The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-11
MONEY
THEY SPENT
Candidates Make
Statement OF
Expense.
GOT
OFF VERY EASY
One Man en- Hawaii Who Didn't
Buy Poi-All the Candidates
Must Make Return.

Candidates who were voted for at last
Tuesdays election are beginning to file
statements of their election expenses
with Secretary Cooper, as is required
by law. Four of the candidates have
already filed their statements, and all
must be in within two weeks. The law
provides that this statement shall be
fled within twenty days of election, and
the unsuccessful as we'll as the success
full candidate must comply with the
law.
II the four statement already filed
are any criterion very little money was
spent during the campaign by any of
the candidates. Edgar Caypless, can
didate for Senator on the Home Rule
ticket, went through the campaign with
an expenditure of but $3.50. OF this
amount s25 went for the fling of his
nomination papers, and another $25 to
Jesse 2. Makainai, yice-president of the
Home Rule party, for the expense of
meetings. Caypless also paid $3.50 for
printing and $500 for bus hire.
S. K. Kali, a Republican nominee for
the House On Kauai, spent $3.50 for cam
paign expenses. He paid $25 himself
for fling papers, and the same amount
for personal expenses. He expended $40
for public meetings, and clerk hire and
watchers cost him similar amounts.
Then he spent $40 for expenses of mes
sengers, $500 for advertising, $500 for
stationery and $3.50 for travelling ex-
penses on election day.
S. 4azaro, independent candidate for
the House in the Second District, Ha-
waii, only gave in one item, s12, as the
cost of travelling to Kau.
Malulani, also of the Second District,
spent $50 for election expenses, his
money including fee for filing, watchers
at the polls, etc. He appends the
statement that nothing was expended
for poi.
The following sections from the cleo
ton laws, which are made a part of the
Organic Act cover the filing of a state
ment of election expenses; not only can
didates put committees as we'll being
required to make such a return:
Section 81. Within twenty days fol-
lowing any election, each candidate,
and each agent or committee acting
for or on behalf of any candidate, shall
file with the Secretary of the Terri
tory an itemized statement of his or
their expenses by, for. or on behalf of
such candidate for election, showing
each amount expended, the purpose or
object for which each expenditure was
made, and the person or persons to
whom made; which statement shall be
sworn to by each person making such
expenditures, and shall be open to pub
lie inspection.
STATEMENT WHEN NO EXPENSES
ARE INCURRED.
Section 80. If a candidate or any
agent or committee acting n his be-
half has or have incurred no expenses
on account of such election, he n they
shall file within twenty days after the
election with the Secretary of the Ter
ritory, a sworn statement setting forth
such fact.
EXPENSES LEGALLY INCURRA-
BILE.
Section SO. The following expenses,
and no other, may be legally incurred
by or for a-candidate for election as
Senator or Representative, viz:
/. His personal expenses as a can
didate.
2. Expenses of printing and advertis-
ing.
8. Cost of stationery and postage.
4. Expenses of public meetings.
3. Rent and supplies of committee
rooms not to exceed one for each pol
ling place.
s. Salaries of not more than n clerk
and two messengers for each polling
place.
a.. Salaries of not more than one
watcher on election day only, at each
polling place.
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