The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-09-18

bantering all along in that way.
y-General-Have YOU told at any
time that il Was all arranged that any one
who voted against the amendment would
get $50s
KSmauoha-No.
Attorney-General-p you know the
store Of l.. AlO on the corner Ol Chaplain
Lane and Nuuanu street,
hamsuoha-EeS.
Attorney General-Have YOU been 10
that store with any members of this House
within the last week.
hamauoha-No.
ney-General-Do YOU know the
store Of Sing Chong on Msunskea street,
Hsmauohs-No. On Monday was with
Mr. Achi, and SSid l wanted 10 get two
bags of rice 10 send 70 kohsla- He drove
70 store on NaunSkea street for the rice.
Attorney -General-Haye you visited that
store with any member Of this House with
in the last week2
KamauohS-NO. That store is two or
three stores from King street The one
went TO with Achi-ou the Waikiki side.
Mr.. AChi went in and ordered the rice. l
hSye no recollection of going there by my
self On his way home, Mr.. Achi gets his
bresd there
Attorney General-On what day of this
week was 1t that you went there with Ha-
laukOa2
hsmauOha-l have not been with kalau-
kOa 70 any store, neither this week nor last
week. Neither with any member of the
House 1haye met hSlauk oa on the street.
Attorney-General-Do you recOllect go
ing 70 the Pas Alma Office one day tins
week.
Kamaaoha-No. l think it wAs last
week.
-General-Do you know whether
you went to the Pse Ains office with ka-
lsukOa2
KamauohS-We came TO the Househere.
We irst went to the post office,
Attorney-General-Are you sure you did
not then 20 to Alo's store2
hsmauOha-NO.
ey-General-Haye YOU ever been
there with HSlaukoS1
kAmauOha-NO. l don't remember GO
ing anywhere with hSlaukoS, with the
exception of during the special session, he
took me 10 Chinese tailor on Hotel street
near Nuusnu.
Attorney -General-Do YOU recollect hav-
ing gone to the store on the Waikiki side
OF Nuuanu street, makai OF hSng street
wing WO Chan's) at night?
h4mauOha-NO- l remember going
there before the evening session; /, hauhi,
Nawshine snd PsehaOle, am not sure
about PSehsole.
Attorney General-Stste the eircum-
stances.
Ksmauoha-It was in the evening, Kau-
hi said he was going TO get something TO
eat. He went IL and the rest OF Us follow
ed. That wss the time when the labor bill
had been defeated They (the Chinamenl
asked about the vote snd We talked with
them about 1t. Afterwards | went home.
KALAUKoA QUESTIONED.
kaIaukOa sworn
The AttOruey-General requests that the
Minister Of the Interior be allowed to assist
him II the examination
Thurston to witueSs-Has anyone talked
to you IN the last week in regard to your
vote on the Snu-Chinese Constitutional
Amendment
Wituess-Yes. Kamauoha and Paeha-
ole by letter
Thurston-When were you tirst spoken
to on this subject?
Witness-On Saturday, lst of this month,
by Nr. hamauoha.
Thurstou-Giye the tenor Of the conyers-
alton.
Wituess-He asked me what way in
tended 10 vote on the amendment. Whsth
CT l Wss in favor OF the passage or the in
definite pOstpOnement OF It. | said | vas
IN favor OF IL That endet the converse
ton at that time. On Monday the Sd inst
mauOha on Nuuauu street, near Awana's
tailor shop. hamauoha came out of the
tailor shop, he said good morning. |
said good morning He said are you
Of the same opinion about the amend
ment Is you were the other day.
said yes And be said well, if you change
your mind you Will get coal enough to
keep the steamer going. | said who Is Itt
He said Chinamen- l SAID do you think
- b all Il, Er= \
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 10 do
as he says | may change my vote. he said
be viii certainly do so II you viii only
change YOUR vote, and you speak TO ha-
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 20 be- He said If you
have any doubts We will 20 20 AlO's, he Is
the head man. By that time We had got
down about 10 the BARRIERS shop on Mer-
chant street. | said We won't go back now
bat We viii 60 TO the paper office (Paeaina)
and then 90 up. These Chinese are slip
perry fellows We went up 70 the Pseaina
office and saw kaEainui in his private
office We went in there and remained
about 4 quarter of an hour, | then said,
lets 60 meaning up 70 AlO's. We went to
Alo's up Nuusuu street, RamaUoha be-
fore, following. Mr.. AIois store has two
doors We went in there and the clerks
greeted Us They appeared to know ka-
msuOha. Mr. kam4uOha asked them
where Mr. AIo was They said he had just
gone down street kamauOha said lets 90
no use waiting here; let's GO TO Sing
Choug's. I 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, 1t was the first time l had ever been
there There was 3 desk near the door,
kamEu0hs went further IN the room INTO
an office and spoke to the Chinamzn. ana
he took u into = room where We could not
be seen from the street Eamsaoha intro
duced me 70 the Chinese He said this Is
Mr.. EGlaukOa, & member from Honolulu;
he wanted 70 see you and | have brought
him here The Chinamau said l have
seen your name in the papers but this Is
the hrst time l have seen you Kama
uOhs said 70 him this Is one man who
viii help you, but he has some doubts,
he wants 70 know what you viii do.
The Chinaman said II kams1Oha has told
you We viii pay you for voting against the
Law We vii do 30, We have told kamauOha
that We viii pay each native $50 for voting
agaInSt.ths amendment. ksmeU0ha SAID
are your doubts removed now | said,
yes That vas the end Of that converse
ton | was satisfied that the coal TO keep
the steamer going was forthcoming We
then said goodbye and started up King
street 70 the Government building
Thur=toH-HaFe you had any further
conversation With kema1ohs about this