The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-05
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CONTINUED From rage Une,1
that. had It been made on the floor of
almost any other legislative assembly,
would have resulted in the ignomini0ns
expulsion of the speaker. II was an in
suit to the senate, TO the legislature, to
the government, and to the people whom
Coelbo is supposed to represent. Moth
ing quite so iBexeusable was ever be-
fore heard in the senate chamber Of the
legislature Of Hawaii.
Crocodile Tears.
CoeIho was playing politics, pure and
simple-or rather. impure, and not so
simple as it might have been. He was
making a grandstand play for votes,
the votes of the nBfortunates in the
leper settlement, and he was not a bit
choice as to his method of going after
them. He tried TO make political capi-
tai out of their misfortunes, and wept
crocodile tears over their lamentable
condition that he might win their APP
prevail 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 to detect.
Smith Is Insulted
The Dump Cart Statesman Of Maui
got a 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. He
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
place waiting for the constituencies
wretehes who did not look at matters
as he did
Coelho Oozes Pathos.
And he wept. Those in the gallery
could actually hear the tears gurgie
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
he would spring from tears to denuncia-
ton. He tbumped the desk with a
heavy fst. threw his books and papers
about, acted as if his great love for his
constituents had overpowered him.
Then, without the pause of a second, he
would drop into some other artifce of
the elocutionist. He is a great orator,
the Dumpeart Statesman of Maui. Joe
80, Il a. Or.
pheum stage-as a comedian.
1t was all because the senate was
not inclined to allow him to crowd in
lot of his private measures. Other
senators and representatives. 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 do
so, they might introduce. But none
of the rest of them has violated the
spirit of the tacit agreement that no
other business than that connected
with the amendment of the Organic
Act should be considered.
Indecent Haste.
Goelho, however, with indecent
haste, rushed in the first day of the
session four bills, all either directly OF
indirectly for his own benefit. They
may be good bills; as a matter of fact
most of the senators think they are
But there was no urgent need of then
being presented-with the possible ex
ception 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 ht
has disguised. In the course of hil
speech he took occasion several times
to declare that he is a Republican
and almost in the same breath h,
threatened the Republican member
that if they did not back him up il
his demands he would make them po
litieal issue at the next election.
Crooked Politics.
And Coelho knew very well tina
there was not the ghost of a chance
of his bills passing. Even if they ge
through the senate, they will be kille,
in the house-and he knows it. Il
fact, he told some of the senators
''you vote for these bills up here an,
we will let the house kill them.
The trouble aross when Senate
Quinn objected to the senate s actIn
at ali on Coelho s bills, on the groun,
that it could not constitutionally do s
because the legislature was called il
special session for a particular pun
pose and could not legally consider an
measures extraneous TO that purpose
And then Coelho threw his oratorica
fit.
Coelho received some support fror
his fellow members, Chillingworth TAX
ing the ground that the senate eoul
consider any legislation that it SAY
fit. the only question being one o
policy. In the end. after the noon re
cess, the senate voted TO consider &C
eIho s bills, but to shut out any other:
This IS simply passing the buck t
fhe house, hoping that the lower bod
will put the knife in the Coelho meas
ure. Maybe it will. If it doesn t, 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
them.
sENATE-MORNIN