The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-06-10
At IL 20 P. n. the House adjourned te
10 O'Clock A. N. Thursday.
WcAASh OoJs
THURSDAY, June 9Th.

THURSDAY, June 5th.
House met at 10 AN. Prayer by tn,
Chaplain. Minutes read and approved
Noble Mccarthy said he had notices
that the PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADvER
TIRER stated every morning that tn,
minutes had been read, corrected ant
approved. The speaker had taken tn,
trouble 70 look into the matter an(
found that on certain days no corrections
to minutes had been made. The speake
considered it an abuse OF the privilege o.
which had been accorded to sit and re
port the proceedings to use the opportu
nifty to falsify the proceedings of the
House.
President Walker said that as the
minutes had been approved, the remarks
of the honorable noble were out of order
After petition had been presented by
Rep. Kamai, the President called for
Standing Committees.
Rep. Marques for Committee oi
Foreign Affairs wishes to make special
report.
| President Walker inquiries if the re-
port has been translated.
Rep. Marques-No. The reports have
generally been translated afterwards.
No objection being made, the report
was read in English as follows:
To the Honorable President and Mem
bers of the Hawaiian Legislature =
Pursuant to two motions made by
Hon. Rep. Brown and Hon. Noble Mac
farlane, Your Honorable Body, in the
Session of 1890 instant: Resolved, lst
that the reply made by His Excellency
the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the
matter of the negotiations for the renewal
of our present Treaty with the United
States of America, should be referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations
and 2d-'that the committee be in
structed to inquire immediately and re-
port to the House whether the Treaty
proposed by the Cabinet, or any officer
of the Hawaiian Government was, or is,
intended or calculated to, i'll any wise,
prejudice or jeopardize the political or
| commercial independence of Hawaii"
your committee now beg to report that,
IN view on answering the above query,
we made an exhaustive study of all
the facts connected with the said nego-
tiatlons OF the proposed Treaty with the
United States, and, in view OF ascertain
ing the nature and intent of those nego-
tiations and their bearing on the poll
tical situation of our country, we have
endeavored to elucidate the whole his
tory of those proceedings.
To that effect, having found that the
documents submitted by His Excellency
the Minister OF Foreign Affairs to the
House were absolutely insufficient, we
deemed it advisable to call on each
member Of the Cabinet, and take their
full explanations on the matter.
We found them very courteously dis
posed to give us all the possible informa-
ton, and ready to answer our questions
with the exception of His Excellency
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was
willing to offer every help and explana-
ton as long as we did not ask him any,
thing that he did not want the commit
tee to know, or that he did not want |
to explain. In plain words, your COM
mittee regret to be obliged to make |
the following complaints against Minis
ter Austin:
tlons OF the House, given in that part OF
Rep. .Kalua's resolution adopted in session
of May 9th last, wherein he was asked to
communicate all OF the correspondence
on Treaty matters for the whole period
starting January L, 1889. The docu-
ments presented by him begin only on
the oath of September, 1889, and, for
motives which will be apparent here
after, he ignored all previous correspon-
dence and documents.
2. Of having abstracted or caused to
be abstracted one OF the most important
official documents, viz: a letter entered
as No. 38, from Minister Carter, dated
March 10, 1889, which contains, as
shown by the notes in the Foreign Office,
and valuable suggestions
rom Mr.. Carter about the Treaty, and
also OF not having submitted to your
committee. his answer OF April 9Th to +,
hat same letter which is equally
important. He did promise to give
is that letter No SO of Mr.. Carter, if [
le could find it, but to the present time I
he has failed to produce it, though it [
appeared evident to your committee that {
he officials of the Foreign Office knew {
where it could be found This letter '
night perhaps have enabled the COM |
n1ttee to hx the true responsibilities of
he Treaty and its real purposes, and c
hat Is why it has been made to disap-
)ear. In like manner, the answer of
Minister Austin to the aforesaid letter t
would have helped us in the discharge c
# our duty, as the documents of the i
ffice show that this answer contains the e
opinion of the Cabinet on the PROPOSE t
ions made by Mr.. Carter, and their C
1eas as to the most promising methods v
f forwarding the policy there outlined
sic.) The House will now be able to v
1dge as to the probable reason to why il
hese two documents have been hidden O
rom us. c.
8. Of refusing to communicate to your a
ommittee the minutes of all the num- \
rous Cabinet meetings bearing on the Fl
discussions of the Treaty b
eld between April and the end of Sep a
amber, 1889 These minutes were gem L
rally written out in good shape by the n
General, and copied into book a.
y the Minister of Foreign Affairs him h
Elf and kept in his own custody. This te
OF minutes which could II
lrow the clearest light on the intent Ia
nd real motives of the proposed Treaty 81
nd on the manner in which it was ss
iewed and accepted by the different in
[inistars votlld tend AGAIN to chow that NJ