Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-06-03
GIVE /, No MONEY
Thus WOULD COMMITTEE
DEAL WITH The MILITARY
Long Story Of Extravagance--C Capt.
HaweS and His ga Suit
Comparisons with
States.

The House Committee on Military
commencing that the appropriations
for this department be allowed to lapse.
The Governors estimate calls for
$i5.5SO for the biennial period.
The committee states the PROPOSE
ton before them to be granting the
amount called for in the estimate, re.
duce the appropriation or allow the ap.
preparation for military to lapse. in
order to reach conclusion the com
mittee called in the Auditor General
| for q statement of expenditures which
Is given with the report.
I'VE feel in measure reluctance to
going into the details of the period
covered by Exhibit /, inasmuch as it
covers that period with which Hawaii
was submerged in the Volcanic Erup-
| ton" of political contentious for SUI
| premacy; the period when the rights
of the person were depressed and SUBJ
verted which made two-thirds of the
members of this Legislature practical
| ~ parole prisoners. while forced to pay
the taxes that the authorities creating
these conditions demanded of them.
and which conditions were brought
about by the very service under con-
sideration. We do not wish to further
criticis8 the expenditures during said
period than to say that the grand total
| for the eight years Is the enormous sum
OF s9Is.l52.l0: and together with the
/ 60, ng
reaches almost round million. 1t Is
to the expenditures during the present
year we desire more especially to call
the attention Of this House and for this
purpose we will consider exhibit No.
2, Support of Military Pay roll" as
already reported by the Committee on
Public Expenditures. This pay roll
shows payments to the various mem
bers OF the military including guards
at the Capitol building two clerks and
nm armorer. with a servant at the bun
galow. The total expenditures under
this head are, to May 18th, inclusive.
s3,7Ol.2l."
! In going over the detail of expendi-
ture attention Is called to the payment
Of 500 for horse hire. Warrants have
also been issued showing s903.2O paid
for repair of uniforms. Add to this the
incidentals for cloth and personal fur.
nishings running through this period
OF a short four and half months.
amounting to $1193.35. we have a grand
total of s2O96.25 as expenditures for
uniforms and 'flimflam' during this
short period"
IAN item overlooked and to which
we desire to call your attention, that Is,
Warrant No. ITO. S. Roth & CO.. is
sued Feb. 2Sth of this year. for maxi
Ing the uniform, coat and pants, Capt.
a. G. Hawes,' s2i."
The committee makes note OF other
expenditures and says 1t might go on
''ad nauseum" calling attention to ex-
hibits OF extravaganza. The commit
tee believes this branch of the govern
ment subject to possible abuse; "abuse
which under existing centralized con-
dition Of things might at any time be
made to effect the members of this
Legislature"
II Is stated the military requirements
of the Territory can be met by the High
Sheriff and police. In view Of the ex-
travagance at period when the con-
dition Of the treasury demanded re-
trenchment the committee submits
that It would be wisdom on the part
OF the Legislature of this Territory to
permit appropriations for military to
lapse for the biennial period now unde"