The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-26
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to a resignation, and he had placed MI.
Cooper in charge of the office.
Answering Senator Mitchell Gov.
Dole said there were other officials un-
der complaint, instancing B. H. Wright
of the Public Works office, and the two
tax Office clerks.
Auditor Henry C. Austin promised
that he would furnish TO the Commits
sion a full statement of the expenses of
the Board of Health during the plague
times, DR.. Sloggett saying that would
be the easiest way to get at it.
E. S. Boyd furnished a statement of
| the receipts from the Crown Lands
from January 18th, 1893, to September
1st, 1902, showing $432, 37S06. He said
the area in 1893 was 1,92O,63s acres,
bringing in then $4,000 yearly, and that
he placed the value at 50, 00O,0o
Henry ]. Hapai, Registrar of Public
Accounts, was called and he told of his
duties and said the Treasurer would
have in his hands only special funds.
He said that he gave bond of $40, 0O0,
and that the greatest amount of money
that he could well have in his possess
sion was s60O,OOO and that the average
was 100000. He said he controlled the
keys and the vault He went over the
statement of the shortage as already
published.
| Jacob F. Brown made certain state
ment of the land system, endorsing the
present laws as adaptable, and justified
the lease system saying that if certain
lands should be homesteaded they
would return to the original desert or
would be consolidated with great cor
poration's lands. He placed the value
of the public lands at 100000.
Senator Mitchell called Mr. Wilcox
and said that as he had made state
ment which seemed to have aroused
criticism, he wanted him present while
he read a resolution of the Republican
Executive Committee, which would go
into the record. When he had read the
statement Wilcox said that was the
sentiment only of few of the people,
and that he wanted the whole of the
people to speak and they would do so
soon. The resolution is as follows:
Whereas, Robert w. Wilcox, Delegate
in Congress from Hawaii, has hereto
fore advocated in the Congress of the
United States, and in the public press,
the transfer of the care and custody of
the Hawaiian Leper Asylum from Ter
ritoriaI to Federal authorities, and also
that the lepers from the Mainland be
brought to and kept at Molokai; and
Whereas, the said Wilcox has this day
formally and specifically presented to
the Committee of the United States
Senate, now holding sessions in Homo
lulu, reiteration of his desire that the
foregoing policy should be adopted
Be it resolved, by the Executive Cen
trail Committee of the Territory of Ha-
wall, that we believe that the opinion
of the overwhelming majority of the
people of Hawaii is totally opposed to
the transfer of the control of the leper
asylum to the Federal Government, and
| to the permitting of lepers to come to
Hawaii from abroad.
That we denounce this attempt of Mr..
| Wilcox to make Hawaii the dumping
ground for the lepers of the entire
United States, as against the peace and
welfare of the unfortunate inmates of
the Asylum. and as tending to fix upon
Hawaii for all time the stigma of being
a leprous country.
We hereby declare that the Repub-
licans of Hawaii are unalterably oppos-
ed to the transfer of control of the leper
asylum to the Federal Government and
to allowing any lepers to come here
from abroad. The unfortunates at Mo-
lokai are part of our own people and
it is privilege which we claim to pro-
vide and care for them and pledge our
selves and our party to do everything
within its power to prevent the con-
summation of this attack upon the peo-
pie and the fair name of Hawaii.
Curtis P. Iaukea said the valuation
of the Crown Lands was wrong, on
the basis of the old leases, and that ii
should be $2OOOO,00O.
Secretary Cooper was called and made
a statement about the defalcation of
Wright. He told of the confession
made in the presence of Messrs. Smith
and Magoon, and the fact that Wright
said he could turn over $4,000 of prop
erty at once and secure other funds.
He read statement of the accounts
in the office as published in the Ad-
vertiser, and said he thought the Ter
ritory would recover $4,000 and that a
suit was being prepared.
| Asked about some other defalcations
he said B. H. Wright had taken IS, 500,
but he disclaimed any knowledge of
what had become of the money. w. o.
Smith said that he had met Wright at
his request, and that the only state
ment which could be repeated was that
Henry Hapai had nothing to do with it,
Tax Collector Pratt told of the catch
ing the clerks of his office who had
been using receipts for the collection
ef personal taxes and how they were
now under Indictment Col Fitch
thought there had not been all the
precautions taken to catch Wright. and
Attorney General Dole said he r,o,,Id