The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-04
HOW THE HOUSE SPENT
ANOTHER SEVEN THOUSAND
Grand Jury Did Not Find all the Graft in the
Lesislature--Printing Of the Journal Will
Cost Ten Thousand Dollars.

The money which the legislative
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 1908. 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-$40,000 for
the regular session, $40, 900 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 ]. H.
Fisher. But the House of course die
tated where the money should be paid
and the greater part of 1t 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.
1t cost the Senate considerably less
than half of $1,000 for having its Jour-
nal printed and the work was finished
weeks before the House Journal was
delivered.
The $1,000 approx Ration 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 IT'S 90
Enoch Johnson, translating $50
folios of House Journal go. 175 90
M. X. Nakuina, translating $50
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. 300 Hawai-
ian copies of House Journal at
$40 per page ................. 213S 60
Bulletin Publishing Co., 800
English Journals, 1850 pages
of small plea at $40 per page,
81 pages of BREWER at $2.57,
2 cuts at $3.50 each ............ 2S55 SS
G. p. Thielen, typewriting, etc. sos so
There still remains in the fund
$685..
The amounts which the auditor al
lowed were not the amounts claimed
by the translators. They each put
in a bill for more than double the
amount they received and intend to
put in 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 Fl. Wise who were
shown to have benefited to a consd-
elable amount at the regular extra
session each claimed pay for 40 folos
of translation at fifty cents folio
Each of them put in a claim for $375
They received SITE each. Auditor
Fisher told them that it was case
Of getting that much or nothing, as
the appropri ton wasn't sufficient to
pay all the claims. NJ. K. Nakuina
put in a claim for s445 for translating
$50 folios and was given instead pay
Tor 450 folios or 1925.
But the $1,000 was not sufficient for
doing all the work of printing and
even with the reductions
made by the Auditor The transla-
ing of the House Journal, which by
he 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
'esides which Nakuina, Coelho, John
on and Wise have additional claims
lggregating $3.50 for the same little
iece of work. The Journal for the
xtra session is not included in the bills
or translating. Neither Is the print
ng OF the extra session Hawaiian
ournal paid for. The copy for the
English edition OF the Journal was
eld up in order that the fund might
ot be exhausted before the Bulletin,
publishing Co. drew down IFS little
rize package OF nearly $1,000. Con-
the Paradise Of the Pacific
'hich is printing the Hawaiian version
the extra session has not been able
0 complete its work, as the native 1
stopped working when they