The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-24

promptly asked for an investigation.
The manner in which the investiga-
ton had been conducted, however,
by tle hon. member Tor MololGi,
who acleG 90 iosecutng attorney,
mace il appeaf to him as # the
Whole business Yves managed for po-
'i'ic.l pc,rosas and with the sole otr-
eCo q indict'pg a damaging blow
upon lin, Ell. lie had been resi-
deut 81 tais couoty for about a
quarter OF century, but had not
visited the iSlcad of Lanai since
1879. I0t four 81 i've years he had
not even haG business communica-
tons with Lanai lis sheep had
been sent to and from there, his
wool secured and sent forward to
market without any intervention on
his part. Surrounded by water and
recriripg 70 fences, his ranch there
could he mapaged, he might say, by
a ratne, inac,ive sort of person.
lie had never had any trouble with
natives on Lanai, had never had &C.
casion TO bring SUIT against any of
them. As TO politics, the constitu-
ency of Molokai and Lanai had for
a long time been on the opposite
side from him. For several sessions
Messrs. Kupihea and Nakaleka were
the sitting members. One of the
chief compainants, Lapaki, was re-
ferred To in the house as very
poor man, but he went to Wailuku
the other day with fifteen horses to
sell, and he was continually going
back and forward all the time on
the schooner Mile Morris, with his
horses and turkeys-2ot without au-
thority-in which he was trading.
This matter he believed to have
been brought up, not to satisfy any
demand CT righi or justice, but be-
cause it was deemed that there was
an opportunity to li,ike a blow. He
now asked leave to retire from the
house, rs he had pressing duties to
attend to-some supplies to be sent
to the leper settlement-and he
doubted if he should participate in
any action the house might take in
the matter.
Rep. Kaai was not in favor of in
definite postponeIaent. Whatever
might he said of tie report, it
evidently Represented large
amount of faithful work on the part
of the committee, and he desired an
opportunity Of carefully considering
all the evidence. AS to the point
raised by the Attorney-General,
that the remedy for the alleged
abrses was i'll the court, this house
had appol tied committee of en-
qriry aud that committee, after a
grea5 deal of work. had pre-
scented report. Still, they
were not bound to accept the con-
clusion of the committee, and it
woulG be establishing dangerous
precedent TO throw cut the report of
committee without consideration.
Minister Dare asked what the
house would do if it adopted the
conclusion of ihe committee.
Rep. Kaai said the house certcinly
had the tight to censnre tue Minis
ter if he was found guilty of the
offenses charged.
Rep. Aholo sid he was in favor
of the moclon Of his colleague on the
minority CT the committee, made in
the forenoon, to lay the report on
the table, but, being absent at the
vote, learned this afte"noon that the
mo.'on was defeated, which left him
no course but to vote for indefinite
postrouement. He was not of opinion
that the house could take cognizance
of the matters charged, as the laws
provided redress in the courts for
any such abuses. By Going so the
house would assume the functions
Of the Judiciary. There was no
evidence in the report of any con-
nection Of M. Gibson with The
alleged offenses. He had told the
chairman that he had intended to
bring in minority report, but his
remarks just now mi2hJ be taken as
the gist of what his report would
have Eeen, enc he would saport the
motion TO indefinitely postpone the
majority report.
Rep. Wight cid not propose TO go
into the merits CT dement's of the
report, as in reality he knew very
li..le of what was in il, but he cons
side ed the inde,cite poslponement
Of he report would be gross in
dignity 10 this Legislature. His
views on The matter were almost
exactly tluse Of the members for
Waiiuku end Fl. ia. AT first he Gid
moi believe there was any grornd
for The charges, but when The Min
is,er got W few Gays laier, indig-
manly claiming that the Legislature
had nothing to 60 with the matter,
he began 10 think there was scme-
thing in It. When the committee
did their best 10 collect information,
to indefinitely postpone their report
would be gross result TO the COM
miitee, the house and its presiding
officer. If he was Minister of the
Interior, he would beg of Che house
rot to indefinitely POSTPONE the re-
port. When The Alto ney-General
had resided as long in the islands as
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