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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, June 15, 1898, Image 2

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KeeldlnK in Honolulu
WEDNESDAY JUNE 15 1898
OOMMIXTEE REPORTS
It is a Hegraoo to tho Legislaturo
that the roports of tho difforont
stnnditiR committees and moro os
pocially of tho Finance Committee
aro to bn Rubmitted at tho tail end
of tho session It is an outrage that
a oommittoe omployinp exports is
uuablo to propare a report in time
for duo and proper cousidoration by
the House It looks very fishy to
say tho least to soo a chairman of a
committee dilly dallying with tho
roports of tho experts hired by him
and using his influence to hill an
original report and substituting it
with anothor There is certainly
something out of gear
If tho Legislaturo desires to have
the roputation of honesty and inde
pendence let all tho important re
ports of tho standing committees bo
printed and lot tho taxpayers havo
access to thom The Marshals
office is accused of boing conducted
in a mannor which if it were true
would bo a disgrace Lot the peo
ples seo the report of tho expert
and perhaps everything can be ex
plained Thore should be no under
handed business in government af
fairs and any committee- which at
tempts to shield any official or de
partment should bo sat on and
any committoo which attacks an offi
cial or a department without reason
or justice should bo dealt with in a
similar maunor
It is a most peculiar transaction
to Bee reports of tho standing com
mittees submitted on tho eve of the
prorogation of tho Legislature It
is on those roports that tho legis
lators basothoir ideas of the necessi
ties of the country and deoida the
items to be placed in the appropri
ation bill Under the rotten mon
archy tho committoo reports woro
presented beforo the appropriation
bill was touched and in those bad
days the members of the committoes
did their own expert work and
wroto their own roports
Let tho Finance Committoo pre
sent the reports of tho oxports
who havo lookod into tho matters
connocted with tho Post Office
Custom House Board of Health
etc oto Wo will undertake to fur
nish the comments
Tennis Tournamont
The annual tournament of the
Hawaiian Tennis Association opens
this afternoon on tho Courts of tho
Faoifio and Beritania Tonnis Clubs
The drawing for the singles aro
Pacific Court at 4 p m E R
Adams vs WH Babbitt H Wator
houso vo W Maofarlane At 5 p m
G P Wilder vs H G Dillingham
0 W Diokey vs Geo Fullor Bero
tania Court at 4 p m E A Jones
vs E A Mott Smith 0 H Cooko
vs W A Wall At 5 p m 0 H
W Norton vs A MaokintoBh S G
Wilder vs G H Athorton and P F
Do La Vorgne vs Ghas Borger on
tho Faoifio Court and D H Hitch
cook vs H W Mist on the Beretania
Court will play to day if it is possi
ble The abovo matches aro the
preliminaries Tho byos aro as fol
lows Geo R Carter vs D Shanks
Willie Roth vs Wilder Wight on
tho Faoifio Court Donald Ross
Btands by himself and tho ono with
whom ho plays on tho first round
will be determined by the outcome
of the preliminaries
TOPICS OP THE DAY
Ther are only a few days loft for
tho Legislature It is a pity that
valuable tirao should bo consumed
by our Solous in debating and dis
cussing a two bits pound masters
bill Why doesnt the Legislaturo
got down to business
A level hondpd friend suggoBtB to
ub the name of Ex Sonator and
presout Councillor of Stato John
Phillips as a future Minister of tho
Interior in tho event of a vacauoy
occurring His sterling charactor
combiuod with his broadness of view
and sound common sonso always
proves of valuo in any position he is
called upon to ocoupy
Our hysterical friends who aro
trying to kill tho United States
soldiers by pies and mayonaiio havo
tlovieod another annexation scheme
Stotionery will bo furnished froo of
ohargo besides tho pies and on tho
envelopes a legeud will bo printed
stating that we hail old glory tho
flag wo want to livo under It is a
very pretty idea and it will un
doubtedly fix tho storu senators iu
Washington The last batch of
soldiers during their short stay iu
Honolulu came rapidly to tho con
clusion that wo tho Hawaiians
dont want annexation and that
America deoidodly doesnt want
theso Islands
The Stars and Stripos
The Stars aud Stripes afford yet
another instance of the adaptability
of the Anglo Saxon race
Like our Union Jack tho Amer
ican flag is a thing of slow growth
taking its origin iu the distant past
oven yet it is not definite Much
poetical nonsense has boon ponued
about the American red white and
blue Wo have been told that tho
red represents blood shed in dofence
of tho nation that the whitn stands
for liberty and tho blue for hope in
tho future As a matter of foot the
throe colors aro a sentimental tri
bute to tho past a proud claim to
kinship
In the early Colonial days tho flag
used was tho St Georges ensign
sometimes adorned with the Royal
crown aud monogram thou tho
first British Union flag a combina
tion of the English red and white
and the Scottish blue and white
Tho local olomont was roprosonted
by a greou pino tree or a globo dis
playing tho Western Hemisphere
Henco tho Colonials dorived their
colors When the uufortunato
family tiff began the local troops
gathered round a variety of flags
Sometimes tho flag was rod some
times white sometimes blue As a
rule howover the cross of St
Georgo was retained though not
always for ono popular banner
represented a rattlo snako on a red
ground Dont tread on mol
Thon Georgo Washington some
what exeroisod at tho laxity or want
of uniformity brought forward a
now proposal Ho suggostod a white
flag docoraled with a groon fir tree
and the motto An appeal to
Heavon aud these colors woro
flown by tho local navy Still much
doubt was shown Colonel Moul
tries bluo flag with a golden cres
cent proving rather attractivo
Nevertheless it was felt that was
too great a departuro from timo
honorod devices aud under the
auspices of Washington a commit
tee evolved a fino device based on
the Union Jack and tho East India
Companys flag
It was docidod that the ground of
tho flag should bo divided into thir
teen horizontal stripes alternately
rod and whito thirteen being tho
number of the Status acting iu con
cert while tho Uniou Jack which
told flattering tales of a grand past
was reinstated After this thore wero
a fow divergencies but not many
tho chief one perhaps being tho
white flag with crossed sword and
staff the latter crowned with a cap
of liberty and tho words Liborty
or Death whioh was seon at tho Bat
tlo of White Plains October 177C
In June 1777 camo a deoided
rupture It was decidod That tho
aUMUNlMIHOM
flag of tho 13 United States bo thir
teen stripes altornate rod and whilo
and that tho Union bo blue with
thirteen whito stars of five rays
representing a uow constellation
Even horo nevertheless1 tho his
toroial continuity was not com
pletely abandonod Tho form of tho
flag was basod on tho British tho
colors woro tho same
Later on it was decreod that ovory
Stato admittod to tho Union should
be represented by a star but tho
stripes remain to recall tho original
thirteen component parts of tho
now nation
Some divergence is shown in tho
display of tho stars Originally there
waB a crown of twelvo round a cen
tral star In 1818 theso wore
beautifully arranged to form ono
big star of livo points but on tho
Bamo date tho Navy Department
said they should bo placed iu four
rows of five arrangod alternately
In 1819 thoro wero four rows of fivo
stars placod in oxaot alignment To
day there aro throo rows of sovon
stars and threo rows of eight
It will bo seen that tho Stars and
Stripos ia tho outcome of slow
political events and that it may
claim affinity with our own Union
flag Vancouver Newa Advcrtiscr
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