The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-25
LOAN BILL HISTORY
WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS IT
TO BE
Hon. John Emmeluth and His crowd
Solely Responsible for It's Failure
The club That Didn't club.


EDITOR STAR. AS quoted i'm the
/ Bulletin last evening, the Hon. John
/ llmmeluth presumes to say to the vot-
ers and the public that the defeat of
/ the Loan Bill was due to- the action of
| the Governor, he tries to explain how
| the Loan Bill was defeated. Instead
| of trying To tell the history of the bill
/ from the beginning, he only reCites the
! history of the bill from the second
/ reading.
He also tries to put the blame ON
] Senator Carter, knowing at the same
time that the Home Rulers were i'm a
majority on that committee.
The true history of the Loan Bill was
| as follows.
on February %. 1901. being the third
| day of the session during the after
| noon session of the Senate, the message
of the Governor was read by Clerk
Caypess In this message appears the
following clause: This reduction of
revenue makes IL necessary that a con-
siderable sum of money should be Dor
rOWed for public improvements tSee
/ page is Senate JOurnalD
AT the same time the Governor sent
! i'm an estimate of appropriations to be
/ inserted i'm the Loan Bill which esti-
mate amounted to $1,9OL90O. on March
is, 1901, on motion of Senator Cecil
| Brown, amended by Senator AChi, the
estimates as submitted by the Cover
nor were referred to the Judiciary
Committee which was composed of
Senators White, Cecil Brown and $, h.
Kaiue. lSee page l22 Senate JOuTnalD
on March T. 1901. Senator Cecil Brown
/ the Republican member of the commit
/ tee made his report on the much talked
/ of Loan Bill in the Senate. lSee pages
lbs and 129 Senate JOurnal)
on motion of Senator White the re-
port of the minority of the committee
| was tabled to be considered with the
report of the majority of the commit
/ tee.
| on March 9, 1901, Senator Cecil Brown
submitted for the consideration of the
Senate the said Loan Bill, for the
amount of $1,946,6 600 (See pages 135 and
1876 Senate JournalD on that day the
report was laid on the table until such
| time as the majority should see fit to
bring in its report
The majority Of the judiciary Com
| mittee, Senators White and Kaiue fail
ed to make any report of the same un-
| til Senator Kaiue became President of
| the Senate, for what cause the writer
has no reason to know, it may be on
account of a resolution introduced in
the caucus of the Home Rulers by Re
preventative Prendergast, declaring
| that no member of the Home Rulers
shall introduce in either house any
| law, resolution, report or other things
without having first the approval of
the caucus of the Home Rulers which
resolution the Hon. John Emmeluth
| knew of at the time. After the bill was
given to the committee of Ways and
/ Means the history stated by Hon. John
| Emmeluth is correct.
| During the time the bill was in the
hands Of the committee of Ways and
Means Senator Carter did all in his
| power and to the best of his ability to
get the bill passed, while the Home
RuIe members ana very little
Upon the true facts as stated above
can any ialr minded man lay any
/ blame upon the Governor or the Re
/ publican members Of the Legislature
for having failed TO pass the Loan
/ Bill? The whole blame lies upon the
/ heads of the Home Rule members Of
the Legislature Of which Hon. John
| Emmeluth is one.
If the Republicans or Democrats had
the majority of the last Legislature,
the Loan Blu would nave DeeH passed
| NlJhlu the sixty uaSS aIIoNeu ny raw
1t was in the power of Hon. John
Emmeluth and his party to pass the
Loan Bill in the prescribed term, why
! they did not do it, nobody knows better
than the Hon John Emmeluth.
If the Hon. John Emmeiuth was will
ing to pass the Loan Bill, and as he
was the chairman of the Judiciary
| Committee of the Lower House, and
the estimate of the Governor were in
their hands, and if the Hon. John
! Emmeluth claims that the bill should
originate in the House, why did he not
introduce the bill in the House? 1
don't know, though I can give close
guess. Only Hon. John Emmeluth can
fully answer it to himself. All the
. writer knows is that there are no pro-
visions in the Organic Act to provide a
! Government for the Territory Of Ha-
wall, prohibiting any Senator from in
Producing a revenue measure in the
Senate of the Territory of Hawaii.
Who railroaded the bill? The Cover
nor recommended the bill on the third
day of the session, Senator Cecil Brown
had introduced the bill on the four
teenth day of the session as a minOri-
ty of the committee and the Home