Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 132, 4 January 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Hoi. J. E. B .1 ~ri introdaced a vote of want : c nmlenee in the Calti. ct it 1:4'» o'clcxk thi~ afOrnoon. “Wait tiII tne eionei roll by—Jenny!' “Wi. r-is he?” Tlie Advcrt.ser has g"t int > oue of its whining ui<kr1s again. Vesterday Ihe inorniug ne\vs fabricator cotuplained, because it looked as if the Queen in.el some leg.il adviser besides the .attorney Geoeral, and this morning it is wurrying, because the Appropriation Uiil hns not yet heen signed. W'e have already discussed the reasons \vhy Her Majesty did uot sign the Immigration Act, and if the Altorney General did advise Iler to sign it, we believe that h's advice \vas bad, and that the Queen was wise in not follo\ving it. It is perfect baby-talk to say that the Queen must f >Uow all advice of Her Cabinet or ef Her Attorney-(xeneral. Let us imagine that one of Her Ministers advised Her to abdic:cte. and have a Repuhlie established, d >es the Advertiser mean to assert that it would be Her duty to follo\v such advice? 0r let us suppose that Her Attorney-General advised Her to fire out the Legislature :>nd promulgate a new Constitution, wou!d the philoeophieal editor seriously contend that such advice should be blindly foliowed ? The Sovereign is the essential part in a monarchical government, and it is as mueh the duty of that sovereign to watch over his nghts and interest in the government, as it j is tlie right ofthe people to see that j their rights are not encroached on. By refusing to acknowledge that Artiele *3 has heeome a part of the Constitution, as long as i has not reftived Her signature, the Queen is only defending Her rights against an attempt to infringe on 1 them—even if such attempt is haekeel by Her Ministers and tlie Supreme Judiciary. The Appn>priation Bill has beeu signed by the Queen, and the Advertiser ean feel happy again. We ] were not surpnsed that the Bill ' was not signed off-haud by the Queen. lt is the most important law presented to Her, and a very lengthy one. On the face of it, it | seems to be a law impossib)e to I carry out. as the araounts appropriated far exceed the revenues estimated by the Ministry. It is all well and good to say that the Cahinet heare the responsibility for i the actions of the Sovereign, but. | we have seen s* many changes in Cahinets lately, that it is probubly as well to go slow in allowing bills to iH-oome law, until it apnears that the Government is perfectly solid and to carry out the laws for the next period. It was the Advert : ser ond the Keform cn>wd. whieh, eome months *go, kept the otficia!s waiting for their money for a eouple of weeks, and yet said that that was ali right as long as “the principle” j was up held. Xow as “the prineiple" (i. e. gett:ng a Reform Ministry) has heen upheld, it is all wrong to let tkem wait a few day» for their pay— but such has always heen the logic of the ; Advertiaer and its edltor.

From Minister Mark's rather , inconsequentiaI reply to Ashford's questions on Saturday. we glean that the hyphenated superannuated tooth puller who mierepre*ents us iu Boeton, and f*rgets to represent us at Washington, acted on his own responsibility, and disobeyed the exprt-ss iustructions of the, then Minister of Foreigu Affairs, Sam. Parker, in not immediately getting official recognition ofFrank Pratt as Hawaiian Consul at San Francisco. His excise was that the Araeriean Foreign Oifice had done him one cost!y aet of courtesy recently, in granting rec >gnition to the femporary Vice-Consul so that he couldn’t ask ’em to see him so soou again. Possib!y since the appropriation for ; ssistance to the Minister had heen abolished, he couldn’t afford any extra charges or expenses involved. Or possibly strained relations exist between the bysicle-peddler and the U. S. Foreign Office. Anyway, we suppose Boston i will be still to the front, as the Cabinet have shown no indication I of choosing a snccessor. although Kis High and Mighty Excellency, the Hon. General A. S. Hartwell | comes out strong!y as an appiicant , in his bl-weekly subsidized ’Aphj white dite organ. Theee Bostonians love one another like cats do dogs, when there is only one sack between two, and one, only ean get it. Some uncomfortable rnmors are heard in regard to another passport scandal in the Custom House. The matter, it is said, is under an investigation whieh is conducted by a private individual not distantly related to the Minister of I Finance. — Snch arrangement would be a new departure, and certainly does not show that His Excellency possesses great confidence in the head of the Customs Bureau, \vhose duty, we should ihiuk, it would be to eon- ! duct such investigation. As the Board of Health has threatened to quarantine the investigators if they visit thequarantine Station before Frid i3 r , the prospect is that they will postpone j their work till then. i The second anniversary of the death of Kaiakana is drawing near and still the monuraent funds are i drawing interest and no monu- ! ment is spoken of. It wou!d be interesting for the subscriher3 to the fund to hear ; something about the mtentions of the committee. and also about the mnney aud the interest, but it seems hopeless to stir the matter up any more. We hope the eommittee is not dead, but only sleepeth. There seems no necessity for the increase in the pay of the representatives t > judge at Ieast from the wealth lately exhibited by some of them. The Representative from Kona the other day brought in a resolution demanding that all the laws of tbis session sbou!d be published , in the “Hhwaiian Gazette,the “Kookoa,” and the “Ka Leo,” instead of ! as now m the “Boll#tin” acd Ho- ' lomca. The reason for his resoln-

tion was. he ?aid, that the tw>> last named paper? were not read by anybody while the first mentioned went all over the country. We extend our pympathv to the thre« paper,- mentioned, because they ain’t in it. but the truth ia that they have beo so fossi'ized that it is onlv in the Kona backwoods that īhey ean be found—and there there is n>)b**dy to read them. The House promptly returned the res»lution to the introducer who ean keep it as a certiticate ot being a ehamoion prevaric»tor if he needs any raore than that already earned by hiiu during the two Iast ses sions. Mr. Ashford's non-political dinner inust have been the quintessence of f»rgivenss and goodwill to all. We are glad that hestarted the new year in such a frame of raind. Present. were Ashf>rd, Baldwin and Cornwt.ll (the A. B. C. of Hawaiian poliliea), besides Minister Geo. Wilcox. Robert Wilcox, Walbridge, Bush, Colburn and Henry Castle. As eoon as the last had said, ‘•Gesegnete Mahlzeit,” he hurried home and wrote a bi!mus editorial on Ashford’s amendment to the Registration Bill; while yesterday Thurston and Sraith called Ashford all the pet names wilhin their reach —probably, because they had had no invitations. The “Advertiser” this morning has only borrowed our noet instead of followmg its usual tactics of copying him.