The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-06-18
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
Tweatieth Day.
TUESDAY, June 20.


by chaplain; minutes read and APP
| proved
A message was received from His
Majesty the King, informing the House
thai he had made the following Cabinet
appointments:
Minister OF Foreign Aifairs-John A.
Cummins.
Minister OF Finance-Godfrey Brown
Minister OF Interior-C. N Spencer.
Attorney-General-A p. Peterson.
Noble Widemann moves the House
adjourn until next Monday.
Rep. Nawahi moves the House adjourn
for three weeks.
The Ministers now entered and took
their places, and the Minister OF Foreign
Affairs stated that he had been commits
stoned 10y His Majesty to form Cabinet
which he had selected as above indicated.
Rep. Nawahi said he was in favor of
three weeks recess in order 10 give an
opportunity to fill the vacancy caused by
the appointment Of the Hon. John A.
Cummins to the Ministry
Noble j. NJ. Horner-I have no obec-
ton to necessary adjournments, but We
have come down here to do business and
not to adjourn. / think this very I'M
necessary adjournment. We can 90 on
as We have before. The argument is that
we must give the Ministry a chance to
define policy. They will still have
time to define policy and we can in
no r,Nno NTH 90 ,a-rfh ft,r
work. / think the country members
ought to have little courtesy shown
them and not adjourn for such long
periods.
Noble Baldwin thought such a long
adjournment would be unnecessary, but
that it was only just to the new Ministry
to adjourn until next Monday to give
them a chance to familiarize themselves
with their position.
Rep. Nawahi thought the House could
not go on until vacancy is filled. Thought
it would be unconstitutional. 1t will
take three weeks before we can have a
new election. The Attorney General
will corrOborate what l say, am sure.
This new Ministry may be very smart
men, but if l should ask them questions
about their departments they would have
to ask their clerks.
Rep. Rickard-I move we adjourn
until the 30th of Jnne, which will be
Monday, two weeks from yesterday. l
find in the laws of 1888 that the Minister
of the Interior can order special cleo
ton whenever he shall see fit.
Noble Horner-It seems to me the
member from Hilo is very little ac-
quainted with Legislative business, or
with the Constitution. l always sup
: posed that a majority of the House could
do business. 1t We must wait till every
seat is filled, We may have to wait six
months. BY the time this vacant seat is
flied, another member may be dead or
have resigned. If we let every little
thing hinder us, no one can guarantee
that we will be able to do any business
for the next six months.
Rep. Brown says unless the Ministers
ask it, an adjournment for one week is
sufficient. But ii they ask it, let us give
them two. But as yet We have heard
nothing from them. The vacancy has
nothing to do with the matter
. Minister Cummins says he wishes to
notify the House officially that he has
resigned his seat as Noble. The matter
OF adjournment we are willing to leave
to the good sense of the House Two
weeks will be ample.
Rep. Kalua-I don't agree with the
| Noble from the back woods Of Hamakua
| The Constitution says the House con-
| sists of forty-eight members. Suppose
resolution of want of confidence were
| brought in. Will anyone say it could be
voted on if all the forty eight members
were not present? Am in favor Of giving
the Ministry plenty OF time. Think We
| had hntter Give them three weeks Es-
pecialy as l have read in one of the
papers this morning that this is a flabby
Cabinet without any backbone which
| will fall to pieces at the first opportun-
ity. So we had better give them time
to pull together and prove that what was
said in the paper is not so.
Rep. Kauhi was in favor OF what Min
lister Cummins said. The views of the
honorable member from Hilo do not
agree with my own and am sorry tor
the honorable member from Hilo. The
House does not need to wait for the
vacancy to be filled. It can go on and
do business. House could vote on a
want Of confidence any time-to day ii 1t
were brought in-and Reps. Nawahi and
Kalua are mistaken. 1t will take the
Ministers more than three weeks to get
accustomed to their business anyway.
They must learn gradually (calls OF
question:. So many members call Tor
question | will exercise the privilege
have never made use of in this House,
and move the previous question, so that
those who call question will not have a
chance to make speech themselves.
Previous Question. Carried.
Motion to adjourn until June 30th was
carried.