The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-16
GOVERNORS PLANS
!. FORARMOR|ESRUN
|. into REAL SNAG
Estimates Calling For $4,000
For Guard Buildings Meet
With Opposition

Governor Pinkham's estimate of
$4,000 for new armories for the ma
tional guard IL liable 70 have rough
shedding in the legislature, according
to present indications and the state
ments of some Of the members. In the
senate, particularly, strong opposition
is being manifested, and the definite
statement is made that large number
Of the proposed armories are utterly
unnecessary and the proposed apPro.
priations for them win be eliminated
from the loan bill.
Speaker Holstein of the house, how
ever, Is enthusiastically in favor OF
plenty of armories for the national
,nard--and this is not out of friend
ship for Governor Pinkham.
The Governors estimates for arm
Dries call for &75,000 for Kauai and
,numerate a large number of armories
hat he thinks ought to be built. j. II.
;oney, chairman Of the military com.
mittee and member of the ways and
MEANS committee, expressed himself
frankly yesterday to the effect that the
,stimate was far too large and that
,everal of the armories called for by
he Governor are unnecessary.
Don't Need Armories.
1--WE don't need them, /" said COney
dand we don't want them For in.
stance, here is an item of $780, 900 for
an armory at Lihue. We don't need
/, and / can't see any use in throw.
| ing away 10000 Then, here is an.
pther item of $1,000 for an armOry at
sleele and another for Kealia." And
)oney pointed out several other sim.
| lar items, with the comment that they
we're all unnecessary
And here's an item of $1,000 for
IN armory at Fort De Russy. What
10 we want to build an armory there
iorf There may be a good reason,
nut can't see IL. Anyway, want
o look into IT," g.
Then, running rapidly through the
Governors estimates, Coney pointed
Jut several other proposed apprOpria.
ions for which he said he could see
10 reason. I" Here's $4,000 for a deaf
md dumb asylum, - he said. ave d
rave about three people in it, and
/ here are lots of things we need much
| more. There's no sense in such ex-
travagance, and can Z support it."
i The Kauai senator stated that priv
tie corporations on Kauai have dOnat
i ID armories and rendered it unneces
sary for the Territory to go to the
Expense. ~ ~. l#
aolstein Ire Aroused tH'S,I ig4t ~
But Just this matter aroused the ire
u Speaker Holstein, who unqualified
/ " condemned the system of allowing
corporations or individuals TO provide
ZONES for the national guard. The
speaker contended that when cor
Ioration, for instance, provides an
lrmory' for unit of the guard, il
hereby gets strange hold on the
yuard-and generally trottles il.
Without mentioning any names. Hol
rtein said he knew of instances where
managers of plantations that had Civ
IN buildings TO be used as armoriei
lad walked into the armories and or
Tered any employees of theirs VIII,
lad appeared for drill. He said h,
Knew Of other instances where planta
ion men had ordered their employees
o get out of the guard. -
~ am absolutely opposed, ~ SAID
1olstein, TO the principle of dual au
hority and dual responsibility. TAX,
FOR instance, the case of the board o.
health and some of its employees. Tn,
inspectors on the plantations are EN-
ployed by the board of health ant
san be fired by the board Of health
But half their salary is paid by tn,
plantation. What happens when
board Of health inspector goes into |
plantation store and finds on its shelve
canned fish, for instance, that has beel
there twenty yearsi And that's n,
'xaggeratiOn. | myself have seen sucl
'ans on their shelves, cans pulled an,
swollen, showing that the content
were decOmposed. Does he order tn
= stun thrown awayi He does not. HOY
1an heH ~
ITS not right for the nationa
guard to have to use armories donate,
L2y the corporations. What would hap
!, FDen If conditions should require tina
he national government take charge O
' Ill national guard armories. 1t eonldn
( 10 1t il they were owned by the COZ
oorations. If we are going to have
I national guard, let's support il an
axe care of it ourselves, not ask tn
d Limitations to do it for us. =.