The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-03
NO APPROPRIATION, SAYS HOUSE
COMMITTEE.
Soldiers Have Cost Too Much and the
Entire Appropriation Should be Turn
ed Down.

The House committee on Military
affairs flied it's report this morning. In
lengthy document, covering twenty
or twenty-five pages, the existing con-
dition of military affairs was roasted
by the committee from one end OF the
document to the otner. Economy
and retrenchment' in the words of the
report, had been the watchword of the
Representatives who had been put at
work on this branch of the government
expenditures.
The governors estimate of $45, $50 for
mintary was considered too much, in
the face of the present condition of
things. The report stated that the peo-
pie of Hawaii nei were paying too
dearly for their military. The period
| of the Republic, was referred to as
a period of Volcanic Eruption" when
| personal rights were repressed and
| subverted, in which two-thirds of the
members were made practically parole
| prisoners" and forced to submit to
taxation without representation. In
view of this. the report proposed to
have nothing to do with that part of
the expenditures which had to do with
the hepuDnc, laconlcaliy known in the
report as exhibit One"
Inc report declared tnat to acknowl-
edge Exhibit NO. 3 which calls for the
payment of laborers would be moral
uniforms the committee designated by
| the suggestive, but rather indefinite
II term OF film fiam."
4 All branches of the military service
! were touched upon, and as regularly
! criticised tor the extravaganza ex-
hlblted by the expenditures in different
| parts of the service"
The fact that the United States gov.
/ ernment had soldiers at Fort McKinley
| was mentioned. Ihese the committee.
| men said, could be used in case of up.
rising, or trouble of any kind.
| Inc committee concluded with the
Scrlptural injunction that Hawaii beat
her swords into plow shares, and hei
spears INTO pruning hooks and let tn,
military Appropriation lapse altogether
Emmeluth called attentic- to the
fact that the government was being
represented before the Fire Commits.
sloners by an outside attorney Emme.
luth called this an "indiscreet act" Th,
Attorney-General' office, he said, wa.
being used as cats paw by the de
signing politicians of the different
governmental departments who wish t.
DO their lawyer friends a good turn
he offered the. following:
: Resolved, That the clerk of thi!
fouse direct an inquiry to the Attor
ney-General requesting information a.
TO why either he or one of his assist
anus cannot represent the goVernmen
before the Fire Claims Commission
also as to the evidence collected by tn
government whether the same is avail
able for use before the court"
After the unanimous adoption of tn
t resolution Emmeluth moved thai =
1 Beckley had returned Mosman be al
: lowed to review the report of tn
Health committee of Saturday. 1
5 seemed however that Mossman ha
been made chairman of that commit
tee permanently, and the return Of tn
: gentleman from Maui made no differ
ence whatever.
Dickey moved that the renort of tn
Committee on Public Health be re-read
: Mossman objected to reading the repor
i again. Beckley moved that the matte
/ OF reading the report of the Commit
tee on Public Health be postponed un
TIL tomorrow morning. The motion wa
I carried.
1 The appropriation bill bobbed u
e serenely at this time. Prenderrr~ -
t out OF respect to Beckley, moved tha
the appropriation bill be reconsidere
/ from the beginning. Beckley whe
called upon. said that he would Liz
to have his fellow Representative
show him that courtesy.
The Committee on Public Lands an
. Internal improvements. asked tina
q they be allowed to report. As the hou
? ? OF noon had arrived, recess was take
? until o'clock.