The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-31
REPORT
OF JUDD
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other vouchers purporting TO have been
made " u. kalImahana, convinces
me beyond any doubt that the words
:. David Kalimahana appearing on the
endorsement on voucher No. S473, to
Miss Dawson, We're not written by ka-
limahana.
did not call before me the witnesses
examined before the House Committee
on Public Expenditures, but after Civ
ing Mr.. Dunno copies of the vouchers
used by that committee in their 1nves-
tigation, | examined Miss Dawson and
Mr. Atkinson relative thereto
Near the close of the investigation,
Mr.. Dunno suggested that whether
directly or indirectly, the imputation
was contained in that report that
man would be employed on d specific
iob;'' that he would work a certain
number of days, then a bill for large
" increased number of DAYS would 90
through the usual machinery of the de-
partment, and that the covert lnslnu-
alton was that the dInerence between
the actual number of DAYS worked and
the ostensible number of days worked
went into the pocket, presumably, of
Miss Dawson, anu suggested that this
matter should be fully exploited, and
Miss Dawson and the men themselves
questioned about it.
From NV examination of these
vouchers, and the statement of Miss
Dawson concerning them, | could see
no cause for such imputation, and so
publicly stated.
[ early came to the conclusion, after
deciding to conduct the investigation
publicly, to end matters as soon as Mr..
Atkinson, DR.. Rodgers and Miss Da-
vison had presented fully their per-
sonal statements, and that to proceed
otherwise would, after several weeks
of public session, inevitably result in
an endless tangle, the outcome of which
would be TO defeat the ends of JUS
tice if crime had ueen committed. 1t
is perhaps Unnecessary for me to point
out that my powers in making this in
vestigation were absolutely nil, as to
the swearing of witnesses, or to COM
pei their attendance or the production
of documents. and that the functions
of a grand jury cannot be exercised
while the Investigated are present with
their attorney.
The Aki contract for work at the
High School, appearing on voucher No.
1867, which has been much talked OF,
should be investigated further. (This'
does not come within the "imputa
tom referred to by Mr.. Dunno, being
a. specific contract, and not pay-ron.)
l considered it futile for me 10 attempt
to do so, as it developed that Mr..
Dunno had the affidavits of the labor
ers on that work, presumably denying
the testimony they may have given be-
fore the House Committee, and that
these Iaborers were Regularly employed
by Miss Dawson in the department..
either as janitors or carpenters and
painters, some of whom she refers to
AS ''my men," The presence of sew
eral OF these men one morning receiv-
ing orders from Miss Dawson on the
steps of the department headquarters
did not impress me favorably, nor did
Miss Dawson IS demeanor at the time,
nor her explanation afterwards remove
that impression. he surrounding cir
cumstances were such as to convince
me that to go further than [ did go
into the matter of these various CON
tracts could result neither in the ex
pose of crime nor in the vindication
of the parties most Concerned.
I respectfully suggest that any fur
ther investigation into the possible
misapplication of the funds in the
department be conducted by the At
torney General, who. with the light shed
on the situation from the House Com
mittee report and the result of this re-
port, can approach the problem in the
usual manner.