The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-05-11

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may put under that categss the passage
ton on Saturday last, pProprla,hg Of a
expenses OF the SessiG- They also paIUo bot.i
very tangible lanch O that day al ine s{stsr 81
on the invitation OF IE EXcellepcy the NHH'st :,
Finance. AmSng th, numerous Peltio ara-in1
and referred, WIS on extensively slgT - bs
that no one VIII drank hteAle@AnE This
allowed to bold Cics uTder the goVSnheu
was referred to be Committee on
Subjects, and We sail look with iFe'es' '"
report thereon. ..,;.,. h,d nv!
pired, the Select Committee on ne resolution lHi'
CarteF's) declaring to 1e vacant1Hs se1eS = SuTse
Hitchcock from Hilo. and JUICE MI % go
wac, made thir reFoTs- who . III - ,se;r
that those gentlemen @ere leSA4Is -,
seats. An hon was spent in iscnsslhE TOE TePo,t'
when it was 4 forgole concirioh tuat Il W."
adopted. rs IL wlsin the -n' oy an 1uios -
nous vote. throughput feT inferred into tue ueoaNe'
and those who did fane. to give very clear reA-
sons for voting ave. ASuuHnts were pun IVt"AiH
by the Ministers, tina; we're e,Felae'5 ha"oPt'Hs
and smacked Of the lw ofhe. Inc phuelP-e"
lost sight OF. that has always peep ieCoSHl%eu
heretofore. that iudrrs oVglt not to>it a. MAKERS
OF the laws which they se TO execute III q
British House of Commas. Judges arr SASAuGeu'
and so are sheriffs. and4H returnt Hi : so,i,n O mr
der our Statute, which by the 'forthai action OIL
the Assembly though not repesed nas oecome
dead letter. nc judgs oil any .ass : Tns'0'e I"
election Us a Representative o'tne PeoPte
Under the Present Constitution. no Judge OF a
Court of Record can sit in he Assembly. The
Attorney General frankly famltted Ihat ne was
not clear in his own mind nat the foIice Courts
were not Courts os RECORD ana lneH went on 70
to verifcation of nro.eedbgs, which IN our view
any person of plain comuDn sense would under
stand TO indicate very Iearly that they were
I Courts of Record. judge Hitchcock 5 Court being
Of that nature. his sitting a a member Is therefore
an inrraction of the Constitution. Besides the fact
of the law being against it there Is a good deal to
be said as to the polio Oh tue Pracree o, me
posts. where they shoudbe constantly on hand III
the administration OF justice. what. again, be-
comes of the Constitutional provision that the
a. Executive, Legislative and judicial powers shall
always be- nreseryei distinct ~ The arguments
brought by the MiiistG OF Foreign Relations to
explain away this pEaiI provision were sufficiently
ingenious. but capable OF being extended to a lu-
dierous extent. had Va space TO spare. we snail
revert to this subjectlgain in our next:
An amusing feature of the proceedings in the
Assembly. is the persistence with which members
will rise in their places ana State that they nave
mot much to saw, and then go on to say 1t. for half
an hour. One Hon. gstleman consumes hiteen
minutes in saying that Is not necessary Tor MN
to speak on the subject; announcer completes the
half hour in asserting th:t he agrees with the Hon.
member number threein twenty minutes proves
satisfactorily that he cannot say anything new {;
and number four fnihes the hour by going over
in brief the ground cVered by numbers one, TWO
and three.
Tuesdays session was a short one again, and the
reason given by members outside OF the House why
there was no work TO 10, was that certain oils, that
naQ 0een ordered to SeCCuu TSduiuRS WI HhlOn
there is a number) hal not yet come from the printer.
1t will be observed hat apparently in the under
standing of the Assembly, there Is but one printer
in town, the Director of the government press, and
if he cannot promptly execute the required printing,
the House must wait, tie business of the country be
delayed and expenses run on. 1t never occurs to
the COMMITTEES ON printing that there is another es-
adjustment i'll town, standing ready TO do a TAU
share of the work rs promptly. as well, and at as
cheap rates as can be done by the Gazette office.
And why indeed, should the printing Committee give
this fact a moments consideration, when 1t con-
sists of the Minister of Foreign Relations and the
Minister of Finance? And why, moreover, should
not the Government press have all the crumbs Of
patronage possible, when it only got Sl4,529.O9 as
subsidy during the past two years?
The composition of the Committee ON printing Il
odd enough-two Cabinet Ministers, alone. Repre-.
sentatives, it would appear, are not supposed 10 know
or care anything about how the necessary printing
is done. In fact, the formation of the entire list o
standing Committees of the House Is open to crlti
in the important Committee on Government Land,
and Internal Improvements, the Island of Kauai i
unrepresented and the same is true of the no les
important Committees on Education and the Judi
ciary. Moreover, q desire to politically Ostraciz
certain members whose opinions on important ques
tons are known to differ materially from those o
Ministers, is easily deducible from the quiet name
in which they are put out of the way of giving an.
trouble on Committees.
The Appropriation bill was presented on Wednes
day and the attempt was made TO get 1t upon the E'
J OF orders OF the day. On the size OF the representa-
tives however, it was thought that some of the pc
titions and resolves already presented respecting
the appropriation of funds should be first consid
cred, and so the consideration of the bill wa
ordered to be postponed two weeks.
A bombshell on a small scale was discharged in
to the Ministerial camp by the introduction of
resolution ordering the printing of the House to b.
divided between the two offices. a lively debat
ensued. in which some rather sharp things wer'
said anent that Government pet, the Gazette Office
and the Minister of Foreign Relations "crawfshed
around the resolution by insisting on referring t.
it as a recommendation merely.
On Thursday the Committee on printing reporteC
a number of bills as ready, and so the Assembly
having something to do, had a longer session thai
usual. The Committee, with o glow of satisfaction
informed the House that the Government printing
office was now free to go on with the work withou
further delay. The Committee might have added
that the complaints in the House about the delay il
the printing had resulted in an extraordinary amour
of exertion in the office of the Government press, tn
hands working until past midnight, on time, and a
heavy expense to the Treasury. But that would no
have sounded well.
The petition from Wailuku, asking that the waite
now running to waste in Hamakua, Maui, b
brought on to a large extent of waste land, (som
sc, 900 acres) at the expense of Government, thereb,
rendering the said land available for agriculture
purposes. met with the enlightened and liberal res
ponse that as the planters alone would be oenettte'
thereby, they could make the ditch themselves!
A bill to amend the law in regard to labor on tn
roads in lieu of paying the tax, so as TO make
days work ten hours instead of eight, was indef
nately postponed by a vote of 10 to Il; and a bi
was passed its second reading ordering the terms c
the Circuit Court Of Maui to be holden at Lahain
and Wailuku, in June and December.
The Assembly was occupied yesterday a goo
part of the day in trying to undo what they ha
done the day before. a resolution directing tn
officers of the law to inquire into alleged irregular
tiles and unlawful proceedings at the late electio
on Lanai. was very properly passed and the bill
to repeal the Law to Mitigate" was sent to th
Sanitary Committee. where We expect that the sur
ject will be thoroughly ventilated.