Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-04-24

tary here Is to reinforce the police
should there occur any serious upris-
ing. The pay of the entire police de.
/ partment for the three years CON
templated in these reports was only
the sum of s2O4,61O.52. Then on the
assumption that the military Is only
the reserve arm of the police force,
for certainly the most arduous duties
of the regiment outside OF plague SER
vice has been to look pretty as be-
comes the wearers of brass buttons
everywhere. viewed in this light the
expenditures for support of military
and military payroll becomes a Grim
inal waste Of public funds, a waste of
which the Governor as Commander
in-Chief Is presumed to have some
knowledge. Coupling the expendit-
ures for military and police the cost
OF keeping order In the Paradise Of
the Pacific amounts to the sum of
$434,S9l.67 for the period covered by
the report.
In the territory of New Mexico the
militia had an appropriation of few
hundreds of dollars only, supplement-
ed by the National appropriation OF
81, 500. That militia sent to the Span.
ish war, men in all arms of the SER
vice, men who rode with Roosevelt
and who fell with Capron and who
suffered with the foot so.Aiers, yet
when the year ended, with the close
Of the fiscal period of 1888, .Ae mill
tary establishment Of that territory
had money to return to the treasury,
for the National appropriation was
sufficient to keep up the entire Guard
of the territory. In older states, as
New York. there is nothing done like
paying men to serve at headquarters,
except perhaps clerk or two for the
regiments. In the newer states OF
the West the same methods prevail
for there often when the regiments
or detached companies do not have
armories, they have to pay the rent
for hall themselves, receiving only
a per diem when the state calls them
out on encampment duty, and an al,
lowance for ammunition.
Just before the outbreak of the bu,
bonic plague, which is of course the
excuse for the extraordinary expense
of the military during the period COW
cred by these figures, there was a
general feenng that the guard Off
GERS We're too plainly CARRIED. The
books show that with pay of tailors,
buying cloth and made garments, the
purchase of gold and gilt ornaments,
helmets and belts. and the general ac'
coutrements of the dress parade sol
der. there was spent during the peri.
cd l6,576.69. Perhaps some light
may be shed by the particulars: Gold
and gilt ornaments, s2,61753, and this
without the consul's fees and impor,
ters' charges; caps and gauntlets, 81, :.
24i.Si, and swords and sabres, Sl99.ll,
Helmets are down for $S3G7i, and
the detail puts the cost at from IS to
s52 each.
Articles which were needed TO place
the headquarters officers In their pro.
per class were an entirely new equip.
ment of saddles and brides, martin
gales and saddle cloths, and these OF
the best. The committee IL inform,
ed that there were officers who made
protest against this outrageous eX,
pense, but things were coming too
easy for any attention to be paid "a
n protest
Items which appear 10 this com,
mlttee 10 be unusual, placing the
mildcst possible term upon H. are M
follows Refreshments AT Cam
Fires, s27G,G2' Refreshments at sham
battles, SllO0b; lleer and soda water
$4,000 Hack horse and wagon hire
Sl,lG37S latter tom IN addition
10 one ~ s7Ge35 for carriage and boat
hire, Stationery comes In for tho
sum ~ sGS7 ~ ana the white trousers
Ut the rogimont stood slbl,02 worth
NJ washing during the term AZ CAM
Jones, during the guarding of the Va
Hi detention camp, there seems Il
have been Ton much entertainment h
Do, for tho vouchers M hand show
that even when there Was wood tO b,