The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-03

whereupon he made a short speech.
thanking the members for the honors.
The following resolution was then in
troduced and passed. without dissenting
voice:
Resolved. that the chair appoint a com
mittee of three to prepare and forward
to the Committee on Insular Possessions
of the Senate and to the Committee on
Territories of the House, a draft OF bin
to be submitted to Congress providing
for the apportionment of the Senators of
this Territory
Stewart would not vote upon the mat
ter, saying he had done so once be-
fore and the matter was allowed to pass
without action. and try as he might
Kennedy could not force expression
from the Fifth district man, once say
ing, when asked why he insisted upon
vote, 81 don't know what you have
up your sleeve" This disposed OF there
was brought out one of the prettiest
fights of the night. The resolution of
Cooke which was to make all matters OF
the quorum of the executive committee
easy was as follows
Resolved that the following rule be
adopted, namely:
That members of the Executive Com
mittee absent from Honolulu may be
represented by proxy at any meetings OF
said Committee.
All rules or parts of rules inconsistent
with this rule are hereby rescinded.
AS soon as It was read Stewart de-
clared that 1t was the parting Of the
ways and he moved substitute. This
limited the proxy TO a member OF the
Territorial committee who resides In
the district of the absent member. Col.
] TIT.
should be more latitude as to the Civ
ing OF proxies, as often there was
good republican from one of the other
islands in the city, and he could repre-
sent the district better than any one
else
This gave the text for the longest ai-
dress of the evening by Stewart. he
taking for his text the un-Amerlcan
system of permitting any one else than
a member from the very district In
which he lived, from representing the
people in committee meeting. The old
system of permitting a man here to
represent the people of another island,
he said. had gone and the American
system, which made representative
necessarily a resident Of the district he
represents. had come and the commit
tee must stand by it.
had been framed for the very purpose
OF providing for a seat upon the com
mittee tor a gentleman who, he said.
had been hard worker and an In
valua BILE man for the party but while
he had an aloha for the man, he should
go to the people and get his advance
rnent there. and not try and get into
tho cmmittee in any other way. He
said he held the proxies of practically
the entire second district, and he would
consider II indecent to use those upon
other than the main question. He said
he had been trying 10 fathom the pub
lie feeling and he found that 1t would
be outraged by the following Of the
same tactics as in the past. From this
the orator went on and told of the his
tory of the proxy system, and what II
might lead TO in the future. Finally
Cooke agreed and there were inserted
after the word proxy" in the first sen
tence "by members Of the Territorial
not already members Of the
executive committee" adding the pro-
viso that no members shall hold moro
than one proxy for the executive COM
mittee.
Fisher would not give in as he said
he was opposed to Capitalization and
thought the people OF the other Islands,
who might come to Oahu could repre-
sent the people at home better than any
member. Finally the resolution in its
amended form was sent through with a
rush.
This done Stewart offered the follow
ing and began a fight for It's passage:
Resolved, that a proxy may be used a:
any committee meeting OF the Territorial
Committee, but no proxy shall be used
except by a member OF the Territorial
Committee. and no member shall hold
more than two proxies.
Renton said however that this made
a hard question for consideration,
as it affected the people Of the
other Islands. Fisher then moved to
lay the matter on the table until the
first meeting Of January, but Stewart
insisted that It was lodging, and he
would not favor such tactics. He said
that there would be no attack upon the
Governor so far as he had heard. Fish
er moved for meeting Of the COM
mittee on the first Monday of the month
and the members agreed to this with
a rush.
Then came the chief work Of Stewart
He proposed the following resolution
whereas, the impression exists that
vacancy in the office of Governor Is IKE
ly to occur at any time; and
Whereas. it is difficult to get meeting
this committee because Of the great
distance at which members reside from
Honolulu, therefore,