Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 139, 13 January 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

TL< ' ibinet La? been voted out like one of its predecess >rs v on a sec »ud vote of want ol' confidence. No re.tsuns were given in the res'">lution a<;cor<Jmg to tbe prece<Jent eet in voting out the Nawahi Cabinet. It is a inatter to be regretled that the Cabinet had to go. Fersonally, they were good eenaihle nien. When they were first selected. it was honest!y done to etiect a lasting ending of the alleged grievances of the Keform Party, and these four were ch<>sen as men who, while possessing the confidence of that section of the peo|de, would not be offensively partisan in their actions. and be independent enough to resist all prt-ssure brought to bear on them to be eo. Unfortunate!y this was not found to be the casein practice, and tlie result culminated in their being voted out yesterday. It is a matter of deep regret that in order to effect t!ieir defeat po!iticians as a uieasure of pohcy chose t > urge the passageof suoh miq><itous and ruinous nieasures as the Lottery Bi!l with a view of getiing tbeiu to resign not seeing thal their gnp on olHee was so tenacious that nothing short of a direct vote of { want ol' confidence would make theiu Iooseu it. Now however that the}' are out, it is to be hoped that the Lottery Kill, as tfae Advertiser predicts, will be allowed to die a natural death. and th it this shameful uieasure will be forever cast into that oblivion froai whieh it never should have heen brought forth. We understand that the new Cabinet wili bec )nservativeenough to satisfy even the most bitter of the now defunct Keform Partj, aml yet so patriotio and straightforward as to be au object ol ns{)ect to, and assistance from the most extreme of the shattered Liberal wing ofthe Nalional Refonu Party. And such should always be the case. No Cabinet should exist whieh is not, at least, respected by every considerable polilieal party existing in the nation. The new C.ibmet appointed by Htr Majesty are: i HON. 8AMUEL PAKKEK, Minister of Foreigu Affairs. HON. W. H. eOKNWELL. Minister of Emanee. MR. J. F eOLEUKN, Ministcr of the Interior » HON. A. P. PETERSON, Att'>niey-Geiieral. • The new > inieters took their seats iu thc House during a storiu of applause from the Iarge audienoe whieh had gathered to greet them. The members of the Ref>rra Party »ere eonspicuou8 by their absence —pr bably trying to get rid of the bad cold whieh they caught iu yesterdays cold suap. In y»8tecdar’e iasue we point«d ont t{te immediate eaoae fur the down-fall of the so-called Wilcox mini#try. Ther« were Mveral otber important reaeons whj ihe Cabinet shoold be, and waa retired

frotn offic«. It wa* undoubtedly a minority ministry as far as the country was concerned: it wa» comt>*'~ed solely of men ffom the Heform Purty whieh virtually was extinvt in 1>!HX and it began ils career by arr gating to the Ministtrs, a t*o.ver over ihe soverc:gn whieh no Cabiuet —not even the Thurston Cabinet —had attempted yet. If we are correctly informed Cabinet held its couucils without iler Majesty being i preseut. and from whieh īhey sent to her their dictum with a quotation from the Coustitutionordering her to submit to iiieh dictum. Such pn.ceeding is unheMrd of in any constit«tional monarchy where the sovereigu aiways presides ex.>fficio at the CouuciI of State, either personally or by represeutativeand castslhedeciding vote if an equal division between the Councillors should happen The precedent whieh the late Cabinet tried to establish met with a decided disapproval even from some of their friends who believe in the preservation of the monarchy and the royal prerogatlve. The late Ministry did not show themselves in possession of a very great executive ability. The patcbing «p of bills onee passed in the most awkward manner amply showed that ulthough the Mmister uf Pinanee might have I been successful in runmng a plan- ; tation agei.cy the running of the G>vernment machinery was a little to o mu e h fo r hi m. The way that he got the money for roads mixed up between Section 1 and Section 2 of the appropnation bill would have made a sick cat laugh, and anv Auditor-General tired, and the amending of Ihe Chmese Imraigration Act with a Sectioa 10a„ then Section 10b., made everybody fear that if the Cabinet was not hoisted out, they would shortly reach Section 10y. Numernis other reasons could 1 be mentioned whv the Cabinet i deserved o«sting, but we haven’t space n. r the weil-gr«*onied North 1 Pacific bulli>ck’s wind for alengthy funeral sermon. The Hefonn Party is annihilated aod it is the duty of Her Majesty’s new Miuisters to let it remain so. The way to obtiin that object is to avoid all atteoi(itsatco.npromising with members of that p-rty by patronage m any ahape or manner, as has been done before, and then by a v:g>rous campaign g.iin a victory at the polls iu 1894 —and f<>r that purp<ise ail petty diff»rences in minor political sentiments ; shonld give waytothe eonnoon cause. United we stand, divided we w.il fall. One thing the friends of the iate Cabiuet ean congratulate themselves on. If their henehman in working on the members had not taken almo«t by force a member into the Houee while be wai intoxicated. U> vote as he thought against tbat Lottery Bill, that bi!l would never bare p«aaed, and the Ministrv would have heen spared the insult of being defe*ted on a reeolotion of want of confidence brought in by tbe ume merober. I

