The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-08

ana ho0lauloa, Oahu, and took his seat.
His first speech was on the bill fixing the
salary of the postmaster general at So 800.
The committee on ways and means re-
duced the sum to 5000. Wilcox and
others wanted a larger sum, but the item
was finally passed at $3.50.
Hon. c. w. Ashford. representative
from the Third district, and brother of
Colonel V. V. Ashford. has been thorn
in the side Of the ministry ever since he
took his seat in the House. He has been
leader in many tilt against the minis
try, and especially against the attorney
general. On one occasion he attacked the
latter for refusing TO answer question
relative to the pay of the secret detective
service of the attorney-general's depart
ment, and claimed that respectable people
had been dogged to their homes by lot
of bummers. thugs and thieves whom the
marshal had gathered around him, and he
desired to know for what purpose were
these spies. he attorney general declined
to give any information unless on resoiu-
ton of the assembly of the whole.
The arguments employed by the members
of the legislature have been characterized
on the whole by their directness and
force, but are not distinguished for cour-
teous language. Among the items which
caused some discussion during the con-
sideration of the appropriation bills was
one of $4,000 for state entertainments,
Representative Bush moved that the Item
be stricken out and said it was not neces-
sary for her majesty to entertain so soon
after the death of her brother. In order to
make herself popular she might do 1t at
her own expense. The appropriation,
however, was passed.
Two items of the envoy to Washington
City of $4,000 and legal aid and expenses
of the legation of s., 900 were also attacked
in committee of the whole. Minister
Widemann read from the report of the
minister of foreign affairs to show the pro-
test of the late II. A. Z. Carter,
while minister to the United States,
against the action of the lat
ter country toward Hawaii in
the matter of the tariff bill.
He characterized the protest as the speech
Of a lamb to lion, of the little to the
great, but said it was necessary and did do
some good. America was the nearest and
dearest neighbor to Hawaii, and the latter
should cultivate the friendliest of relations
and retain its representative at Washing
ton City. Representative Kamauoha said
he had read in the newspapers that the
Hawaiian envoy at Washington City was
working in favor of annexation. 1t that
were so, there was trouble ahead. The
ministry. apparently, had no knowledge
of the matter and the envoy seemed to be
working on his own hook. Other men,
bers spoke in the same strain, and Repre-
sentative White moved that the item be
referred to committee for investigation.
Minister Widemann replied that the pres
ent minister to Washington City had been
known to him for over thirty years. He
considered the latter too prudent man to
have made the statements ascribed to him
in the published interviews. Minister
Parker said he had forwarded clippings of
the alleged interviews to the minister at
Washington City, and expected to receive
a reply by the next or the succeeding
mail. The matter then went over. There
are various vital questions yet to be con-
sidered bearing on the relations between
this country and the United States, and
the one which has attracted considerable
attention is whether rice should be ad-
mtted free or taxed.
Another point presented to the consid-
Grafton of the legislature is contained in
the bill of Hon. J. n. 8. Williams, for
merly presi dent of the Union Iron
Works, to define the duties of the minis
ter and other executive officers of the gov
ernment when purchasing material. A
petition accompanying the bill p-ays that
the legislature take suitable action to re-
strain as far as possible the importation
by the Hawaiian government Of such
goods and articles as can be advan-
tageously manufactured in this country.
There is every prospect of change in
the ministry in the near future. The
present states are: Reform party-Parker
and Robinson (both half-castes). w. o.
Smith and Alexander Young: National
Reform party-Peterson. Wilson, the mar
shall; Godfrey Brown and Robert Wilcox.
Recent developments in the legislature
show that Colonel Claus Spreckels owns
| nearly all the water front and harbor of
the thriving town of kahului, Maui.
Ex-Attorney General Alfred S. Hart
we'll has published an article in which he
takes the ground that the time has come
to negotiate with some foreign power or
combination of foreign powers for the ces-
sion or, better still, for a long lease OF
Pearl harbor. The assumption of the Ha-
waiian debt, the undertaking to establish
submarine cable communication with the
outer world, the making of Pearl harbor a
| naval station, and the securing of good
entrance to the harbor, he considers are
among definite considerations for Ha-
| waiian interests. In closing his article he
SAYS: "The first offer is due to the United
| States. and then to England and Germany
conformity, and last TO France and Russia
| conjointly." Commenting on this article
| editorially, the Daily Bulletin says:
When the United states shall have taken
action to secure the completion and control OF
| the Nicaragua canal there may be some sense in
| supposing that she will consider seriously the
| question of buying or leasing Pearl harbor.
| The canal is OF infinitely more importance to
| the United states than a naval station in
! Hawaii. Yet We see that canal bonds are
! hawked all over the United States and met with
| aversion because there is lack of confidence
| that congress Will give the work national
| guarantee.
| OF Mr.. Hartwell's remarks on his prop.
osition it says: at may be said that this
| is all stuff. 1t is more. 1t is buncomt
| without even the veneer of sound sense. -
| Her majesty the queen received on the
| 23d inst, at the hand of his japanese
| maiesty's agent, the decoration of the
| Grand Cross of the Imperial Japanese
| Order of the Crown. Ministers Parker
Spencer, Whitney and Widemann, Hons
| Paul Newman. W. G.. Irwin. s. NJ Damon
! and John 5. Walker also received decora
| tions Of the Sacred Treasure.
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