The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-02
TIIE LEGISLATURE.
Ohe Hundred and Sixteenth Dav

o StAtcSUlN Day-
TUESDAY, Nov. /.
Inc House met at 10 A. NJ. Minutes
Vi proceeding meeting read and an
proved.
Inc Secretary read communica-
ton from Her Majesty stating that it
had pleased her to appoint the follow
ing Cabinet:
Hon. w. II. CornwelI, Minister of
Finance.
Hon. Joseph Nawahi, Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
Hon. c. L. GuIick, Minister of In
terror.
Mr.. Charles Creighton, Attorney
General.
Minister Cornwell said it had
pleased Her Majesty to appoint this as
her Cabinet.
Noble Thurston moved the rules be
suspended to enable him to bring a
resolution.
Minister Cornwell asked the Noble
for Maui to wait to enable him to
bring bill to pay government en-
ployees.
Rep. Smith rose to point of order.
The Attorney-General had not been
sworn as a member of the House. In
response to question from the Presi-
dent, Attorney General Creighton
stated that he had taken the oath of
office before the Chief-Justice.
Rep. Kamauoha favored consider
ing the resolution first.
Rep. Kapahu favored considering
the resolution in the proper order of
business.
The motion to suspend the rules was
carried.
Noble Thurston introduced the fol-
lowing resolution -
Be il Resolved that the Legislature
hereby expresses its want of conf
dence in the present Cabinet.
Noble Thurston said the resolution
just introduced departed from prece-
dent in that it set forth no preamble.
This was because the reasons were so
patent, stood forth so plainly that they
needed no statement, no explanation.
The division line had been drawn so
clearly that no man could be in doubt
as to what his position must be. The
question was not what the Cabinet had
done; it had had no time to do any
thing; it was n0ta to their personnel.
1t was whether we were to have mi
nority or majority rule, representative
or personal absolute government. lie
did not propose to make any lengthy
speech, but would refute the cry that
the majority were trying to rule or
ruin. That was false and it was the
minority, represented by that Cabinet,
which had nailed rule or ruin to its
masthead, and were carrying it out
to it's legitimate consequences. He
would refer first to the history of the
action taken by those constituting the
present majority. Up to 1890 the Re-
form party bad controlled the House.
At that election the National Reform
ers elected IA men out of a House
of 48. With the aid of others and
of disaffected Reformers they got "a.
At that time the Reform Ministry
instead of running around town and
setting secret influences in motion,
resigned, leaving the formation of a
Cabinet to the other party. A special
election took place during that ses-
sion. The Reform Ministry immedi-
ately issued an order that no Govern
ment employee should take any part
in it. That was contrary to all pre-
vious precedent, for the tenure of
office had been dependent on partizan
activity. Soldiers had been marched
over in q solid phalanX and voted bal
lots in q sealed envelope. 1t will be
said, that was done because the Gov
eminent officials were opposed to the
Cabinet, but that was not the truth,
for they Immediately introduced a
law preventing, for ever, Government
officials from taking part in politics.
If they had desired to rule or ruin,
would they have put out of their
hands this tremendously powerful
weapon of Cabinet control of the Off
ces? Was it within the bounds OF
reason to suppose so? There was a
fact worth q hundred thousand asser-
items. A second fact was that the old
regime used to bride support by APP
pointino the members to Government
offices. What did the Reform party
do? 1t stamped that out of the law
forbidding any member to hold office
during the term for which he was
elected. There is another fact WORTH
n thousand assertions, and yet they
saw we are trying to rule or ruin. An
other fact: When the Reform party
had power, in 1887, to elect all the
Mobiles for six years, it did not do so
but gave the opportunity to elect
again in 1890. Did that look like al
attempt to rule or ruin? They gave
the people the opportunity to say
freely whether they desired the Re
form party or not. That was a true
history of the Reform party's methot
of conducting the Government. There
was the history of the party which
they said wished to rule or ruin. Nov
what was the conduct of the othe
party? They elected fourteen men il
1880. They climbed into power owe
the backs of the native Hawaiians
Without Bush and Wilcox they woult
have got hardly vote. When the!
got i'm they turned against them ant
ran the Government to suit them
selves. This was the same part.
which had perpetrated the. election
frauds at Kaanapali and elsewhere
shown in the records of this House
Tt was the same party which negoti
ated a loan for the Government ate
$4,000 had been taken out IL
pickings and stealings. 1t wa
the same party which wa
guilty of the liquor frauds D.
Which $4,000 were lost to this Gov
eminent. Yet this Cabinet so palle'
of fhnca who MT then