The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-09-17


to meet them fairly in
the matter of the selection of Cabi-
net and the matter of the position
of the different Cabinet officers with
regard to parties. Several attempts
were made without success; | saw
from the start that it was impossible
for Mr.. Peterson to come to any
understanding with that caucus un-
less the representative from Lihue
was installed in the Office of Attorney
General. | stated then to that Com
mittee, and heated discussion took
place, that it was useless for Mr..
Peterson or myself to go any further
in the matter if the representative
from Lihue was to be the Attorney
General.
The first remarks in that Commit
tee were from the Noble from Maui
to the effect that he was opposed to
anything in the shape of a compro-
mise Cabinet, that it was his exper-
fence that compromise Cabinets
would not work. Now | insist upon
that statement. have no wish to
asperse the veracity of the gentle
man, but he claims not to have a
distinct recollection on that point
and | claim to have positive recol-
lection. However, | will not press
my convictions to the extent as to
insist that the gentleman is wrong,
but certainly that was in fact the
spirit and effect of the words that
he used, and | know that he has
those convictions to-day, he has ex-
pressed them before.
But leaving that aside, Mr.. Presi-
dent, the Noble from Maui stated
that they would nominate the repre-
sentative from Lihue as the Attorney
General with a possible alternative
in the name of Mr.. Carter, but, he
says, l don't hold myself response
bic that the rest of the caucus will
agree to Mr.. Carter, but | name him
now as possible alternative. And
through those meetings from first to
last Mr.. Smith was the representa-
tive of the Reform Party for Attor-
ney-General, and l said, gentlemen,
it is no use for us to pursue this
argument any further, there is
deadlock on the Attorney Generals
Office. You insist on Mr.. Smith and
we insist that Mr.. Smith should not
be there. We thought we had rea-
sons for Mr.. Smith not going there,
which reasons have been stated in
side and outside of the House.
My advice to Mr.. Peterson was,
that in the interest of Her
Majesty and in the interest of the
business community we should en-
deavor to have Cabinet as soon as
possible, that the situation was very
much strained and information had
reached Her Majesty that she was
being held in false light, as it was
said she was Intentionally delaying
the formation of the Cabinet for her
own ends. Mr.. Peterson urged upon
me that Her Majesty was anxious
that the Cabinet should be made as
soon as possible. | then suggested
to Mr.. Peterson and urged upon him
that the Reform Party caucus OBJ
jected that he was not acting in ac-
cordance with the spirit of the reso-
luton nor in accordance with the
spirit of the constitution in not ac-
cepting position himself in the
Cabinet, the Queen having called
upon him to form a Cabinet, the
matter of responsibility would be
eliminated entirely unless he was a
member of the Cabinet. l urged
upon him the soundness of that
position and urged him to take a
position in the Cabinet, that if he
formed Cabinet, having been call
ed upon by the Queen, he would be
responsible to that Cabinet and to
the Legislature, which could vote
that Cabinet out if they saw fit
Mr.. Peterson stated that it was
impossible for several reasons for
him to take position in that Cabi-
net. l then said it will be your
duty to make that statement to
Her Majesty and tell her as you
have selected four names for her APP
proval, and if that Cabinet is not
satisfactory to her then she must
call upon the Representative from
Kauai, Noble Wilcox, or Noble
Marsden from Hamakua, those gen
tlemen having signifed desire in
the caucus here to form Cabinet
AT that time Noble Baldwin, l think
Rep. Smith and others said, why
don't form Cabinet, we will accept
! you. | said, it is impossible, you