The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-21
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THE LEGISLATURE.
ElGHTY-rIRST DAY.-CoNTINuED.
FRIDAY, Aug. goth.
AFTERNOON SESSION,


self on record as against foolish,
wrongful and useless expenditure.
There was no sense in throwing
away money on such an object,
when the Government is owing small
bills to tradesmen, some of them
dating back to 1882. The hon.
member for South Kona spoke of
having had his head broken in 1874
by mob that attacked the Legis-
laturc, and was afraid he would
have his head broken again if the
kingdom did not maintain O. stand
ing army. In tha,!case perhaps the
hon. member ought to be provided
with guard to follow always
at his heels. For his part the
speaker would be ashamed to say
that he was afraid to go from his
duties here and face the people. He
should not be afraid to go back to
his constituents on Molokai and
Lanai. (Reps. Nahinu and Kaulu-
kou objected that the hon. member
was not speaking on the item.) He
was not surprised that the hon.
members objected to having their
conduct exposed, but he was going
to refer to these matters all the
same. Those gentlemen had a hard
task to explain their record to their
constituents. rep. Keau dissents. }
The hon. member for Honolulu was
squirming in his seat, showing that
he too felt bad. (Rep. Palohau
interrupts with remarks in Ha-
waiian.) He saw that the member for
Hanalei was feeling bad too. If
those members went back to their
constituents and said they tried all
they could to have money spent in
their districts, they would tell a great,
big, black lie. The difference be-
tween the expenditures for show by
private members, and the proposed
expenditure by the Legislature for
military purposes, was that those
gentlemen spent their own money,
while the item in question repre-
sented the peoples money that was
needed for the public benefit. The
member for Hamakua knew, as he
had told the house, that there was
no money for the roads in his dis
trict, yet he was in favor of this
useless waste of the revenues.
There was nothing more absurd than
to talk of protection from invasion
by those eighty soldiers behind that
stone wall. A foreign man-of-war
could stand off Coco Head and fire
q shell into the barracks that would
kill the whole army, and then they
would see the member for South
Kona scampering off to the hills.
(Rep. Nahinu said he distinctly
stated that the army was not to
defend the country against foreign
invasion, but to preserve domestic
peace and order.) He was going to
speak of that. A while ago lot of
the soldiers were arrested for steal
ing mush melons from a Chinaman.
They were often detected in such
acts and were nothing but misera-
BILE lot of loafers and a menace to
the community. The volunteers were
the best protection the country had /,
and he should vote for the item for
| them.
Rep. Keau supported the item in
Hawaiian.
Rep. Dickey, referring to the
argument of Rep. Nahinu, said that
his information, which was as reli-
able as the hon. members, was that
all the soldiers in the country were
in that mob.
Rep. Baker supported the item,
advocating the shooting down of re-
bells.
Noble Martin asked if this was
the only military item.
Minister Gibson replied that the
hon. Noble would see several items
there. But it was hardly fair to call
/, the item for the band a military
item. Neither was it proper to call
the item for volunteers, whose SER
vices were free will offering of clti-
zens, a military expenditure. This,
therefore, was really the only mill
tary item. He admitted that there
was ground for some ridicule in the
| spectacle of little state of $4,000
inhabitants maintaining a standing
army. Yet it must be remembered
that this was monarchy, His Ma
jesty being recognized as King by
all the Great Powers. He received
their ambassadors and received
them like a King, with guard
and band. 1t was not difficult to
see where II small armed force could
be of very great service in this coun-
try. The riot on Kauai had been
alluded to, and, even if civilians had
suppressed it before the arrival of the
military, it was no harm that there
were soldiers to send to the scene of
disturbance on that occasion. The
speaker then recounted the facts of
the Chinese riot at the Immigration
Depot, TO the riot at the Quarantine
Ground during the smallpox epide-
mic, and to the courthouse riot, in
all of which the police were of no
avail to preserve order, and small
squads of military were effective to
suppress the disturbances, With
the 10000 Chinese and 5000 Portu-
! puese i'm this citv althouUh all