The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-10
THEIR WORK
IS FINISHED
Board Of Registration
Closes. I.
DID A BIG DAYS WORK
Two Hundred and Thiriy-Nine
Voters Signed Yesterday
Total Of 589l.

Promptly at 10 O'Clock last evening
the Board of Registration closed It's
doors, and with signs of relief the
members of the Board took their de-
parture from the booth where they
have spent most of their time for the
last few weeks.
At the hour of closing the number Of
voters registered was exactly 5,s91, 239
having been registered yesterday. Dur
Ing the dying hours of the Board there
was little business and the room was
full Of lockers on to joke the last few
to come forward and to watch the
Board to Its last work.
Ten minutes before the hour for clos
Ing a question arose that was one of
the most knotty ones that the Board
has had brought before II. A man
hamed August Aaron came up to be
registered. He had just returned from
three months trip to the Coast and IL
appeared that during his absence from
Honolulu he had not maintained a resi-
dence here. He had left his tools which
he used I'm his trade as a carpenter in
the place where he had worked and he
had retained his position and 1t was
4
as soon as he had paid a visit to friends
and relatives in California.
But did you retain a residence In
Honolulu while you were gomez" asked
Mr.. Andrews.
mo. am afraid 1 did not" said "A
ron. Il took all my belongings, clothes
and so forth with me-"
Then / do not see how we can reg
lister YOU" Mr.. Andrews said. The
law distinctly says that in order to be
eligible for registration a man must
have had his residence in the precinct
In which he means 20 vote for three
months prior to the time when he APP
plies for registration. Now you had no
residence here and you can scarcely
say that you have a right to vote
Aaron agreed with him and turned
reluctantly away. Not so with Tommy
Ideas however. He wanted the man
registered and he protested long and
loud but he could not show that the
man had had a residence here during
the necessary three months.
| N you care to sue out writ of man
damus against u.s." Mr.. Andrews final
ly said, lit can be done and the man
will be registered as of this evening
should the Supreme Court decide that
he had a right o. be registered
But this was going too far for Lucas
and he gave it Up.
The last man TO be registered wa:
Frank +. Nichols OF wall. Nichols G
! Company. and as he finished taking the
oath the hands of the clock pointed <
10 O'Clock and the Board closed UP.
l .f4.w al Ha
During the two sessions there was {
steady stream Of would-be voters II
line. Many were disappointed but tbs
majority passed. The number Of Por
tuguese voters was on the increase
while the Hawaiians continued to pre-
sent themselves in the same proportion
as during the previous tAirty-eigh
days OF the registration.
Some OF the Portuguese who hav'
been naturaIized BY the United State
Circuit Court were refused registra
ton by reason OF their being unable Z
read understandingly from news paper
b and pamphlets and 70 explain wha
they were able to read. Some Of then
could hardly write English words. !
simple sentence such as II see tn
, mice" puzzled many OF them. The mai
, who could not write the latter sentenc
; was told that he had better wait t
register until the next election cam
along.
A Portuguese who had just bee
naturalizcd came smilingly up to III
counter.
Are you naturalized?' asked Lorrii
Andrews.
"Yes-a Democrat" was the simpl
> reply. independent" George Mark
, ham looked worried. This would-b
I voter was turned down because n
: could neither read nor write under
standingly in the English language.
Another Portuguese struck simila
snag. II was questioned by one of IN
Registrars as TO how the man would
able to make out his ballot at the poll
with such n limited vocabulary. II
was similarly disposed OF.
HoMEsTEADs ON KAUAI.