The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-07-28

The first business that was transacted to-day was
the introduction OF a bill to prohibit the inJermarry-
iug OF old persons with young ones. because ot tae
non fruitfuiness Of such unions The measure Wa
discussed, laughed over, aud finally tabled. l Will
remark here that l noticed that there seemei 10 be
no regular order Of business observed. Notions,
resolutions, notices, introduction and third reading
Of bills, &c, we're jumoled together This may be
convenient enough for the members but it must
necessarily he Troublesome TO the clerks and reporters.
Then q Special Crmmittee reported back favorably
S bill to prohibit ChIoameu from removing their
male children from the islands, and the report was
adop'ei-which l thought was rather hard On the
Cinnamon.
WAR.
Next the gentleman from Robala" oSerei a
resolution requesting the Minister Of the Interior 10
bring his buaks lato the House and separate the
" Bishop Of Englaui's" printing account from his
omnibus of "suHiriss," and show just how ny
Lords account with the Government printing oglce
The Minister Of the Interior Ian Englishman-Dr.
Hufchison) opposed the motion, angriy said ii
showed tie animus Of the thing the way it stood"
He said re was really - produce the books, aud went
at once and brought them in.
Another member moved to table the original mo-
ton.
Harris, Minister OF Finance, wanted the motion 10
stand unameuded he said it showed the auinus q
the thing. too; sljd il Was the old insinuation. ema-
mating from outside The walls Of thi~ House-Ihat the
Minister Of the Interior was diverting the public
funds to the support Of the Anglican church; the
ancient insinuation that ne was recreant to mis- duty.
&c; said the auimu> was prominent enough in the
language OF the resolution, which denied TO tie Lord
Bishop Of Honolulu the title which all the world
recognized as his. and called him the - Bishop Of
Eugiand;' said the Bishop always paid his bills; he
tHarrisl always paid his hills, and gave money FIRE.
quently 10 the Anglican church; was n member Of
II; would like L. know OF a single solitary instance
where the CUugregaiionalist member from hohalt
had ever contributed one dollar, one shilling, one
iuhuitesiual fraction Of a hrthiug TO he support Of
the Reformed Catholic Church of the Lord Bishop;
out a hIng : Munster couldn't be houtsJ. oh n!
and a Minister couldn't be a geutleman-certaiuly
not! i'm ossiblei-Ch, utterly!
And 50 forth and 50 on, wandering further ani
further from the question before the House. and
quncking about stuff that had no more 10 do with
the subject under discussion than the Decalogue has
got 10 do with the Deciar ton OF Indie p~eudeuce. This
man was on his feet every Eve minutes foI an hour
One timii CUmmouer feebiy moved the previous
question once, with \ vague hope Of shutting up the
Minister, but he never got a second, and was snub-
bed IL a moment, and - went in his hvle,' as they
say ia California.
The original motion was finally tabled. but it made
a fearful stir among the Ministers DARN G it's Lrie:
existence II created a bitter discussion, and showed
how malignant are the jealousies that rankle in the
breasts Of the rival religious denominations here.
The Vice President said he Was sorry the motion
had been offered; that it was an insult to the Gov
ernment. to the Bishop of Honolulu, to the House
and To all parties concerned, and II grieved him To
put il 20 vote.
In the debate his Excellency Minister Harris was
the champion Of the RefoI mel Catholic Church
t~thCugh, TO save my soul, | could not see what any
>'H'NH c'' w - Z hHd
with the question before the House) He was the
champions; aui without any i'll feeling toward him
| will yet express the conviction that about two more
such champions would bring ruin ard disgrace upon
any cause under the sun.
MINISTER HARRIS
Is six feet high, bony and rather slender, middle.
aged: has long. ung4inly arms; stands so straight
that he leans back n little; has small side whi>kers;
from my distance his eyes seemed blue, and MS teeth
looked too regular and too white for an honest man:
he has a long head the wrong way-thaI i up and
down; and II bogus Roman nose and a great, long,
cajayeruus unjertaker's cOuurenance, displayed
upon which mis- ghasrly attempts at humorous ex-
pressions were as shocking ~ II facetious leer on the
face # a corpse. He is a native Of New Hampshire,
but i unworthy Of the name Of American. I think,
from his manner and language today. that he be
longs, body and soul, and boots, to the King Of the
Sandwich Islands and the " Lord Bishop Of Homo
luln."
