The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-10-24
TEE LEGISLATURE.
10th DAY.
THURSDAY, Oct. %.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Rep. Nawahi continued his re-
marks on the resolution Of want of |
confidence.
Minister Brown, before the speak
er was interpreted, called him to or
der. He was making the vilest mis-
statements as the President would
know when he heard them inter-
preted.
Rep. Nawahi was Interpreted rs
having said that when Mr.. kaua
asked about the interference of for
eign diplomatic representatives, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs could
not answer for himself but the Min
lister of Finance spoke for him, de-
clining to give any communications
that had passed from foreign repre-
sentativcs. The Minister of Foreign
Affairs promised party caucus his
assistance to the constitutional con-
yention bill, but worked against the
measure outside and inside of the
House. The Minister, after having
refused the information TO the
House gave it to outsiders, and any
Minister doing such thing ought
not to have the confidence of the
House. A short time after the Min
istry took office it was understood
certain officials were to he removed,
and certain official on Maui was
invited to town to take certain
office, but the Cabinet disagreed
and the intending incumbent made
two or three trips to town for no.
thing. Some defenders of the Cabi
net might say that they had not
been long enough in Office to show
what they could do. They had
been three months in Office, which
was ample time for doing something.
That was idle talk. They had been
asked whether they would bring in
another Appropriation Bill, and
they said they would stick to the
bill of their predecessors. He did
not know what the King would say
when be saw the bill run up to five
millions, without any loan bill or
other measure to bring the revenue
up to the proposed expenditures.
As the hon. Noble from Kohala said
the other day, the Ministers sat
there doing nothing. The bill for
the relief of HIS Majesty should have
come from the Cabinet. They wait
ed till some other member brought
in measure, when sometimes they
voted for it and sometimes left the
room. The Ministry had presented
no policy on the Chinese question.
There was a good deal of talk about
warships being here to prevent dis
turbance, but no trouble would
originate from the native Hawaiians.
The planters did not want the country
to lose its independence. The Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs got up to-day,
for the fourth time he thought. 1t
required great deal of prodding
to induce the Ministers TO stand up.
He would not even give the Minis
tiers another three months, but want
ed a Ministry that would state their
policy and back ii up.
Rep. Brown said generally in the
introduction of an important resolu-
tion of this kind, the grounds of
non-coniidence were specifically
stated. There was nothing in this
resolution on which the House
could base want of confidence in
the Ministry. The complaint he
had heard so far amounted to charg-
ing the Ministers with not having
come into the House and taken the
money bags into their own hands,
and telling the representatives OF
the people to go home and they
would spend the money according
to their own pleasure. The princi.
pie of our system of government
was that the Ministers had nothing
to do with the expenditure of money
except as under the direction of this
House. The older one grew thu
more he knew, and he had learned
something new from the mover o
the resolution. That was that til,
labor bill emanated from the Cabinet
The fact was he wrote that bill witt
his own hand and the Cabinet kne,
. nothing about it. If the clause re
garding a convention with Chin
went into the bill, the Minister
would be bound to carry it out. l
had been complained that Minister
J did not stay in their seats. If the
did not he did not wonder at it, o
account of the amount of bOsh an
rot pouring from the mouths of som
hon. members. Then it was urge
against the Ministry that they ha
not brought in loan bill. We di
not want loan bill. If the Minis
J tiers had brought in a loan bill, h
would probably vote on the sam
side with the hon. member for Ililc
The speaker described the construC
ton of the Appropriation Bill, Sec
being items against the ordinar
revenue Of the Kingdom, and Sec.
items TO come out of any other nor
ey in the treasury, from the loa
fund and Postal Savings Bank
Another complaint was that tn
Ministers did not take the planter
on their backs, introducing all thej
measures for them. II the Lcgi,
lature was TO be set aside and III
whole business Of the country turr
ed over TO the Ministry, God hcl
The country was all he could say
There was some reason TOR Yoln
The previous Cabinet out, for lhol