The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-06-02


civil service and the entire commu-
nifty.
BY the wording of the resolution
the idea is conveyed that l have es-
pecially insulted the Minister of
Finance. In the amendment which
was offered to the bill then under
discussion, and which is alleged to
be an insult, the Ministers are men.
toned as whole. When the Min
lister of Finance introduced this
resolution, who told him that in
moving to exempt the Ministers
from the privilege of buying liquor
/ especially meant himI Mr.. Pre-
sident, there is no accuser like a
guilty conscience.
The intuition of the Minister of
Finance has been so keen, that, fol-
lowing its lead / hereby expressly
state that if the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, of Interior and the Attor-
ney-General had constituted the
Cabinet, ! should have offered no
amendment and these remarks would
have been unnecessary.
If in any general remarks that
have been made, to-day or pre-
yiously, any Minister has thought
that the coat fitted him so well that
he has felt obliged to put it on, l
exceedingly regret it. If any Min
lister has felt that the coat did not
fit him, but has had his feelings
aggrieved by the thought that other
people might put it on for him, l am
sorry that l should have thus in
ferentally aggrieved him, and if such
Minister there be l hereby apologize
to him.
In aught which l have said either
to-day or previously, either on the
floor of this house or elsewhere, |
deny that it has been said with in.
tent TO insult this Assembly or any
member of it. l recognize, Mr..
President, as fully as any member
of this house, the fact that the way
in which the amendment complained
of was introduced, is unparliamen-
tary in that it contained the infer
ence that the Ministers were unfit
TO be allowed the free use of intoxi-
eating liquors. So far as / person
ally know, that statement or sug-
gestion should not have been made
concerning all of them; at the time
it was made had no thought in my
mind of any other than the Minister
of Finance, and had no intent to
direct it to any other than he. AS the
intent is the gist of every offence,
and / had no intent to offend
the other members of the Cabinet
/ submit to those Ministers and to
the Assembly, that with this expla-
nation, what might otherwise have
been considered an insult, is no in
suit, and / owe them no further
apology.
As to the Minister of Finance,
John NJ. Kapena, l deny that l have
insulted him or through him the
house; and l deny that / owe him
| uh apoloSy.
Whatever l have said and what
ever l may say concerning him, is
not an insult to this Assembly but
In defence of its honor and the
honor of the nation.
In the words charged to be insult
ing, the point complained of is, that
the inference can be drawn there
from that the Minister of Finance is
unfit to have the free use of intoXi-
eating liquor. The Attorney-Gen-
eral dared me the other day to re-
peat my remarks or to mention any
names. ! declined his dare then,
but l take 1t up now. l have charged
in public print over my own sigma
ture that the Minister of Finance
was in an intoxicated condition on
the floor of the house on that day,
and nobody has denied it, in this
house or out of it, and nobody car
deny it. l hereby specifically re.
peat that charge. There he stood
on that day bearing the commission
of His Majesty the King; the chief
of department in this Government
the guardian under solemn oath be-
fore Almighty God, of q solemn
trust; one of the shapers of the
destinies of this nation. There he
stood Minister of the Crown ir
such condition that he excited the
open contempt and jeers of the mem.
bers of his own party, discussing
before this house the meaning of the
words "habitaal drunkard," stating
that they were of no use in the
statute, as no one could tell what 6
habitual drunkard was, that being &
matter of opinion. 1t was at thai
moment that, filled with feeling o.
unutterable disgust, arose anf
offered the amendment which / did
Is that the man owe an apology
to, and is the offence for which
am to be humiliated before this
Assembly the making of a Statement
which conveys aninference that he il
not to be trusted with the use of in
toxicating liquors?
He is the man who owes this hous,
an apology. have made charges
and mentioned names specifically
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