It Ī3 rumoure«i that if the member- of the Fort Str“et (?) office had left the late Ministry aloue, no vote of waotof confidence would ever bave heen brought in again?t ihem, but thcy interfered w.th what vr.-is goi«.g on we!l enough. with the usual re3ult o! up6*-ttmg everything in the vain attempt to ?at;sfy the;r in~at;ab!e greed. The ‘*Adverti9er” auddenly fevls virtuoue, be(.ause as it claims the Reform Party did not commit I the crime of bribing Legis!at >rs. 1We shou!d witb the greate«t j pleasure g've ihe Ktforin organ and party cn-d'.t f»r h tving been so g»od if vve only could. aad tell the truth at the same time. % The truthful paper elaime that the Reforui Party could have bought vot. s all the way from $50 to a calab;»sh of poi. If that is ihe c.»se the leid>*rs of the Centr»l Union Party should censure its managers for extrava g a n e e. Althaugh the “Advertiser” ckims that its assertion that no biiberv was attemptfd cannot be gainsaid we have got to do it. A note was sent to a Kepresentative fn»m Hawaii ahortly before the vote vvas taken offering him $300, if he would supp«>rt tlie Ministry. The note vvas not answered, but caref 1 11y preserved and is ready for the inspection of the editor of the morning liar if he will eall at our olliee. A Representative from Honolula was invited upstairs in theGovernment building to an office of one of the highegt officials of the Kingd«»m, and there offered 1200, if he would support the Cab:net. A Xr»ble from Hawaii received an offer (ftgure to be settled afterwards) if he would break his pledge to the opix»9ition. This offt-r w.i9 made by an ex-official very conspicuous in politics during this session. lf these attempts at bribery i fai!ed it was. le-eaiiae the merabers of the Leg'shit ire at Iast had eome to th»-ir 9»ns~9 and preferred to fu!til the deraands of their people to p«>cket the filthy Iucre thrown around in the m<>8t unblushing manner bv the willing too!s of such pret**nding Christians as NobIe Ba!dwi 11 and Representative Smith. The finale «>f the 1SS8 session was the expulsion «>f s«me bribetakers fr«>m the Assembly—a pr »per fii«ale to the 1892 session would bc th- expulsion of some of the briv*g ver- in trie House and t>e prosec iti n of s >rae of them ' d «wn t >wp. 1 Even tn»- Amateur cr>»pj«ed out as a i««rticii«»i andtr edt> persuade one of the represent iti ves to supp> rt the Cibinet —vt«j sup{v>§e on account «>f aloha f>r him. The plaee selecteil f«»r the o»nference was the m«>st d sagreeable and m«>9t necess «rv annei U» the Goverment buitding and extremely appropriale f.«r the malodoroue basines8. Representative White in hi» uflual unconcerned way interrupted the conference and disturbed the Amateur’s little scbeme who found | it very icy-co!d indeed. '

One of the pr>'miner.t member? 1 of the oonsular corpe vra< fetched up to the assembly bv the wife of a j verv high olhoial to?ee if any of the : membera could be induced to Iisten the goiden note? o:‘ the Oenuan N.‘ - * showed an unuaual laek '>f mu»ical a: preoiation and ref «ed to en<N>re ihe ConsuIar perforraanoe of the other Jay. They «ay that it wasadding insntt to injury t-> i>e boisted oit by a re»dution intr«.>duc-d by Representative J. N Kapahu. 'Ve think that it i» the lir»t »how of statesraat »hip exhib;te-i by the raember from Kau. It was fortunate that the resolution was »o short otherwise tne mend>er might have got "tired ? ' 1 tiniehing readiog it. The tremendons applause whieh greeted the result of the vote ehowed the seutiraents of the people of Honolulu. They don’l want anv raissionarv in theirs. Wheo are trr going to begin refusing renewals nfcrown-land lea»- » to the men who opposed the »o-cal!ed Wilcox Cahinet? I*erhaps S;r Rog-'r de Uouillon Gray ain’t quite reudy yet. The Waikiki kahunas are lolos—that brokeu chair settled the busines». The Tiscr says that if the Cabinet had tired the Marshal out he would have heen out and they w#uld have heen in. We beg to diffNr f->r onee with the reasoning of the learned ed;t<'r. lf the late mimstry had attempted to oust the Marshal they .would simply have heen out so mueh earlier and be would still bave heen in. Tlie “Bulletin” calls the Editor of thia paper a duraray, because it ie alleged that he does n>t write himself all that appears in our paper. We believe that the Editor of the evening-paper i? in the aaine b >x, but we never eall him a dummy. We adrait that wed->notknow what a swa8h-buckler is. though we supp>*?e that it is soraething awful!y bid, but we honestly l>elieve that if the alieged conductor of the Enghsh part of this paper is such a creature as th« “Bulletin” cdl« him that the writer of the inteiligent editoria!s tuen in that paj>er belongs to the saraeZ >ult>g eal C;ass.order. ftmily, yes. even number and variety. This paper needs not defend N'ohie Pet»:rson. He ean take care of himself, and we expect lhat bef>re raany hours the “Bul:etin” will see that his political career neither is termioated nor in the least lhreateued by its bilious attack. There seems lo be some jeaIousy helween* the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and the Central Union HoteL When there is a performanee going on in ihe latter its managers object to the Band playing at the first named ealahliahment to the detriment of it« basiness and the annoyanee of ihe people. When the Cenlral Union waa built oppo«ite the Hotel the eaintly flock must * have known what to expect and w«

eonsider it a pieoe of arrv>cance and impertinence on their part to inlerfere with other people’a p! «ure and on the plea that it disturt ' their pleasure and bas;neee. Wo advise the Royai Hawaiian Hotel to retaliate and ?t >p the ringintr of bells. etc., a? interfenng with the reet and coaiIort of ita gaeetJ».