Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 258, 10 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

“N*o Ji of Oie Siij»reme Conrt or *ny C rcuit Court ur any Magistrat<- ehall exerc'pe the profe»sion ’ or e.up* yment nf eouneel or attorney :>l-l«w or be engtged in the j.rnctiee < f !aw." Serttnn III. Jud'd'i V Sr»*ivn hue* 1892. CFIA E LfcS L. CARTER, Esq. Iiss this day been appointed l)islrict Mng'slrate f»r the District ol }lon<>lnlii. Kx e t : ve Rui1ding, Honolulu, June 14. 1^03.— Hau'iiian Slar. N T CK OK CO-PARTNER8HIP. Ciia». L. C irter and Alfred W. Carter have this day enlered into a g> n ral copartnership for the geneia! pr;>ctice >f law. Hoii iluiu. July 3, 1893.— C. Adre fVrr. • M 1.8' rS milh intr<iJuced a biII to nme d tht Judiciary Act «>f 1893, po as to remove the disabiiity of D>etr ct Magistrates, in their prohihili 'ii from j>racticing law. — Dai y ī'>< Uetin. Jvly 6. Tiie tib<>ve quot*tions need hardlv any eoinmeul. They show on their f.c- tlie utter untrustworthire»>a < f th« men whom J. 1 .Steven» l>laCvd i'l the hend of this governmeut Tliey sh >w the utter regardles»iiess wilh whieh these men view the »t it' leo of our country, and the with whieh they u»e tbeir br;ef autbority gained from A>ner o<n tr'Oi« toobtain personaI aggnndizement or advantages for th< ir immediate friends, relations, as9oci«t>« and to>'>l8. The jud:ciary *ct »ith whieh the Attorney-Gen-er.il n<>w pr j)oses to Umj>er 5s-con-sid< r- d the best *and ra<>st carefully dr.nvn and most conscientious!y <Jisc..s® d iaw on our sUtute books. lt w.sdrafied by » coramission eoi.* ?*": g )f Mcssrs. A. S. Hartwel:,W.R. C ?tle and C.W.Ashford. It Vf,.s .0 lhc l.ist Legis!ature referr<d to a e mnniUee on whieh v».re «mong others. \V. O. Smith, A. P. P> t< r-> >n, I’aul N’eumann and As‘..f rd It wis carefully considend by ali these men and the Judg.*s < f the Suj>retue Court were ofien c«nsu!ted and r» ferrcd to in l’>e Unal framii>g of the law. In its pC<sent Rhape it passed the H«>n»' and received the Q«een’B 8 gu.itore and there has only been eue opi ion S'nce as to the value »nd Hen< fit of the law. B>it now couies W. O. 8>uith—one of the very men who »ssisted in bringing th- U « into ils preeent shajie and ppoo<:«c5 t<> ch»nge it so as to suit Mr. Chas. L. Carter the specificly appointed district m«gistrate fbr Hooolulu. Thi» profe*sional p*triot who ha» served —for a considcratlon — the P. G. in ite futi!e niiMion to Wasbington *nd who

on his own hook started an attempt to fl<iod this country with Pouthern Niggers is not *atisfied bv being »pj>oinied a judgt and j g ; ven an author:ty and a po«ition f<>r wnieh he is neither qualified nor desirable owing t > the f»n«tic ar.d dccided 8tand taken by him as an unscrupulous partisan in the late insurrection. but he wants, i as the salary is not sufficieut tur ' hiei to allow him to gormandize as mueh r s he Iikss to have the ■ gijv<-rnment change the statut>s i »>> as to enahlo him to eonlinue i his practice ns a lawyer and yet be ; a j-i< ge —md in W. O. Smitb, Le finds a willing t«ol. VVe d<> n<>t care to discuss the pro. <<r e i. in r<« ird l > tiie clause in the judiciary act whieh j>rohib:t-> m g;stn t- - from practicing [ ! law. but we will -imply point out 1 that such clause w.is put there by I luen like Uartwe!I, Smith, Ashford, j Peterson, Brown, Castle and Neu- j mann, all nien who we should imagine were able to judge of the advisability of such a clause. Tiie princlple whieh the passage of VV . O. S-iiith's amendment invoivea is of f ir rnore import mee than the fact whether Mr.C.irter ean practice law and be a judge at the sarae tiine or nut. Tnut is perfectly imniateriul to us. lt’ iie ean find any clients who will use him both as a judge and Iawyer, we are glad for him—we should imagine that he would uiake a g.>od combination —but we obj ct t«» tho temporariIy c<>nstructed goveminent e >mmitting an act of indecency on the people for the a.iKe of assisting a friend to boodle or fees. This g>vernment is of course a government of the classes against the raasse8, but the odiam whieh lhat fact brings with it,might be tolerat<d if it wasn’t that llie classes all-uni'l to use their p<>sition of authority to fatten their friends and to d>> the very thing whieh they and the masses condemned a shon while ag >. Corrupt legislation by tlie P. G. was started when the revolution s'ieceeded in having the law pr >vid;ng for a District Judge for North Hilo repealed and succeedid. There was a law whioh in no way mterfered with the country at !arge or with the people, but simp<y was a measure paesed at t’.;e desire of the lhree representatives for Hilo (,r< form and National ref<>rm alike) and whieh was of benefit t<> that distriot. Mr. Young »t the req':est of his plantationmanager in the Hilo district oppoeed the bi11 in tne Legislature, but upon the presenytion of a I>etili< »n s:gned by every resident in North llilo for the j>assage of the hill, it was passed in spite of Young’s efforts. No sooner bad Mr. Y >ung eucceede<i in g*=tting himself aj>jwinted as a meraber of the P. G. Legisiature when he movcd for the repeal of the lanv. Men liko Dole and Smith, who alwavs carry in their mouths the fincst s»ntences about r ox pomii i vox dei ass;sted Mr. Young and the bill was repealed. That was the first tiine when a feeling of suspii eion and uneasiness was created i eveo among the friends of the in--urgeuts. It began to look that ; those e : ghteen men were not there af\er all solely for the good of the > country. but only and princij>ally < io secure tbeir own little enda. Othe>* measures have been pas«ed «inee tben, other sleps have heen • taken whieh ean only tend to > show that greed, selfiabness and . nepotiem are ihe ruling spirita among . ourse!f constitutcd lfgislatoxs, but i the propos;tion to alter the judiciary i act for a solely mercenary purpose is

theclimax. If Mr. W. O. Smith’s amendmeDt paeses. we have no doubt that Mr. Garter will be th« i jrainer, bot mark our words the Prov;sional Government will be the Iosers.