The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-14
WANT A
BIG MASS
MEETING
Plan
to Force Extra
Session.
NEW INDICTMENT
OF GOVERNOR
interpret Pres. RooseveIt's Message
to Mean That He FavorS
County Bill at Once.

TOME RULERS, who are not con-
s tent with their petitions to Presi-
A4 dent Roosevelt 20 remove Govern
or Dole, are planning great mass
meeting to demand an extra session of
the Governor, with the alternative that
his failure to call such a session shall
be the ground for vehement appeal
for the vacation of the Office of Gov
ernor. The matter was sprung at the
Thursday night meeting Ct Home Rul-
ers by John Emmeluth, and viii be
considered at the special meeting to be
held Tuesday night.
he Interpretation put upon the Ha-
waiian paragraph in the message of
President Roosevelt by the Home Rul-
ers has been the cause % q decided
change in the front presented by the
party members. Whereas prior to the
publication of the mess age there was
desire on the part of the Home Rule
members of the Legislature to have an
extra session, even IL there should be
necessary an agreement TO pass none
but fiscal measures, now the Independ-
ents believe they can force the session
solely upon the grounds that develop
ment along American lines means the
Inauguration of city and county gov
ernments. Emmeluth is said to make
this Interpretation of the message of
the President, and to have spoken az
ton
The mass meeting planned is intend
ed as a citizens demand for nlultitud-
inous officials, and there was a great
ty lines be drawn. The proposers of the
plan advanced the argument that there
were men Of all parties who wanted an
extra session of the Legislature, and
that to attempt to make the meeting a
partisan affair would mean that the
support of vast number OF inhuen-
tial citizens would be lost. The oppo-
nents of the non-partIsan plan insisted
that as the majority party. the Home
Rulers. should make the fight to fin
iSn anu pointed OUT li4dL Lllt INepuDilG-
an party undoubtedly world be repre-
sented in the meeting. through Emil
Ney, bailiff Of the courts, and that thus
they would control action while re-
naming in command Of the situation.
The matter thus was left IN abeyance
as the stress Of argument left it impos-
sible OF decision at the meeting.
II was outlined in the speeches OF
the advocates of the meeting that the
plan would be to pass resolutions call
ng upon Governor Dole 10 issue proc
for an extra session Of the
Legislature, falling which ne was TO be
lssailed at Washington as the only en-
,my OF the Presidents plan for the
Americanization OF the Territory OF
Hawaii. with the expectation that upon
his indictment the President would
ind him guilty and sen;ence him t.
dismissal from Office. It vas intended
~ the advocates Of the nou-partlsan
Meeting to issue the call for date so
ar ahead that the advocates Of special
esslon on the other islands would nave
IN opportunity 10 send delegates TO en-
er their plea for an extra session
The deferring Of action Is expected TO
1--WE time for the committee whi-h is
o confer with labor orranizati tions.
Prince cupid. Emmeluta and Quinn
ime to arrange for uuitv Of action
Many members Of the committee be-