The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-23
N0RDH0FF HOLDS AL00F.
DOES NOT APPEAR BEFORE THE
COUNCILS.
He is Advised by the American Minister
to Stay Away His Rights Of
Citizenship.

The io,,,sing is a shorthand report
of this mornings meeting of the
Councils:
The meeting of the Executive and
Advisory Councils was called to order
at 1910 A. NJ, all the members being
present except Acknowledgement Smith.
The minutes of the last general SEES
sion were re, d and approved.
President Dole brought up the mat
ter of Charles Nurdhof and desired to
know whether to take it up in open
session. 1t was decided 50 to dc,
Messrs. Emmeluth and Young speak.
ing in favor of such a course.
President Dole requested the secre-
tary to red that part of the minutes
Of the special session of yesterday that
referred to Mr.. Nordhoff, which was
done. AS the correspondent was not
present, President Dole requested the
secretary to call Mr.. Nordhof three
times, and the Call was made.
Mr. Nordhof, failing to appear the
President made the following state
ment
81 am under the impression that Mr..
Nordhoh has failed to come by advice
from the American Minister After the
session adjourned yesterday the Amer
lean Minister, Mr.. Blount, called on
me and spoke of this matter and the
other matter in which the Att, rney-
General had served a notice on Mr..
Nordhuf in regard to a part Of his
article which reflected on Mr.. Stevens
and myself, asking him to retract it or
be prosecuted; and MIR. Blount stated
that the American Government had
made precedents in matters of that
kind, and its attitude was very firm in
regard to the liability of one for any
thing that was published in foreign
country He referred me to the case
of Cutting, l think, in which a United
States citizen was imprisoned in Mexico
for something published in the United
States. The United States Government
demanded his discharge and enforced
it and he stated that this was a case
of that kind. He thought it was his
duty to call my attention to it, and he
felt that there was no liability whatever,
no criminal liability, and it was mat
ter which he felt that he should be
called upon to interfere.
"And it seems to me that the best
thing for us to do now, having called
Mr.. Nordhoff and he having failed to
appear, is to refer this matter to our
law advisers to find out the law on the
matter, SO that we may not make any
mistake. think the matter of Mr.
Nordhoff's attack is small one COM
pared to any statements he might
make"
Mr.. Damon--Do | understand, Mr..
President, that the American Minister
has requested that this matter should
cease at this point?
President Dole-The American Min
lister acted unofficially; that is, he said
he preferred not to go INTO correspond
ence in the matter, and he called our
attentiun--wished to call our attention
to that point; and the effect of his
conversation with me was that we had
not the jurisdiction from the American
point of view to proceed in the matter
criminally.
Mr. Young--I move we now go into
executive session in this matter think
the time has come now when we can
manage this better that way.
The Councils passed into special
session at 1870 AM.
At the executive session it was
decided to let the Attorney General
deal with the Nordhcf case and bring
civil or criminal actions as he may see fit
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