The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-24

y these men, and dld not want the member
to act like 50 many children. Mr.. Gibso
i had not murdered anyone, but he ha
murdered the liberties Of these men O
G Lanai. and his own witnesses bore out tn
= charges substantially. The reason the,
a are trying To smother this reports becauS
J they are afraid Of it. They find it impos
g sible To meet the charges. Whatever i
= done with the report, these acts will b,
branded on the back of Mr.. Gibson. Thos,
; voters on Lanai were treated like flock o
= sheep. He (the speaker could call il
nothing else but bribery. He had 10 refeI
: 10 one part of the evidence, which came
: out incidentally, and which affected hin
: personally One of the witnesses, Kaha.
: Iau stated in his evidence, II am not g
makuahonowai (iather-in-law) TO Henry
Gibson. have no daughter on Lanai;
am not her father; KalehuamakanOe Is
her father; l know she lives with Henry
Gibson in his house; the same way l saw
woman living with Thurston at Wailu-
ku." That man had been instructed by
Nj Hayselden to say that.
His Excellency Mr.. Gibson rose to a
point of order. Let Mr.. Thurston speak
of the members of the House by their
| proper title, and not in the miserable,
! scurrilous way he was doing.
The President called Mr.. Thurston to
order. and told him TO speak Of the mem
| bers of the House in proper manner.
! Mr.. Thurston said that Mr. Hayselden
/ instructed that man, Kahalua, to come
/ and make that statement concerning him
self. But he (the speaker could hold up
his record with that of anyone by the
name of Hayselden and Gibson. He was
not ashamed of his own life, and dehed
anyone to prove that he had ever had in
tercoursa with any woman III Wailuku or
anywhere else except his own lawfully
welded wife 1t showed the infamy they
had come down to in bringing in such a
statement. They had been throwing mud
at him in a mean, dastardly manner. The
Assembly could do as they liked with the
report He had done his duty to his con
stituents and these aggrieved people.
Mr. Richardson said the proper course
was to lay the report upon the table until
the minority report came in. 1t was the
usual practice in this House. 1t looked |
to him as if the majority of this House !
wanted to Indefinitely postpone the report, |
which is strong evidence of there being |
some truth in it. He was not elected on |
the platform to oppose the Ministers, but |
to do his duty. He wanted to hear both !
sides so as to makeup his mind which way !
to vote.
Mr. PalOnau was not in favor OF the re-
port The committee says the charges |
have been brought home to the Minister.
IN. A.
to punish him? Here is something that |
takes place at Lanai and the Minister is
here all the time. The latter never went
to Lanai If certain lunas had done these
things, they should be punished not the
Minister. The committee had heaped all
the wrong on the Minister, who was not
there.
His Excellency Mr.. Dare said Mr..
Thurston had evidently got his branding
iron out here, and was branding them all
around like cattle. Nature had done
more for Mr.. Thurston than for most |
men. and had already branded him. His
Yindica tivenesS his narrow mindedness and
his vinegary visage, his whole personal APP
pearance, stamped his character If any
reasons were lacking for his motion to in
furnished in this vindicativeness, vitupera-
ton and ill-tempered language, under the
guise of an investigation of a committee
of the Legislative Assembly. Mr.. Thurs
ton had spoken of some of the members
being slaves. If so, where they slaves to
the old gray-haired patriot at the head of
this Government, or to the indicative
sour-visaged member from MOlokai? He
would inform Mr. Thurston that they
were not slaves. Mr.. Thurston moved the
resolution and admits he had been the
head and foot of this investigation. But
he had shown himself absolutely unfit to
conduct an investigation of any kind,
The report of the committee was made by
Mr.. ThurstOn.
Mr., Thurston-I did not make the re-
port.
His Excellency Mr.. Dare-You may
have dictated it.
Mr. KaIua-I made the report.
His Excellency Mr.. Dare-It was in Mr..
Thurston's handwriting.
Mr. Thurston-That is a lie.
Mr. Hayselden-The Interpreter told me
it was
Mr.. Wilcox, the Interpreter-The last
few sheets are III Mr.. Thurston's hand
writing.
His Excellency Mr. Dare said that it
was strange Mr., Thurston had not con-
fined himself TO Messrs. Henry Gibson and
Morehead, instead of coming here and
another man for their acts. If
those natives on Lanai had been deprived
of their civil rights, let them go to the
Courts and not the Legislature. If Mr..
Thurston was of an inquisitive turn of
mind, let him refer to the report and read
e:testimony whereit says he gave pres
ents to the natives. The election of
Messrs. Thurston and Paehaole was irreg
ular, as the evidence would show.
Mr.. Hayselden said he made the mo-
ton to lay the report upon the table to be
considered with the minority report. The
report was printed on the sly in the Ca
sette" Office, and sprung upon the Assem-
bly,, because Mr.. kalua told him (the
speaker that he was going away on his
own business and wanted to finish the re-
port before he left. He had been waiting,
as a member Of the committee. to see the
report He had never been consulted in
u L..