The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-06-25
FRIDAY
THE LEGISLATURE.

at noon yes erday to give the
on with their work This was a
proper thing to do, because at this
period of the session it is important
that the committee work should be
brought close up.
In the open business of the House
there was not much deserving comment
What might be styled committee bat
tie took place; in other words, there was
majority and minority report ''wide as
the poles asunder." And here it is
proper to remark upon palpable breach
OF parliamentary etiquette in the case of
MIR. Dole, who presented a minority re-
port from the Committee on Pension
Bills in advance of the majority report
Mr.. Dole should understand that no
point can be gained by violating either
parliamentary or social canons His re-
port would have read quite as well fol-
lowing the majority report as it read
ahead of it, and members of the Assem-
bly, would probably have attached more
weight to it than they now do
The suggestion of the ADVERTISER as
to notices of questions addressed to Min
listers has been acted upon, and a new
rule governing the point has been
adopted, on motion of Mr. Dole.
Although the rule is not in the form we
should have preferred, it is better than
no rule at all. A similar rule in princi-
pie shonld be adopted regarding resolu-
tions.
a bill to prevent foreigners working on
the city wharves was passed to second
reading, after short debate, upon mo-
ton OF MIR. Keau. 1t was stated as an
argument in favor of the bill by Mr.
Keau, that con the day after the cleo
ton many firms on the wharves en-
ployed foreigners simply to crafty their
spite because their candidate was not
elected" We are not aware of many
cases of this kind, but at the time
the fact that several men were dis
charged for voting the National ticket
was brought under our notice. We let
it pass, however, in the conviction that
the temporary irritation caused by de-
feat would soon pass away, and that
Hawaiian labor would be employed as
heretofore. Such, however, does not
appear to be the case; hence the irrita-
ton of the native Hawaiians. Mutual
explanation and forbearance would
doubtless restore a good understanding
between employers and Hawaiian la
borers, but Mr. Dole, instead of doing
this, went out of his way to attack the
Oceanic Steamship Company to cover
the action OF his political friends com
planned of by Mr.. Keau.
If there were anything TO show Mr.
Dole's utter lack of mental balance and
positive moral obliquity it was his
speech yesterday on Mr. Keau's bill, in
which he said, according to the report in
his evening mouthpiece:
This seemed TO be Mr.. Dickey's bill in
new shape, to give Hawaiians privileges
over aliens: The people who practiced
such eXclusIveness lived SIX centuries ago.
If there was any politics connected with it
he was very sorry. He believed there was
some truth in it, as the Oceanic Steamship
Company was employing Portuguese al
most exclusively, and perhaps they had
better take away that corporations pen
sion.
Let us say, once for all, that Mr.. Dole
did not speak the truth; and from the
context, as We shall presently show, he
discounted the truth deliberately, or as
the legal phrase runs, ''of malice afore-
thought" In shielding his friends who
discharged Hawaiians for voting against
Carter and Warehouse, he overshot the
mark, and provoked a line OF investi-
CATION which may not prove agreeable to
his friends.
And first, the Oceanic Company does
not "employ Portuguese almost exclu-
siyeIy." 1t employs from eight to ten
Portuguese labOrers in its warehouses
at various work, and it employs between
eighty and hundred Hawaiians to load
and unload its steamers. Hawaiian
labor is likewise employed, as occasion
requires, at its sailing vessels, helping to