The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-01-04
THE LEGISLATURE.
16lsT DAY.
TUESDAY, Jan. 3, 1893.
Morning Session.
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Morning Session.
(CorHnucd.

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The Registration Act Obi GU
came up for consideration, Rep. Ash
ford being present.
Rep. Smith said that he wished to
say that the remarks credited to
Rep. Ashford as against himself, for
his absence the other day, were
scandalous and without the slight
est reason in law or common sense.
The only penalty which he would
desire inflicted on the member would
be the torments which he (Smith)
had had to suffer for forty-eight
hours.
Noble Young said that he also had
something to say on account of the
large piece that had been taken out
of his back by Rep. Ashford. He
would say that his word had not
been broken and that it was as good
in the community as that of the
member from the third district. He
had not run away nor attempted to
stink out of his promise.
Noble Thurston said that he was
not on hand the other dav when
Rep. Ashford was making his re-
marks. He wished he had been as
he always hoped to be present when
such iniquitous amendments, as that
proposed, were introduced or at
tempted to be forced on unwilling
members.
Continuing he said that he con-
sidered the action of the member
from the third, in endeavoring to
make the compromise which he had
boosted of and which he had showed
with signatures attached, had done
wrong. He had no right to do
such thing and the members had
no right to sign any such paper. He
hoped that he would never be placed
in any such position as attempting
to barter away the rights, by his
signature, OF his constituents. Mem
bers should listen to the arguments
as given and give their honest opinion
and vote for or against the measure.
The fact of their having signed any
such agreement as stated does not
bind them in any way for the reason
that under their oaths they had no
right to sign. They had put them
selves to a good deal of trouble in
regard to this Restriction Law. We
must and have endeavored to pro-
tect, both Hawaiian and foreign
mechanics from the Chinese. The
only method seemed to be in this
Registration Bill until the member
from the 3D. District presented his
deadly amendment. Any person
who comes into this House and says
that he is standing up for the s,nall
trader and the mechanic ana vet
favors this amendment is wolf in
sleeps clothing. The hand is of
Jacobs but the voice is Esau's. At
election time the mechanic is grasp
ed by the hand and the candidate
calls him his friend and hugs him to
his heart.
Noble Thurston, continuing, said:
The House had passed ii law the
other day allowing in 5000 more
Chinese. If they desired to allow
those Chinese to suck the life blood
OF the small trader and mechanic
then they should vote for the
amendment as proposed by Rep.
Ashford. If they were opposed and
desired to help the mechanic and
trader then they should send this
resolution SO deep in the mud that
it could never rise again.
Rep. Ashford said that he could
afford to ignore the remarks made
relative to his bad faith. He did
not expect to hear from Noble Thurs
ton that pledges or compromises
need not be kept even when backed
up by voluntary signatures. He had
heard that there were probably
larger number of persons in Homo
lulu than elsewhere who would not
keep their pledge unless it was in
writing, but he did not think that
gentlemen would go back on pledges
over their signatures. On the 22d
of November last the planting inter
est considered that it was advisable
to pass a certain amendment to the
Constitution so that they could OBJ
tam more laborers. To obtain that
they agreed to the compromise. The
gentlemen have paid high price,
1t IS true, but the goods had been
delivered and now they should pay.
He denied that he was in favor of
the Chinese; he was in favor of the
Hawaiian and the Anglo Saxon. He
would rather favor that the gates of
Chinese immigration should be open
ed as wide as Heaven than that the
people should submit to dog-tax.
He desired to tender his apologies
to those gentlemen who had felt
hurt by his hasty remarks on a pre-
vious occasion with regard to this
matter. He did not now doubt their
faith, but appearances had induced
hi'n to be somewhat testy. and he
desired to make the amende honor
able.
Noble Young said that the Regis
tration Bill was not a pet of his.
He could, therefore, easily vote
against it. He would take issue with
the honorable member from Maui
when that gentleman said that he
was wrong in placing his signature
to the so,called compromise. He
the speaker was right, and he