The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-28
THE SCHEME
THAT FAILED
How the National Guard
Did Not Get It's
Appropriation.

And now the friends of the National ,
Guard OF Hawaii. having seen the Or
ganization deprived Of Territorial help
by the failure Of the Legislature TO
pass a special appropriation bill, want
10 take their doll rags and go home.
That is really tie Only way TO express
it But The story of the failure of the
last desperate attempt TO saddle the
taxpayers with this ornamental arm IS
rather good story. and humorous.
Everybody knows. 10 begin with. how
the item for the militia was stricken
out Of the regular appropriation bill
Then came the Maui strike and riot
and the hurrying of sam johnson to
the front 10 queIl the murderous labor
ers. II was really excellent campaign
material for the militia appropriation.
and the friends OF the National Guard
We're not slow TO avail themselves of it
They are not slow. the nilitiamen. in
that sort of thing-even if it is true. as
ruInored. that they cannot all keep out
Of the way of their own field guns in
the field.
At once. after the Maui expedition
sailed away. a special appropriation bill
was rushed into the House carving an
item of $1,000 for defraying the expense
Of the campaign. And TO this was
added an item of $4,000 for the support
of the militia For was rot the militia
needed? An attempt TO put this same
rider on a small appropriation bill
failed, but that did not discourage the
lcampaigners- Not a whit. They would
put their Own bill through
And just here long and very deep
scheme was evolved by some wise
gazabas in the Oahu delegation The
Governor. OF course. wanted the ap-
preparation of ten thousand for the
militia The Governor had inspired the
/ bill But the Governor was not in
favor OF giving $4,000 TO keep up the
band Or, at least, he was thought not
TO be. So the Oahu wise men concluded
that they would strike out the militia
item of ten thousand dollars. and sub
stitute for il an item of S43, coo for the
militia and the band. They argued
that the Governor would swallow the
band 10 save the militia
| Carl Smith of Hilo, was in favor of
the militia item, as were Shipman.
Fernandez and sheldon. but none of
them would stand for the band They
Iargued that that was an Oahu county
luxury And when Smith got wise TO
the Oahu scheme. by pure accident, he
moved the indefinite postponenent of
the militia bill before it could be
Iamended.
| And that carried. However. the mi
| litia was not beaten yet The Chamber
iof Commerce was appealed 10. and act
| ed. and il Is said that Mr. Baldwin of
Maui sent directions 10 the delegation
from his island TO reconsider their
hasty action in killing the bill It was
however, too late II vas when they
found that it was too late that the
friends OF the militia wanted TO take
their doll rags and go home
| The desire was shown in the motion
made by Representative Harris in the
House yesterday to strike out the
clause appropriating S2Gco for the ex-
lpenses of the Maui riot expedition, and
substitute an item Of $500 TO pay the
expense of boxing and shipping to
Washington all the arms and aecou-
treuients in the possession Of the Ma
tfonaI Guard Of Hawaii The motion
/ was the public expression of a desire
said to have nesh privately eAhftSSe1
iby Governor Carter earlier in the pres
ence of number of, eminent states
men.
| incidentally. the Hawaiian band VIII
l~oon be a thing OF the past if citizens
, who wish TO keep alive a characteristic
| institution viii not take up a sub
scription TO pay for the music Il
would be a novelty. in fact. in Homo
lulu for those who dance TO pay the
| Upper. although It IS always done else
where. The band appropriation VIII pc
exhausted on July 1st. And where VIII
the county Of Oahu, which is counted
upon 20 keep it going. be then poor