The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-06-11
Hawaiian Parliament.
Legislative Assembly - ThIrty-ffth
Day.

THURSDAY, June IULn.
The House met at 10 a. IN. Prayer by
the Chaplain. The following members
answered to the roll CALL Hons. Martin,
Walker, Kaae, Kuihelani, Hayselden, Lii
kalani, Baker, Amara, C. Brown, Kaulia,
Kaulukou, Pahia, KaunamanO, Wight,
Nahale, Nahum, Kekoa, Kaukau, Kalua,
Aholo, Richardson, Dickey, Paehaole,
Kauai and Palohau. The minutes were
read in Hawaiian and English and adopted.
INTERIM REPORT OF PRINTING COMMITTEE.
His Excellency Mr.. Gulick, from the
Printing Committee, reported the follow
ing bills as printed and ready for distribu-
ton; An Act to amend chapter of the
Session Laws of 1873; an Act relating to
the descent of property to the next of kin.
REPORT OF JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Cecil Brown, from the Judiciary
Committee, presented a report on bill
regulating appeals to Police and District
Judges. The committee recommend that
the bill do pass.
Mr. Castle moved that the report of the
committee be adopted and the bill read a
third time on Tuesday. Carried.
ELECTION OF HON. j. A. kAUhAU-
Mr.. Kaulukou presented the following
majority report from the Judiciary Com
mittee:
Hon. ]. s. Walker, President Legisla-
tive Assembly-Sir: The undersigned, the
majority of the Judiciary Committee, to
whom was referred petition signed by
fifty-four of the voters of the election dis
trict of Kaanapali, in the island of Maui,
praving that the election of Hon. J. A.
Kaukau be set aside, for the reason that
the Inspectors of the said district refused
the right TO vote to twenty-five persons
who were not kamaainas in that district,
but whose names were on the list of voters
for that district beg to report that they
have had the same under consideration,
and that there were produced in evidence
on the part of the petitioners three wit
nesses, and also some witnesses on the part
of the defense After hearing the evidence
produced on both sides, the committee
took the same under consideration, and 1t
was found that the members ofthis commit
tee could not agree and accordingly two
members of your committee will present a
different report. From the evidence before
the committee. it was satisfactorily proved
that all these people were strangers (mali-
hinus), and had paid their taxes in other
districts, and that none of all these people
had gone personally before the inspectors
of Elections to ask that their names be put
on the list of qualified voters at the time
the Inspectors were sitting for that pur-
pose. But it appears that John Richard
ha ri nf InGnpctOrS
mentioned above and asked for these peO-
pie to have their names placed on the list
of voters, and the only time they or the
majority of them appeared before the
Board of Inspectors was on the morning
of the day the election was to be held. II
appears they went there with the intention
of voting, but the Inspectors refused TO LET
them do so, because they thought that His
Excellencv the Attorney General had in
structed them mot to allow any malihinis
(strangers) from other places to vote. - =
Your committee. after careful eonsidera-
ton of the evidence, beg leave to report
that in the opinion of the majority OF your
committee there is not sufficient evidence
to warrant them in recommending this
Honorable Assembly to declare the cleo
tien of Hon. !. A. Kaukau set aside, be-
cause none of the twenty-five persons, who
it is thought would have voted for John
Richardson have appeared, and none OF
them gave any definite testimony before
this committee that it was their real desire
to vote for John Richardson or anyone
else. excepting As testified to by the two
witnesses. These two witnesses only
thought those people would vote for John
Richardson because they were runners or
Iu,.as for him. = The twenty-five
malihinis (strangers) who it is thought
would have voted for John Richardson,
belong in Lahaina, Ukumehame, Waikiki,
Waihee and Makawao, and only some
from those places. Your committee have
the names of these qualified voters who
were refused with the exception OF two,
and they were placed in the list OF voters
bv means of false representations, ana Tor
this reason the member ought to retain his
seat. And your committee would recon-
mend to this Honorable Assembly not TO
grant the prayer of the petition to them,