The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-21
RESOLUTIONS.

priation bill.
RESOLUTIONS.
Rep. Ashford asked the Minister of
the Interior the following questions:
Have you issued q license for the
retailing of spirituous liquors at Ka-
hului? If so, when and to whom?
Had you previously refused other
applications for similar licenses, and
If SO, please state your reasons for
both acts?
Also the following questions to the
Attorney General:
Please state in full the facts in re-
gard to the prosecution of one All
Hon in the District Court of Waimea,
Kauai, on charge of selling spiritu-
Gus liquors without license.
Also the following:
What number of warrants have been
issued, and for what persons, by or I'M
der your supervision, consent or advice,
upon or concerning the charge of treason
or of conspiracy to commit treason, i'll
connection with the prosecution of the
so-called treason trials of May and June,
1892?
Please state the names OF all persons
arrested in execution of said warrants,
or any of the said warrants?
We're any warrants issued that were
not executed, and if so, why were they
not executed?
Were any persons arrested without
warrant, and if SO, upon what charge, by
whose orders or instructions, and what
was done with the parties so arrested
without warrant?
Were all the persons who were arrest
ed upon the warrants arraigned upon
the charge or charges for which arrested,
or upon any charge or charges?
Please state the names of all such as
were so arrested but not arraigned, and
your reasons for their non.arraignment?
Also, whether such persons are still in
custody, and, if not, why not?
Please state the dates OF the arrests
and discharge, or other disposition made
of the respective persons arrested
whether arrested with or without war
rant, naming each of such persons
G. w. ASHFORD.
Representative Sd District, Oahu.
June 20, 1892.
Also the following:
Please state the circumstances of
the discovery by you or your subordi.
mates of the smuggling of diamonds
into Honolulu, by one Rubens, dur
ing or about the month of February,
1891?
What was the value of the gems so
smuggled?
What became of the gems so SNUG
gled, were they subsequently, eX-
ported, and if so, when and by whom?
Is it true that you brought suit to
condemn and forfeit such gems to the
Government, and if so; were they so
condemned?
If said gems were so condemned by
judicial decree, was such decree COM
muted by the Minister of Finance,
and if so committed what were the
terms of such Communication, and was
it made by your advice?
Were you a claimant for share of
the proceeds of such gems or of the
fine or penalty imposed for their
smuggling? And if so were you such
claimant at the time of advising such
Communication, if you did advise it?
Did you receive any share of the
fine or other penalty imposed in COM
mutation of such decree of condemn
alton, il any, or in compromise of any
suit brought for such condemnation?
If so what amount did you so receive,
and upon what grounds did or do you
base your claims thereto?
G. w. ASHFORD.
Also the following resolution:
| RESOLUTION.
Whereas, there arrived in Hawaiian
ports, namely, Hilo and Honolulu, from
the British Colonies in the Southern
hemisphere, in or about the month Of
October, 1891, a vessel bearing name OF
the Beagle" and having on board two
persons passing respectively under the
names of Bloom and Douglass,-and who
were then currently suspected by the
people of this Kingdom to be, and have
since been definitely learned to have
been defaulters, embezzlers and refugees
from Australian justice, and