Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 120, 15 December 1892 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Acting on the eugge8tions of the Holomoa, the Cabinet has advised Her Majesty to exerciee Her prerogative and veto the bill relating to the working hours of the government officiale. We compliraent the Cabinet for having killed a measure whieh eouhl be of no benefit to the country and would have heeome a dead letter ou the statute books. It is also worthy of comment that Her Majesty s»Iely acted upOn the advice of Her Cabinet kaving to Her res{x>nsible Minieters tbe decision in reg.trd to the merits of the bill, although we shall always insist in that il is the right as well the dutv of the sovcreign to exercise the veto, even aga»r st the advice of Her Ministers. whenever it to Uer judgment seems well to do so. There »eemed to be a reluctance on the part of the Cabinet this morning in answenug Noble Horner*8 question whether it was bv its advice that the veto was exercised We cannot for a minule believe that the Ministers would ahirk from openly announcing and defending the poeition taken by tbem. Perhaps when the roatter eomee before the Houae nexl Tueeday a full explauation will be given.

The Horner's bankmg bill has heen diseussed during the day in Committee of the W hole with Rep. Waipuilani as Chairman. Aswego to press the ouīlook is that a very light vote will be cast, probably leaving the final issue to be decided by the vote of Fresideat Walker. There are no reasona why the bill shou!d not pass its second reading. It wouid give a showing of the strength »>f the Cabinet whieh. for political grounds, it mav be verv desirable to obtain nuw. The bill stands tu-day before the Honse raore as a measure to decide what confidence the | Legislature has in the policy of the Cabinet than as a measure to decide on the merits of the bill whieh ean be discussed later on. It is surprising that with all the talk in ?nd out of the Legislature about the necessitv ofopeuing new industries and developing the resources of the country that no bill relatiug to distilling of aleohol has been brought forward in this session. The aleohol whieh is annually imported to the United States from Europe amounts to a very large sum and if a modified treaty is obtained by our government the prospects are that a large portion of the aleohol imported for meehanieal and medicinal purposes cou!d l>e manufactured here and expurted. The Kiawe bean is one of the very best fruits from whieh to produce aleohol, and so are. in a lesser degree, sweet potato and pineapple. The algeroba is the eaeiest i cultivated plant on the windward eide of the Islands and the eheapness of its production and the high percentage of the aleohol to be distilled frorn the bean would make the cultivation of it one of the most remunerative busine»ses here. The Island of Madeira has largely gone into the distilling of aleohol from sweet potatoes and the exports and revenue of that Ieland now far exceeds what was gained during the palmieel days of the wine-production in that sunny elime. Sweet potatoes in these Islands will grow nearly everywhere and a large field for homesteads and farms would be opened. The prospects are at present that the very large increase in the growing of pineapples will result in the overstocking of available markets, and the necessary consequence will be a drflp in the price and in the export, but with au aleohol distiliery there would be a market nght here for unlimited frutts. Sentiment ought to play no role in tbe cousideration of a law allowing distilleries. The aleohol wouhi be manufactured for meehanieal purposes and exp<">ri only, and it is safe to predicl that the exposts of the country would reach figures even surpassing anything we have seen in the b«st days of eugar. W» hope that this Legislature will not go,home before eome iaw h«s been passed to this effect. The ever energetic Mareden who is on the so-called temperance Commiiiee ought to look m to the advantagea and feasibility of eaeh 11 measure.

