The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-27
During Consideration Of City
Budget He Declares Appro-
priation To Be Illegal
DENoUNCES EXPENDITURE
AS GLASS LEGISLATION
Messrs Larsen and Logan Join
With Him But Majority Of
Board Authorizes Item "'

The city appropriation Of $3.50 a
month for the Hawaii Promotion Com.
mittee was attacked last night at the
meeting Of the board of supervisors, by
Supervisor F. NJ. Hatch and in the dis.
cussion resulting from his objection to
the item there was some interesting
talk about the scope and results of pro
motion work. Hatch's opposition to
the appropriation was voted down, with
Supervisor Larsen rs his only support
err. Hatch made his objections on legal
grounds, and wanted the matter re-.
ferred to the supreme court, giving IL
as his opinion that the appropriation
for the promotion work was "class leg
islation," on the ground that only a
few special interests received benefit
from the money spent for promotion
work.
Legislature Authorizes Fund
Deputy City Attorney Garden appear.
cd to cinch the matter when appealed
to for an opinion as to the right of the
board to appropriate money for the
promotion committee. He quoted an
to give the Supervisors an undoubted
right to appropriate for promotion, and
after that expression of opinion the
board passed the item.
Hatch, in opposing the item, said
that 1t appeared to him that it was
for the benefit of only few interests,
and of no benefit at all to the great
majority Of the people. There fore, he
said, 1t was a case Of "class legisla-
ton" He said that only few con.
Germs benefited from the work that the
promotion committee was doing, and
that it was clearly breach of trust, I"
for the supervisors to vote public
money for promotion committee work.
He held that the supervisors had no
legal right to vote any money for such
purposes, and said that he would vote
against the item.
Arnold Defends Expenditure
Supervisor Arnold defended the item,
saying that the money spent Ibpought
prosperity generally to the country,
while Larsen supported Hatch's view.
He thought that the suggestion by
Hatch that the whole public did not
get benefit from the promotion work
was to be approved, and said that the
same amount of money as was being
put into promotion work might be
better given to the Leahi Home.
Supervisor Logan, in speaking on
Hatch g proposition to cut out the item,
severely criticized the promotion com
mittee work. He declared that a lot
Of money was being wasted in the pro.
motion work, and he denounced in
energetic language what he termed
"demOtion committee" work, in the
circulation Of criticisms of roads of
Oahu.
Roads Greatly Improved
He claimed that the roads of the isl.
ands had been seventy-fve per cent
improved under the management of the
present board, and said that the pro-
motion committee had circulated re-
ports that the roads were unfit for
automobiles, whereas only very small
proportion of the roads were bad. Lo-
gan, in concluding his remarks, said
he would be willing to vote for the APP
preparation if it was provided that the
supervisors should have q represent.
alive on the promotion committee.
Supervisor Horner said that he
thought the promotion committee was
doing good work and should be back.
ed up. Hollinger, Who spoke as for
mer member of the promotion commit.
tee, said that the work ought to be
boosted, and he put in a good word
for the work of A. p. Taylor, as score.
tary Of the promotion committee.
When it came to vote the only
ones to oppose the insertion of the
item Of $3.50 a month for the promo.
ton committee, in the budget for the
next six months, were Hatch and Lar
sen.
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