The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-03-10
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ROOSEVELT

u did send a message to President
Roosevelt today, asking whether a law
had been passed giving the right of an
peal to the Supreme Court OF the Uni
ted States from decisions of the Terri
torial Supreme Court in cases involving
$1,000 or more" said Governor Carter
yesterday. "As yet have received no
answer.
What l wanted to know" the Gov
ernor went on, was whether laws that
affected us so vitally could be passed in
that way. making them riders on appro-
priation bills. If that has been the
practice in Congress, it is not a good
practice
"As for the effect of the law, it does
leave us up i'll the air, in measure. 1t
leaves us in the air so far as appeals
that litigants who have little money NAV
wish to make are concerned On the
other hand it gives the right of another
appeal in big cases. The legal effect is
matter rather for lawyers to discuss.
but do not at all like the way in whicn
this law is said to have been passed"
Very great surprise was expressed by
| more people than the Governor yes
! terday at the news contained in the Ad-
vertiser of the passage of the provision
in question as rider to the Judiciary
Appropriation bill. Lawyers, especially,
| deemed it remarkable that an enactment
| OF the kind mentioned could have been
worked through Congress and nobody
Immediately interested in the welfare of
the. Territory be any the wiser, appar-
emily
Where was the Territorial delegate"
said well-known lawyer yesterday,
| "at,d ,,ttara G.cfoItz..
| matter, where was the representative OF
the planters. not that the representative
of the planters would have sought to
block the passage of the rider of his.
| own initiative. | don't suppose that he
would But when matter so grave as
this was under consideration, it would
seem that he should have notified his
people here"
MATTHEWMAN MAY RESIGN.
1t is said that Judge Matthewman Of
the Kona Circuit has sent in his resig-
nation, or is about to send it in to the.
Governor. How much truth there is
In the rumor Is not clear, because as
yet there has been nothing more Off
cial about it than the talk of officials.
Governor Carter, when asked about
| the matter yesterday, said: Some
| little time ago Judge Matthewman call
| ed on me and intimated that it was
his intention to resign. Since then he
wrote to me a short time ago. stating
that he wished to tender his resigna-
| ton, and wanted to know when he
| could do so, as he did not wish to af-
| feet the term of court by resigning at
an inconvenient time. / wrote in re-
ply that he himself was in a much bet
| ter position to know than I was"
| The Governor, however, clearly knew
/ nothing further about it than that,
although a report received in the city
yesterday from Kona was to the effect
| that Matthewman had sent in his
resignation and that Guy F. Maydwell
| was an active candidate for the sue
cession
NUMEROUS ARRANGEMENTS
A number of arraignments of men
| indicted by the grand jury We're made
| before Judge Robinson yesterday In
/ the case of All Wong, charged with
| selling liquor without license, plea was
reserved until Monday.
The case of M. Souza, on a like
charge, was passed for the present, de-
fendant not. being in court.
Kojira Nakamura, assault and bait
| terry, reserved his plea until Monday
All Hoy pleaded not guilty to being
a che ia agent, and his case went ON
the calendar.
Chin Chu Dat Chin Lam and Chin
| Chez, assault with weapon, went over
until Monday.
| Sogawa and Trakoa, Japanese, plead
ed not guilty of being che ia agents.
| Miguel Ferreira, and Joe Fraga, the
| last named being now in the reform