We were sorrr to see lhat the Hamaka* Railroad project agam has heen strangled. Either laok of acquaintance with the district in question, or a pecnliar shortaightedness. made ihe Reform Partj rote against the hill. We ar« loath to b«lieve that anv petty feeliug of jealousy or fear of seeing somebodv else aucceed was the secret rea*on of the action of the fore’gn members whom Mr. Horner very properlv stigmatized aa old fogies.” When a hill or a resolution or any matter is referred to a eoinmittee of the Legislature il :s only eommon courtesy for such eommittee to rejx>rt to the House. e have been waiting for months now for the report from the Judiciary Committee relating to the alleged hypnotizing and spiriting away of little Kanoa. The resolution demanding an investigation was brought in with great eclat by the venerable member from Koolaupoko, was advocited by the member from Koloa, and was referred by a vote of the Reform Party to the Judici»ry Committee. and since then the anxious puhlie haa been waiting for an explanation of the terrible and mystenous case, but / the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. W. 0. Smith, is dumb as an oyster and only opens his mouth whri he puts in a new stic*c of hiā favorite chewing gura. We eall upon Holy Ned stir up the comniittee. and obt-iin a ehanee to prove bet\ire it thf as§ertions whieh he made at the time. The“voice in very 9mallcapitals” ia etill engaged in its congenial task of casting, squid-like. its loathsome and self-engendered filth on everything around. to cover up its own tracks, in the vain hope of retaliating on and, if possible diacovering the personality of the writer who has so deftly administered the the pin-pricks whieh have, buret the inflated gas-bags labelled pohtical consistency, moral purity, straightforward honestv. religious slncerity, etc., whieh the responsible and irreponaihle scribblers aud hirelings shad fondly hoped would wafl them into respect, plaee, or pi.wer. “Let the galied jade winee, our withers are unwrung.” One drunken sailor apparently, let alone one thousand ; has been enough to corrupt not the progeny. but the religious editor’a own Christianity, morals, and manliuess. The “Ka Leo” seems to take a great interest in the person named Cook who hai been retained here for a few days at the request of the authorities in San Francisco. Although the party named has admitted that his name is Cook, the irresponsible kid whom tho •aintly sheet picked up after he was poured out from the “Libfral” for throwing mud persists in calling him Watsonand represen ts him to be one of the tourists for whom Thurston eo fervently is longing. The bomb-manufacturing touri«t who attends to the Honorable Jno. E. Bush*s printed sewerage wipe haa evidently great sympathy for the said Cook. When does the “tourist” act he hae the advantage over others ae he suspends conforming with the passport law and forgete to mention his departuree or arrivals to tbe proper aoihoiiiiee. We have no doubt that it ia the

wisest course for him tV porsue taking into consideratioy the intereet ihe Poliee in di£Tenlnt p!aces might feel in him. Representativo aiwulam the other day that sin/> Thurston s departure there were / o eomjvtent members of the Pub)F Lands Com« mittee. As the ho/*rable gentleman is the Chairn»n of the said it is t>sing to learn that he has fin/ly arrived at a sound eoneluaiou ī~ The Advertfcr clairas lhat Mr. W. L. Hopper. in an interview in San Francisc/with s-mie reporter *tated th ;t /all Americans here were satiS$M with tbe United States Representative to Hawaii. We fullv Viieve thal Mr. Hopper did sav so. Every Araerican belongii to his clique considers himseli>-;dl the Americans ofthe«e Island/ Tltf ex-tax a6sessor has tako» out an injunction againet the pre#cut Assessor-in-chief to pre- j ve»t him from collecting taxis and dfing other business of the otfice. number of people are now /opiug ihat the court will gran; the injunction, an apoeal tuken, | and the controversv drag on for a month or two, and thereby pre- j vent them from being dunned for , the taxes now overdue. | Luning eays that if Horner’s banking bill becomes law he will be prepared to pay -lō.OO in gold for eaeh $10.00 bill. The offer is only standing fi>r one month, here- 1 after he expects to get a bigger; premium. The gentleman with the ; mania for collections may get it “in the neek this time.” i . . i The “Bulletin” in quoting the exceedingly f)ssilised James Payn ' of the Illustrated London Newe fully agreea with him when he j says “that it requires a great deal of courage in writing a judicious eulogy.” Tojudgefrom the emtents of Dan’s paper he cannot be in possession of a stunning amount of the quality referred to.