The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-23
0EMS PITCH
INTO CARTER
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trade carried on in the whalers be-
tween Asiatic and South American
ports, with Hawaii as port of call,
and said that j. o. Carter then called
! it blot on the good name of Hawaii.
| But for Mr. Carriers objection, he
claimed that Hawaii never could have
entered into a reciprocity treaty with
the United States. This was an illus
tration of adopting methods that were
perfectly safe and sane.
Mr.. Kinney claimed that Governor
| Carter was running the Territory on
| the theory that all power should be
/ conferred in the Governor and he in
turn should be responsible to the Presi-
dent for the welfare and proper ad-
n1fnistration of the Territory. He found
no justification for this in the Organic
Act He said that the Governor, by
Senate, had the power to appoint the
Acknowledgement and other depart
mental heads, and that he may by
and with the consent of the Senate re-
move from office any of such officers"
He stated that Congress thus provided
against allowing the Governor the sole
say either as to the appointment or
removal of the heads of departments.
The speaker questioned the right of
the Governor to nullify, as he express
ed it, the whole theory and ground
work of the Organic Act by the whole
sale use of undated designations, which
are not, in fact, designations, but
subterfuge whereby the tenure of office
of the heads of departments, is chang
ed from four years as provided in the
Organic Act, to tenure at the will.
pleasure and caprice of the Governor"
The speaker said the Governor was now
the practical head of all the depart
ments and the supposed heads, merely
clerks. He claimed the Governor or
ders, directs and reverses the action
of the ostensible heads of each depart
ment at pleasure. He quoted Daniel
Webster at length. The speaker said
that while 1--WE have had something
less than year of one-man power,
there are not lacking in this Territory,
serious symptoms of disorder. He
claimed there was something wrong
when the Attorney-General could go in
to nominating convention and defeat
the nomination of a cadidate for the
Legislature on the sole ground that he
is persona non grata to the executive.
Mr.. Kinney said that the Governor
was not following the Republican par
ty or press, but was requiring them
to follow him in his personal fortunes.
He contended that the Republican par
ty was merely in the field as an ad-
ministration clique and push /
Toward the end of his address Mr..
Kinney expressed his doubts as to the
election of Judge Parker. but thought
the Democrats would get a majority in
the House of Representatives. /
Summing up the disclosures in the
police department the speaker said that
the facts were not yet before the pub
lie, and until they were no final deci-
sion or Judgment upon the question OF
whether Brown or Chillingworth are
right or wrong can be reached. He con-,
tended that the issue was vital one,
however as to whether the Governor
had the power to do as he has done.
He claimed that this clearly brought
Governor Carter up as a campaign Is
sue. He said that the Democratic par
ty had foreseen the disorders that would
grow out of the mistaken conception
of executive power and its Hmitations'l
The Governor has shown that he is
responsible only to God and the Presi-
dent"
Mr. Kinney made several illusions to
Halter the Pinkerton detective, which
were of a humorous nature, and stated
that even Halter. although he had been
but a short time in the country, had
fallen into the common official way Of