The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-27
POI STATESMEN
WERE VERY
WROTH
Opera Bouffe Has One
More Legislative
Innings.

The Territorial Senate quashed two
showing that it was not going to be |
misled by any of the senile measures |
fathered by the statesman from Maui. |
Senate Bin No. 2, which provided that
ployed as teachers in the schools of the
Territory, was dropped to oblivion. The |
Committee on Education, to which the |
measure was referred, rendered re-
port finding that the bill was impracti-
cable at the present. time, introducing /
in its stead substitute bill that pro- |
vides representation for each island on
the Board of Commissioners of Public |
Instruction.
The Judiciary Committee of the Sem
ate reported on the other Coelho bill, |
providing for bail commissioners in the
judicial districts of the Territory The
committee found that the measure
would limit the legitimate discretion
of the courts and would tend to create
abuses and be directly contrary to the
best interests of the public. The report
of the committee was adopted, and that
made quash number two for the states
man from Maui.
Coelho was heard from again during
the discussion as to the disposition of
the substitute to his schoelleachers
bill. Senator Knudsen made obser- !
walton about wasting time, and Coelho !
shouted an exception to what he term
ed the ''personal remarks of the SEN
.ator from Kauai. Knudsen disclaimed
any intention of hurting the dignity of
the statesman from Maui, and the SEN
ate smiled. In fact, there is a we'll
grounded impression in the Senate that
Coelho is earning more than his salary
he can always be depended on for a
few handsprings when the proceedings
become dull.
How does Hawaiian eat poi? That
was the great question of the day in
the House of Representatives yester
day, when Representative Like de-
nounced the pictures taken by R. K. |
BONNIE at the Lunalilo Home as carl
.catures on Hawaiian customs and some
thing which should be suppressed. With
quaver in his voice, the Honorable |
member from the Fifth, and a Demo |
cratic member at that, related the
shameful story of how the BONNIE pic
lures showed Hawaiian man stripped
to the waist, such thing never having
been seen by him since he was boy. |
The horror of the thing impressed |
itself on others of the members, one
of whom wanted to rush through a
law forbidding the taking of pictures
of poi-eating and have it passed i'll time
to prevent Mr.. BONNIE from " skipping
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he had. Both Rice and Coney tried to
mollify the more rabid members into
persuading them that the fault of Mr..
Bonine was an uninsentional one. A
resolution was passed, however, asking
him to stop showing the picture and to
destroy the film and Kaniho wanted to
know if this would stop the showing of
such pictures on the mainland.
No one mentioned the fact that the
pictures had been exhibited all over the
Islands and applauded by Hawaiians
wherever shown, nor that the principal
applause at the exhibition on Thurs |
day night had been from the Hawaiians
present, nor that the picture was taken
of two well-known old Hawaiians at
the Lunalilo Home, people who ate the
poi for the express purpose of showing |
how it was done. Neither did any |
legislator suggest bill to provide free !
forks for Hawaiians so that they should |
stop eating POI with their fingers. 1t |
is being commented on also that the |
members had to wait for a free show |
before they knew what pictures MIR. |
BONNIE was taking. The whole affair,
in fact, was along the lines of the |
periodical protests by Hibernian So
cieties against the stage Irishmen; by |
Teutonic societies against the popular |
presentation of Dutch characters, and |
by other peoples against other things
neither conceived nor presented IN
malice
The Hawaiian members of the House |
were verv much in earnest in the mat
ter, however, and it is stated that the
appropriation for the Promotion Com |
mittee is in danger and that there was
talk early yesterday of having the SEN
ate return the bill appropriating money
for the Hawaiian exhibit at the Seattle
Exposition in order that the indignant
House might jump on it and stamp it
to death.
This was one of the features of the |
House proceedings yesterday, proceed
ings that differed from the first SIX
days of the session in that the members
INDUCED in their first real debate and
division on a bill The matter of con
tention was sheldon s bill to empower
a Judge to appoint counsel under pay
(Contipued en- Page Two.)