The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-09-12

| that store with any members of this House
within the last week?
KamauOha-NO.
AttOrney-General-DO YOU know the
| store of Sing ChOng on Maunakea street?
KamauOha-NO. On Monday | was with
| Mr.. Achi, and l said I wanted to get two
! bags of rice to send to KOhala. He drove
| to a store on Maunakea street for the rice.
| Attorney-General-Ha you visited that
| store with any member of this House with
| in the last week?
Kamauoha-NO. That store is two or
| three stores from King street. The one
| went to'with Achi-on the Waikiki side.
! Mr. Achi went in and ordered the rice. l
have no recollection of going there by my
| self. On his way home, Mr.. Achi gets his
bread there.
Attorney-General-On what day of this
week was it that you went there with ka-
! laukoa?
Kamauoha-l have not been with Kalau
| kOa to any store, neither this week nor last
week. Neither with any member of the
| House. have met Kalaukoa on the street.
Attorney-General-Do you recollect 60
| ing to the Pae Alma office one day tins
Kamauoha-No. l think it was last
week.
Attorney-General-Do you know whether
| you went to the Pae Alma office with Ka-
| laukOa?
Kamauoha-We came to the House here.
| We first went to the post office,
Attorney-General-Ar re you sure you did
| not then go to Alo's store?
kamauOha-NO.
AttOrney-General-Ha YOU ever been
| there with Kalaukoa?
Kamauoha-No. [ don't remember go
| ing anywhere with KalaukOa, with the
exception of during the special session, he
| took me to a Chinese tailor on Hotel street
near Nuuanu.
AttOrney-General-DO you recOllect hav
ing gone TO the store on the Waikiki side
of Nuuanu street, makai of King street
/ (Wing WO Chan's) at night?
KamauOha-NO. | remember going
there before the evening session; |, Kauhi,
Nawahine and Paehaole, l am not sure
about PaehaOle.
Attorney General-Sta the circum-
stances.
Kamauoha-It was in the evening, Kau-
hi said he was going to get something to
eat He went in and the rest of US follow
ed. That was the time when the labor bill
had been defeated. They (the Chinamen)
asked about the vote and we talked with
them about it. Afterwards L went hOme.
KALAUKoA QUESTIONED.
KaIaukoa sworn.
The Acknowledgement requests that the
Minister of the Interior be allowed to assist
him in the examination.
ThurStOn to WitneSS-HaS anyone talked
to you in the last week in regard to your
vote on the anti-Chinese Constitutional
Amendment?
WitneSS-YeS. KamauOha and Paeha-
ole by letter.
Thurston-When were you first spoken
to on this subject?
Witness-On Saturday, 1st of this month,
by Mr.. KamauOha.
ThurstOn-Give the tenor of the convers-
alton.
Witness-He asked me what way [ in
tended to vote on the amendment. Wheth-
er | was in favor Of the passage or the in
Off TO ~ Of 4
in favor of it. That ended the converse
ton at that time. On Monday the Sd inst.
we had another conversation. l met Ka-
mauOha on Nuuanu street, near AWana's
tailor shop. KamaUOha came out of the
tailor shop, he said good morning. l
said good morning. He said are you
of the same opinion about the amend
ment as you were the other day. L
said yes. And he said well, if you change
your mind you will get coal enough to
keep the steamer going. l said who is it
He said Cinnamon. l SAID do You think |
the Chinaman Will do as he says. He said
yes, they are all ready. 1t was while we
were walking down this street to the Pae-
alma office that we were talking in this |
strain. | said if the Chinese is going to do |
as he says L may change my vote. He said |
he will certainly do so if you will only |
change your vote, and you speak to Ka- |
walnut and the member from Makawao to |
change their votes. By that time we had |
got down to the place where MOSsman's !
crockery store used to be- He said if you !
have any doubts we will go to Alo's, he is /
the head man. By that time we had got |
down about to the BARRIERS shop on Mer-
chant street. | said We won't go back now !
but we will go to the paper office (Paeaina) |
and then go up. These Chinese are slip |
perry fellows. We went up to the Paeaina |
office and saw Kawainui in his private |
office. We went in there and remained |
about quarter of an hour, [ then said, |
let's go, meaning up to AlO's. We went to
Alo's up Nuuanu street, KamauOha be- |
fore, following. Mr.. AlO's store has two |
doors. We went in there and the clerks
greeted US. They appeared to know Ka-
mauOha. Mr.. KamauOha asked them |
where Mr.. AlO was. They said he had Just
gone down street. KamauOha said let's go
no use waiting here; let's go to Sing
ChOng's. l said why. He said Sing ChOng
IS one. L want to remove all your doubts,
We went down to Sing Chong's and went
in, it was the first time l had ever been |
there. There was a desk near the door,
KamauOha went further in the room into
an office and spoke to the Chinaman, and
he took Us into room where we could not |
be seen from the street. Kamauoha intro |
duced me to the Chinese. He said this is
Mr. Kalaukoa, member from Honolulu;
he wanted to see you and / have brought
him here. The Chinaman said l have |
seen your name in the papers but this is
the first time | have seen you. Kama
uOha said to him this is one man who
Will help you, but he has some doubts,
he wants to know what you will do
The Chinaman said if Kamauoha has told
you we will pay you for voting against the
law we will do so, we have told Kamauoha
that we will pay each native $50 for voting
against the amendment. KamauOha SAID
are your doubts removed now. [ said,
yes. That was the end of that conyersa-
ton. L was satisfied that the coal to keep
the steamer going was forthcoming We
then said goodbye, and started up King
street to the Government building.
Thurston-Have you had any further
conversation with Kamauoha about this
matter?
Witness-When we got up here, it was
about half-past 10 [ think. The House
was on the order of the day. kawainui
OH - =. L