Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 129, 29 December 1892 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Ap wa? expfrted the bill aathor- ■ izing a Constitutional couvention wa* killed ye«terday with a majority of seven. The sevent»*en members who favored the bill were well aware of the fact that a new Constitutton . could not be obtained in the way as provided io the bill, but they placed their votes on record ae being 5n favr*r of the principle in- [ volved >n the hill and they undoubtedly represent the j>eopIe at large in their wieh for a new Conetitution. The manner in w hieh the present Constitution was obtained hae never been approved by the people. When Noble Horner stated that the large majority of the peonle i endorsed the new Constitution, he | undoubtedly believvd whathe said, i but he does not st ite the facts. 1 That corruptness in the Government and an intolerable extravan - gance had led the people to wish ; for a change is uudisputed. but the : new Constitution and subsequent government by the Ret‘orm Party was never a part of the bargain, j nor was it an understood move. The feeling against the Gibson faction carefully nursed by the j missionaries waa the wheel whieh i set the whole aft'air in motion, but j the re-action whieh imraediately 1 ghowed itself, and culrainated at the polls in 1S90, was a eign that the heart of the people was not in it. and tbat the masses had simplv been used to further tha individual interests of a few politicians and the dissatisfied missionarv eapilalists who feared that their days of power were ovt r. Where are they now the thirteen who forraed the historical eommittee whieh led the League? Haven’t they split and parted and quarelled over the si»oils and made uu and quarrelled again, and haven’t every one of them showed beyond the shghteat doubt the sordid motives f.»r whieh they joined the conspiracy ? Have we ' not seen sorae of them who were | tbirsting for the gore of Kalakaua cringe on him and fawn and flatter him ? Did not the first Minister of Foreign Atfairs after the revolu- - tion eome out as a King’a man, and was he not conseq iently ecared out of hia office bv thr ats of j*ersonal violence by the brig•nds of that League ? And how many months after was it when the revoluti*»nary Att»»rney-Gen-4tal stood alone against his eolleagnes and create»ia crisi9, whieh resulted in the downfall of the Reform Partv, to gppear a little later on as the full-fledged ehampion of the rights of the m»»narch and the loving brother of the despised kanakaa ? And where are the . rest? Judgeg and uigh officiale who »11 have gained the point tor whieh they fought so bravely, in ■ their mind, all in comf<»rtable offices only occagionally diaturbed in their official slumber when some act cf treason or conspiracy on the part of some former co-conspirator reminds them of the days when . Vtfix neeka were in jeopardy. and they are made to remember that they aro not quite out of the wooda • yet— if anybody ahonkl ehooee to aqueal on them.

The opinion of the Supreme Court, holding that the Queen s signature is not neceesary to the amendment8 to the Constitution, has confirmed everybody who wishes to uphold the monarchy in the belief that & new Constitution is a necesaitv, and what now is wanted is, to discuss the wisest way ie whieh ta obtain it. The Advertiser is rather abusive to this Legislature. It raay not alwavs have suited the Reform i Party or sheet. but we believe that the Assembly has shown some qualifications hardly equalled by any other. The amount ofrot, and hills, and talk, and Cabinets, whieh this Assembly has swallowed gives us the highest possible idea of its digestive powers. and we feel constrained to say that Doctor Troosseau’s late ostrich isn’t in it with them at all. The doctor’s ostrich died a few week’s ago aud upon its stomach i being opened it was found that he I had partaken of about two pounds | of lead bullets, one pound of lead ( staples, swallowed \vith the points downwards a few targets, andabout two miles of fence wire. I That bird (it was declared in the antopsy) did not die from indigestion, but from lead poiaon. We i take tbe doctor’s word for it and j we n<»w recommend heroic measures to be used for the extinction of our ostrich-stomached Legislature. We were rather astonished bv • ! reading Mr. Bush’s editorial in 1 this moraing’s l 'Ka Leo” relating to the Kaneohe crown-lands resolution. While we fully ngree with the honorable gentleman in his sentiments that the Legislature is not a court of justice, uor a plaee for private grievances to find redress or be 5nvestigated we must remind him of the fact that it was he himself who, with a great deal of eclat, introduced the resolution, aud, as the representative for the district in whieh the mentioned crown-Iands are situated, demanded an investigation. We fully admit that Mr. Bush iotroduced the said resolution in I good fiith believing that any I charges of irregularity or fraud could be substantiated. And subsequently perhaps found out that such were not the facts and that he therefore dropped the matter, but we must bold that he had no right to take upon himself such a course after the resolution upon his own m<»tion had heen referrcd to a C»>mmittee of whien he was app*>inted chairman. It w»s his plaiu duty to eall a meetmg of the committee whieh consists of the f»»Uowing men.bers 1 Bush. Ashford, \Valbr.dge, Thurston and the Att»»rney General, «nd let the committee repurt in due time t*> the House. T»> pipeonhole a res>»lutiun of such imp**rtance is to say the least discourteuus to the l<egislature, and the delivering up ■ »>f the papers relating to the matter whieh are the property of tbe I>egialature to a private iudividual laaao remaraable proceeding that it de* serves looxing into. Our attentiou to thia matter waa ' called by reading tbe # San Fr*ncisco Gxaminer of November 25lh, in whieh tbe reeo!utlon ia diacuBsed and mentioned ae heing of momeniooe importance to tbe

good oune *nd political decarity of tbe prwent Mini9ter of Finance, and in whieh an alleged inlemew with Mr. Bush is prinled in whieh he is said to havc accused certain prorninent people, both living and dead, of corrupt pmelieea. Before wo proceed to publish the facts relating to lhis matter we āhall awail Mr. Bush’s action and we have no doubt thal he as soon as possible wili explain his part in the whole business to the satisfaction both of the Legislature aud of his constituent«. Some of our readers have remarked upon the fact that there were no portofolios (Cabinet size) among the Christmas presents whieh we distributed. The rea»on was that we only have four at our disposai, and everyone of the boya wanted one. To prevent undue jealousy. and the spoiling of eaeh olhePa faces or the ehewing of ears, we decided to leave them for New Year, and will then give them to the four youngsters at the top of the class. \ — Patriots aniioua to serve thelr couutry, but only as the head of an exe«itive department, are so numerons now that the country itself is out of sight. When we spoke of a new fishing right for Saint Peter, we were simuly trying to follow Brother Ashford’s eiample in quoting the Bible (probab!y wrongly). We simply meant that our ?*oble friend who has heen for sometime so successful a fisherman on the old grounds would probably desire to obtain the right whieh we assigned to him, and whieh might enahle hini to haul in a new specinien of ulua ofaraoredesirable qualification than those formerlv biting. If the school of uluas steers for new grounds in Kona, eitber because the bait is more terapting or the rocks more solid, we will still trust that our saintly fisherman will not pull up his line and rest, but will catch sometbing better and larger—even if it is less niarketable. The night sessions of the Legislature have nnw started. For years the members have objected to sessions afterdark. The natives, becausa they elaim that at such time the devil (beg pardon. friend Thurston) and his imps (no personality. lriend Lorrin) arearound. and the “haoie raonkevs’' as th« ‘*Bulletin” ealle them, on aeeouni of mosquitos and latedinners. But it has now heen considered necessary to do a little extra work to get through with the bills yet befure the House, and not yet discussed.