Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-15
EXPULSION Of
kUPIHEA FROM
HOUSE DEMANDED
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held and determined by the House OF
Representatives that practically al OF
the charges made by the said Ashford
against the said kupihea were true;
! And whereas. the said charges so
made and so found to he true show
! that the said D, NJ kupihea is moral
ly wholly unfit to sit as member OF
the House of Representatives Of the
Territory of Hawaii;
| And whereas. al the time Of intro.
ducing said resolution asking for said
| investigation the said kupihea knew
that practically all of the charges
made by the said Ashford were true;
! And whereas, the said kupihea in
/ introducing said resolution and hay-
ing said investigation made. knew
! that the said charges so made by the
said Ashford would he found to be
true in the event said investigation
was fully and fairly conducted. and
by so requiring said investigation did
abuse the process Of this house;
Now therefore, he it resolved by
the House of Representatives of the
Territory of Hawaii, as follows, to-
wit:
I'D That the said d: NJ. kupihea
is morally wholly unfit to act as a
member of the House of Representa-
tives of the Territory of Hawaii
"(2l That the said d. NJ. Kupihea
has abused his rights and privileges
as member of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes in the matter of said in.
vestigation. . -..
"(3) That the said D, VI. Kupihea be
and he is hereby expelled from mem
bership i'm this house, and that the
seat held by him is hereby declared
to be vacant.
"W. T. RAWLlNS,
Representative, Fourth District"
kupihea objects.
When Rawlins arose to introduce
the measure, Kupihea contested and
attempted to prevent the ntroduc..
tion. The chair, overrulsd him and
the resolution was presented Kupi'
hea took the floor and denounced the
majority of the judiciary. committee,
asserting that its report was influ'
enced by newspaper comment,
He accused Circuit Judge Ashford,
who made the original charges
against Kupihea, of debauching more
than one Hawaiian girl In this COM
munity," as he expressed it.
. At different intervals during Kupi-
hea's talk Representatives Watkins,
Coney and RawIins interrupted and
forced a ruling from the chair
against Kupihea's attempt at person
alities. Watkins and .Rawlins arose
to demand ruling when Kupihea
made the personal charges against
the circuit Judge, and Coney arose on
"a point of order when Kupihea at
tempted to show that because he is
Hawaiian he is unfairly treated.
Rawlins remarked that he would
not object. so strenuously to Kupf-
hea's attempt at personalities were
it, not for the alleged fact that kupi-
hea'st speech was prepared by some
one else. 1t was the first speech Ku-
pihea had made in English and he
appeared to members to have diff
Guilty In delivering it. 1t was report
ed that an attorney had prepared 1t.
That Kupihea got more of an in
vestigation from the judiciary COM
mittee than he had expected was the
comment today when the Kalihi rep
resentative said he had not asked
the committee in his resolution to
investigate the juvenile court and
that his guardianship of his daughter
many years ago should not be con-
sidered at this time.