The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-04
HUMPHREYS NOW
ATTACKS THRUM'S
HAWAIIAN ANNUAL
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Of our additions to the Supreme Court
library. free of cost to us, the only
purchases being of text books. In this
way we get law books worth about
$4,000 with an expenditure OF less than
500. If this is extravaganza and not
in keeping with the appropriation made
| for the purpose, / am willing to stop ii.
| and will bear the expense out of my
own pocket, II there Is any question OF
it."
| The particular part TO which Humpn-
reys, the Republican" Judge, makes
objection, and in which no doubt lies
the real animus for the attack upon the
judiciary clerk is the paragraph re-
fecting upon the Home Rule Legisla-
ture, that passed his pet bailtff bill.
The following extracts from Thrum's
Annual are the ones referred to in the
letter which Humphreys made public
yesterday:
The strong majority of Home Rulers
elected to both houses of the legislature
gave that party the opportunity to do
great things for Hawaii and the people
whose interests they professed to hold
dear, but it early became manifest that
incompetency predominated the ranks,
egotism possessed the would-be leaders
and senseless opposition was shown on
measures in general and the Governor In
particular.
The republican minority of both houses
did well in saving the country from q
number of disgraceful measures. Persis-
tent effort was made to saddle the city
with fifty-year franchise in favor of
the Tramway Company; attempt was
made to legaliZe gambling, and to revive
kahunaism; compulsory vaccination was
repealed and reduction OF dog tax
made a pet measure. An act to create
Counties and Municipalities, I'll drawn
and badly considered In the lower house
was passed by them for the senate to.
amend, but that body passed Il defiantly.
with all its crudities, because the minor
fty did not like it IL stood. Much dis
appointment was felt by them at the bill
meeting with a pocket veto" for the
Home Rulers and a certain foreign ele-
ment hoped thereby to "curtail the Gov
ernor's power by placing appointments
and expenditures in the hands of native
voters organized to put down the power
of the whites"
Practically the whole session was taken
up with childish wrangllng. Desirable
measures for the promotion of govern
ment and public welfare were neglected
or studiously blocked In committee, as
in the case of the loan measure and ap-
preparation bills, expecting thereby to
force an extension Of the session which
had been refused them on the ground
that "the methods OF the present session
had been so wasteful Of both time and
money with little to show for q large
expenditure of public funds"
At the close of the regular term they
were Immediately called In special session
to consider the appropriations, and the
same inability to confine themselves to
the duty they were called for was mani
fest. The time limit expired before the
act was through its third reading and the
session had to be extended several days
for this purpose finally adjourning July
18th, at an expense TO the country OF s45,-
200 for its term Of sixty days and $4,000
for its thirty days extra session; far ex-
eeeding the most expensive previous leg
Stature known in these Islands, which
was in 1856, when $49,9S4.08 was required
o defray the expenses of It's long session
II 129 days.