The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-05
[ LEGISLATURE
toontinued From rage one,

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that, had II been made on the floor Of
almost any other legislative assembly,
would have resulted in the ignomnious
expulsion Of the speaker. II was an in
suit TO the senate TO the legislature, TO
the government, and to the people whom
Coelho is supposed 90 represent Moth
ing quite so inexcusable was ever be
fore heard in the senate chamber Of the
Legislature of Hawaii
Crocodile Tears.
Coelho was playing politics, pure and
simple-or rather impure, and not so
simple as it might have been. He was
making grandstand play for votes.
the votes of the unfortunates in the
leper settlement, and he was not a bit
choice as to his method of going after
them. He tried to make political CAPT
tai out of their misfortunes, and wept
crocodile tears over their lamentable
condition that he might win their ap.
proval and their votes. He disguised
his fellow senators and the gallery, in.
suited President Smith, accused Gov
ernor Frear of crookedness. and init.
mated that the whole administration is
engaged in nefarious practices which
only he had the acumen 10 detect.
Smith Is Insulted.
The Dump Cart Statesman of Maui
got strangle hold on the English Ian.
guage and threw it all around the room
He shook his fist in the face of the
venerable president of the senate and
accused him of having railroaded to
the leper settlement poor wretches who
were not afflicted with disease. lie
pointed an accusing finger upward and
intimated that the Chief Executive of
the Territory was a CRATER. He called
| down anathema upon all who opposed
his wishes. and intimated that there is
a place waiting for the constituencies
wretches who did not look at matters
as he did
Coelho oozes Pathos.
And he wept. Those in the gallery
could actually hear the tears gurgle
down his neck. His voice choked-at
the psychological moment; he oozed
pathos; pity for the unfortunates drip
ped from every pore; his voice ran up
and down the scale like that of music
teacher practising vocal exercises. Then
he would spring from tears to denuncia.
ZION. He thumped the desk with a
heavy fist, threw his books and papers
about, acted as if his great love for his
constituents had overpowered him
Then, without the pause of second, he
would drop into some other artifice of
the elocutionist. He is great orator
the Dumpcart Statesman of Maui. Joe
| Cohen ought to have him on the Or
pheum stage-as a comedian.
1t was all because the senate was
not inclined to allow him to crowd in
a lot of his private measures. Other
senators and entatives-probably
all of them-have in their desks any
where from one to fifty bills prepared
by their friends and loving enemies
which, if they thought it proper to dc
so, they might introduce. But none
of the rest of them has violated the
spirit of the tacit agreement that NJ
other business than that connected
with the amendment of the 0rgani,
Act should be considered.
Indecent Haste. ~.
Coelho, however, with indecent
haste, rushed in the first day of tn,
session four bills, all either directly OF
indirectly for his own benefit. They
may be good bills; as matter of fact
most of the senators think they are
But there was no urgent need of theil
being presented-with the possible ex
cepton of one. But Coelho knows that
his cake in Maui is dough as thing:
stand now, and he was trying to square
himself with his constituents whom he
has disguised. In the course of his
speech he took occasion several times
to declare that he is n Republican
and almost in the same breath he
threatened the Republican member.
that if they did not back him up in
his demands he would make them DO
litical issue at the next election.
Crooked Politics.
And Coelho knew very well that
there was not the ghost of a chance
of his bills passing. Even if they gel
through the senate, they will be killed
in the house-and he knows it. Ii
fact, he told some of the senators
"You vote for these bills up here and
we will let the house kill them.
The trouble arose when Senator
Quinn objected to the senate's acting
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that it could not constitutionally do Sc
because the legislature was called il
special session for particular pur
pose and could not legally consider any
measures eXtraneous to that purpose.
And then Coelho threw his oratorica
fit.
Coelho received some support from
his fellow members, Chillingworth tax
ing the ground that the senate eoult
consider any legislation that it saw
fit the only question being one OF
policy. In the end after the noon re
cess, the senate voted to consider Co
elho's bills, but to shut out any Others
This is simply passing the buck Il
the house, hoping that the lower bod,
will put the knife in the Coelho meas
ure, Maybe il will If il doesn 7, tn,
Governor probably will.
All the nominations made by tn
Governor since the legislature adjourn
ed were confirmed by the senate, N,
opposition being offered TO any o