purchased
half ton OF dynamite for blasting
purposes.
Mr.. Smith said he would not.
President Dole said Mr.. Emmeiuth
bad suggested way to get around
the difficulty, by licensing the use OF
dynamite just as firearms are llcen-