The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-08-11
GARBAGE men
ARE SILENT

in the Garbage Department were be-
ing put wise" said Supervisor Moore
yesterday. cat all events, l find it
very hard to get anything out of them.
They will not dig up. Nevertheless,
j am going to the bottom of the mat
ter. / do not know whether I will be
ready to make report upon it before
the meeting of the Board of Supervisors
in September. Perhaps will. Perhaps
l 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
BILE will be made to account for it.
If there is nothing wrong, then the
cloud will be lifted. So far as Sam
johnson is concerned, that, gentleman's
friends continue to refuse to believe
that any faint of crookedness will Or
can attach to him. i.,nI
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
wrong 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, 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
I 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 60 through all the pay
rolls of the department, and the time
sheets for year past and make full
report. This is a work that will take
some days, but should he complete
exhibit of the officials side of the case
when it is finished. @
"The payroll shows" said the Act
inglGovernor yesterday, "that the man
Keapu;-s 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
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 monthly payroll, if 1T 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
that the man, at the most, should have
been given but three Sundays, the man
working against him on the same shift
getting the other two. But against this
it is contended that the men worked
overtime, frequently, and not of neces'
sity in regular shifts.
The Same time sheet shows that A.
R. Philips, who worked nineteen days
in the month, worked around all the
Sundays and got them. He likewise
got the Fourth of July, and one day
more. In other words, Philips got
seven extra days in the month.
cit may have been careless time
keeping said Clarence White yester
day. '.Sam johnson went over these
payrols and checked them with the
clerk, but in the hurry of going away he
may have let some things slip by him
am going to go over the time books
for the past year. at all events, and gel
at the facts of the matter"