The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-05-27

treaty to admit all American pro-
ducts free of duty, while our sugar
will have no advantage in the United
States markets. lie did not favor
this resolution because the commit
tee on foreign relations WAS capable
Of dealing with the matter, without
taking up the time of the House by
the special committee tor which the
resolution called. The committee
on foreign relations should thor
oughly investigate this matter, and
for that purpose should have from
the Minister of Foreign Affairs
every document in relation to the
treaty. A great many members of
this House are new, and If they
kept on day after day piling up
special committees, the standing
committees of the House would be
unable to despatch their business.
Noble BALDWIN opposed the reso-
luton on the same grounds as the
previous speaker. AS member OF
the committee on foreign relations
he could say that it would fully in.
vestigatc the matter. Another OBJ
lection was to the clause in effect
that the proposed treaty was mimi
cal to the interests Of this country.
1t was asking them to PREJUDICE this
treaty on the strength of newspaper
reports and street rumors. He
called the attention Of the Chair to
the fact that the Ministers reports
had not yet been referred TO their
| appropriate committees.
Rep. Nawahi was in favor of the
resolution as it stood. He was sur
prised that members should make
objections. For all the House
knew, the members of the Ministry
might he agreeable to the passage
of the resolution.
Minister Thurston said the ques-
ton brought up by the resolution
was unouestonaEly one of the most
important that would come before
this House. There had been a great
deal of partisan feeling raised ON
the matter by the opponents OF the
Government. Now that there were
no elections to be run the House
should be ready to treat the whole
matter as 4 purely financial ques-
ton, without making it a party is
sue. lie hoped the House would
not act hastily on the strength of
what had been said in the news
papers, much of which everybody
knew was untrue. There were many
among the rank opponents of the
Government who were not against 4
treaty, and as far as general princi-
Piles were concerned in that treaty
they favored it. He. was satisfied
that all the House wanted was to
have all the documents laid before
it. He was opposed to this rcsoIu-
ton because its language prejudgcd
the question. The clause he par
ticuarly referred to was that stat
ing the treaty to be 'inimical' to
Hawaiian interests. He was pre-
pare TO argue to the bitter end that
this treaty was not nimcal to this
country, but he did not want the
House to PREJUDICE the matter as
this resolution was designed to do.
1t would be a dangerous thing to
insert in any resolution which might
be passed by this House, that a
treaty was inimical to our interests
which the House on full eXamina-
ton found to be the opposite of ini-
mical. The information could he
obtained without that clause. With
regard to the request for minutes OF
Cabinet meetings, the Minister said
that while proceedings were kept OF
Cabinet Councils, there was no law
requiring minutes of private confer
ences Of the Cabinet. The produc
ton of what were only impcrfcc
minutes of those private meeting'
might do injustice to one or more o
the Ministers. What the llous'
wanted TO know was what the Cahi
net had done. He moved to amen,
the resolution by striking out tn
preamble and the clause asking 70
minutes of Cabinet meetings.
Noble Widemann thought that b,
, striking out the words Ia question
, the resolution would be destroyed
Rep. II. w. Wilcox was SURPRISED
, that certain members should b'
r alarmed at this resolution. Tn,
| Minister of Interior was the ohl,
: member of the Cabinet who opposed
, it. The Minister of Foreign Affair
did not seem to he able to speak TO
| himself. This treaty matter ough
, to be investigated. One member o
/ the Cabinet at least appeared not Il
l he an annexationist. Perhaps whel
| this was investigated it would b.