The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-30
HOME RULERS
MASS NEE TING,

The native mass meeting held at the
arm shed grounds Saturday evening
was largely attended by HawaiIans,
when arguments for an extension of
the legislative session were made by
party leaders. Some Of the speeches
were sensational in the extreme. The
sentiment Of the meeting was shown
by unanimous request being extend
ed through both houses that a joint res
olution be submitted petitioning for an
extension.
The speeches, while admitting that
time had been wasted. claimed that the
delay should not be laid at the doors
of the Independent party.
The feeling seemed general among
the audience that the closing down of
the lawmaking would exclude many de-
sirable measures.
Senator Kalauokalani opened the
meeting at 7:45, speaking as follows:
Being the leader of the Home Rule
party, and for reasons of Importance
which have come up, we, your repre-
sentatives and servants OF the people,
have been accused of being dilatory In
the duties we were elected to discharge
In the First Legislature of our country
and as a Territory of the United States
laws and other matters in connection
Herewith beneficial to you, my fellow
countrymen. and for the best interest of
all of the people of these Islands, under
the rights and privileges given us by
the fundamental laws of this Territory.
Gentlemen, 1t is true we have been
charged by our enemies and by the Re-
publicans of not doing anything and in
fooing away the valuable time of the
IpUiglntllrp having ACCOMPLISHED nothing
We have received notice from our Gov
ernor that the Legislature will be dis
solved on April goth, which is the next
Tuesday coming.
In order to explain and inform you,
the people and voters of this Territory,
concerning these things, this meeting was
called in this way. After explanations
shall have been made you will support
US in our action.
True to the promises made by us dur
I ing our election campaign, and to prove
! to you the amount of work that has
| been done by the Home Rulers, although
they have not all passed the two Houses
and have not become law, here, 0aking
an armful of legislative measures from
a heap on the platform)-here is what
we have to show you what has been
done by us and (pointing to the rest on
the tlooD these are not all. There are
still more than these In both Houses
which we did not think necessary to
bring. To prepare these bills and laws
takes a great deal of time to get them
in this shape. We have to work night
and day, and 1t has taken us u little
over fifty days to do this so you can
see that we have not been idle, as charg-
ed. This is the County bill which has
passed the two Houses and hes been sent
to our Governor for his signature to
II AXE 1t II law. This bill, as you can
see by its size and by the number of
pages, took time and labor to prepare
it. In this bill we have kept our prom
ises and 1t is now out of our hands and
it all remains with Governor Dole wheth-
er 1t viii become law or not"
The speaker picked up several other
bills and remarked on each one as to
its stage of progress, Regarding the
loan bill he said that the bill called for
100000 for purposes of carrying out of
contemplated public improvements on ali
of the Islands OF the .erritory, and in
doing 50 it would give work to very
large number of Hawaiians and people
OF the Territory.
This bill is still before the House and
We have only two days more to pass all
their bills, especially the appropriation
BIZ. which is me most important of them
all. This is the bill that covers the
salaries of all of the employees and the
1t has not been touched by either House
Tor the reason We have had our hands
full. AS all lie work of preparation oy
the respective committees was completed
about the same time and has come in at
about the same time for the action of
the Legislature, more work than any one
OF you can form an idea. 1t has to be
drafted, compiled, translated, typewrit-
ten, printed, proof-read. etc. All this
means hard work. expense and time, and
now the Governor wants to close the ses-
sion OF the Legislature and leave us with
only two days to complete our work,
which is an utter impossibility. We have
appointed committees and have waited
on our Governor for an extension of
time to complete our work, but our re-
quest uas been refused. We called once,
twice and third time, all with the
same result. The Governor is not treat
ing us right as the representatives of
you, the people OF these Islands. We
know he has acted within his powers
and as We had no other course to pur-
sue, We make this appeal to you, the
people, the voters OF the Territory. TO
cali this meeting to consider the situation
and adopt resolutions TO the Governor
asking him for an extension OF further
time that we can complete our work and
fulnll our pledges 10 you. II he would
only grant us fifteen days We would be
satisfied. This would enable us TO pass
all laws and otner enactments that will
Zoe beneficial To you Hawaiians and all
OF the people OF the Territory: therefore
I ask You all to support as IN this re-
quest, and adopt the resolutions and a
committee TO wait on the Governor and
eg OF him 10 comply with your request
Thanking the meeting for their atten-
lion. the speaker introduced Representa-
tiNos Kanlho. liihio neekley. Puuki and
Senator kanuha All spoke IN about the
same strain.
kanlho claimed that the native Hawaii
ans were TO blame II any one Was To be
blamed at all for any kafdships that
the HaHailnna may or sill suffer IS q
Taaull Of moi getting An exhaustion Of