The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-04-17
An English GrOwl.

EDITOR GAZETTE This mornings
Advertiser quotes rs follows from I
letter written, rs it says, by party
in England who is Interested in our
Government financially -
Nothing has transpired in your
country within the past six months to
weaken its best interests in this so
much as the passage of an Act repeal
ing an Act under which Justices Of
yeur Supreme Court were appointed
under the Constitution. People here,
especially the legal fraternity, view
such Acts with alarm. Your Supreme
Court viii doubtless pass on this Act
as well as the veto, and put both where
they belong. At the same time the
condition of things is far from salts
factory to those who are financially
interested, and will continue to be
while the present Administration re-
mains in power
We are not favored with the name
OF this person in England, who evil
IDENTIFY views with alarm the reduction
OF number Of Supreme Court Judges
under any circumstances and who
evidently does not approve of the
present administration, but it Is to be
presumed that he Is 4 permanent resi-
dent there. Ii so, it might be well for
him to retain some of his alarm for
home consumption, for if we are not
mistaken no country has Of late years
wrought a more radical and complete
change in her courts and judiciary
system than this same England. Have
you, our friend in England, viewed
with sufficient alarm and sorrow trans
greSSiOnS at home, or do you find it
more pleasant TO east the mote out of
your neighbour eye, than TO look
nearer home? And while we are passing
mutual criticisms on the subject, we
should like TO suggest that your Judge
and Jury system in Ireland, for in
stance, might be 4 little more indie
pendent and less Of a government ma
chine. See what you can do for Us on
this point. In fact, my dear sir, this
Is Z world of alarm and there are
many things on both sides of the
water that are, to use your words,
"far from satisfactory to those who
are financially Interested For in
stance, when this unsatisfactory Leg
islature OF ours voted away So, 600 of
CUR money TO secure English bond
unanticipated drainage, as the loan
passed through the hands Of MathesOn
& Co. the house in London where
prayer is wont to be made, we bore
up under it, but, as you say, it was
"far from satisfactory To those who
are financially interested.
Your hope that the veto power will
be put where it belongs ,from your
standpOintJ has evidently been real
lied, and we are anXiously waiting for
the sense Of security and satisfaction
that is TO follow from our standpOint).
To be sure His Majesty Heaven pro-
tect him has vetoed levery bill passed
this session that represented the dis
tinctiye policy Of the present Govern
ment and the men who put them
there, and Is likely TO veto every like
bill this coming session that he dare,
ana We beg TO acknowledge. amidst all
the security that ensues from such a
state OF things, your assurance lin
more senses than one that the veto
has been put where II belongs. Some
Of the bills of this partisan LegisIa-
ture' we did think might well have
been saved from the veto sword in the
hand OF our beloved King Heaven
preserve him. For instance, the PO-
lice bill Under the old police sys-
tenn, with the Kings Marshal and
Governors at the head of it, it now
transpires that we have had a thOus-
and lepers loose among Us for some
two TO five years. mere bagatelie, no
doubt, viewed from a distance, say
London; but somewhat uncomfortable
nevertheless for the men who YOU say
are TO live under the blessings OF pre-
rogatiye that has brought about such
results
As To the Judges bill, it was passed
because ii was lEudisDUted that there
was no need for the two extra judges
created at the prior session. The
judges now do not on an average work
two hours a day. Weeks at a time
some Of them have nothing TO do. The
Court itself opposed the passage Of the
Act increasing the judges to five, and
themselves caused TO be introduced
into the House at the extra session
bill 10 keep their humber at four. The
Court declined 10 state to the LegisIa-
tUre beforehand whether an Act re-
ducing the Court TO three Judges as
formerly would be constitutional or
not If they had said il was uneonsti-
tutiOnal, the bill never would have
been passed The matter being how
ever left in doubt for you can never
predicate with certainty what Court
viii decided, the Legislature passed
the act to have the question settled,
the argument being that if IL Is true
that whatever number OF Judges one
Legislature sees fit 10 create no
succeeding Legislature, can change
however cumbersome, unnecessary
and expensive the Court may get
TO be, it would be well To know it
at once for certain, 30 that some con-
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