The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-06-10

Wallan language, 1aCtl0n leu Dy
the honorable members, Messrs.
Hayselden, Kaai and Kaulukou,
determined to bull-doze the house
into adopting the report there and
then in the face of protestations
from several Mobiles and Represen-
tativcs that the document was not |
ineligible to them. The President
very properly ruled that the motion
20 adopt was out of order until the
report was translated. Representa-
tive Kaulukou, however, appealed
against the Presidents ruling. The
gag, this time, however, would not
fit, and the house decided 20 to 8,
to sustain the chair. In the course :
Of the debate on this matter, Min
lister Gibson propouuded the unique
doctrine that the President was
bound "ouly by written law, and
not by opinion or even common
sense"
The Aduertiser, in an editorial on
the Legislature, this morning,
charges that "the chief aim Of the
Opposition members yesterday, ap-
peared to be to kill time" The
statement is perfectly correct as
regards the Aduertiser's political
confreres, who have not only yester-
day, but also the day before, proved
themselves literally Opposition
members" to principles of justice
and good order. 1t is noteworthy
in this connection, that the AdUer-
tiser judiciously suppresses the re-
marks above quoted from His EX-
cellency the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in the report of yesterdays
proceedings published in that paper.
The advertisers friends, to use our
contemporaries words, did skill
time, at the rate of S83 per hour"
if that is the cash value of time in
the Legislative Assembly. While
our contemporary, in hot zeal to
defend the discreditable attempts by
adherents of his own party to gag
committee men and members of'the
house, coolly pronounces "the tac-
tics" of Messrs. Dole and Thurston
censurable,' he does not offer a
shred of evidence in support of the
charge. And while the advertiser
is so extremely sensitive on "tac-
tics," he swallows at one glulp
the reprehensiQle tactics by which
the act passed after mature de-
liberation, on Tuesday, to al
low Hawaiians equal privilege
with the citizens of every civilized
nation on earth to go abroad when
they see fit, was repealed on the
following day, the opponents of the
measure having watched an oppor-
tunity when some of its most intelf.
gent and influential supporters were
absent, to spring Reconsideration
on the house. The apologist o.
tactics that are really censurablt
and the ruthless censor of mel
standing up for their just rights il
not in position to pronounce upoI
the acts of the Representatives o
the people whether they are credit
; able or otherwise. Our contem
pOrarv trusts that in future th
course of public business will no
be blocked in similar manner.
We have no such faith in the future
We can see no reason to expect tina
: the disreputable attempts to stiff
legitimate enquiry and to force mem
bers TO "go it blind" on reports o
committees, and other matters wi
not be renewed by those member
Il who have, notably within The pas
few days, shown q disposition to ac
S in accordance with the principle
: enunciated by His Excellency tn
II Minister of Foreign Affairs, mot t
u decide by opinion or even by con
/ mon sense"