The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-09
STILL TAXING ON HIS WAY.

vindication would make Ananias blush.
At San Francisco the branded Judge
described himself as a member of the
UNITED States. Circuit Court and let
the reporters understand that he was
being pursued by a "disbarment motion"
made by Territorial lawyers in trial
which as we know. had not taken place.
He also denied that he was going to
Washington and, as the San Francisco
Chronicle showed, repudiated ain inter
view which he had personally dictated
and then revised. In the Southern
States he gave it out that he had re
formed the Territorial courts and gain
ed the in-will of those who had fat
tened on malpractice. At washington
IL was reported that the same men VINO
were fighting him were also fighting
E,stee and all other Federal officials IN
Hawaii and that he was victim of the
inveterate hostility to the United States
of an anti-American faction in these
Islands. Now at. Chicago solicitous. re-
porters hear that,snative lawyers are
the ones on the trail of Judge Hum
phreys his services during the reNo-
luton which dethroned the queen
being supplemented by such stern
determination to make these Jaw
vers conform to American practices that
thev are bent on removing him out OF
snite The facts that Humphreys ala
NOT come here until two or three years
after the Queen was dethroned ana tha'
he has always tried to be hand-lh-sioVe
with her, with Hawaiian native lawyers
and native everything else for the sahe
of downing the old annexation. parry,
are the trifies which stand In the way
of the popular approval here OF the
bro nded iurist's latest exhibit for the
defence.
We note in the Humphreys us
matches that twenty-five Honolulu
LAWYERS have sent telegram TO the
Attorney General in support Oh the &C
cused place-holder. OF course mo one
in Hawaii needs TO be told that, IN case
the telegram is true, another fraud mas
baan nerpetrated on Mr.. Knox. When
the Bar Association branded hum
.nbrevs by a vote of thirty-seven TO
seven, the only members not present
were F. J. Berrey, E. Caypless, n. II.
Cooper, j. NJ. Davidson, Henry Holmes
a. S. Humphreys, j. X. kaulla, Paui
Neumann, Mr.. Robinson, Enoch Jonn-
son, J. NJ Monsarrat. w. c. Parke, ).
M. Vivas. j. A Matthewman and h. Z.
Peters Here were fifteen, out of whom
must come the late Paul Neumann,
Secretary Cooper and Mr.. Humphreys
himself, leaving twelve to be consider
ed, one of whom (Mr. Holmes) signed
modified Indictment of Humphreys
conouct on the bench. We know six
in the list who. it is certain, have not
signed a Humphreys Endorsement SO
if twenty-five lawyers were rung in for
Humphreys they must either live out
side his judicial circuit, or they include
the seventeen ignorant native members
of the Legislature whom Humphreys
admitted to the bar without examina-
ton, in corrupt payment for the pas
sage of a bill in which he was interested
and by virtue of which he was able TO
stuff grand and petit juries.
We now await, with confidence, the
of a story that all the pub
lished talk of Humphreys being on the
brink of death at Chicago was fake,
designed, solely to create sympathy for
him al Washington. He certainly got
out of the alleged death-bed quickly
enough when he learned that the Bar
Associations charges against him had
arrived at the capital