The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-18
EVENING SESSION.


The House re-assembled at 1908 PM |
Rep. White-The second clause re-
lating TO the American Minister |
should be stricken out. AS for the |
Marshal, he had proved himself in
many respects very efficient officer. |
As for opium, some was brought in
only few days ago, in the vessel ;.
n. Castle in containers marked {. X
G. Just as much was struggled dur
ing the Thurston Administration.
The resolution might pass, but the
reasons assigned for it had very little
weight. Some of the members had
very little patience. The work of the
session was by no means complete.
This resolution should be postponed
until after the passage of the Appro-
priation bill. \ popular vote would
keep the Cabinet in their seats, by a
large majority. One of the things
which won the hearts of the natives
for the Cabinet was their saying they
did not favor annexation.
Rep. r. w. Wilcox said he did not
want 10 shut Off the member from La
haina, but he had already used up his
extension. The House wanted to hear
the Ministers. He had withdrawn his
motion of the previous question, in
order to allow the Minister of Finance
to speak, but the latter did not seem
disposed to speak.
Minister Macfarlane said he had
been waiting patiently to hear why
the Cabinet should be voted out, but
no foreign member had spoken except
Noble Thurston. That was his reason
for his delay. He wished to hear from
the foreign members why this Cab
met did not enjoy their confidence.
Two weeks ago the Ministry had been
sustained. Since then general elec-
ton had been held and the Ministry
overwhelmingly endorsed-no other
issue being raised. He had little to
say, but would refer to some of the
statements made by members. The
Ministry was not being voted out be-
cause the allegations of the resolution
were true. They were known by the
introducer to be unqualifiedly false.
The Cabinet was voted out for the
same reason as two weeks ago, be-
cause they would not have them un-
der any consideration. One of the
charges in the resolution complained
of a lack of financial policy. 1t was
we'll known that for the past two
weeks the Ministry had been inces-
| StlIly OuSy NOl Oll TIC y DijIO-
priation bill in order to be able tC
formulate and lay before the House q
policy, hoping to keep the expenses
they had been thwarted by the men
whose sole idea was to rule the coun
try or to ruin it. Only three days
since he had informed the House that
he would ask the House to refer Sec
ton ! of the Appropriation bill to the
Printing Committee, so that he could
present it to the House with retrench.
ments from one end of it to the other
and he would have been able to pre-
sent 1t in such shape that it would
have been perfectly acceptable to the
House and country. 1t was also wei
known that Her Majesty had instruct
ed him to commence with her priVS
purse. To-day was the day set for hin
to begin. But instead he meets GU
and dried resolution calling on the
Cabinet to 90 out of office. They
wanted no policy, no retrenchment-
nothing but the dismissal of the Cab
met. Such a policy was damnable
and it would be so viewed that he be
lieved that not one of these mel
would be returned to thi
House. 1t had been stated by
some of the members that tn,
Cabinet had sat here doing nothing
No intelligent man could make sucl
!, charge. Not one minute had beer
wasted; $4,000 had been cut out o
, the Appropriation bill, and he had OF
his desk six or seven bills, all revenu,
measures. Under such circumstance
, it was not just nor true to say that NJ
, financial policy was forthcoming
Those measures would have addet
! largely to the revenue. His succesSO
would perhaps do better; but wher
, they said the Cabinet had no policy
l they said what was not true. They
wanted no policy from this Cabinet
, They wanted nothing but their scalps
If he had been idle, he had been idl
to the further extent Of putting tn
Assessors office in order and simpli
flying it. AS to the charge that tn
: Cabinet was inimical to the Unite,
States, that was an unqualified false
( hood, trumped up to rouse feeling
When had he ever placed himsel
before the community in such Il ligh
= that such q charge could be made.
was not true. The Noble for Mau
: had referred to his alleged animOsity
! and had mentioned the resolution in
) troduced three months ago. It haC
/ seemed to him at that time that thu
t words of His Excellency the American
Minister contained an improper refer
ence to the affairs of this country
J The American Minister had dis
= claimed, and he believed the dis
claimer to be true. That had no
: changed his feeling. He was al
; American citizen not from the acci
3 dent of birth, but because he pre-
: ferred to be citizen of Americ;
5 rather than of any other country il
5 Gods world. If those objections wer
urged against the Cabinet because h,
was q member of it, why had tn,
t Noble from Maui urged him to accep
: position IN the Cabinet two MONTH
t ago? These charges were speciOus
groundless, untrue and dastardly; AM
: those who made them knew that h
= was proud to he an American citizen
5 and three members of this Cabine
r were American citizens to-day.
a Rep. Smith asked If the Ministe
f was not a Hawaiian subject.
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