Show WOULD REMOVE JUDGE HUMPHREYS A Majority of the Honolulu Bar Ba Demand It I L IJ A LIW l AiS OUT OU I I rc I I Ir 1111 Un loe rl u r Oler 1111 ii nit lor lur to r ni A 1101 Honolulu May Ia 28 25 via la San Ban l June JUle D of at the tte Associated Asso state stat or of of nf dated A fairs replete with sensations that have hav has lias grown deeply stirred d Honolulu out of ot the he investigations of o the thc grand Brand Jury summoned by Circuit Ch Judg JUlg Humphreys to Investigate the charges charge Las of or briber bribery In the legislature Saturday three of ot tho lie best bett Known law la laer er ers of A 8 S W V A Kinney and S M sentenced to thirty days dos In Jail for con COI of court COUt by judge Humphreys but hut before le tore they reached lie tho prison ul all ni 00 were sere released by b pardon by Henry B 1 F Cooper The sentences were WOI the on account or of o an nn attorneys attempted to rend read and tile Hie 11 In li Humphreys court to tC tC show on motion for a n change of venue the th Judges per sonni chane bins against I Smith of the tho lie Advertiser who stio was Indicted by y th the lie Brand Irand grant jul uty for fOl perjury In the tho storm storn I Ir r by 1 these the c proceedings the thc gram grand Jurys Investigations of ot the thC briber bilbery charges have hn been lost sight of ot but lut the tin Jury Jur Is 13 sll In tn session and Is 19 bl el elto to be Retting getting close to some briber bribery vases cases The rho of or which lie tho lou was S 18 adjudged to tu be contempt wai W sworn ton to 10 by h and li presented In Incourt incourt court by u und Ild ballou Kinney 1 reading It to the Judge It I pur purported ported to relate fuels showing the personal per ICI personal relations of ot Smith and md the and told of t offers the latter hatter made to Smith of ot a position an as n editor ellor of or the Honolulu u Republican li In which Humphreys Is 15 II a stockholder which offers were werl rejected reJect ell I When the attorney iiii r i readied reached roch l a 1 statement that the th defendants relations with the tho ho judge had enabled him bun to become with his lila Inordinate ambitions am ani his personal weaknesses es the cour cout court Interrupted tho the reading leading and ordered the three attorneys who tho the docu doeu document ment to 10 answer for tor or After hearing their thou conies canes he ho ruled that tho lie document had hind been heen tiled filed for the Ill pur purpose pu pose pO of ot bringing bringinG Into the case calc ex ox extraneous l mutters slanderous and false Anti and 11 of it a political nature with wih a view o oto to 10 Impeding and obstructing Justice and aind ald bringing the court irit Into ho contempt and nd he hl sentenced each ot of tI attorneys to thirty days In II Jail jall was ras formerly representative of I the tho Hawaiian government lt Wash and la is II a 0 veteran et rAn attorney of ot Hawaii and the others other with wi him have long HawaI been be all n prominent In iii 11 Island 1 affairs and the lie sentences sentence created crEat d much excite excitement ment meat Cov Go lOS Coopers Cooper pardons pardon reached the high before the Iho he at ai attorneys orneys luaU had ha been len placed In Jail and anil they the lie were lere released Coopers act nl In is I de ole denounced on Oil the bc one oat on hand as uis executive Interference with wih the tho Judiciary and as n destructive of ot the power of ot the First l cir dc circuit cult court to enforce Its 11 processes and andon on oil thin the tw other hand It I Is I warmly com corn commended mended as ns releasing rel ln three thre highly re cc lawyers from Crom what It I Is I claimed was an un unreasonable sentence s sentiment runs tuns high anti and the affair Is 18 generally retorted referred ions tor to as a n po pa political row The Star and the Adver Advertiser tiser bitterly bitel assail Judge Humphreys as ns a tse a politician on the bench hench and de denounce flounce 1 his sentence nn as ni having been tho the nunce result of or personal vindictiveness while resul the Bulletin and the Republican as S vig vigorously 1 defend his hil courto and ald attack Cooper declaring that his hll pardons were for tor members of UI the lie th missionary ring The Advertiser fays cars that thai the tile grand Jury Tle Is II packed pocked for or political p ends elds nod and It has hn las published nn an signed by h Its business manager W t Pearson say saying ay ayIn hog ing In that Lewis Jewis bailiff of o Hum Humphreys court COUlt who Is well wel ehl known as an ni a 1 shipping muster master In nanny many man Pacific coast oo t ports offered to park pad a trial Jury jul for forthe forthe the he cann case In consideration of or being 1111 assisted n to g gat tt t a license for a n awater water vater front saloon This publication calling for 55 followed by Humphreys 11 s resignation as u bailiff The foundation for the reports of ot bribery bribery ery en In the legislature has been ben revealed by u Jacob Cooper a n man who wanted ant a railroad franchise and ant whose name t I A refused to 10 reveal renal renalto to 11 the he grand Jury THurston was waR under sentence for contempt for so refusing I hut hUI ut the tIne statement nt of ot his client clent released I ilni 1110 He lie was ns not flat confined ns as the su so supreme i preme hll le court had Issued a writ of or habeas corpus and hail had not decided tho the case Bt Cooper swears that lint he was wnM asked by ly three different members of the house to tomy tl PU PIt my money for fr or their heir efforts In behar of ot iii hl ils bill to secure n a franchise for far his bile railroad bi He lie HI had been I n before the tho th grand graml Jur jury ury and it I II n stated has li told lold tho the Jury he the the names of ot the three representatives who vho solicited the tb bribes and nd n a I report of oC the grand Jury jur It is awaited with wih much inkret A petition was wan WI circulated In Honolulu petton among lawyer today asking a for or tho the re te removal moral moval of Judge Humphreys It lt I was wa clr dr by 1 L Ti I A Thurston and received rc et he signatures of ot most of the th members of ot the the local bar ba at Tomorrow a n meeting of ot the tho Hawaiian liar Hal association will wi bo he hell held ani n resolution re against Hum IUn will sIli wil be le presented It I Is II expect expected ed d that there will t be In h a lively discussion 11 cUIlon cUIlonA A strike of Japanese laborers of ot the took place on Oahu railway rallay company tok he thit h The men were being paid 15 per Iler er day and struck for tar 15 About Abut fi h t men walked out but their were quickly filled and there was ittle trouble |