The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-08-12
THE LEGISLATURE.
FIFTY-FIRST DAY.
MONDAY, Aug. IL.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

WOulu DC no necessity LOT reference
to q committee.
Rep. Bush, having gained from
the Minister of Finance the inform
alton that his motion to raise the
item was owing to his predecessor
having cut it down without consult
ing the Board, said that the absence
of Ministerial information was often
the cause Of motions for special
committees. Most Of the Board
Bishop, Alexander, and Hall-were
Presbyterians and disinclined to re-
cognize any other religious belief.
If it had not been for Mr.. Damon
the werk done by st. Louis College
would have been ignored. He
would support the motion of the
Minister of Finance, if another item
was voted for Independent schools
to include st. Louis College.
Noble Widemann said he had
been taught religion in the school
he attended, and it would be well if
religion was taught in all the schools
on the globe. He was not aware
that many German teachers were
employed by the Board, bat under
stood that one who had taught at
Kekaha was among the best edu-
Gated and cleverest in the kingdom.
1t was necessary that foreigners
should be imported to teach Eng
lish. Hawaiian would never be q
language. 1t would never pay to
translate the great works of liter
ature in French, Italian, Spanish,
and German into Hawaiian, but
whatever was worth translating in
these languages was translated into
English. Teachers must be import
ed so long as they were needed, and
must be paid enough to obtain their
services. He was in favor of the
amendment (Rep. Wilcox's) for
$1S0,000 for Government schools
and $4,000 for independent
schools. This question of education
had caused the French troubles in
this country, when an old bishop
was deported to solitary island.
1t was impossible for body all of
one way of thinking to give fair con-
sideration to people of another de-
nomination. When nearly 100000
was paid for Presbyterian schools,
q small morsel might be voted to the
Catholic schools.
Rep. Nawahi said there were
many Independent schools that were
not Catholic, such as the Kawaia-
hao Seminary, the Hilo Boarding
School, the Makawao Seminary
etc.
Noble Widemann considered thai
these institutions had Jared yer,
we'll from the treasury in the past
Rep. Nawahi replied that so hat
st. Louis College. He had voted
for grant of $4,000 to that col
legc in 1884. All those institution:
were worthy of encouragement, ant
that was why the item should be re
ferred to a select committee. Eng
lish was undoubtedly valuable tt
young Hawaiians, but instructio,
in the Hawaiian language SHOULD
not be abolished. A nation tina
lost its language was doomed to eN
tinction, like the nation that used Il
speak Latin. 1t would be disgrace
full if young Hawaiians could no
read and write their own language
Rep. White read extracts from
the report of the Board of Educa
ton relative to certain schools OF
Molokai, where native teachers wer
getting $40 month and Van Gle
sen, q German, much more.
Noble Widemann wished to inforr
the hon. member that Van Giese
was not German (laughter).
Rep. White-If he is not q Ger
man he is high Dutchman (mor
laughter). The speaker read lis
of teachers and their salaries t
show discrimination against Hawai-
ians. If this matter was not left t
a special committee, Rep. Kaul
and he would talk all the afternoon
Noble j. M. Horner thought til
hon. Noble for Oahu had left th
House under wrong impressio
when he said the Government school
were Protestant. Not one-tenth c
the children went to either the Pro
testant or the Catholic schools, BIT
to the Government schools. Ever
child of school age was in the hand
of the Board to see that it was edr
Gated. If you started Catholi
school in Hamakua, the Governmer
school might not be maintained, an
the consequence would be that som
children would have no schooling
He would vote for referring the itel
to special committee.
Noble Widemann said the hoI
Noble from Hamakua had not III
derstood him. He had said tn;
the world would be better off if a
children were taught religion
school, and he would now add tn;
he would like to see all childro
forcibly taught religion.
Rep. Marques explained that
was not desired to pay these schoo
for something to be done, but S
Louis College was already dom
good work. The best scholars
the kingdom, including some in tn
building, came from st. Louis Co
lege.
Noble Macfarlane was in favor
| refarrin0 tho itam IN a committe