The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-25

Legislature should take cogH-
zance of the acts of Minister
which tended TO subvert the laws
that he was bound to protect. If
these charges were true, the Minis
ter was certainly liable to censure
by this Assembly, because the laws
alleged to be traversed were those
guarding not the private but the
public liberties of the people. If a
Government officer cheated man
in a bill of sale or horse trade, he
doubted if this Legislature could
deal with the case. The questions
involved here were more difficult
as regarded the merits than the
technical points. The defense
seemed to he that the Minister had
abandoned his sheep ranch to his
son-in-law (Mr. Hayselden), q
cattle drover, and stock man, and
that he knew scarcely anything of
what was doing on his Lanai estate.
The agent was his son-in-law, the
drover (Morehead) his nephew, and
the stock man (Henry Gibson) his
son. 1t was improbable that Minis
ter Gibson turned over the ranch to
those men and never heard anything
more about the management. AL
though the fact that the agent lived
with Minister Gibson did not proved
the latter's knowledge of all the
doings on the ranch, yet it was hard
ly likely that Morehead and Henry
Gibson raised the rents and turned
off the horses without the Minister
knowledge. Mr.. Morehead said
those actions were II new thing and
he had no reason for them. The
speaker proceeded with review of
the evidence in the report, to show
a probability of the Minister'S re-
sponsibility for the acts of oppres-
sion. He held that if the CORES
pondence before the election with
the agent in Honolulu was known to
Minister Gibson--if it was not con-
Quoted with him-then the fact that
the acts complained of were COM
mitted, without any countermand
from the Minister, fixed the respon-
sibility upon him.. This was not a
small matter, for if people in out
side districts, with few if any SUI
periors to consult with, were OPP
pressed by men high in position, it
was of great Importance and should
be thoroughly investigated by this
house. He did not know any men,
Der of this house who looked better
after his constituents than the hon.
member for Molokai. There was a
slavery of the mind which was worse
than that of the body, and if the
conditions attempted to be imposed
on the tenants of Lanai did not con-
stitute slavery it was certainly some
thing very much like it.
Rep. Thurston was not going into
the merits of the evidence, but de-
sired to make remarks on some
points that had been raised. His
utteranccs yesterday were not de-
signed to influence decision on the
main question so much as to protest
against what he regarded as an at
tempted outrage on the decencies
of parliamentary practice. The
stand assumed by the hon. member
for Wailuku (Richardson) yesterday
was an honor to him as member of
the Ministerial side of the house.
The question yesterday was not on
the merits of the whether Mr..
Gibson was guilty or not guilty
but as to whether the house was
going to be driven by the Attorney
General to throw this matter over
without consideration. The Minis
try had not dared to bring the mat
to an issue on that line. The At
torney-General had charged him
with vindictiveness, with personal
and PARTISAN desire to iniure the
Ministry. This was not the first
time that such an insinuaton was
put forth. He was represented as
having been appointed at an opposi-
ton caucus to bring forward all
sorts of resolutions and petitions
against the Government. To this
he would give an emphatic denial,
but assure the house that, so long
as any wrong existed, Molokai
would be heard from while he held
Molokai's seat. Referring to Minis
ter Dare's opinion on the question,
he said that when they had to
60 abroad for an Attorney
General, they ought to get better
law from him. 1t was on par
with His Excellency's argument the
other day that because his father
gave ten cents to the support of an
hon. members father, therefore he
was a better man than that hon.
member. If the speakers father
had only put ten cents into the con-
tribution box, he should be ashamed
to tell of it. He should wait, at
least, till his father could have
afforded a quarter. 1t was doubt
full if the father of His Excellency
did put in ten cents. Probably he
only put In brass button to rattle
in the box. He (Thurston) was
prepared to publish statement of
his election expenses on Lanai,
which amounted to SIS distributed
at 80 apiece to three lunas. AS to
the statement that the report was in