The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-10-18

meet this House half way, and had
instructed me to commence with her
privy purse as the first item of re-
duction in the Appropriation Bill.
1t is well known that Her Majesty
was ready to meet this House in the
proper spirit of economy and re-
trenchment so that the affairs of this
country would be in condition to
be carried on throughout to the next
biennial period. But what do we
find to-day, which was the day set
by the House for the reading of the
Appropriation Bill2 We find reso-
luton cut and dried according to
the dictum of caucus last night at
Eva, which means that they don't
want any financial policy, they don't
want to know what our relations and
attitude towards the United States
are, they don't want to know any
thing from us, but they simply want
this Cabinet to go out of office. If
that is the spirit in which this
House meets the Cabinet, which is
ready for retrenchment, which is
ready to do everything in the inter
est of the country, such a course is
damnable, and such representatives
can go back to their constituents
and take the consequences of their
action, which | believe will be that
not one of them will be returned
to this House.
1t has been said by some of the
members that the Cabinet sat here
all these two weeks doing nothing.
[ do not think there is an intelligent
member of this House can make
that charge fairly against this Cabi
net, for myself and colleagues can
say that not one minute has been
wasted in the study of the affairs of
the Government, but that on the
contrary every minute has been util-
lied to such purpose that $4,000
would have been taken away from
the Appropriation Bill, and besides
that | have here seven or eight
measures of revenue which | intend
ed to introduce into this House this
morning, in the shape of new bills,
which would materially increase the
revenue. Now In the face of this l
say that it is unfair for this
House to say that this Cabinet sat
here doing nothing, and to vote
them out on that ground is as much
as to say, we don't want any finan
cial policy from you, when the reso-
luton says that no financial policy
is Forthcoming. Those measures
would have added largely to the
revenues of this country. | am not
here to say that my successor will
not introduce measures that are not
equally to the advantage of this
country, but | hurl it back to this
House when they say that this Cabi-
net has been idle, when they say this
Cabinet has no financial policy to be
presented to this House. | say it is
utterly untrue, they do not want
financial policy from this Cabinet,
they don't want anything from this
Cabinet except their scalps. If |
have been idle it was to the further
extent that l have revised the tax
laws of this country and put the as
SCISSORS office in such business-l like
shape as to simplify the workings of
that Office and bring in further reve-
nues to the country. There are
other measures that we would have
liked to have brought before this
House, but this House thinks that
we ought not to bring them.
And with regard to certain charges
made by members of this House,
notably the Noble from Maui, that
this Cabinet was inimical to the
United States, that myself and the
other members of this Cabinet were
opposed to American interests and
opposed to any closer relations with
the United States, say to them that
that is an unqualified falsehood, that
that is a trumped up statement to
work up patriotic and national
feeling. If the member from Maui
can say that | as an American am
opposed to the interests which will
bring us into closer relations with
the United States, / challenge him
to show where | have in word, action
or deed in any way put myself in 1
position that such charge can hold
against me, and | stamp the state
ment as umqualiiiedly untrue. The
Noble from Maui and other member.
also have charged that my Legislative
action and attitude showed animosity
W tho ohltc,t ctdttS representative
here through the resolution which
introduced in the early part of the
session, some three months ago, anC
before my accession to the Cabinet
referring to certain words expressed
by His Excellency the American
Minister on the occasion of Decora
ton Day. Now it seemed to me al
; that time that those words pro
nounced by His Excellency implied
) unjust criticism on the administra
ton of justice in this Kingdom, anc
was holding out inducements to {
class of foreigners to come here an(
start up strife in this country. | be
lieved it at that time. The Ameri
can Minister has since then disclaim
ed any such intention and | believ'
what he says to be so. But certainl.
that little affair could not hav
changed my feelings in any way;
: hold to-day the same feelings o
friendliness towards the American
4 Minister, and outside of that episod
( there is no cause and no reason VIII.
} such charges should be attributes
to me. For hold in yeneration thu
= United States, as / am citizen o
!. that country, a citizen, not by acct
: dent of birth, but because | prefer
= red to be naturalized an American
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