Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 116, 18 May 1894 — NOT SATISFED. [ARTICLE]

NOT SATISFED.

I The $1322.85 Still Unexplained. Mr. D;tmon c!aims that he esplained all about the amonnt i sopposed to have been paiel by I the Hawaiian Governraent for I i“Expenses Camp Boston.” We praiseJ Mr. Damou becanso he, j for one,Jicl not hesitat‘ in cotuiug | to the front auel renJer an account i to the tax-payeis whose money i was useJ anel sqinnclereJ. Mr. Damon’s explanation is : uot satisfactory. As far as we ; ean uuJerstanJ, the Hawaiian j Govermnent, nnJer the manage- | i ratnt of Minister Daraon, paiJ ■513-22 85 for work (loue on the premises former!v owneel by C. K. Bishop; anJ, if we are correct-1 ly iuforraeJ, at preseut heU by Mr. Daraon, on K;ng street, Honohilu Tlie expenses were incurreJ by “putting the plaee j in orcler.” It ineans that j the Hawiiian Governmentj built a kitchen—a very gooJ one —auJ causeJ heavy plurahing expeuses in laying in water-pipes etc. We are told that the goveruraent hael to do that, becanse } the troops ot the Boston were the guests of Hawaii. Allow us to state that the p. g. as well as all the supporters of that nearly JeaJ ati’.iir have day iu anJ dav ont j to!J us that landing of the Boston j rnen and the hostile action of the | j United States forces was perfectly j | private, and i i no way coutrollt d ; by the Hawaiian Goveruraent. | Whv then. may we ask, Joes the 1 Government pav for the aeeom- . modatious of the blue-jackets? A ' kitchea was built aud a shed in whicbthemencoulJdotheir wash- 1 ing. The supposed owuer Mr. C.B. f ' Bishop, receiveJ his rent every month, but nevertheless he could I not, at his own expense, put the ■ establishment into proper āhape. ?I322.Sō were spent for the , j benefit of the owner or owners of j ; C imp Boston aml then the gov- | ernment soIJ all the improve- j ments k> Mr. Bisbop's Iatest ; tenant for $135. It is »aid that, 1 the Hawaiian government had ' nothing whatever to do with the t lanJing of American troops. It I is positively Jec!areJ that the action of Mr. Stevens and Capt. Wiltze was Jne to the better i judgraont of these mea anJ tc the < urgent demand of a nnmber of 1 badly-frightenei American citi-11 zens. The citizeos evideatlv . were so scared tbat tbey forgot v to foot the bill and Mr. Stevens y and Capta:n T\. wero undonbtedly i ooly too glad to escape with nn- a broken heads, that a matt«r of c Joliurs an<l cents heeame of no importance. In the meantime | tbe Hawaiian taxpayer pays tbe bill aud Samuel Damon grins. i And so do we.