The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-06-14

with you. He quo;ed another
passage from Todd showing II COM
petcnt for Parliament 10 deal with
the misconduct Of Any single Min
ister: also, one more that the otter
Ministers should not DC held ac-
cuuntahlc for the actions Of one I'M
less they assumed responsibility
therefor. L; was not justice that
one man should be responsible for
the conduct q another, especially
when thc FIRST did all he could 10
prevent such conduct. They could
not make fish of one aud flesh Of
another, by saying that they"
mcars sail in one case and not in
another. II WAS simply au assump-
lion II power on the part OF the
President, which would he di-as.
trous TO this country. II might he
said that in England they haven't
Il written constitution, which was
true. but they had exactly the same
system Of Laws "a this couotly. He
Appended to his political opponents
10 defeat this ruling, which he did
not believe was given maIiciously
but in Ignorance Of the English
practice. If the ruling was sus-
tanned the House threw away tie
chance of deciding whether the At.
tarney-General could 20 to the
King aud give hiM revolutionary
advice, and thus he would escape
scot free if he had done wrong in
thus dcmoraiaing the whole bust
hess Of the country. |. did not
come with good grace from The At
torney-Gcncral to raise the point OF
order to prevent consideration o; his
own conduct. lie minister Thurs.
tom would have died ia his boots,
have had his mouth sealed forever,
before he would have degraded him
self in such q manner. IT was not
that they should condemn the At
torney General now that he asked
their votes, but simply that ihe mat
ter should not DO shut out from Ill
consideration.
Minister Ashford contendcd that
the House never had the privilege
commended for by the Minister of In
terror. They had to take the Con-
stitnticn rs they found it, and not
as the Minister Of the Interior would
like TO have it for the present Occa-
sion. Who had pleaded The baby
act: IL was not he but Mr.. Thurs
ton who had furnished Rep. Brown
with that resolution 10 choke off the
vote of want of confidence and save
himself. That amendment was writ
ten on the typewriter in the Minis
ter OF Interiors office. 1t was rather
cool for the Minister to talk about
cut-and-dried party movements with
the resolution OF last nights caucus
grinning under his nose. In reply
to Minister Thurston's remark about
"betlcr grace he could say that
the amendment would lave come
with better grace i! il had been
written on some other typewriter
than that of the Minister Of the In-
terror. The speaker had great
respect for Mr.. Todd, he was fell
low-countrymnn of his, for years
having been Parliamentary Librarian
at Ottawa. While Todd probably
laid down the law correctly, the
Minister had not quoted an instance
where less than the whole Cabinet
had been voted out Of conf
dence. Those gentlemen were al
ways ready to 60 to England for
their !aw, but TO the United States
for ,helr political protection.
daughter and applause.) The
Minister OF the Interior had said it
would be disastrous to the House
ii this ruling was sustained, but
what he meant was that it might be
disastrous to the Minister OF the In
terror. He was ready to answer for
himself under the main motion, but
he was not the only one who was
there accused. He had got into bad
company, or it had got bad since he
entered. When he returned from
abroad IL had got 4 great deal worse.
Ii was not true that they wanted TO
submit the treaty to the Legislature.
When the speaker proposed the con-
ditiOn OF acceptance that the treaty
should not he ratified before submits
sion to The Legislature the idea was
secuted by his colleagues. They
would have run the measure through
before the first Of January if he had
not stood behind the King and adj
vised him not to sign anything that
endangered The independence OF his
country.
Rep. Kalua supported the ruling
of the chair and moved the previous
question which carried.
On motion the ayes and noes were
ordered to he called.
The President, in response to a
question, ruled that the Ministers
had right to vote,
Minister Ashford argued that the
Ministers had no right to vote.
The President then decided that
the Ministers had not the right to
vote.
Minister Thurston protested
against the Presidents change of
ruling as infamous and in response
IL, Oh Of he ,.,,..,I