The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-12-05
SENATE HEARS REPORTS
ON MANY DEPARTMENTS
Appointments Are Not Made and the Work
Of the Day Consists Of Fling
Statements.

vouchers. which include those OF the
sberiffs. police and prisons throughout
the Islands.
The committee has been handicapped
by the absence OF the Attorney Gener-
al on the other Islands.
Your committee examined the books
at the Police Department and wish to
highly commend the system OF book
keeping and the manner In which they
are kept. the system OF checks and
counter checks are such as to make IL
almost an impossbility for errors to
occur. or the Government to be defraud-
ed. 1t would be well for similar sys-
TEN to be ADOPTED throughout the ISL
ands.
Your committee recommends that the
next Legislature, in case the County
Bill does not greatly reduce the work OF
the department, should appropriate a
salary for an additional assistant to the
Attorney General, as the present force
is entirely Inadequate to perform the
labor required.
Respectfully submitted
c. II. DICKEY, Chairman.
JOHN Y. BROWN.
! agree WIN the Other members or the
committee in the above report, with
the exception Of the last part In regard
to an additional assistant to the Attor-
ncy General. ! do not believe that a
good policy to increase the number OF
officers.
w. c. ACHI.
After the reception Of this report,
Senator McCandless read the following
from the Public Lands Bureau:
PUBLIC LANDS BUREAU.
Honolulu. Dec. g. 1902.
Hon. G. l.. Crabbe, President of the
Senate.
Sir:-Your committee appointed to ex-
anime the Department Of Public Lands,
beg to report as follows:
on Saturday, November 22, we began
our examination. owing to the illness
and absence OF the cashier. our first
act was to seal the strong box In the
safe, which contained the cash. The
balance of the day was devoted to
checkings and examinations.
on Monday the cashier appeared, the
cash was counted and found to contain
| the following:
| Gold and silver cOins............$ 15425
| Receipts for salaries and Incl
dentals ................... 1890
Treasury warrants ........... 20S. SO
| Plantation draft . ..........,.,. 1885
Plantation draft .............. 1882
Making a total Of.............S1,37 5.17
But for lack OF sufficient time, We
have been unable to verify this balance
Your committee disapproves most
| emphatically Of the custom OF the Com
| missioner allowing his sub-agcnts Ia
remit as cash warrants and receipts for
warrants Of incidcntals, as this allows
| the employees of the Department Ia
realize on accounts for incidentals, in
stead Of allowing them to pass through
| the regular channels, the same as the
general public. We would like to men
| ton the fact that the methods OF keep
ing the accounts are obsolete and cum
/ bersome; and while they are apparently
plain To- the employees of the Depart
nent, they are by no means so to the
uniformed, and without the aid Of the
employees, who. by the way, have
| grown up with the Department, II
would require much time and trouble
| to make a complete and satisfactory
W. v.ould snecagt ond ad,Isa 49,
Icrsr"os-tbe nnndensing and s,sta,,,'
otiyIng Of All accounts r,aLIr, ,ha,,
readiIy u,derstood hy onv nna a, al
I familiar with accounts.
80 iar as the examinations Nominations nave gone
irreeuIaritJes, but we have found cieri.
cal errors, discrepancies and delays
We also wish to state that we have
had quite a number of complaints. more
especially by those who have been de-
] having fully compiled with the laws,