The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-08
DAY OF EXCITEMENT
IN THE HOUSE
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Rod paid to George T. Turner
for making and repairing uniforms, the
snug sum of s903.20; add to this the war
rants for cloth and personal furnish
zngs drawn in the same period amount
ing to $1193.35, and we have a grand to-
tai of S2.09625 as expenditures for uni
forms and trimmings during the period.
The above amount must include cost
of cloth and trimmings for an officers
uniform, as we find a warrant for MAX
ing one uniform, issued February 2Sth,
of this year to S. Roth & Co., the uni
form being for Capt A G.. Hawes."
Judging from the amount paid for sta
tionery, 1869, there ought to be enough
of the stuff on hand to enable this Legis-
lature to send to each individual member
an engrossed invitation to quit his job.
Paints and oils. ETC.. amounted to 81
: 303. DINA terial enough that, if evenly
spread, might cover the Bungalow bar
providing the pay roll of the laborers
of the ''dining-room for the Senate COM
znittee room and the coil" would hold
out.
To be serious, Mr.. President the ma
Jority of your committee feel surprised
at the attitude of the minority of the
committee at this time. During the reg
! ALTAR session you will remember how he
stood almost alone in his fearless utter
ances against the open and shameless
method of making saloon annex of the
above mentioned dining room"
Why should we continue military
service so effete as this one has become?
Why hold up to the civil departments of
the Government this relic of repression
and subversion of rights-this Unsuitable
NAV that swallows the taxes without any
return except In services which mean
the collection of more taxes. What shall
become of the young men who, entering
The military service, find those noble at
attributes which the minority claims for q
military discipline are, In fact, entirely
lost sight Of
We are asked for means to extend this
service to make it more effective to
Organize company on Kauai. another
on Molokai, one at Lahaina, at Kohala,
and for what?
Is 1T not for the same thing for which
dhe Pennsylvania troops were created
and ordered out? To suppress the mill
tsorkers of Homestead and force them to
return to work when they endeayored to
secure a greater measure of the fruits of
their labor? And were not these wage
workers shot down by the dozens? Do
we not see today the former owner of
that Homestead plant a one hundred
millionaire, parading up and down the
United States looking for places to give
away the earnings Of those men buried
under the sod of that battlefield at
Homestead? The State of Pennsylvania
paid the shooters. God forbid that we.
!. In attempting to establish government OF
atbe people, by the people and for the
: people. should forget the constitutional
privileges contemplated thereby, equal
rights for all, special privileges for none.
Let those who fill this country with
ignorant, uncomfortable elements pear
the burden of so doing. II we cannot
prevent their coming, let US not put any
thing between them and an honest hving.
The strike Just closed at Albany. N.
Y. cost enough money to have paid the
advances asked by the strikers for ten
wears. but the military were called out
and innocent lives were sacrificed in an