The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-11
GARBAGE MEN
ARE S|LfN1 I.
But There Are Explana.
tons of the Payroll
System.


in the Garbage Department were be-
| ing put wise said Supervisor Moore
| yesterday. cat all events, / find it
very hard to get anything out of them.
They will not dig up. Nevertheless,
| I am going to the bottom of the mat
| ter. / do not know whether / will be
ready to make a report upon it before
| the meeting of the Board of Supervisors
in september. Perhaps 1 will. Perhaps
| I will not. At all events, / will make
my report to the Board before it is
made public. And, in the meantime,
| / have nothing to say concerning the
lines [ am following, and will have
nothing to say in advance of my re-
port.
The public can rest assured, there
fore, that the garbage payroll matter
will be sifted to the bottom. If wrong
has been done, those who are RESPONSE
bic will be made to account for it.
If there is nothing wrong, then the
tiout VIII ne Ill teu. CO ldT DIS Dam
johnson is concerned, that gentleman s
friends continue to refuse to believe
that any faint of crookedness will or
can attach to him.
1t should, in fact, be gratifying to
Captain johnson to know that almost
without exception, IN the discussion of
this Garbage Department affair, he has
been acquitted of any possibility of
wong IN the matter. There are things
that require explanation, but where the
explanation is required of Sam it is
believed that he will be able to make
it. The officials, one and all, blame the
system.
Yesterday, after thorough discus
sion OF the matter, a number Of Sam
Johnson's friends, Representative Quinn
being the leader in the movement, en-
ployed an attorney to watch the in
terests of the head of the Roads and
Garbage Department in any investiga-
ton that may be undertaken. The at
torney is Alex. G.. NJ Robertson, head
of the Republican Territorial Executive
Committee.
Acting Governor Atkinson yesterday
expressed once more his determination
likewise to get at the bottom of the
matter, and issued orders to Clarence
White, chief clerk of the Board of Pub
lie Works and in charge of the county
Garbage Department in the absence of
Sam johnson, to go through all the pay
rolls of the department, and the time
sheets for year past and make full
report. This is work that will take
some days, but should be a complete
exhibit of the officials side of the case
when it is finished.
"The payroll shows" said the Act
ing Governor yesterday, "that the man
Keanu, mentioned in the Advertiser
this morning, worked sixteen days in
July, and was given the five Sundays
and the Fourth of July. Now it is pos
sible, under the system of making out
the payrolls, for the man to have got
in the five Sundays in working sixteen
days. With the FIVE Sundays, and the
Fourth of July added. that would make
the twenty-five thirty -frsts of the
month";
And it is possible, under the work
ings of the system for that condition to
have arisen. In order to have worked
sixteen days and won the five Sundays,
the man would have had to work
around the Sundays, so to speak. That
is, with a monthly payroll, if it were
customary to give the laborer the Sun
day following the Saturday that he
worked, he would have had to work on
any given Saturday to get the Sun
day. Of course, if he worked on the
Saturday and the following Monday,
he would get the Sunday without any
question. An afternoon paper prints
an extract from the Garbage Depart
ment payroll for July, intended to show
the days upon which Keanu worked.
According to this payroll, Keanu work
ed on July first and third, and so got
the Sunday in between. Of course he
got the fourth of July. He did not
work on the eigth or the tenth of the
month, but was given the Sunday IN
between. He worked on the fifteenth
and the seventeenth, and got the
Sunday in between He did not
work on the twenty-second or the
twenty-fourth, but got the Sunday. He
worked on the Twenty-ninth, but not
on the thirty-frst, and got that Sunday.
The contention of Mr.. Trent was