Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-03-29
DOUBLE POLITICAL DEAL

Some very interesting political
yarns are growing out of the investiga.
ton that President Pinkham OF the
Board of Health Is undergoing at the
instance of Senator Achi and also
from the Board of Healths action to
test the authority of the legislative
and executive branches of the Govern.
ment in connection with the visit OF
the House committee to the Kalihi Re
ceiving Station.
The House members or some Of them
at least express themselves as very
well satisfied that Governor Carter Is
responsible for the refusal of the
Board OF Health to allow the commit.
tee to visit the Receiving Station.
Pinkham had been apparently favor
ably disposed toward the committee
until he made call upon the Govern.
or after which he said they could not
go and Attorney General Andrews Of
fered the resolution that passed the
Board of Health unanimously.
On the other hand, It is claimed
with equal positiveness that Governor
Carter is the real inspiration Of the
resolution presented by Senator Achi
calling for the resignation of Presi
dent Pinkham and the sotes are all
counted to carry out his plan, or as
one man claiming to know put It," The
Governor is asking Pinkham to his Ia.
BILE to have cake and at the same time
putting poison in his coffee"
Governor Carter's friends scorn the
ideaSthat he should be factor In
such a game Of political perfidy but
when It is suggested to some Of the
friends of Superintendent Atkinson
they are disposed to say It must be
so because THAT is about the same
thing he did to Atkinson" They hold
that Atkinson would have gladly re-
signed quietly had the Governor made
known some time ago that he wished
for the superintendent withdrawal.
But no, the Governor gave outward ev-
idence Of giving him all the support he
could and then Of a sudden turned
around and taking legislative COM
mittee's report as a text asked him to
get out, when the information of that
report could have been obtained
through the executive departments Of
the government had 1t been sought.
Carters friends say Thurston is be.
hind the Achi resolution.
The Atkinson supporters by the
same token claim that the Governor is
going to do" Plnkham In somewhat
the same way, throwing the unpleas'
ant part on the legislators and still
posing as friend. Friends OF Pink
ham won't believe that any such
scheme is on foot because they claim
II represents a low standard Of politics
to which the Governor would not stoop.
Then the prophets remark, "Did the
Governor ever have a better friend and
harder worker In his behalf than Clar'
ence Crabbe? The Governor has got
all he wanted out of Crabbe, and where
Is Crabbe today?'
The arguments of the rights and the
wrongs of the situation are interesting
to follow out In a study Of whether
men are prompted by motives that
stand the test of straight dealing. So
far as Pinkham and the morning paper
are concerned, everybody knows that
Thurston hates Pinkham and sees
things accordingly.
| Along the same line OF underground
Legislative talk 1t has been said that
the legislators have practically made
up their minds that they cannot finish
the work In hand In sixty days, and
that an investigation OF the Public
Works Department is on the boards In
connection with the Insane Asylum
contract. This and other things likely
to come up. It Is said, will delay the
session beyond the short-term limit.