The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-04

them and go like lambs to the slaughter
and try to rush this thing through the
Legislature? A commission should be
appointed. San Francisco did not put
lin a charter all at once. 1t took them
many years before they had a decent
charter. They had a bad one to start
with. The charter of Greater New
York-how was it framed? They had
thirteen men appointed from among
the most learned of its citizens and it
took them two years to frame the
charter, and yet they have been able
to run holes all through it,
I'VE want a good charter if we are
going to go to all this extra expense.
Let's have an ideal charter. To get
| it don't believe it is the part of COM
mon sense to think it can be done in
side of two months. 1 am frank to say
that were / a member of a charter COM
mission I would be at loss to know
how to go about it. What would At
San Francisco or New York would not
fit Honolulu.
! when we once get municipal char
ter it will tie right to us like the Old
Man of the Sea.
I'VE have got to go before the peo-
/ pie two years from now with a record,
and we want a record that the bust
ness men will approve Of. We must go
Slow
Philip L. Weaver. the attorney. said
in Part: I'VE must look at this ques-
| ton from a business standpoint We
are about to attempt to draw up set
of bylaws for a city corporation and
will have to put that upon ourselves
and live under it for the next two
years. Who are we to have over US
| in that time? What kind Of men will
they Inexperienced or otherwise?
Theoretically, believe that if we sue
coed in drawing up q proper charter
| for Honolulu we are indeed fortunate.
We were able to educate in Honolulu
enough of the Hawaiian voters to
swing toward the Republican party to
make it successful here. The outside
districts illustrate the fact that the
people do not follow the times there
When a native leader said on Molokai
| Vote for me and / will let all you lep-
ers free they believed him and voted
for him. And now to let these people
into municipality what can you ex-
pect of them at the polls?
1.-The charter Of San Francisco was
originally framed in 1854 and has since
been patched up. No man in that city
could answer questions on that charter
now because it has become such a
patchwork and is still incomplete. l
think we should let we'll enough alone
to-day or else have good charter. We
want to show to the Legislature that
it is Impractical TO put in a charter
right away. If we begin to frame a
icharter in the next two months we
have got to begin with the Civil Laws
as far back as 1S4S during the reigr
of Kamehameha Ill and wade dowr
through all the laws to the present
day to make up our charter correctly
and if we go at it half-cocked we are
going to make perfect farce of it. TIL,
Republican party SHOULD recommend
that the Legislature appoint a commits
sion to investigate municipal charters
and therefore urge this club to use it
influence to have this done. We mus
. take time to get up a charter"
Dan H. Case said in part: II agre
that it would be a difficult matter t
frame a charter-a good charter-il
the short period of time between nov
and the day the Legislature convenes
believe, however, that the citizen
should join with the Democrats an
Independents and look up the matter O
a charter thoroughly. The Republic
ans do not want to hold aloof in thi
matter simply because it is an hide
Ipendent proposition. / will admit tina
= a charter cannot be framed in tw
r months. but all three parties ar
3 pledged to it, although the propositio
q to do so on the part of the Republican
Q is. when practicable
. Isaac Noar spoke in a similar strai
= and moved that it be the sense of tn
; club that it be recommended by til
Republican party that the Legislatul
appoint a commission to prepare
charter.
Mr.. Nakuina then offered a resoll
z ton, which, with an amendment fro
, Mr.. Weaver, was as follows:
q Resolved, That a committee of fly
. be appointed to confer with the exec,
9 tive committee of the Republican pa
9lty of Hawaii to state that the Your
> Mems Republican Club believes it
be to the interests of the city of H,
nolulu that commissioners be appoin
ed by the Legislature before a chart,
6 is prepared, and
= That the matter of celebrating u,
on the charter be referred to a con
- mission to be appointed by the Leg
lature, and that no attempt be mac
TO frame charter before the Leg
= lature convenes
| Mr.. Case offered an amendmel
which was not seconded. The cit
!. passed the foregoing resolution unan
mously, and the chair appointed the 70
lowing club members to present II
resolution to, and confer with, the r
d publican central committee: Messr
n Weaver, kumalae, Wolff, Kanakan
s and Noar.
= The meeting adjosrned subject to Il
y coll Of ,lo