The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-18
TWO DELEGATES 70 ELECT
UNExPIRED CONGRESSIONAL
TERM TO BE FILLED.
Governor Will Call for Election Of Dele
gate to the Fifty-seventh as Well as
the Fifty Eighth Congress.

The question which was raised re-
Gently as to whether the Territory
would choose representative to serve
out the uneXpired term of the Fifty
seventh Congress has been settled.
Governor Dole has decided to call for
the election of such a delegate at the
November election. This call will be
included in his general election pro-
.clamation which win be issued prob
ably next Monday. The right to hold
such an election to fill the unexpired
term in Congress is based upon Sec. S5,
Chap. v relating to United States Off
GERS in the Territorial Act which reads:
"That a delegate to the House of Re
presentatlves of the United States, to
serve during each Congress, shall be
elected by the voters qualified to vote
for members of the house of represen-
tatives of the Legislature; such delegate
shall possess the qualifications neces-
sary for membership of the senate of
the legislature of Hawaii.
1t was only recently that the ques-
,;tion as to whether two representations
should be voted for was broached. No
lattention was paid at first by the vari-
.COus parties to the fact that there yet
remains the winter term of the Fifty
seventh Congress uneXpired and in all
their calculations for choice of dele
gate they figured upon sending the re-
preventative to only the F'ifty-eighth
Congress the new Congress which will
meet in regular session December, 1901.
The fact that the Act gave the Terri
tory the right to elect a delegate to
each Congress places a new office at
the disposal of the people. Governor
Dole regards it as very necessary that
the Territory should be represented in
Congress so soon after Annexation
and this is one of the principal reasons
for his calling the election of the addi-
tional delegate.
"I have planned" he said this morn
ing, ''to include in the general election
proclamation the fact that the people
have the right to elect a representative
to the unexpired term of Congress
which meets III December. I regard it
as quite important that the Territory
should be represented then for while
1t may not prove any more important
than having q delegate in the Fifty
eighth Congress still there may be leg
islation affecting Hawaii that would
make it necessary for us to be repre-
sented.
"I have thought of several things
which should be enacted but they re-
late principally to the detail of govern
ment and not to any general or very
important measure. One of them is the
securing of a salary for the president OF
the Board OF Health. We had such q
clause in the original bill but it was
cut out"
Now that there are two delegates to
Congress to be voted for the various
political parties will have more trou-
bles to keep them awake at night fol
a hive of Congressional bees has beer
set buzzing around the bonnets of more
than one stalwart The most reason
able solution of the question seems tC
be to select the same man to fill botf
terms. The brief acquaintance will
Congressional affairs which the dele
gate would secure in the uneXpireC
term of the Fifty-seventh Congress
which lasts only to March 4, next
would have served to acquaint him witt
a brief insight into the work which lies
before the delegate in the Fifty-eightf
Congress. IT is possible though thai
the opportunity might be taken of heal
ing wounds by awarding the honor o.
serving rs first Territorial Congress
Ional delegate to some disappointed
candidate for the Fifty-eighth full
term.