The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-05-17

session. Lmmeiuih stated that be- had
been tiven legal advice that there was
nothing lu the net 90 prevent IT, and
also that the time n the session fnigh,
b. extended for nn unlimited period
At ~ O'Clock. with Mnkoknu IN tho
! chair, the House went into commit
tee ~ the whole Go consider the aaia b
rigg appropriation measure
The FIRST Item taken W was the al
] luWnnCo Tor The rN.9unru for tho next
/ biennial period end its discussion uu-
| cupied the balance ~ the morning Sos.
sion
The debate was entirely In Hawaiian.
! with karihp kumulae and Kekuuia
as the orators. The TRANSACTIONS show
! ed that practically the same argument
was being banded back and forth be-
| tween the three. Mpnanrrnt moved
! that further calculation of their re-
marks was unnecessary. and Makekau
asked them to aux arguing unless they
/ could find new point NJ question.
. Puuki then took his turn and repeat
cd the remarks, while Keiki, who was
/ feeling talkatlVc, acted as an intermit-
I tent chorus Makekau finally got tired
and put the question
/ The original motion, as introduced by
( Dickey was to Insert an item Of $40 900
for Queen Liliuokalani. Kumulae had
| raised this to $4,000, and Kaniho saw
the latter amount. and raised again to
$4,000 this latter sum finally finding
the favor of the majority. With a
consciousness of Something attempt
ed, something done" the House then
took recess until 2 o'clock.
| AFTERNOON SESSION.
| ON coming to order in the afternoon,
/ Mr.. Makekau again took the chair as
chairman of the committee of the
whole and the consideration of House
Bill g being the salary appropriation
| bill was resumed.
h., tirn Of
the first page. and half of the second
page of the Governors estimates, which
was the basis of the bill. There SEEM
ed to be a division among the men,
bers. and no party vote was taken dur
ing the entire session. Mr.. Dickey
tRep), of the finance committee, led
the fight for reduction of salaries on
behalf of the Republicans, tand Mr..
Emmeluth Qnd) for his party, but
neither of them seemed to have votes
enough from their party friends to car
ry their ideas.
Mr.. Emmeluth constantly reminded
the House that every dollar voted for
salaries meant that much less for
roads and bridges and general public
improvements, and warned the mem
berS not to go home without voting
their constituents liberal sums for To-
cal improvements. Mr.. Dickey declared
he was in favor of "Americanizing"
the salaries, and made his strongest
speech on the question OF pay of stem
Ographers.
Mr.. Monsarrat, however, who is gen.
orally considered a Republican, criti-
cised Mr.. Dickey for his lack of con-
sistency in recommending one thing as
a member of the finance committee,
and advocating another on the floor or
the House. Mr.. Robertson was absent
all day, and that possibly accounted
for the lack of unity among the Re-
publican members.
On the Independent side, the speaker
often spoke in debate and used his
thorough knowledge of parliamentary
law to secure his ends when defeat
stared him in the face. He made a
motion several times to pass the APP
preparation bill in exactly the form in
which it came from the Governor. He
has great deal to say about mot
handicapping the Governor during the
next two years" Whether he was ex-
pecting a new Governor whom he did
not wish to handicap. or whether he
wanted the entire estimates Of the
Governor passed, thereby exceeding
the available income of the Territory
by some s1,000,O0O, so as to make an
other special session for the considera-
not state, but he was so persistent that
II was the general impression that he
had something UP his sleeve.
Mr.. Makekau, who was in the chair,
left 1t in order to get through an
amendment which he wished to have
ignoring the fact that his amendment
had not been seconded, and also ignor-
ing a motion to rise" which is equiv
alent in committee of the whole to a
motion to adjourn the House, resumed
the chair and put his amendment, but
the Independents seem to have a
grudge against him for deserving them
during the regular session in their hour
of need, and his amendment had |
scarcely vote in its favor. The same
fate was meted out to Mr.. Ewaliko.
who had declared on the floor of the
rule for us" (meaning the Makekau !
faction).
The net result is shown in a table |
given elsewhere, by which 1t will be
seen that the reductions recommended |
by the finance committee in the eSti- |
mates of the Governor were nearly ali |
restored to the original figure. 1t made |
one thing apparent, and that Is that |
the speaker is probably the strongest |
man in his party, and If he were on the
floor. he would be likely to be their |
leader.
The afternoon was taken up, to a !
large extent, in speeches In Hawaiian,
which were not translated, owing to a
suggestion from Mr.. Monsarrat that
all the members understood the Ian
Makekau fell into the
trap easily, and not until the afternoon
session was half over, was the regular
translation of all speeches resumed.
There was a little by-play between
Messrs. Dickey (Repo and Kumulae
CRep) as to whether the special ses-
sion was limited in length or not, Ku-
mulae claiming that 1t was not, and
Dickey claiming that 1t could last not
more than sixty days, the same as a
regular session. The several attempts ,
TO rush through the bill were stopped
for various reasons, and after each at
tempt to pass the bill as It came from
the Governor had been defeated, an
other would crop up on the next item,
There has been little evidence of
caucus on the bill, but large number
Of either party, and the result was
that debate being unlimited In commit