The Liberal, Volume I, Number 40, 28 January 1893 — GOVERNMENT BY A COMMISSION. [ARTICLE]
GOVERNMENT BY A COMMISSION.
It has been suggested that Hawaii might be governed by a Commission of, say, three persons, to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, in the same manner as the District of Columbia is now governed. To those who delight in paying taxes for others to squander, such a plan would doubtless have some attraction, but to none others, as we assume. Seems to us we have somewhere read of a man named Warren Hastings who (in company with two other Commissioners) for some years ruled India in a manner that has made his name odious to all succeeding generations. We also seem to remember the judicial coadjutor of Mr. Hastings, one Chief Justice Impey, who, in the words of Macauley, became "rich and infamous" through giving a judicial assent to some of Hastings' robberies. Oh! Yes! for Heaven's sake, give us a government by a Commission.