The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-25
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE HOUSE
There Was Nothing of Any Value
Done to Advance the
Appropriations.

The House spent another day with
out accomplishing much of anything.
Several reports were presented, bat un-
til they are all in, nothing like q sys-
tematic consideration of the sappropria-
ton bill can be taken up. At least, the
House so decided. after spending all
day finding 1t out. There was anoth ar
tilt between Makekau Und.) and En-
meluth Und), and it is exactly the
lack of organization among the indie
pendents that delays things. Makekau
aspired to be leader of the party on
the floor Of the House, and was given
| Craftsmanship of committee on rules
at the beginning of the regular session.
| which position he still holds, ,notwith-
standing his adherents declared on the
floor of the House "Goodbye Home
Rule and the Makekau faction. con-
sisting of himself, Ewaliko Cast Ha-
waiD, Nailima Cast HawaiD, Kekaula
and Keliikoa Cloth West MauD, to all
intents and purposes, bolted their par
ty during the last days of the regular
session and have not shown signs of
coming back into the fold since Thus
| five of the Hawaii delegation belong to
the Makekau faction, and of the other
| three, one (Monsarrat) Is to all intents
Republican. This bolt from the Big
Island is not to be lightly considered,
and SO far as is apparent no attempt
has been made to read them out of the
party, or to refuse them admission to
the Independent caucus on account of
their attitude Until this split is fixed,
little need be expected from the House
of Representative in the way of Iegis-
lation, for it leaves them a bare ma
jorfty of "stalwarts' of sixteen mem
bers. including the speaker.
The first thing in order was the mes
sage from Acting Governor Cooper,
which had already been sent to the
Senate, and has been published in
these columns. AS soon as It was read,
Emmeluth Qnd) moved to lay it on
the table, as the matter of the author
ity of the Acting Governor TO hold
office is before the courts for determi-
nation. The motion was in the form
of resolution, and Makekau Qnd) at
once objected, as being out of order,
the heading resolutions" not having
been reached on the order of business.
Emmeluth then changed it to a mo-
ton, and it went through, but not be-
fore Aylett (Rep.) had moved to refer
the matter to the judiciary committee.
Kaniho Qnd), one of the f'stalwarts.'
surprised the House with an objection
to tabling the resolution, on the ground
that the members had recognized the
authority of Mr.. Cooper to act as Gov
ernor by drawing their salary on the
bill that had been signed by him as
such Acting Governor. Hoogs (Rep.),
who always sees something of an
amusing nature in the proceedings,
suggested that the logical conclusion
to draw from the tabling Of the mes
sage was that the members should all
go back to Treasurer Wright and hand
in their little 5000 and mileage. Ku-
mulae Rep.l objected to this. as he
said he had already spent the money,
as had most Of the others from the ex-
pressions passed.
The next matter to come up.was the
communication from the attorneys of
the Oahu Railway and Land Company,
who evidently think that their subsidy
is in danger. The communication was
as follows:
Honolulu, May %, 1901
To the Finance Committee of the House
of Representatives of the Territory of
laval.
Gentlemen: We beg to call the atten-