The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-06
.SOL0NS END WORK
ON APPROPRIATION
Bill Providing For the Expendi'
ture Of More Than $780,
600 Goes TO Senate

For salaries and departmental cx-
penses alone, IL win cost the people of
this Territory $3,6e6,s55 to run their
government for the next biennial peri
I'd, ending June SO, 1919. THESE are
the figures submitted to the senate yes
erday by the ways AMI means commit
&c in us revised draft Of the general
appropriation measure.
The bin Is. B. 52) viii be dis
cussed in committee Of the whole
Thursday evening, at session begin
ming at half.past seven, with sena'
tor Paeheco in the chair. As
chairman Of the committee of the
whole, President Chiliingworth author
lied him yesterday afternoon to invite
the members Of the house finance com
nittee to attend In the meantime, the
;ommittee's report, which constitutes
irtually new bill, viii lie on the
able.
mittee to the senate, Chairman Shinglc
4
ainutes Of explanation. y.
81 want this senate,'P he said, "tt
AVE a clear realization of the enor-
nous sum of money II takes TO run this
government. The figures we report
how are not all that you win be called
IN to appropriate, they are not even
the greater part of the government
Oudget, In considering them, you must
teep always in mind other expenses
ONE Of which you are originating from
tay 70 day yourselves, and some Of
hieh are fixed burdens. "'..r ~
+" The total amount Of this bill is
round &3,f00,000. Then there is the
Ichool budget, which, il we allow the
Increases IN salaries asked al down the
iney will amount to another round mil
ion. Then there are specific approPria
icns, such as the expenses of this leg.
,stature, 600; the income paid t.
he Queen, $50, 900; the insurance fund,
10000; and sinking fund, $27l 900;
amounting, in all, to about $3y0,0O0.
You yourselves already have appro
| ?riated for homestead roads, 100000,
nd for. emergency relief Of deficiencies
| the various government departments
nough more TO bring the running total
| n lump figures to about 100000. From
Jther miscellaneous sources we must al;
ow for fully six or seven hundred
thousand dollars more.
'tAnd in the loan fund we know
.s-e will be items snch as the Oahu
| q Road, between $3.50 900 and $500,
90; Mauf's Haleakala road, another
lalf million; the Volcano Road and
IONA roads--as TO which we have not
card specifically from Hawaii, bu;
which we know win be at least another
ralf million; and finally, the board Of
arbor commissioners, who absolutely
aust have two million and q half, after
hitting to the future everything not
immediately and imperatiyely neces.
,aTy. .-Na s .t't
"Summing il all up, we know we are
| going to appropriate round eight mil
ions. AT present, we have outstand.
| ng bonds in the sum of ~ 800 900. The
organic Act allows US 20 borrow four
cen millions, and this senate is on
eeord as Of belief that the Legislature
hould enact a statute, under authority
! Il the Organic Act, raising the present
egal limit from nine 10 twelve millions
This bill the house has amended by cut
ting il down to ten millions.
| "You will find, when you read the
export of your committee, that 1t has
'ystematized the salary system Of all
departments, in a way to make il easily
Ineligible. l may say that this has
peen done with the very cordial ap-
'roval Of the territorial auditor and the
territorial treasurer.
"Under the existing system, il was
virtually impossible for anybody but
an expert veTsed in government ae.
;Ounting to tell what any department
alary roll amounted to, individual
Ralaries were paid by anywhere from
line to nineteen different vouchers
fhis system vastly increased the bur
} zen of work on both the auditors and
reasurer's offices and il did not appea
o the committee as good business
i "We have been on the job, we hav'
worked morning, noon and night, an'
4 e have taken nothing for granted.
move that the report Of the COMMITTEES
De laid on the table to be taken up TO
yether with S. B. 52.''