The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-01

Incidentals Foreign Office, $4,000.
Passed.
Messenger, $1,000. Passed.
Queens Guard, $4,000.
Minister Jones moved 1866.
Rep. KamauOha moved the item
pass as in the bill.
Passed at S46, 1855.
Band, S34,050.
Flags and Statutes, $1,000.
Minister Jones moved these items
be combined and pass at $50, 1863.
Rep. r. Wilcox moved it be S40,0 900.
Passed at $4,000.
Preservation and Arrangement of
Government Archives and for the
Preparation of a Hawaiian Biblio-
graphy, $4,000.
Noble Marsden asked for the Cab
inet's views.
Minister Jones explained that the
Cabinet had originally intended to
reduce the item, but had investigated
the subject and decided to recon-
mend it's passage.
Noble Marsden agreed that the
archives should be preserved but he
questioned whether the photography
was something which the Govern
ment should go into at this time.
Noble Baldwin moved the item
pass at $4,000.
Rep. Waipuilani objected to the
work being performed by foreigner.
Noble Ena favored the appropria-
ton on the understanding that the
work be not done by foreigner.
There were plenty who could do it.
Rep. Iosepa favored Noble Ena's
views.
Rep. Ashford moved the item be
stricken out. 1t was not necessary.
Moreover, it was job from beginning
to end got up for the benefit of a sky
pilot on board the man-of-war. He
would be ashamed of any man in the
House who would vote for any such
proposition. AS for his having gone
ahead in good faith trusting to heaven
and the Hawaiian Legislature, he
hoped he would soon see that his con-
fidence was misplaced.
Noble Baldwin would favor striking
out the item if it could be done, but it
could not be done honorably. The
Queen and the Government had gone
a little too far in the matter. The
Queen had officially requested the
American Minister, through her
Chamberlain, that an arrangement be
made by which the gentleman might
be released from service for this work,
and the Navy Department at Wash
ington had received the correspond
ence and acted accordingly. The
House he thought could not honorably
refuse at least to pay him for what he
had done.
Rep. Ashford said the Queen had no
right to bind the House.
Minister Jones thought the unani-
nous report of the Committee OF
Foreign Relations ought to have some
weight with the House.
Rep. Ashford protested against any
attempt to bind the House, without
the shadow of foundation for it in
law.
Acknowledgement Brown presumed
the arrangement was made by one OF
the late Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
But an officer of the American Navy
could not receive the office because he
was not Hawaiian subject, and be.
cause it was contrary to Article IA OF
the Constitution.
The item was stricken out of the
bill.
Rep. Ashford moved to reconsider
Lost.
Expenses of sending the Band to
Chicago, and providing literature fol
its distribution, $4,000.
Noble Marsden and Rep. Bush
moved the item be stricken out.
Rep. Ashford favored that course
but moved it be deferred as the intro
Queer Noble Thurston) was not pres
ent. Carried.
Rep. Kanealii moved to insert ar
item of $4,000 for the celebration of thu
Jubilee of Hawaiian independence
| next year.
Rep. Bush thought we had bette
have season of prayer instead.
Rep. Ashford moved Saturday b.
set aside for prayer.
The item passed at $4,000.