The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-04-16

The past week has been a long and
/ steady grind for the members of the
| House of Representatives and 1t Is lit
tie wonder that they grew short tenn
pered and irritated at the end of the
week and turned upon their friends in
| the Senate. In the state of fraZZled
nerves induced by having to sit and
listen to the long and puerile "argu-
ments' of Kaniho, 1t was eXasperating
to watch the Senators, happy, smiling,
corpulent and without a care on their
minds, this evaporation finding voice
on the floor of the House yesterday
Rawlins leading in the call-down for
the upper chamber. The idea that has
taken possession of the minds of some
of the House members is that the Sena-
tors are deliberately holding up some
of their pet bills in order that the Gov
ernor may quietly pocket veto them
and there are only four more days now
in which the members may get their
measures up to the robins egg blue
chamber in time to have any further
say about them.
The past week has seen lot of ac-
tive lobby work gong on. In fact the
order of the day could be fairly well
announced just by taking a census of
the busy persons in the Hobbies before
the House would go into session. The
local option measure brought out de-
termined group; the bill requiring
court interpreters to be citizens re-
ceived the energetic boostings of Will
lie Crawford; the measure cutting
down the theatrical licenses was pre-
ceded by Joe Cohen, and the appro-
priation bills found the Hobbies swarm
ing with job-holders who We're out for
raises. And probably in few legsa-
lures are the members to be found
more workable. 1t has happened more
than once that the House will vote
unanimously one day, bring the matter
up for a reconsideration the next and
vote just as unanimously the other
way. Sometimes the members can
change their minds just as completely
during the noon recess, but the quick
est reversal of opinion the House has
seen came yesterday.
Kaniho had absent-mindedly rose in
support of bill which he had been
fighting against and after him rose his
following, Mahoe Kahana and one or
two others. Then the light suddenly
broke upon Kanlho and he asked per-
mission to change his vote. He gave no
reason for 1t, but some telepathic wave
passed to Mahoe and the others and
they too asked permission to change
their votes. 1t was a sudden conyer-
sion and showed the amount of con-
sideration some of the followers of the
Mad Mullah give to the questions be-
fore them.
The way the standing votes are CIV,
en- Is also interesting. 'All those in
favor of the motion will rise" says the
Speaker or the chairman. One or two
stand up promptly. then another will
get half way out of his chair and keep
an eye on neighbor. A few mods and
winks are passed around until finally
all those who vote the same way as
somebody else does straSgle to their
feet, 1t is the same way with a show
of hands, about half the members never
know how they are going TO vote when
the question is nut.
The Mad Mullah, who represents Ko-
hala, has distinguished himself par
ticularly of late, his remarks on the
entomologist and bacterlologist of the
Territory having been particularly edi-
flying, The first official he dubbed in
his various discourses the superin-
tendent of worms" and he wanted to
know why the latter did not visit the
potato patches around the country and
kill of potato bugs. His grasp OF the
duties of these officials is about on a
par with what he thinks should be done