The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-06-09
THE LEGISLATURE.
FOURTEENTH DAY.
MnNnAY. .tunG ..

cox and Interpreter w. L.. Wilcox.
PRIVILEGE.
Minister Ashford rose TO - ques-
ton Of privilege. ia order to answer
the charges of Minister rhurston.
Rep. Brown rose 10 point OF or.
der. The President having ruled
that Minister Ashford was entitled
TO the floor On question OF privi'
lege. Rep, Brown appealed from
the ruiing on the ground that the
Minister would have an opportunity
of replying when the answer OF the
Minister oi interior came before the
committee OF the whole.
Minister ashford claimed that rs
Minister lhurston spoke OH mat
ter OF privilege, the reply 10 bis
charges were equally matter Of
privilege. There were peculiar cir
cumstnnoes in addition which de-
inanded tibet bis answer should come
before the House. There was for
eiyn mail leaving to-day. If the
statement OF the Minister Of the In
terror went abroad by that foreign
mail without contradiction, it would
lead people abroad 10 believe that
there was an insurrec,ioa fomented
in this country as late as April last
and that officers OF the Government
were concerned in IL. He wished 10
show that there was 70 instruction
nor The slightest danger OF Que. 1t
was nothing TO him if the hon. re-
preventative of the Fifth District
Or. W. Wilcox) wished also to reply
to the Minister of the Interior.
Rep. Kalua had looked over the rules
of the House and had seen nothing
to forbid the Attorney-General from
replying now. Perhaps the only ad.
vantage was in having the Attorney
Generals reply come before the
committee Ct the whole In printed
form with the other documents. Ii
the Acknowledgement was wrong the
whole Cabinet was responsible for
him, aud If the other three were
wrong the Acknowledgement should
be condemned with them. 1t was
very Notifying to see the Minis
tiers occupying the time Of the House
quarrel!ing among themselves. II
what the Minister of the Interior
said the other day was true, then
the Acknowledgement deserved i'm
peschment, and if what tue At
torney-General says is true perhaps
some Of the other members should
be impcached. He agreed with
Rep. Brown that the Attorney
General should state the points on
which he wishes 10 reply, as they
did not want him to get off several
fathoms of speech on which the Min
lister Of Interior might desire tc
make another speech, and so on I'M
til the House would be kept fol
weeks listening to those two Minis
tiers.
Noble J. NJ. Horner thought il
would have been better for tn,
House if the hon. member for Wal
luku had spent less time replying t.
himself. The simple point at issu
was whether they should hear TIT
Acknowledgement now or at late
time. He thought they should hea
what the Altorney-General has Il
say now. He wanted TO hear it anC
no doubt the House felt likewise.
| Rep. Brown stated his differenc
with the chair TO be that, under par
liamentary law, when membe
wished 10 speak to question o
privilege, he should state to thu
Chair what the question was.
Noble Widemann said the qu1s
ton was whether the House SHOULD
refuse to sustain the Chair and thu
prevent the Acknowledgement fror
making his reply. He would rea'
few words from this morning
"Thunderer" (Advertiser): "Wha
has become Of the Anglo Saxon low
of far play in the House;" Wins
had become of it in view Of sue
motion as this? He had not see
member of the House who ha
tried to shut off the Minister of tn
Interior, or the Noble from MAJ
from bringing in his minority repoI
on Foreign Affairs.
Rep. KahoolSano believed the Al
torney-Gencral should make his re
ply because the Minister of the Ii
terror went beyond the month {
April. He moved tho previou
question which carried.
The ruling of the Chair was SUI
tanned almost unanimously.
Minister Ashford began TO stat
the question.
Rep. Brown raised the point {
order that there was nothing befoI
the House. A question of privileg
must he raised at the time the ma
ter arises or within forty-eigl
hours.
Minister Ashford said he raise
the question at the time, and in IL
second place, this was question
privilege. He cited the case of S
nator Stewart, conveyed in la
, mail, who was allowed to raise
! question Of privilege in the Unite
States Senate on statement mat
, by Major Powell, an outsider. CTl
, Chair again rules that the Attorne
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