The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-10
NATIVES CONTROL In HAWAII.
UPSET REPUBLICAN MAJORITY
BY ELECTING 4 SPEAKER.
He Denes His Opponents Now TO Cnseat
Him-spiit Among white and Native
Republicans Made Their Defeat Easier
Freak Bills Before the House.

NeDuOIcHub UauV hue' Ds's~s
Freak Bills Before the House.
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. A.-The Re
puhlicans we're victorious at the November
elections; but it is the Home Rule, or native
party which organized the House OF Repre-
sentatives and which, seemingly. controls
the political fortunes of Hawaii. by most
astonishing coup, Fred W. Beckley. the
native leader, was chosen Speaker OF the
House and remains in that coveted position
despite the efforts OF the Republican ma
jority to remove him.
The election of Beckley was brought about
by peculiar chain Of circumstances, which
would be impossible anywhere else but
in the Hawaiian Islands. The House as
made up has twenty Republicans ana
but ten Home Rulers. Thirteen OF the
Republican majority are natives, and IL is
pretty difficult to determine their political
affections very accurately at any Time
When it came to the organization OF the
House, the thirteen native Republicans
insisted on debating TO the seven white
members OF their own party who the OIL
fcers should be, and they were to he all
natives, and about half Of them Home
Rulers. The whites baked on that pro-
gramme and. finding argument useless, ar
ranged a union with the Home Rulers, by
which Beckley was TO he elected Speaker
and the Republicans should have the COM
mittees. The plan worked perfectly and
the native Republicans were surprised
! TO see their candidate for Speaker. Jonah
! Kumalae, beaten on the permanent House
| organization, and by Home Ruler. TOO.
The white Republicans admitted their
treachery. and finally a reconciliation vas
effected, by which the natives agreed to
make a fair division Of the spolls with their
white allies, with kuInalae TO DE elected
| Speaker. Beckiey to resign.
Beckley is only p years OF age. b9t ne
is accounted among the cleverest OF the
native leaders, ana, wthal, progressive,
! and trying to help his own people. Inc
| Speaker refused TO follow out the plan winch
/ his Republican friends Of the DAY before
! had Matched out. lie refused TO De ussd as
/ the tool to pull Republican chestnuts from
the fire, and natly refused TO step out.
The Republicans, with their two-thirds
| vote, then threatened 10 remove the obdu-
rate young native. Here Is Beckley,s re-
ply: In the interests OF the people was
made Speaker Of the House. ! have con-
suited with my colleagues, and In the words
| of the National Committeeman tSam Parker
| 1 will stand pat by the people and the laws
of the Territory ] advice you 10 let well
enough alone. According to the Law there
can w ~ go $500 ~ . 80. ~ Sr..L..r
matter without my sishatuIe a. o "a,
| There u no parliamentary rune uhoei WHICH,
! a Spea keT can he removed after having been
legally elected. and no motion looking tothat
end will Ia entertained ny thls 'haI,
III" h-pubiicaiis were - suIpIis<N ths.
they didn I know "lai va 40, Dut when u'es
tried to adjourn iiio SIeahcf refused 70
pu, the motion. IL. said the Hou-e was
ready for business, and he PROPOSED Ia ~
ahead u" "oinISlhd Va" further organ
cation 81 'he hous"' refusing 10 re,oghlH'
h"publlcan ni'inis'rr Ahd "utdid "" lat"
/ Speaker Reed in hls hfn ooptfol fihsiy
would Isrrmit the majority Ia Organic. the
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