The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-07-20
Legislative Jottings.

Formerly, and perhaps at the present day. speech
making used TO be q regular trade in London and
Washington. Men of education and talent made q
good living by manufacturing the speeches supposed
to have been delivered by members of Parliament or
Congress. The speech delivered by the member on
the floor of the House, when it appeared in the
newspaper, was not recognizable, for however crude,
stammering, loose and stumbling when it struck the
ear in the FIRST place, the printed affair showed none
of these defects, but was polished to the highest
pitch. Country constituencies were amazed TO find
what an extremely clever man they had IN Parlia-
ment. These thoughts very naturally occur after
reading in the last Gazette the g Remarks of His
Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the
Resolution to censure the Minister of Finance"
The interpretations by Ed. GAz.," We think need
noticing. Who is Ed. Gaz? Wei know the GAzE1TE's
foreman Ed. Bush, but i. can't be him. Nobody
dreams of the Editor Of the GG-eite's p%resuming to
shove in his Oar-or scull-when c. c. II. Is talking,
polateT, we look TO see His Elk the Minister of For
eign Affairs hunting round for the guilty one. We
wish him success. and advise him to go direct to Ed.
GAz, and not risk beating around the Bush.
In the Assembly on Saturday, one of the Maui
delegation (Mr. Nui) endeavored to procure the
passage of a resolution recommending to the q Board
Of Health " the relaxation Of the tabu on inter-
island travel. But Honorable members are not quite
ready TO go home yet, and probably expect the rule
to be rescinded by the time the Assembly adjourns,
and so the resolution was rejected without discussion.
On Tuesday also, the subject CAM up again, in the
shape of n petition from some forty or fifty people of
maui "a m hoN q VS. bO Ah1LC " On
their expenses while detained here by the action of
the Board. The petition was tabled without remark,
the Representatives of the people thus submitting
without a murmur TO the unlawful exercise of au-
thority by the so-called Board OF Health, and treat
ing all complaints with indifierenee-the result,
probably of insufficient information on the subject.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs met
with his first real defeat in the Assembly during the
session, and il did not set well ON him. His philos-
ophy is extremely thin, and he very palpably shows
vexatiOn at defeat. Ii was all about a bin of the
member for Honolulu, (Mr. Carter) fixing the hours
Of labor under contracts at nine instead of ten, as
the Minister desired. The majority against him was
large, the vote standing % to g, in spite of a set
speech which he made as n last effort. imploring
members 10 stand firm. And 60 they did-but not
on his side. His Excellency, in his published speech
on the resolution of censure, Travelled out of his way
to accuse those who voted with the Honolulu delega-
ton with g following blindly their Lead" and sneered
at the ideas of what are the 90 obvious and important
subjects Of Legislation % in the minds of those ssix
or seven +" followers. On that vote, the six or
seven " swelled TO thirteen, and on the question of
nine hours. there were twenty-three of these " blind
followers"
There are twenty-eight representatives in the
House. On several occasions during the past week,
the vote against the ministry has been more than a
majority Of the representatives present thus showing
most clearly that the voice OF the people is practically
dumb in the Assembly, under the present II
system.
Several bills are before the Assembly, introduced by
Hon. Mr.. Carter, the object of the whole collec-
lively being the amendment in one way and another
Of that part of the Civil Code commonly known as
the Masters and Servants Law" While we do not
ngree with the Honorable member to the full extent
of his opposition to the law, We must concede that he
has ably and temperately urged his view of the ques-
tons presented, and has succeeded in rather unex-
pectedly gaining a fair vote on his side.
Yesterday, the Appropriation Bill for the ensuing
two years was finally passed. II foots up the sum of
81, lS0, pa, being 81, 092 less than the original bill
as presented by Ministers. To meet those regular
appropriations, there are two bills to authorize loans,
one of SIG, 900 for the Hotel, and another for
general purposes. of $3.50 600, and the estimated
revenue, amounting TO 1852, 7OO,-so that by the
figuring of the Ministers we shall have q surplus of
SSS,456 more than we need. Happy Hawaii
Nobody was disappointed yesterday when the
Ministry succeeded in killing the nine hours bill.
They made good use Of the time that elapsed after
the bin was ordered to be engrossed, and the result
was some very funny and complete summersaults on
the part of Hon. gentlemen who had been earnest
and eloquent for the bill when il first came up.