The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-06-20

Individual cases of that kind may have
occurred but when detected have been
severely dealt with.
The Governor proceeds to criticize
my attitude in regard to the liquor
clubs already referred to. That has
been already answered and wish here
simply to point out the unfair and
partisan character of the accusations
against me in reference to these liq-
uor clubs who would have supposed
that the Governor himself had organ
lied such club, and that these clubs
at the time were considered by the
Attorney Generals department as we'll
as my own to be within the law, a
belief unquestionably shared by the
Governor himself when he established
the club system as above set forth.
l leave 1t to the electors to decide
whether or not the accusation as made
by the Governor in reference to these
clubs is not grossly unfair to me and
that common justice and decency re-
CURED of him the admission In con-
nection with his charge, that until
recently such clubs were generally
honestly believed to contravene no law
by the officials OF the Territory.
LOANS TO OFFICERS.
When the governor steps into a local
County fight and selects one man for
his target it is expected that he has
weighed every word he utters, and in
making his accusation he should ad-
nit In behalf of the accused every
material fact in his favor, because his
accusation comes with the weight of
his Office back of it.
Continuing with the Governors
charges he asserts that II must have
known that by my order threatening
to remove any employee of my de-
partment who assigned his warrant,
and by leaving my cashier to dis
tribute the warrants, that / was Gre
ating a splendid opportunity for a
monopoly in the money! lending trade.
l may not have known the profit that
not only the money-lending was MAX
ing, but that my cashier was also
making"
Replying, I wish to state that short
ly after the passage of the present
Audit Act abuses grew up out of the
pledging of warrants by assignment by
employees of the government. A case
arose where an employee of my de-
partment assigned the same warrant to
more than one of his creditors this
coming to light when pay day came
and the different assignees presented
their claims. This led to the rule pre-
venting the assignment of warrants
and requiring the personal signature
of the employee to the Pay Rolls at
the end of the month. This rule arose
out of the protest of the auditors de-
partment against the abuse just men
TONED, and was known and approved
by the Auditing Department. More
over, unless my memory greatly fails
me, the Governor himself acting on a
report from the Auditor where
Lieutenant of Police had assigned
warrant to three different parties re-
quested of me that the rule against
assigning warrants be strictly enforc-
ed. The officer in question was dis
missed from the service for that cause.
and ! never heard a lisp against the
rule from any one until the Governor
AS TO LOAN SHARKS.
The reference by the Governor to the
lending of money by the clerk of my
department to the men during the
month, leads me to state further that
such loans We're personal loans unse-
cured by an assignment of the war
rant. and there was nothing to pre-
vent the men from borrowing money
on like personal security during the
month from any one they saw fit in
GLIDING fellow employees. / deny en-
the insinuation by the Gov
ernor that the rule against the as
Segment of warrants was established
TO promote the lending of money by
any one to the employees. He knows
better and the Audit Department of
the Governor knows better and in this
connection | want to know if the rule
against assignments of warrants
which the Governor insinuates I es-
tablished for an Interior motive has
been rescinded by my successor. And
l should like further to know whether
money is not being loaned to the men
during the month now upon practically
the same lines as during my incum-
bency. / contended then and do so
now that it is better that money need !
ed by the men during the month be-
fore pay day should be advanced !
through the Office and under its con-
troll so as to keep better track of what !
the men are doing. and 1t was for that
reason that / did endorse a note
my cashier raised money to |
carry on the business of making ad-
vances to the men as charged by the |
Governor. The cashier had control of |
these advances and made his profit |
The men were free to borrow from him
or anywhere else they pleased. There
was no complaint made to me by the
men against him. The only regula-
ton In connection Herewith being that
not more than one-half of the mans
monthly wages should be loaned him
between day days.
The system in question has been
thoroughly investigated by two Grand
Juries and one Legislative Police
Committee and no adverse comment