The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-30
Majority J

VIM WHITE,
S. E. KAIUE,
Majority Judiciary Committee.
| The minority reported as follows:
! The minority of the judiciary Commit
| tee to whom was referred the Govern
or's message in regard to revision of the
/ laws of the Territory of Hawaii begs to
report that
Whereas, there is great public neces-
! sity for Immediate revision of the laws
of the Territory of Hawaii, owing to The
very many changes caused by the su-
perseding Organic Act, and that as It
would be a physical impossibility to pre-
pare such a revision within the sixty
days session of the Legislature; there
| fore the voluntary extra work of Chief
Justice Frear, done without certainty Of
| compensation, is public service,
prompted by patriotism and loyalty.
The minority of your committee see no
usurpation of legislative authority by the
: Governor, for you are at liberty to pur-
chase the work done and submit it to a
commission for revision or leave the
work to an entirely new commission for
report at the next session, thus delay
ing the final publication.
! Therefore the minority recommends
that the committee should inquire what
! the cost of the revision now nearly COM
plete is and, if less than it can be done
for by others, that the work of Judge
Frear be purchased and revised under
supervision of your committee. translat-
ed and printed, as no work of more i'm
portance or of greater benefit to the pub
! lie can be done. c. r. CARTER,
Minority of Judiciary Committee.
The minority report was generally ap-
proved by the audience present in the
Senate chamber Mr. Tesla got on his
feet and walked out, saying in a very
audible tone of voice I'VE had patriot
ism: now we have Americanism, and
that means the almighty dollar Sen
ator Russell and Cecil Brown made a
few remarks, and White emphatically
opposed a bill which provided for money
for a cooked, cut and dried matter.
The Senator reminded the Senate that
Judge Frear was a patriot and an hon.
orahle man, who draws big salary
WHY should the Chief Justice not dc
work for the Government for the pay
he is already drawing from the Treas
ury? The compilation was not worth
the paper It was written on. The speak
er. who was getting warm, said that ne
had reached that opinion after discus
sion with Philadelphia (Arizona? p
LAWYER bv whom he had been seen
The matter should have been submitted
TO us before the Executive incurred
these expenses: we are the whole thing,
and IT move the previous question"
Mr.. 'Kanalua" Kaiue, however, had
gone to sleep. and Senator Carter gained
the floor to state that no attorney OF
anv standing and ability would have
performed the all-important work at
the price the Government was ofering
the Chief Justice The Senator claimed
that it would have been impossible for
IL. how
necessary work done by Justice Frear
during the sixty days of the regular ses-
sion He considered It a step in the line
of expediting matters, and held that the
objections to pay the virtually nominal
expenses connected with the work OF
| Judge Frear, were absurd and ridicu-
llous The Governor had given the work
to Justice Frear who certainly wasn't
lanxious to undertake. the task, and the
Senator considered It beneath the digni-
ltv of the Senate to dispute a bill provid-
ing for a comparatively trifiing amount
for a most important work done by the
highest judicial authority in the Terri
tory.
Senator Kanuha followed in the same
strain of Senator Carter and the usua
mixed debate took place, until Kalauo-
kalani moved the previous question
which carried, and then the vote I'm IA
yor of the resolution carried. and Il
was proven that Senator White is nc
longer the boss: that halauokalan
has ceased to be the Father Of His
Country" as far as the Senate IS con
cerned, and that Russell, John Brown an'
Kanuha are sensible. honest patriot
who will stick in the future TO the part!
of the friends of Hawaii.
, At the afternoon session there was
small spat in regard to the right of Kai
Iue occupying the chair. Kicks" wer
coming from all sides. until DR.. Russo
Iarose from his seat on the floor am
stated that as Presidential least unit