10 hoo .-----l.G i--.~.y. tIv.s. IL.
oratory Is all show and pretence; he makes consider
able noise ami a great TO DO; ami inpresses his pro
ioundest iuc0herencies with an oppressive solemni,y
and pouderous windmill gesticulations with his fails.
lie raises his hand aloft aud looks piercing'y At the
Interpreter and launches out into q sort OF prOd:gious
defamation. thuuders upwards higher aud higher
towards his o!iHaX-words, words, awful four sylla-
bic words, given with Ii CONVINCING mphasis thar
almost inspires them with meaning. and Just as You
take a su tanning breath AMI stand by for the
crash, his poor ljttle rocket szzrs family in the
zenith and goes out ANONYMOUSLY. The sensation
one experiences Is the same a miner feels when be
puts III "A blast which he thinks Will seu the whole
VI ~ u ~ 'AE AANH4ls Aul htltl llitLA "a
quarter Of a mile il ten seconds to get out of the
way, Is Disguised to hear it make n trifing, dull re-
port, discharge n p~ipe-full Of smoke, aud barely Jolt
half a bushel Of dirt. After one Of these incompre-
heusib'e rawlings, Mr.. Harris bends down and smiles
hoTrid smile Of self conplacency in the face Of the
Minister Of the Interior; beuds to the other side and
continues it in the face Of the Minister Of Foreingn
Affairs; beams il sereHely upon the adniring Lobby,
finally cOnfers the remnants Of IL upon the un-
happy interyreter-all Of which D ntomime SAYS as
plainly as words could saw IL: 4" En- :-hut wasn't il .,
an awful shot: - Harris says the weakest and most
lnsipil things, and then tries by the expression of
countenaHce 10 swindle you into the conviction
they are the most ~blighting sarca;ms. Aud in
seven years l have never lost my cheeriuluess and
wanted to lay me down in some secle1ed spot aud
lie, and be at rest. until I heard him try to be funny :,
o'day. II l he'd a double barre,ed shotgun | wou,i !
blown him into a million fragments. Harris -
ieals in long paragraphs Of personalities. that would
rot be permitted in any other Legislature. This
has the reputation Of being an able man;
Jet he was taiking pretty much all the time to-day, '
nd all the good sound sense or point there was in II
lis vaporlngs could have been boiled down into half r
page of foolscap. Harris is not a man Of first class p
lhili'ies-but that Is only my opinion, you know-not :
farris'- He knowssome things, though. He knows
hat his salary II $4,000 is lit. le enough, in all con- -
cieuce Especially As he gets nothing a. Acting At I
orney General. aud is not allowed to engage in out /
ite buziness), and he knew enough on one occasion
o vote against reducing his pay to 5000 when his
ingle vote was necessary to kill the proposed ecouo- q.
~. He is an inveterate official barnacle, and Is y
enerally well supplied with ofices-some people say ca
he Hawaiian Government Is a wheelbarrow, and that 'n
Iarris is the wheel. z
The Legislature voted an appropriation yesterday
have the photographs Of its members taken and -
ung up in the Capitol If they had known | was
10 paint Harris, they might have saved about
dollars. Harris. you won't do.
II | had time now l would write you a little some 4
ing about Harris Under the circumstances, =
,ough, I feel it my duty TO pass on to something else. u
MINISTER HUTCHINSON.
Next to His EIcelieucy Mr- Harris, His Naiesty's
mister of Finance, sits His ExcelIency Mr.. Hutchi- III
n, His N~ajesty's Minister of the lnterior-an En- HI
ishman. He has sandy hair, sandy mustache,
.udy complexion-is altogether one OF the sandiest
en- | ever saw, so TO speak; is 3 tall, stOop-shoul-
midile-aged, lowering proved, intense-eye1, W,
ascible man, and looks like he might have his little for