The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-22
tbs HOUSE SEEKS
TO BAR COOPER
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| that he didn't think it honorable for
the Secretary of the Territory to be
on the floor. Interpreter Wise made
! him say the opposite, for there was
CONSERVATION on the faces of Emme-
lluth and the opposers of Cooper. Beck
! ley demanded a correction and Wise
/ did it. Mahoe argued that Cooper
| must wait till their session was over
and then get a report from Secretary
Meheula after approval by the House.
He said that minutes not adopted by
them might misrepresent them.
Prendergast moved that the resolu-
ton be tabled to give time for thought.
He believed Cooper had no right on the
floor but pleaded for delay.
KANIHo ROMANTIC.
/ Kaniho awoke at this moment and
revertiHg to a phrase of Robertson's
speech, roared out an impassioned ap-
peal to the members to stand firm. He
said: This House has a right to re-
move anyone. If Robertson means to
| try to scare us he fails, for although
| a file of soldiers were by me I would
stand for my rights. Nothing can keep
| Kaniho from doing his duty Saying
which he relapsed into somnolency.
| Jonah Kumalae, Republican, upheld
Cooper's position. He said that it
looked to him as if the members were
afraid to let Cooper stay on the floor
and take the proceedings.
| Cooper, he said, was appointed by the
Washington Government and should
stay. According to Cushing'S rules
adopted by them none had the right to
| take away a scrap of paper from the
House unless the members allowed it.
If this is held to, Secretary Cooper
| might ask to be permitted take his
record each day. kumalae said he was
| elected as Republican but that he
was an American above all. How could
the secretary do his duty and record
all proceedings unless he were pres
| ent? Should he have a telephone rig
ged up and stay outside the room?
Il think there will be trouble if we
/ try to remove him." said Kumalae.
! Makainai said the question was of
vast Importance and must be decided
one way or the other. He thought the
section clear and broad. He moved to
table the resolution till today to give
time for consideration.
Emmeluth suggested that Makainai
table it until Monday but at the sug-
gestion of others it went over until
Saturday at 10 o'clock.
Before the House adjourned for din
ner Speaker Akina read an invitation
for the members to participate in the
Washington's birthday parade today at
8 o'clock.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
| Wbap tho Houca raSuooad aooio OF
half past one o'clock, ]. K. Hihio of
rules in order to seat J. w. Keliikoa,
the Representative from Kona, who
entered the House for the first time
then. Keliikoa has not of course been
sworn in as a Representative.
Speaker Akina appointed as COM
mittee to ask the attendance of Justice
Frear, w. b. Nailima, F. w. Beckley
and S. K. Mahoe, who forthwith disap-
peared toward the court house.
keliikoa had arrived only an hour or
two before on the Mauna Loa from
Hilo, having missed last weeks boat
and being unable to reach here until
yesterday. Justice Frear came with
the committee in a few minutes and
administered the oath of office. The
newly arrived Representative bore
himself modestly, although the target
for all eyes.
Makekau moved that a committee be
sent to the Senate to inform that body
the House was ready for business.
The speaker said he believed the
motion was out of order. The committee
on rules was asked for report. The
committee had been appointed the
first day of the session but was not in
shape to report.
F. w. Beckley of Maui read the fol-
lowing relative to the celebration of
Washington's birthday:
August II, 1898, the flag of the United
States of America was hoisted over
these Islands and the Constitution 'of
the United States, the greatest charter
| of liberty the world has ever known,
extended thus far across the Pacific.
| Since that remarkable day the people
| of these Islands have assumed toward
the United States a position of filial
obedience and respectful neutrality in
regard to American political parties.
In launching the newly erected Terri
! tory of Hawaii upon the sea of Time,
the Legislature is called upon to give
body to the soul and spirit of American
institutions by making such modif1ca-
lions in all laws as to render this Ter
ritory in fact as well as in theory an
integral part of the great Union
Such being the case, l think it time
| ly and useful to solemnly remind those
present and the people throughout the
Territory of the great principles lying
at the foundation of the Constitution
of the United States, the supreme law
of the land, and which must ever be
our guiding in our legislative labors.
| There is a tendency in these days in
| certain circles to believe that individ-
ual and class interests should Guide
advancing humanity and that the pow
ers of the state should be invoked to
/ further purely mercenary motives
AS a protest against such ideas, I'M
earthed from the time of the decline
of the Roman Empire, and as the most
appropriate manner to honor the great
est American on the eve of the ami
versary of his birthday, to show that
the principles for which he so CALAMITY
fought still live 1 move that the Dec
laration of Independence be read aloud
In both the English and Hawaiian Ian
guage and Spread upou tho Journal