The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-06-27
PU BLIsHED WEEKLY NJ
HENRY NJ WHITNEY.

An act to authorize the levy Of Light dues.
. An act to regulate Contracts between Masters nd
Servants N
An act to amend Section 43 Of Civil Code.
An act to repeal Section IS Of Civil Code
An act to authorize the Commissioner of Grow,
Lands to execute deed Of confirmation for n certai
piece OF land at Wailuku, Maui
An act to authorize n Loan
An act TO extend the powers Of the Bureau Of In
migration
An act relating to the location Of Slaughter
Houses
An act in regard to School Inspectors and School
Treasurers.
An act to amend Chap. q. Section . Of Penal
Code - ~
An act to regulate the Sale Of Deadly Poisou..
On motion of DIR. HutehSon, rules slssenie,I that
nc might introduce the following resolution: That
the Reporter Of the COMmsTeiaI .4drerfissr be re-
quested to inform the House from whom he obtained
the Report Of the Committee the Petition from MIR
hauwahi, making certain charges against the Minis
ter Of the Interior.
one that ought not be entertained by the House
and spoke to that effect
Mr. Lyons spoke against the resolution, and stat
ed that the proceedings Of the Representatives we're
not IN secret session but il was 50 proposed and
strongly opposed by the Member from Honolulu
(Mr Rhodes) who wished the whole matter made
public MIR. Lyons said further that If the Minis
ter wanted to know where the Report came from,
that 1t was furnished by himself to the Editor of the
-5drSTfissT.
MIR Phillips asked the Speaker If he did not know
enS 10 IuAJOrlty OF the
Committee
Mr. Hutchinson withdrew his resolution, and stated
that when the Petition regarding himself was taken
up he quietly withdrew and now he finds out that the
Report Is in full in the r. O. -fdrsTfiser and on the
face Of the Report is n seanial0us le regarding the
actions of himself his clerk in regard to the Opium
License
Mr.. Phillips again questioned Mr.. Lyons.
Mr. Lyons said that the Report was published as
read before the Representative and at the time il
was read, the Report was endorsed by three of the
Committee, one Of which had since Withdrawn his
name
Mr.. Stanley gave an explanation 10 the effect that
the petition read before the Assembly, and
referred to Select Committee, to whom he delivered
i but as yet the petition not returned TO him.
Mr.. Lyons said that the petition had no business
to be read before the House, ii addressed To
the Representative alone
Mr.. Phillips said that the Reporters were granted
certain privileges, and to say that they should not be
asked a civil question, something he could not
understand The report was objected to by the Com
mIttee, and has been formally withdrawn, and yet
this Reporter has tie repot Of the Committee in full
and in connection with IL published n scandalOus
and bellous article, and by the Constitution this As
sembly had right To know where the Reporter got
the report of the Committee
Mr.. Lyons said, that he understood the report
in the paper, il IN regard the proceedings OF
the Representative, and not Of the Legislative As
sembly.
Mr. Hitchcock said that the matter was desired to
be treated in secrecy by OF the Representatives
Honolulu Mr. Rboiesj WIS in favor
public SIT here, If they choose to come
MIR. Rhodes thought that IL rather amusing
that the members from Hilo and koliala should en-
de1vOr to throw all the O1um OF this matter him,
and his insisting that the fullest publicity should
be given to the proceengs; but they had done
few words would show how the really stood,
and he appealed the whole OF the Representatives
to eorrOborlte what he sail When the Represents
tives retired on Saturday there question Of
secret session The Of the gentleman ap
peare,l to have been well prepared beforehand The
member for KOhala (Nir. Lyons) chairman OF the
committee 10 whom refereed Kauwa wahi's petition.
Immediately produced and rad his report before
numbers Of listeners, who sitting below the bar
Of the House The motion to adopt was made and
seconded, and it wOuh have been carried, had not
Mr. T., who waited a short while TO what IN
should be prOdueed which the report bassd-
The evidence not f0rthcoping, but the motion lei
to long and pubfie diseuSsi0H, during which he
(Ir- T. freely characterized the whole OF the pro-
eeedfngs malicious and unjust II was at sub
sequent meeting Tuesday, that their great legal
authority, the member for South kOna, informed
them that the meeting q the Representatives should
be secret and that be (Mr. r. opposed secret
sion The mischief had then been DONE the report Of
the committee had been publicly read and debated,
many Of the native members having impcrfectly un
derstOod the nature Of the document they called
pass until il had been pointed out TO them This
they would all remember, bat now he would tell them
something that had not been made publc-there was
n majority report Of the committee, for he had seen
and read il. fully and completely exculpang the Min
ister, but by the tactics pursued by the honorable
gentleman il not laid before the Representatives
sitting in committee lie knew nothing fthe adverse
report beyond having heard IL real it was never in
his hands, and he had srenuOusly opposed its adoption
Of its injustice IL therefore too kind
of the honorable member to endevor to give him the
credit Of publishing it, when all that he thought Of
doing to make equally public with II the evidence
to show its utter wOrthlessness-
Assembly adjourned