The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-25
'MARKHAM'S
BIG KICK
Minority Grand
Juror Makes
Report.
Dissatisfied With the
Grand Jury and
Himself.
Complains About Gov. Dole. Rapid
Transit. Reform School and
Other Things.

George Markham made his minority
grand jury report to Judge De Boil
yesterday and 1t was received and filed
All of Markham's old enemies come II
for sweeping condemnation at hi.
hands. This was Georges first grand
jury experience and he took advantage
of it by condemning not only public
officials generally Gov. Dole and the
Rapid Transit Co., but the grand jury
as well
Markham first pays his respects to
the reform school. and advises radical
changes in the government of that in
stitution. He says the guards there are
unfit and incompetent and do not know
their duty He recommends a larger
appropriation and new management.
/ Then the minority reports on the
police department and says that a
reign of terror did exist in and about
the city of Honolulu" He believes that
crime will be on the increase and IA
vors larger appropriation, and 1.-The
employment of more men that under
stand their duties and know a criminal
by his countenance and actions
He says further that the minority
upholds the honor and integrity of the
Police Department of the City of Ho-
nolulu. considering it's inadequate force.
in the discharge of its official duties"
"Malfeasance in Office . is Markhams
next title head, and he relates the his
tory of the Kalihi camp alleged en-
bezzlement. Markham says that part
of the $4,000 defalcation was admitted
by the manager to c. NJ. White, who re-
ported the facts to Governor Dole, who
gave the manager from nine o'clock in
the morning until four in the after
noon to reimburse the Territory.
Markham says: 1T is the opinion of /
the minority that Governor Sanford B. |
Dole within the seven hours on that
very date violated his oath of office. by
which he swore under oath that he
would administer and maintain the laws
of the Territory of Hawaii. That upon
a similar previous occasion the alb
sconding ex-Treasurer. William H.
Wright, disappeared from the Terri
tory of Hawaii.
THE minority feels compelled to
severely criticise the action of the Gov
ernor in the gravest terms for not pro-
tecting the interests of the Territory,
and regards his action as unworthy of
The confidence that has been placed in
him by the President of the United
States"
rs the Grand Jury Failure?" asks
Markham and then answers it as fol-
ows: I'm serutinizing the genius of
nan or the actions of a body polite,
is capabilities. its weaknesses, or per-
laps looking at it from a moral point
If view, there is no doubt that the
pulse of sensitiveness or sentiment
'upSiSctiCu lA4c spirit VI justice III
he deliberations of and councils of the
Grand jury of the February Term, A d.
sOS.
Markham then says that the grand
ury does not investigate all crimes or
ghen the Territory is defrauded by in
ividuals. corporations or trusts. but
e says that the grand jury should in
estigate whether he be a poor private
itizen or a government official of the
of Hawaii"
Upon my first term as a grand
JUROR" says the minority" lit is the
andid opinion of the minority. without
prejudice. that sentiment prevailed in |
he councils of the grand jury. Against |
oor natives, Porto Ricans. or China
len. indictments were found for g
city crimes. but when public opin-
on calls for the investigation of
ranchise corporations, the Hackfeld
-harf. Rapid Transit Company, Chi
csc fund that was deposited in the
territorial Treasury from the First
RATIONAL Bank. government officials
no are intrusted with public funds as
ublic servants, these things are voted
own and side tracked for fear of be- .
lg of a very sensational character, 4
nd the saints are brought down to
,ost on a perch of fame or disgrace
Markham says the grand jury sys- r.
IN is wrong. for it has as members z
lsiness men whose interests are inter