The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-11
THE LEGISLATURE.

From Saturdays dally)
There was little more somhianco o
vofk IN the Lower House yesterday
than tho day before The mufnini
session was spent IN n long and learned
discussion on "po Making as an In.
herlted Art" In which the majority pi
the House expressed Themselves. u
seems that puioloEy. according 10 the
statements made yesterday. Is an arts
tic science or II one wishes 10 SO eN-
press it a scientific art While haole
may, after years OF practice, become
fairly proficient IN this line. a man IN
order to say that his name is Me
Gregnr. and that he is on his native
heath, must be born Hawaiian. Judg.
ers OF poi. like poets-excuse the pun
are born, not made.
The latter part OF the day was spent
in the consideration OF salaries. Prem
dergast spoke in favor OF the small
dairyman, and the abolition Of the po-
sition of milk Inspector who, he inu-
mated, was a feed employe of the large
concerns.
II Is said that Emmeluth has Joker
up his sleeve that he intends playing
i'm a few days. Just what 1t Is, no one
seems to know. although IT is fairly
plain that there is something going to
happen
MORNING SESSION.
when the House met yesterday, Ad-
ma said there was a tendency on the
mart of certain legislators to remain
under the algeroba trees until the lat
est possible moment. Instead of stay
ing outside they should come in, and
take at least an apparent interest in
affairs.
Dickey renewed his motion of yester-
day to the effect that the three heads
OF the departments be given equal sal
aries. the three departments mentioned
being those of the Treasurer, the At
torney- General and that of Public
Works. Immediately succeeding this
motion, Mahoe moved that the said sal
aries be $4,000. Paile, who evidently
has an axe for Dole, said that the office
of Attorney General was well paid at
Sc 900 Then followed long, and at
times tedious debate upon the respec-
tive amounts of labor performed by the
different departments. The matter was
laid on the table. Kaniho then made
critical address, in which he censured
the policy of the House. He said II was
one thing today, and another thing to-
morrow. At this rate the Legislature
would never get through. Aylett
moved an amendment to the motion
before the House, and proposed that
the Board OF Education be made the
equal of the three mentioned depart
ments, both in prominence and salary.
hakekau moved that the whole matter
be put over until the last day of the
Legislature, then the legislators would
not be wasting time by constantly re-
voting on the same things.
without any apparent reason, the
Board of Health was laid on the oper-
ating table, and the Home Rulers un-
sheated their scalpels. Mossmon, fresh
from his Investigations OF last week, |
took the floor. and reiterated his opn-
ion of the City Sanitary Inspector,
Mossman again accused him of being
a parasite on the Territorial payroll |
The speaker said that this officer came
to work whenever il suited his own
sweet will, and stayed as long as the
whim of the moment dictated.
Then came the dissertation on poi /,
Kumulae had first try. He thought |
that it was throwing good money after
bad to expect a man who was not ma
tive born to tell good poi from bad. The |
poi industry was the means of enrich !
ing many Chinese, who. through their |
INSCRIPTIONS methods of adulterating |
poi, We're growing rich at the expense !
of the poor, submissive Hawaiian, who .
paid the price asked. While haole .
might mean all right he was not to
the manner born, when it came to pass
ing judgment on the Hawaiian staple.
tAlrt to. Il ,l..f H.. Il
not tell the difference between a
microbe and a pig. Beckley said the
ability to make this distinction was
not necessary when it came to passing
upon poi. Speaking seriously he said
that there should be some one employ
ed who was possessed of sufficient
scientific knowledge to determine the
nature of the materials with which poi .
is adulterated. Race distinction should
not be the basis for passing upon n
poi inspector. Kumulae said that the
proof of poi like that of pudding. was
the eating of it. If it made one sick
it was bad poi, if one did not suffer.
but thrived on it, it was good poi
Someone suggested that such a method
of making distinctions would be rather
hard on the inspector. Emmeluth said
that he had on different occasions
taken poi to an analytical chemist, who
had. in every instance found out
what the nature OF the adulteration
was. After some more talk, the salary I
of Food Commissioner and analyst
was passed at $4,000. The salary of the |
physician at Waianae was slashed
from $1,000 to $500 {
Just before the House took their
midday recess, Monsarrat introduced
the following resolution:
Whereas. the $4,000 appropriated for 5
this extra session OF the Legislature is
exhausted: and L
Whereas. there is a disposition on the
part OF a majority OF the members of ,
this House to prolong this session for the
full sixty days allowed by the Organic
Act, when II is well-known fact that
all the business OF this session could have
been accomplished in fifteen days; there
fore be 1t
Resolved, That from and after date