Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 130, 30 December 1892 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Th« Queen has returned the Chinese labor act wilhoul Her signature and it will heeoiue law on aeeounl of lapse of the prescribed time. Her Majeety has sh'<wn great discretion in not exercising her power of veto on this bill, and the men who will denve the benefit of the law shou!d fully appreciate Her Majesty’s aotion.

The law is based upon the eonstitutional ameudment in the Iyegislature, whieh has not received the signature of the Queen ou aeeounl of the remarkable opinion of our remarkably constructed Supreme Court.

Thal Her Maje*ty canuot recognize sucb aniendment, ie obvious to the dullest mind. lf she did ehe would «imply abandon her rights in the government uf this couutry, and open ihe door to any po*eibilitie».

If the Queeu had vetod tbe bill ahe would have acted in a logical and just way, but «he has allowed the bill to become law, because she fully realized the importance to the planting interests involved in the measure. If the bill had been vetoed as being coutrary to tbe provisions of the constitution as that document is known to Her Majesty, the Houae would have euatained snch veto, but, for the Anaueial interests of A the country, it ie probably as well that Her Majesty has followed the course now laken by her.

Representative Nawahi questioned the Cabinet this morning in regard to Her Maje8ty’s reasons for returning the hill wilhoiU signature.

It pleased His Excellency the Attorney-General to answer that the correspondence on that point was private between Her Majesty and the Cabinet, and added that if the honorable member fmm Hilo didn’t like it he could briug in a vote of want of confidence.

We know of no reason why the motives whieh led Her Majesty withhold her signature and whieh we indicate in this issue ahould be kept a secret from the Legislature. We do not believe that aueh were the inteutions of the Queen, and we unbesitatingly state that the defying and challenging positi»n adopted by Her Excellency the Attorney General ia fraught with danger for the Cabinet, and will not meet with the approvai of any party in the House.

What “The Liberal” doean’t know about the polilieal situation woutd fill volumee. In the last issue it serves its readers [if it has any] with such a lot of rot about the vote of want of confidence about officials working to oust the Cabinet, and about Mr. V. V. Ashfurd becoming the Marshal of the Kingdom that we are ioclined to believe that the canebottomed editor is either too Liberal in his regard to truth, or that he is an expert in playing the Lyre.

There haa alwaya heen some atreat talk about votca of want of oonfidance gotng to be introduced,

but it is only such peculiarly eonducted papen as the Advertiser and the Liberal [satne fanaily ] whieh ever care to take any notice of «ueh reoorls.

As long as the present Cabinet does the pquare thing and does not attempt to antagonize the oppo9ing factions it is safe, and has no reason to fearany petty factional hostility.

We will admit that it is impoeaible for us to underetand how the Cablnet ean advise the Q ieen to eign the appropriation bili when they know that it will be alK>ut $200.000 short to cover Section I.

Mr. Jones has not ehown himeelf a success as a financier during hie iucumbency, aud we houeatly believe that the proper courae f*»r the House would be to refer the bill to a committee for rev sion, and let that eommiUee follow out the ideas of Mr. E. C. Macfarlane whieh would have met the approval of the taxpayera, and whieh placed him in so prominent position as the leidmg statesman and financier of the country, thought the result was his dowu-fall, caused by a party jealou» of his ability and souud sense.

It was reported yesterd«y that Mr. Mott Smith has refused to preaent Coiisul-General PrHtt’s credentialt to the F.»reign Office in Washington, because he didu’t know if the present Cabinet wuuld approve of the appoiutiuent. The consequence ia that Mr. Pratt is not acting as Consul-General in San Frandsco up to lated advice.

The hyphenated gentleman who represeiits this country in Wushington has taken upon hiu.self a power whieh is not withm h'8 province, and his action should pronr.ptly besat on by theMiuistry, and the ambassador immediately be reiegated to his dentist chair.

The conaequential old bimgler has heen a failure from the d;«y of hie appointment. and hr should be removed without delay. Of courjg his Bostonian iufluence in the Bhinet may support hiin, but the Miuister of Foreign Affuirg should take the matter in h<s own hands, and when he retirēs to private life be remen.bered by one commendable action at least.

The “Advertiser” is as usually wrong when it states tbia morning that Police-Judge Foeter has been recomraisaioned. The Judge bas refused to accept a re-appoint-uient on account of tbe reduction whieh the Legislature has seen fit to maKe in the salary, but he h«s conbentcd to act until a succesaor bas been found.

The difficulty iu finding * 8uitahle man to accept the iiup«>rt-uit position at ihe preeent r«te • £ p»y is a good inalanee of the i ek > f f(>resight and wied >m frequently exhibited by the Legislat»re.

The office of Poiiee Judge in Honolulu is c**rtainly no smecure, and both the work aud the respons.bility are greater than thoe« of » Circuit Judge, and tbere are no reaeone why the salary sbould not have been Ihe same.

A Circuit Judge trying eaaee beforeajury mustnaturalty be more proficient in law than a PolioeJudge, but we hold that tbe latter haa oon reeponaibllity on

his shoulders, beoause he hae the power of acquittal and ean uae or misuse that power without any poaaihle restriction.

The office is ?aid to be actually goinjj begging, whieh also is a sign of tbe good inoooie the ditferent lawvers niust be deriving *'rom the«r practice.

It was understood yesterday that the office had been refused by Messrs. Kaulukou, Kane, and others. and that Mr. J. M. Poepoe was an eventual candidate. The McKinley bill has evidently not hit the legal fraternity.

L. A. Thurston returned yesterday and looks devilish well. e wonder how he and Judge \Videmann got along, l>eing cooped up together for more than a week, eapecially witb the Iittle bantam tbrown in. Three out-voted Minieters at one table must have heen an interesting sight, but the other passengers must have felt like if they were sitting on a volcano. 0f cojrse that would’t worry Thurston, whoee speciality isin the volcano line and it is no wonder the other elemenla endeavored to oppose the return cf such elemenla of discord to this unhappy country.

Samoa is a blessed country. It bas had its Bush. its Kaimiloa, ita Cederkrantz, its Baron von Pilsner (uncorked), and it will now have its Francis A, B. C(and the rest of the Alphabet) Harden. Shades of Montgomery Mather! Holy Ned’s partner is also a poet. God save Malieloa —we cannot.

Heagle Heye must be getting nearsighted or hia lightning searches must be hampered by his allianee to the anail. It all nassed by him yesterday, but he saw or emelled nothing.

We hope that the detective bureau is not already becoming rusty or that the spinning of the safety through Chinatovn ie getting less fruitful than formerly. What a loss to the community if that combination should burst, and where would the ehaneea be for tue Marshalship or Port Surveyor job, or Collector-Geueralship, or let us siy the Chief Justiceehip. Nothing is too high for an amateur or Heagle.