The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21
REPUBLICANS TALK
OF CITY CHARTER
Plan and Scope Committee Named
Last Night.

. struct and not to facilitate municipal
government and he wanted an express
sion as to which plan was TO be pur-
yued.
Chairman Fisher remarked in pass
ing that the press did not appoint the
charter committee but the Republican
party.
B Geo. Davis sale the people demanded
"A change from the present centralized
government and he for one was there
FOR work and earnest work or he would
resign.
T. McCants Stewart said he failed to
see Mr.. Smiths point. He could not
see how grinding out good charter
would obstruct municipal government.
He then moved that the members of
the executive committee of the party
be permitted to attend the meetings of
the charter committee and enter into
the discussions but. not to vote. Col.
Boyd seconded 1t and after u remark
by George Davis to the effect that Mr..
Cooke, who was the only member pres
ent, would then be in the same position
as Delegate Wilcox, the motion passed.
w. O. Smith interrupted another
half-made motion to adjourn by stating
that he had urged a special session OF
the Legislature last summer to pass
upon two questions. One was the fire
claims from the burning of Chinatown
and the other the appointment of a
charter commission by the Legislature
to prepare charter to report at the
regular session. He said the coming
session of the Legislature would be
very busy one, and even IL the Gov
ernor extended it's duration to it's full
limit there would not be time to prop
erly handle these two matters. The
result would be either hasty and ILL
considered legislation or no legislation
for another two years.
He said it was like a girl getting mar
ried. A good husband was very nice
but If she got a bad one her last state
was worse than her former. He had
very reluctantly accepted a place on
the charter committee because 1t did
not have the effect of legislative COM
mission. He considered the work of the
Republican charter committee to be
real, earnest and hard work, and he
would not remain on the charter COM
mittee If 1t was intended to play with
the question. He said a charter of any
other city was not necessarily good for
Honolulu any more than a suit of
clothes ordered in London would be
likely to fit a Honolulu customer. He
knew California cities which wished
they had no charter. He favored no
charter rather than poor one.
He thought the results of the labors
of these earnest men, however, would
have great weight with the Legisla-
ture In closing Mr.. Smith again re-
marked, II am here for. earnest work
or I would not be here at ALL"
After c. p. Cooke had declared the
intentions of the executive committee
to be simply to obey the will of the
party, G.. w. Smith said w. o. Smiths
statements answered his question as to
the purpose Of organizing the Commit
tee of Thirty
]. l.. Kaulukou arose to light his ci-
gar and incidentally remarked that he
thought municipal government was
premature at present.
Again the spirit moved somebody to
make the motion which parliamentary
law says "is always in order"-to ad-
tourn-but ere 1t could be put w. c.
Roe, foreman OF one Of the shops at the
Honolulu Iron Works, made a charac-
teristic speech in which he thanked the
executive committee for making him a
member of the charter committee. He
likewise remarked that 1t was poor pol
icy to wear old shoes when one could
cold feet" This expression quickly
changed to wet feet" however. He
did not seem to be sure whether "the
class I represent" as he called them,
We're in favor of municipal government
or not He was sure they were IL Il
would benefit them, but he did not seem
to have made up his mind as to wheth-
err 1t would be benefit or not
After an announcement that the sub
committee on plan and scope would
meet at George A. Davis office at 8
this morning, the Committee of Thir-
ty' adjourned to meet again Thursday