The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-12-03


grafters received as shown by the re-
port of the United States grand jury
was not all that they got out OF the
taxpayers for the session of 1903. The
total expenditures of the House for
the two sessions as shown by the
grand jury investigation was $52,-
6S4. Altogether the House had at its
disposal for expenses $50, ,000-$40, 900 for
the regular session, $4,000 for expenses
of the extra session and an addition
of $1,000 for printing and translating
the House Journal. The last $1,000
however was paid out through the
audit office and the vouchers were all
in approved form before the warrants
on them were issued by Auditor j. H.
Fisher. But the House of course die
tated where the money should be paid
and the greater part of it went into
the rapacious maws of the same graft
ers whose actions were exposed by the
Federal grand jury. And what is
even worse the little job of printing
and translating the House Journal for
which $1,000 was appropriated is not
all paid for, and the next Legislature
will have to make good a shortage of
at least several thousands. And all
for printing and translating the House
Journal which in itself seemed to be
an independent form of graft outside
the regular legislative expenditures.
It cost the Senate considerably less
than half of $1,000 for having it's Jour-
nal printed and the work was finished
weeks before the House Journal was
delivered.
The $1,000 approx riation bill which
was passed for naying the expenses Of
printing and translating the House
Journal was spent as follows, accord
ing to the records of the audit office:
w. j. Coelho, translating $50 TO-
lios House Journal ..........s LIS 90
Enoch Johnson. translating $50
folios of House Journal -. 175 90
NJ K Nakuina, translating 450
folios of House Journal ...... 225 90
John H. Wise, translating $50
folios of House Journal ...... 175 90
Haw'n Gazette Co., binding five
volumes full sheep ......... % 90
Paradise of Pacific, 800 Hawai-
ian copies of House Journal at
$40 per page ............. 2133 so
Bulletin Publishing Co., 800
English Journals, 1850 pages
of small plea at s2.10 per page,
81 pages of BREWER at $2.57,
cuts at $3.50 each ............ 1856 SS
G. P. Thielen, typewriting, etc. 59S so
There still remains in the fund
1862.
The amounts which the auditor al
lowed were not the amounts claimed
by the translators. They each put
in bill for more than double the
amount they received and intend to
put in a claim before the next Legis-
lature to make up the amount they say
they are entitled to.
For instance Enoch Johnson, w. j.
Coelho and John H. Wise who were
shown to have benefited to a consid-
Ell liable amount at the regular extra
session each claimed pay for no folios
of translation at fifty cents folio.
Each of them put in claim for 1915.
They received $175 each. Auditor
Fisher told them that it was case
of getting that much or nothing, as
the appropri ton wasn't sufficient to
ol bn n1o AT r NaL Jlir "a
put in claim for s445 for translating
$50 folios and was given instead pay
for 450 folios or $225.
But the $1,000 was not sufficient for
doing all the work Of printing and
translating even with the reductions
made by the Auditor. The transla-
ting of the House Journal, which by
the way was also translated in the
minutes ever day for the Hawaiian
members during the session, cost $780,
This is for the regular session alone.
besides which Nakuina, CoeIho, John
son and Wise have additional claims
aggregating $50 for the same little
piece of work. The Journal for the
extra session is not included in the bills
for translating. Neither is the print
ing OF the extra session Hawaiian
Journal paid for. The copy for the
English edition of the Journal was
held up in order that the fund might
not be exhausted before the Bulletin
Publishing Co. drew down it's little
prize package of nearly $4,000. Con-
sequently the Paradise of the Pacific
which is printing the Hawaiian version
of the extra session has not been able
| to complete it's work. as the native
translators stopped working when they
| found that the money had run out. A
part of the Journal is in type but can
not be finished until the translation /:
| completed. Still this however has
| finally been promised.
| The chances are however that the
Journal OF the House will cost the Ter
| ritory somewhere in the neighborhood
| of $4,000 before it is finished. The
House is paying s2.10 per page for the
| printing alone. The Senate had its
work done for s1.36 and s1.3S per page
The Senate advertised for bids as is
required by the Territorial law in con.
tracts exceeding $500 in amount. Solo
mon Meheula awarded the contract fol