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Senate Acts on
Committees
Plan.
WILL RUSH THE
OTHER REPORTS
The Public Works Investigation
May Be Finished
Today.

With all the doubt and difficulty
smoothed from about the Auditors s
Office, it is said the first days of the
week will be given by the Senate to
completely clearing up the tangles at
the executive building, so that there
may be by the end confirmation of the
appointments and then adjournment.
The committee which has been in
vestigating the Department of Public
Works has almost finished it's report
and it is unofficially talked about, the
consensus being that the report when
made will be so written that it will
be signed by every member of the COM
i mittee The committee has been most
thorough in its Investigations, and
the leaders of the party, including
Prince Kuhio, have kept in touch with
the progress Of the work, and in con-
sequence it is expected that there will
be returned such report that there
will be no objection to its immediate
passage.
There was some doubt expressed last
evening that the report could be pre-
sented this morning, but there will
the matter before the Senate. The 9TH
er important reports are in an adyanc-
ed state of preparedness, and the first
half of the week should witness action
on each of them and consideration of
appointments is expected to follow
very quickly.
When the Senate met on Saturday
there was a full attendance of the
members now in the city. The busi-
ness began at once with the submission
of the report upon the members of the
Tax Appeal Boards appointed by the
Governor and submitted to the Senate
for confirmation. Senator Achi pre-
sented the report, which provided for
the confirmation in each case except
H. 4.
was said in the report that Kau should
have one member of the board, while
i now Kohala had tive. The report was
: adopted and the Governor was notified,
the reasons for the refusal to confirm
being given in the notification.
Senator Dickey reported in favor of
the confirmation of the three Prison
Inspectors named and the report was
adopted, as was that of Senator Will
cox approving of the appointments OF
two members of the Board of Educa-
ton. When this formal business had
been done, on motion of Senator Dick
ey a committee consisting of Senators
Dickey, Isenberg and Woods was nam
ed to consider the appointments on
Boards of Election and Park Commits
sioners as there is no committee to
which those names could be properly
referred.
Senator Isenberg rose and read the
following report of the committee ap-
pointed to investigate the Auditors
Office:
Honolulu, Nov. 90, 1902.
To the President and Members of the
Senate.
Your committee to investigate the
Auditors Department, to whom was
referred the message of the Governor
in regard to the Auditor, Mr.. H. c.
Austin, beg leave to make the follow
ing report:
After careful consideration we find
that Mr. H. C. Austin, in the latter
part of August or the beginning of Sep
tember of the present year, attempted
to borrow money from Mr.. c. F. Chill
lingworth, Deputy High Sheriff of the
Territory. Mr. Chillingworth, on be-
ing questioned by the committee, sta
ted that Mr. Austin asked him If he