The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-04-23

time has passed when one member had
to scratch another's back to help out
some pet bill and the scratching will,
probably be done on each others faces
from now on. The appropriation bills
have passed out OF the House and
Senate and are now with one excep-
ton ready for the gubernatorial sigma.
ture, 80 there Is nothing to look for
by any member there who is bent on
a trade. Everything in the salary line
that can be boosted has been boosted
and the House members and Senators
can now afford to come out into the
open and speak their minds. Some
plain speaking may therefore be look
ed for during the next nine days.
There are a lot of sore members
Sheldon has been badly stirred up dur
ing the latter part of the week by the
way in which three or four of his meas
ures have been voted down. His laun-
dry bill was amended out of existence
by Hughes, his horseshoeing bill was
punctured by Rice and his measure to
limit the time in which actions for
damages could be instituted was killed
because the House was getting tired
thing. Sheldon was SO annoyed that
he threatened to go on the warpath
against Hughes Local Option meas
ure. but he cooled down before that
time came.
Hughes Is also sore. He Is lost just
as soon as the other members slip into
the fog of diplomacy and he Is uncer-
tain what is going on around him. He
knows that his Land bill, which he
nursed carefully through the teething
stages in the House and sent out to
the Senate with a fond fathers bless
ing, has been quietly sidetracked and
put into cold storage until 1909 He
has a feeling away down in his heart
that the Nuuanu dam is going to keep
on in the same old way and he ex-
pressed his views yesterday on tho
Liquor bill, which has been fifty days
in the Legislature without his having
a chance to register vote on 1t. And
each of these things is just out of his
| reach. He thinks that there ought to
be some way for him to get hold of at
least some of them and drag them out
into the light, but he confesses freely
| that politics is not his game and that
he does not know of any way to hurry
up affairs although the end of the SEES.
sion Is within touch. 1t is more in sor-
row than in anger that Hughes refers
to these things.
| Akau complains bitterly Of the cruel
fate that thrusts upon him the neces-
| sity of making the first break when
it comes to vote on roll call, but he
| has this to console him, he always
| knows how he is going to vote.
Farther down the list, by the time the
| ks" have, been reached, the mem,
bers can safely sing out "mahope"
without attracting any great attention
and wait until it can be seen about how
the bill is to go. Then they can climb
on on the second round and ride cheer
fully along with the majority. When
the vote is close these members have
a well-worked out wigwag system.
When Pail screws up one cheek and
shuts an eye it means one thing. If he
burrows his Websterian brow and
glares straight ahead it means another.
md the kanalua bunch watch narrow.
ly for the tip Kaniho also has his
little coterie to instruct, but there is
addition, who does not sit within
nudging distance.
Kaniho has one voting rule that he
never violates and that is never to be
found on the same side as Rawlins IL
he can prevent it. He has all of Raw
Inns bills blue-pencilled so that he can
recognize them at a glance and he
oil,
This little trouble arose from a mild |
criticism of the Kohala member in
dulged in some weeks ago by Rawlins. |
who told the House that he could never
get kaniho to come before the Judi
ciary committee to explain certain of
his measures. This was duly reported
In the Honolulu English papers, but
Kaniho only smiled Then the Ha-
waiian paper of Hilo got it and hand-
ed out a roast to the Kohala gentle
man. int mating among other things
that he was shiftless and lazy ana
ought TO go away back into the taro
The Judiciary committee of the
House has had strenuous time of It,
having acted and reported upon 125
bills and resolutions during the session.
Their reports have been exhaustive
a
great deal of attention from the House.
The membership of this committee is
1 particularly strong one. Rawlins is
chairman, with Long, Coney and Wal
patches and sit down. Kaniho stop
ped smiling and has been going after
Rawlins ever since.
waiole as working team. The latter !
IS full-blood Hawaiian and one of the {
best of his nationality in the House,
he has little to say on the floor but
his vote has never yet been registered
along the freak lines followed by some {
)f the others.
After all is said and done 1t is doubt I
III II any member of the LEGISLATURE {
has been able to accomplish more in 6
he way of good legislation than Char {
ey Rice, the leader of the Kauai con- c
ingent and the party whip. Not only
has he been able to get the support of !
ne majority of the House for the I
measures that he was most Interested a
n, but he has been able to sidetrack a !
considerable bunch OF legislation which | n
would have been detrimental IN Tarri n