The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-03-27
HOUSE ISPLANN|NG !.
| TO get SCALP OF .
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
HoIstein Serves Notice Of intent
II Charges Are Proved
Against Executive
Said To Have Directed Tax De-
partment To ignore Tax
On Automobiles

Proceedings which will amount vir.
tunlly to impeachment will be begun
against Governor Pinkham in the legis-
lature If it is proved, as it is expected
II will be, that he deliberately in-
strueted one branch of the territorial
government 70 disregard a law enacted
by the legislative. -s.E.
A statement to the above effect was
made yesterday by H. l.. Holstein,
speaker bf the lower house, who il
out on the warpath with the avowed
intention Of t'deleting" the Governors
scalp. ~
Speaker Holstein has been informed
4 that il was Governor Lucius Eugene
Pinkham who instructed the territorial
tax department not to collect the auto.
mobile tax provided for by the legis
lAture. an ~, y.
4 dIf Governor Pinkham did that as
! 1 have been informed he did," said
Holstein yesterday, "he ought to be
limpeached. And If Pinkham didn't
issue the order, who else didf Who
else could issue such an order and have
1t obeyedf | ~.
j rUnfortunately, the legislature has
nOL tne power 10 HnpedCH tue uONeIH'
or as the legislatures of the various
States do. The nearest we can come
10 il is to adopt formal resolution
Of want of confidence in the Govern.
or, thus showing the authorities in
Washington, where he is appointed
what we think Of him. And am con
fldent that such vote Of lack of con
1denee will be passed before the enc
Of the session. aN....- .'r s.,
HThe house has already directly
voted lack Of confidence in the Gov
, ernor by instructing the finance com
mittee' 10 strike out from the appro
priation bill the 100000 contingent
fund item. And the legislature as
whole has Indirectly voted lack b
4 confidence in Governor Pinkham by re
fusing to let him spend a penny 0
the $4,000 appropriation for the con
, gressional visit. Heretofore the spend
! ing of the fund has been left to tn
| Secretary of the Territory, But W
have learned something and the legil
latute this session refused to Rllo'
7 Governor Pinkham TO have the hand
I ling Of the money! g.e. ~ gt,
o The speaker added that the 1oci
a head Of the Immigration station ma
been asked by the legislature to fu
s. nish it with information as to whetht
q or not Governor Pinkham fed his FIJI
/, pihos as imihigrnnts or Us INDECENT
g They were fed, Holstein said, out I
d the $4,000 fund appropriated by Il
e Legislature for the care of indigei
9. persons. "a3ut were they indigeI
p persons: or were they 'iIhmigradtsI
y Holstein demands. eff they were II
n migrants, why were they Fed at ii
lie armory instead Of lat the iihniigratic
u statibni And IL they were INDECENT
u why were they fed at the armoryi
to "I have heard 1t stated that tn,
Il. were fed bechuse they had threaten,
n TO leave the national guard. If that
a so, is, it true that the national qua
Is bolstered up by a lot of indigo
ID Filipinos who refuse TO stay with
or unless they IRE fed at public expens
OF "These are questions the answers
which / want to know. And I W
know the answers, too, Before I 3
| through. 1t looks to me as If the
were IA niger in the woodpile, and
intend to smoke him out" ~