The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-08

mistake being corrected and all bills put
together, gives sum total of s52S due
him and to be paid. sss. =
3. The bill of 10y Hong Co. of 5000
is stricken out, no such man being found
on the place according to the statement
Health.
4. A bill of Paia Plantation Co. OF $206.-
| SO alleged to be due for labor in sup
pressing the bubonic plague on the plan
tation, is stricken out, since in our opin-
ion plantations had to contribute some
thing in suppressing the diseases in their
own places, considering the suffering and
| losses Of private poor citizens that never
will be adequately recompensed.
| 5. The rest of the bills on the second
| list, which have been transferred to two
new lists, amounting to s7,o72.91 and
$780, 80, total s7,565.21, we find due and rec
ommend to be paid, although the Auditor.
as witnessed by the exhibit No. l. has
refused to pay them on technical
I grounds.
All said bills are approved by the Board
of Health, as witnessed by the exhibit
! No. 2. The exhibit No. relates to Sec
rotary Wilcox's bill of s4oo.
N. Russell.
]. B. KAOHI
/ The report was tabled, to be consid-
cred in its proper place with the BILL
/ Senator Kanuha then presented the
following report. that occupied the at
tention of the Senators for the balance
of the afternoon:
Hon. S. f. Kaiue, President of the Sen
/ ate.
Sir: The majority of your Committee
on Military to whom were referred
items making up the expenditures for
this branch OF the service for the en-
suing biennial period. beg leave to report
as follows:
We have obtained through the courtesy
of members of the Lower House, copies
of statements submitted by the Auditor
i General upon request of the House COM
mittee. We feel that the Information to
! be cleaned from these statements should
be available to the members of this SEN
ate and therefor submit them as handed
to us.
| For the period from January 10, 1896,
, to December 81, 1850, the expenditures
reached the enormous total Of $94S, 153.
The expenditures for 1900 evidenced the
reckless exravagance and total disregard
! for the public interests with which the
I officers and members of this branch of
the service conducted the affairs of their
department.
The offensiveness of this course is all
the more apparent When we contem-
plate that from August s, 1898, the Stars
anu Stripes yielded us all the protection
we needed, and the gross license evident
1 in the manner of disposing of the funds
appropriated, only shows how near we
were trenching on a military despousm
when the Spanish American war brought
to our long suffering people the protec-
ton of the flag of freedom.
Such were the conditions when the
Legislature was elected. Your commit
tee had hopes that inasmuch as repre-
sentative government was established in
the land, the military would cease its
pernicious activity and extravaganza,
and for this reason We took up the in
quiry into this years expenditures with
spirit of self-discipline and restraint, but
what did we find?
4 The detailed list of warrants drawn on
: support of military pay roll for January
1st to May 18th OF this year amounts TO
50, 7o1 q.
The expenditures under support OF MIL
, itary for the same period amounts TO the
, further sum of s9,e57.s1, total OF 1859
for four and one-haf months, or at the
rate of $4,000 in twenty-forr months.
Five warrants drawn during this Pc