The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-04-08

Nenticmcn OF tne mouse OF hepTe-
sentativcs; Actions, not words, deter
mine the conduct and the sincerity Of
men in the affairs Of lifo. This Is a
government by the people acting
through the representatives Of ma:
jority Of the people. Results can not
be had except by majority, and in
the house Of representatives a majority
being responsible, should have full
power and should exercise that power;
otherwise the majority is inefficient and
does not perform its function. The Of
fee Of the minority is to put the ma
jofity on its good behavior, advocating
in good faith. the policies which it pro-
fesses, ever ready to take advantage
Of the mistakes of the majority party,
and appeal to the country for its vim
dieatiop.
"From time to time heretofore the
majority has become the minority, as
in the present case, and from time to
time hereafter the majority will become
the minority. The country believes
that the Republican party has ma
jority of forty-four in the house Of rep
resentatives at this time, yet such is
not the case.
House Has New Majority.
"The present Speaker of the house
has to the best of his ability and iulg-
ment eooperated with the Republican
party, and so far in the history of this
congress the Republican party in the
house has been enabled by very small
majority, when the test came, to legis-
late in conformity with the policies and
the platform of the Republican party.
Such action, of course, begot criticism
which the Speaker does not deprecate-
on tho part of the minority party.
"The Speaker can not be unmindful
of the fact, as evidenced by three pre-
vious elections to the speakership, that
in the past he has enjoyed the conf
depce of the Republican party of the
country and of the Republican members
of the house, but the assault upon the
Speaker of the house by the minority,
supplemented by the efforts of the So
called insurgents, shows that the Demo-
cratic minority, aided by a number of
so-called insurgents, constituting fiftscn
per cent of the majority party in the
house, is now in the majority, and that
the Speaker of the house is not in har-
mony with the actual majority of the
house, as evidenced by the vote just
taken.
"There are two coures open for the
| Speaker to pursue: One is to resign and
permit the new combination, of Demo
Gratis and insurgents to choose Speak
er in harmony with its acts and pur-
poses The other is for that combina-
ton to declare vacancy in the office
of Speaker and proceed to the election
of a new Speaker.
Declines to Resign.
CATER consideration, at this state of
| the session of the house, with much of
important legislation pending involving
| the pledges of the Republican platform
and their capitalization into law, be-
lieving that his resignation might con-
sumo weeks of time in the reorganiza-
tion of the house, the Speaker, being in
harmony with Republican policies and
DESTROYS of carrying them out, declines
by his own motion to precipitate con-
| test upon the house in the election of q
new Speakers contest that might
\ greatly endanger the final passage of all
legislation necessary to redeem Repub-
liean pledges and fulfill Republican
promises.
This is one-reason why the Speaker
does not resign at once, and another
reason is this: In the Judgment of the
present Speaker a resignation is in and
of itself confession of weakness or
mistake or an apology for past actions.
The Speaker is not conscious of having
done any political wrong. The same
rules are in force in this house that
have been in force for two decades, The
| Speaker has construed the rules as he