The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-09-07

TO l,307; population, 2,614
ISLAND OF OAHU.
Honolulu sends members. or / t
5,l22; population. 20, 4s7.
KOOlaupoko sends 1 member; popuIa
ton, 2,621
Koolauloa sends l member; population
1921.
WaiaIua sends l member; population
1885.
Eva and Waianae sends member; pop
ulation, 2,374.
Number of members, 8; or l to 3 sos
Total population, % ,O68.
ISLAND OF Kauai.
Waimea sends 1 member; population
I,762.
| Lihue and Koloa sends l member; popu-
lation, 8, 484.
Hanalei sends l member; population,
1869.
Number of members, 3; or l to 1913.
Total population, 1886.
The committee has figured OF appor-
tionments upon the basis of $3.50, $500
$3.50, 5000 and 800 inhabitants to one
Representative. The smaller figures add
largely to the size of the Assembly, the
last decreases the number considerably,
making a range from % to SO members on
the elective side of the House. 1t is not
tIrvus I.t ,sf,edient to decrease the number
TO any extent, and it is believed that any
increase will offer no advantages compen-
sating for the increased expense of cleo
tions, of the Assembly while i'll session,
and would tend to make that body more
unwieldiy. The basis of 5000 inhabitants
TO one member has been settled upon by
the committee for the reasons that that
figure more than any other will leave cleo
tive districts as they now are; every inter
est of the country will be amply repre-
sented and protected, and the number of
members in the Assembly will be nearly as
at present.
Upon the basis of 5000 inhabitants to
one Representative, the apportion:will be
as follows:
Hilo and Puma, members, or to 1919;
population, 1882.
Hamakua, member; population. 3.9OS.
Kohala, members, or 1 to 1885; popu-
ation, 500.
Kona, 1 member; population, 1888.
AAdu' pOPhAhtiOIlt O'1oo'
MAUI.
Lahaina and Kaanapali l member;
population, 2,269.
Wailuku, members, or to 1907; popu-
latiOn, 5,814.
MakawaO, 2 members, or l to 2,53G; !
population, sob.
Hama, member; population, 2,814.
MoIOKAI AND LANAI.
MOlokai and Lanai, member; popula- |
ton, 2,614.
Honolulu, members, or 1 to 3,414; |
population, 2O,487.
KoolaupokO, l member; population, |
1921.
Koolauloa and Waialua, 1 member;
1856.
EVA and Waianae, l member; popula-
ton, 2,374.
Waimea, member; population, I.76l.
Lihue and Koloa, member; pOpula- |
ton, 3,4S4.
Hanalei, member; population, 1863.
For the islands the figures will be:
Hawaii, 8 members, or 1 to 3, 1874; popu-
Iation, 4,991.
Maui, 6 members, or l to 1861; popula-
ton, 1870.
MOlokai and Lanai, l member; popula-
ton, 2,6l4.
Oahu, members, or to Bis; popula-
ton, %, O68.
Kauai, 3 members, or to 1913; popula-
ton, 1895.
Total members 81, or to 1884. Total
S0,578.
The committee believing that on many |
accounts the division of the country into |
election districts, each of which shall send |
one member, is preferable to any other |
SYSTEM in that the districts will in some |
cases be much smaller, the electors will be |
brought into closer relations with the mem |
Der, the member will himself feel greater |
to the district besides other
reasons, have therefore divided the coun-
try into such districts, endeavoring in each
case to approximate to 5000 inhabitants.
OF course, while 5000 is the basis, it is inn
possible to make any exact division, and
the attempt has been in such case to make
districts which, while containing as nearly
as may be the requisite number of inhab-
itants, shall leave no considerable part of
the country unrepresented.
The suggestions herein made are en-
bodied in a bill which is herewith sub
mitted, and the passage of which the com
mittee recommends. The bill and resolu-
ton first above referred to are hereby rec
commended to be laid upon the table.
w. r. CASTLE,
JOHN 7. DARE,
). b. Dole,
Mr.. Hayselden moved the report of the
committee be laid upon the table until the
minority of the committee report, which
will be Tuesday.
Mr.. Kaulukou said the report of the
committee deserved to be indefinitely
postponed, but he would not make that
motion. The minority of the committee
would bring in a report, which would seal
the fate of the majority report.
The motion to lay upon the table pre-
vailed
ENABLING ACT
His Excellency Mr.. Dare read first
time an Enabling Act to confer citizen
ship on certain aliens" The rules were
suspended, and the bill read a second time
by title and then referred to the Judiciary
Committee. The bill provides for letters