Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-29
REPRESENTATIVES
have A HOLIDAY
Visit HaleiNa Sunday
As Guests of Fourth
And Fifth

lining. SO the optimists tell us, and
there are compensations even for b.
ing a Legislator. The lawmakers
have a chance once in while to de-
scend from the heights OF oratory TO
earth and have a good time, just as
II they were common clay. That's
what the members OF the House of
Representatives did Saturday after
noon and Sunday after the most
strenuous week of the session hith-
erto
Saturday afternoon, under the
leadership of Generalissimo Alfonso,
chairman of the Military Committee,
the House members piled into line
of automobiles they found waiting
for them at the front entrance TO the
Capitol and were whirled out around
Diamond Head to the Notifications
on the Kaimuki side, where Major
Winslow and his assistants showed
them the battery of huge 12-inch
mortars and explained the working
of the big ordnance.
IL was an object lesson to some of
the Representatives especially those
from the outside districts, who. as
Speaker Holstein said of himself. had
never seen any gun bigger than a
Springfield rife or a rice gun. The
great mortars, which Major Winslow
said have an accurate range of about
eight miles and fire projectile
weighing a thousand pounds. were
loaded and unloaded. turned about
on their carriages, aimed, tilted. and
depressed for the benefit of the Leg
islators, who were thoroughly con-
WINGED that with guns such as those
Iguarding Oahu, Honolulu will never
have anything to fear from an en-
envy. Il told YOU So" remarked Ka-
Milo.
The members went over all the
massive masonry work and all ex-
pressed their astonishmont at what
has been done in so short period
of time.
On the way back to town n visit
was made to Kaplolani Park, at the
solicitation of the Park Superintend'
ent. Superintendent Campbell was
on hand to meet the legislators ant
took them In hand to show then
what is needed to make the parl
even more attractive than It now is
Speaker Holstein and Vice Speaker
Rice were presented each with thu
egg of an emu. II is expected tina
a motion will be made today to la!
them on the table. .
Sunday morning, at the invita-
ton of the members from the Fourth
and Fifth Districts, the Representa-
tives went TO Haleiwa to spend thu
day. A special train carried most o
them, about a dozen members OF thu
party going up In the automobiles
of Bob Shingle and j. NJ. McCand
less. Those who rode with Mr.. Nc
Candless stopped at the Wahiawi
dam on the way up, and Mr.. Nc
Candless explained to them the con
struction of the big engineering
work. For the first time in tw'
years the water was found to b.
nearly up to the spillway. A rise o
four inches would start 1t to running
over. Coming back, the McCandles
and Shingle parties stopped at Cam
+, Leilehua and paid their respects Il
4, Colonel Schuyler.
About l o'clock the party sa
down to most appetizing luncheon
spread on the makai lanai OF the no
tel, with Speaker Holstein at on
end OF the table and Chairman Jacl
Atkinson of the Republican Contra
!. Committee at thes other end. Harr
Won Holt was toastmaster.
When the sharp edge Of appet't
had been somewhat blunted by en-
thusiastic consumption OF what tn
. guests found set before them, Speak
er Holstein was called upon by tn
POSTMASTER. His remarks were alon
the line of what has been accomplis
ed by the House, and he espresso
his qualification at the beneficial lee
islation that has been enacted. Th
J members have shown, he said, tina
they are truly representative of tn
!. whole people of the Territory.
J. Ex-senator ], NJ McCandless FOL
J. lowed Speaker Holstein, stating tina
: when he was in the Senate he sa
alongside OF the present Speaker an
worked with him for the annexatio
) of Hawaii TO the United States. The
were both confident then that anne,
alton would he the best thing fo
the Hawaiian people and the result
have shown that they were RICH
The Hawaiians are far better OFF Il
day than they ever were under I'll
monarchy.
AS to the House of Representative
of the Fifth Legislature. II hi
shown that It is by long odds II
most truly representative branch {
the legislative body and that IL ca
: be depended upon to do the rigf
thing II doesn't need ramrod III
down its back.