The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-13
THE LEGISLATURE.
Eighty Seventh Day.
MONDAY, Sept. u.

The President stated that he had a
message from Her Majesty which the
secretary read. 1t states that she has
been pleased to commission as Cab
met the Hon. E. C. Macfarlane Min
lister of Finance, Hon. Saml. Parker
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chas. 7.
Gulick, Esq, Minister of the Interior,
Hon. Paul Neumann Attorney-Gen-
eral.
Minister Macfarlane-As announc
ed it has pleased Her Majesty to
place the administration in the hands
of myself and colleagues. We desire
to conduct the affairs Of the country
In such manner as to gain and hold
the confidence of the Legislature and
people. We realize that many of you
are men of affairs who are sacrificing
time and money for the public well
faTe. We desire to expedite business
and believe that this can best be done
by taking time to gather the reins of
government into our hands. I sug-
gest therefore an adjournment for
such time as the House may see fit.
Noble Thurston - Mr.. President:
Thirteen days ago the House eXer-
cised its prerogative and voted the
Cabinet out of Office. The Queen has
now exercised hers and sent Cab
met here. The House has now to de-
eide whether it will exercise its pre-
rogative again and remove them.
The House cannot decide in five
minutes time what course it
will pursue. / admit that if they
are to gather up the reins of gov
eminent they should have time,
but it must first be decided whether
they are to be allowed to do so or not.
In order to settle that question 1
move an adjournment until Wednes-
day morning. ICalls of kokua.
Rep. KamaUoha moved the House
adjourn for one week.
Rep. Kauhi opposed the motion to
adjourn one week. Three-quarters of
the Cabinet had been members of the
House and Ministers.
Rep. Kanealii favored the motion
to adjourn for u week. 1t should APP
point committee to wait upon the
Queen and express their confidence In
the Cabinet.
The President stated that that would
be unwise, and an unusual course.
Rep. r. w. Wilcox moved the
House adjourn until tomorrow mora
ing. 1t was not necessary to take)l
week to decide what TO do. The Queen
had done what the House asked her
to do, and called leading member
TO form a Cabinet. Now the question
simply was-whether the House had
confidence in the Cabinet so formed
or not? There was no need of delay.
The Premier was a member of the
House. He was posted, and should
be able to proceed ut once If the
speaker was in order, he would ask
for no delay at all.
Rep. KaunamanO favored weeks
delay. It was true the new Attorney
General had been AttorneyGeneral
for twenty-seven hours but he was
so busily occupied during those
tweuty-seven hours thinking how to
keep his place that he had no time to
consider the details of business.
Rep. Ashford admitted the argu-
ment of the last speaker. The fact
that these gentlemen were Ministers
did not show they knew what should
be done. The House had had expe-
rience enough of that from the last
Why, heaven only knows-and per-
haps one or two political athletes be-
sides. The gentleman who stood
sponsor to the new birth-the new
political entity-should be advised not
to waste any time getting the threads
into his hands, as he would probably
have no use for them after the next
meeting of the House. The gentle
man in question was sllillful political
acrobat, and might make d fortune at
the business. Picking up the threads
was a secondary matter, and work
of time The House would be ready
in twenty -four hours to relegate these
gentlemen to the political obscurity
which they so well deserved.
Rep. White favored an adjournment
for week. He had an ak to grind,
and so had Reps. Ashford and Wilcox.
Their axes needed sharpening badly.
Rep. Ashford Il don't intend to
take mine to the Government grind
stone, and see whether they will
sharpen it or not.
Rep. White said that was just what
he was getting at. The member from
the Third District thought he could
get up a Cabinet which would grind
his ak better He had his hatchet-
his Lottery billiard he wanted to
find out whether the Cabinet would
support it or not. Noble Horner
wanted to find out whether the Cab
met would support his Banking bill.
Noble ThurstOn whether they would
send the band to Chicago, etc. There
fore he favored an adjournment for
one week. The Cabinet should have
a week to formulate a policy. More
over the House needed a rest. For ten
days it had been in the slate business,
and was all tired out.
Rep. Ashford u This Cabinet is
enough to tire anybody out.
Rep. Wilcox Withdrew his motion.
Minister Neumann said he had not
intended to speak, but, as far as he re-
membered, the objection to the last
Cabinet was that it presented no
policy. He did not need to be re
minded that the Cabinet held their
positions at the pleasure of the House;
and as for himself, it made no differ
ence whether he was voted out on
Tuesday, " ednesday or Monday. 1t
was, however, only fair to give the
Cabinet some time to formulate a
policy. If the Noble from Maui
1Thurston) had considered that he
would not have spoken as he did. AS
to the remarks of the member from
the Third District, they needed no re-
ply; everyone knew he was witty
and somewhat splenetic. If he was
really anxious to save time, he might
have done so by being more silent.
Noble Thurston said the Attorney
General was entirely mistaken, as
there were principles involved which
had nothing to do with their policy