The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-03
COMMITTEE INVITES Kicks
FOR EVERY KICK AIDS THE
WORK.
But 1t Wants the Kicks in the Right
Place-George Carter Points Out the
Place.

which has not been audited, we wish |
he would come to us about II, Salu |
George Carter of the committee this |
morning in relation to statements that !
bills were being held up by the com
mittee. I'VE don't object to 'kicks;' !
in fact we want them, for every time
there is a kick we learn something
about the bill kicked about that helps
| us to straighten out things. We want
people who have accounts that have not
gone through yet to come to us. This
| is said seriously, for we are just as anx
ious to get the accounts Strengthened
out as anybody can be-
IF anybody has a bill that has been
| held up by us we are willing to take
| the blame. But we have already audit
| ed and sent up to the Auditor-Generals
Office bills for Sl69 059.53 for material
and supplies alone for January and pay
rolls for sos, ,472.96. Whether any OF this
| money has got into circulation yet, we
have no means of knowing but we have
done our part. The force in the COM
mitee's office has worked frequently uu-
ill midnight and some times later, and
Sundays, to get the work DONE and
several times we have been entirely ~
with the work and the men have been
laid off for a day or two because there
was no work for them to do.
Probably the best way to make clear
just what is done, and the direction a
kick should he made to do some good.
will be to explain how the work is done.
A stack of bills comes in. One man
goes through it and separates them ac-
cording to the firm or Individual that
presented them. Then John Smiths
bills for instance are gone through and
separated according to the place where
the goods were delivered, as to Kalihi,
or the Kerosene warehouse for instance.
Then those for Kalihi are sent out
there for approval When they come
back, they are entered up and John
Smith Is asked for a statement of ac-
count When this is received his bills
are checked up against it. In many
cases bills are missing. We could
make up all account of those bills
which are all right and send it to the
Auditors office, but he does not want
that, because he wants to draw one
warrant for the month for each per-
son with whom he has an account
Otherwise ne would have to check up
5 each statement with all the other
statements for that month as many
times as there are statements present.
ed for the month. The dealers them
selves want their entire monthly state
ment to go in as whole, and net in
e instalments, as a rule. So that when
q we have checked up a dealers state
= nIent and bills as far as we have infor-
e nation, we have to quit there until
J. more information is furnished The en-
, tire statement can not be made up until
|, the last item is audited and checked up.
There are variety of things that
delay this process. Bills sent to Kalihi,
e for instance, or to the Kerosene ware
e house, are not always promptly ap-
n proved. Obviously we can not audit a
s bill until it has been approved by the
e authorized agent of the Board of
y Health who ordered. If there is delay
in this it is not our fault Obviously
AI,n 6na1 or. obi n OF a z
II far as possible. Another cause of de-
:. lay in certain bills which delays whole
d statements is the fact that W. c. Weed
d on who made more purchases than any
It other agent of the Board, purchasing
y for the military, and for every hospita
y and detention camp, made all his or
i ders out on blanks headed 'Nationa
Guard of Hawaii In each case how.
e ever he wrote in ink where the goods
y were to go and whether the purchases
: were to he charged to the military ol
= the Board of Health. But merchants
a generally have ignored these latter di
u rections and have made out all thei
t. bills to the Board of Health, or to th
Is military, as the case may be, but with
= out separating those for the Board from
those for the military. We have ha'
to do the segreeating, and it has il,
creased the work a great deal, and ha
n been another source of delay.
Is Now the committee can be aided il
ee all these matters by the people WIN
a present the bills. II thy will come to u
work can he expedited immensely. Blu
when we get to a point where we haV
done everything that 1t is possible fc
us to do, and still the account is no
,s fully audited, we have to stop and tn
~ account cannot go in until further nee
10 essaTy information is furnished
~ y, "There are almost any other numbe
of causes of apparent delay. For in
stance hackman came to me thi
morning and kicked because he had no
got his money. Inquiry developed tn
p TACT that he had made out his bill o.
ne the bill head of a certain livery stable
re though it was an individual bill. Blu
there was nothing on the bill to shoV
that was his bill and not the bill of tn
stables 1t had been properly approve
lY by the agent of the Board ordering tn
Of service, and had been audited with tn
re account of the stable. He kicked he
cause he had not been paid He ha
= never been to see us before, and he ha
not made his bill in any way tina
would notify us that he was the credi
tor.
e. "The committee volunteered to d
the work. and ought to blamed If
n, fails in it's work in any particular
e. When we get through we believe W
rs, can say that there has not been a dur
In licate bill paid, and that the account
ur are in such shape, so indeXed and eros
indexed the bills so filed, marked an
Ne numbered that any legislative or otht
Investigation committee can readil
- find anything they want can trace an
d. account from the beginning to the en'
and place their hand on any source
information in regard to II that the
,lp may want. We don't object TO kicks
we want them. We want every ma
e. who has a bill in our hands which
thinks Is DELAYED, to come to us. II
,e- hasn't been audited, we will find III
reason why and then 1t can be rem,
It's died quickly The more the papers sa
about this subject the more pressure
brought tG bear on individuals to con
to us, and then the quicker the woI
u can be done.