The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-31

by the President that the House was
doing little work. The real cause has
been the incapacity of the Ministry to
lead the House and push the public
business. The function of the Min
listers to lead debates and outline
measures has not been discharged;
and when it became obvious that they
could not discharge it, they should
! have had the dignity, manliness and
courage to resign. Has anyone here
| memory strong enough to remember
| a single time when Minister has
| fathered a bill, championed 1t, and
| led the debate on it from first 10
| last? No one has such memory.
| The Ministry have sat there like four
cOrpses-finally reduced to three; with
no opinion, and no policy except to
| draw their salaries, in exchange for
which they would take all the abuse
the House saw fit to heap upon them.
| Disraeli once compared ministry to
a row of extinct volcanoes. There is
| here but one point OF comparisOn-the
extinction. THESE have been extinct
| from first to last The standing COM
mittees of the House had not been
able to do all the work, and special
committees had been appointed. Had
anyone a memory strong enough to
| remember that any Minister had done
| any substantial work on these COM
mittees? The resolution was short,
but it contained a good deal, the pith
| and substance of which was that the
Ministry was no use. The resolution
said the Police Department had been
scandaIous. Everyone knew that it
had; the papers had been full of it.
The mouths of everybody had been
full of it. The marshal had consorted
with thieves. Reputed embeZZlers and
smugglers were folded in his embrace.
Once in while someone not in the
ring was caught with little opium.
The result was that the opium laws
were nullified. He was afraid that
His Excellency (Neumanm was en-
tirely too gOod-natured to make the
searching investigation necessary,
and clean out the Augean stables. It
was with serious misgiving that he
had heard that his friend and neigh
Dor had gone into the Cabinet. 1t was
to be feared that his accession would
not save that tottering old entity, the
Cabinet. He was sorry that the
carrying of the resolution would BAN
ish that member from the House, but
new election was pending and he
would hope to see him here again in
a few days. His taking the office had
been a case of another good man gone
wrong. But if he could get a re-nom-
ination and secure the opposition OF
the ADVERTISER he would make a
, strong race. He would disclaim all
personal feeling against the Ministers,
but must regard them politically as
monumental failures. 1t was GER
tainly the irony of fate that this tot
tering old entity, after having been
able to hobble along for six weeks on
three legs, should fall just as it had
added an apparently sound limb. He
feared, moreover, that some who did
not understand the inside working OF
, things would think the addition was
the immediate cause of the fall.
Acknowledgement Neumann said
this was a question upon which the
Cabinet did not vote, but might speak
He would offer an amendment.
Rep. Ashford rose to a point of or.
der. A Minister could not make an
amendment to this motion.
Attorney General Neumann said he
, would then simply rise to a question
of privilege What he wished was
, that the motion to defer consideration
would not carry. The House should
: act to-day, but he had one request tc
: make. 1t would be unbecoming were
he not to deny the imputation of the
, member from the Third District who
said that postponement was intend
ed to afford an opportunity for bar.
gaining for votes. He himself had not
and would not approach any member
of the House on the subject, and
though his official acquaintance with
his colleagues was not OF long dura-
| ton, he believed he could say the
, same for them. 1t was blessed thing
for the country that the Legislature
had the opportunity to express its
, confidence or want of confidence in
the Cabinet, and his colleagues and
himself would bow gracefully to its
will. He recognized the good style in
, which the member had supported the
, resolution, but he had advanced no.
thing which required any answer.
The dismissal of the Cabinet would
not be party measure, and that fact
would be consolation to them. Hc
held in his hand Bill 176 on which he
had done a good deal of work. He
did not wish to say with the Latin,
that he had lost both his labor and
his oil. The gentle courtesy and kind
ness with which he had been treated,
even, as the speech of the member
from the Third District showed, to
his dying moment, led him to be-
lieve that his request that the bill be
first completed, would not be refused.
Rep. r. w. Wilcox favored proceed
ing with the resolution at once. Bill
l76 would keep a resolution similar
to this had been introduced some time
before, and laid on the table, for rea-
sons which the speaker considered I'M
sound. There was one man in the
Kingdom who was bringing discredit,
odium and shame on the country, and
that was the Marshal, C. B. Wilson.
When the new Attorney General
came in, he had hoped something
would be done. But the first thing
the Attorney-General did was to sup
port him. II was clear that the Mar
shall was power, and could not be re-
moved by this Ministry. Nothing was
to be expected from this Cabinet. it
was notorious how the Marshal was
conducting himself. People publicly
say that he is paramour of the Queen,
that he lives there and sleeps there.
AT this point Rep. Nawahi rose and
protested against the use of such Ian
guage.
A considerable tumult ensued. and
when order was restored,
The President ruled that such Ian
guage was out of order and uncalled
for.