The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-17
CONGRESS
MAY NAME
SENATORS
Settlement ofLong
and Short
Term.
REPUBLICANS MAY
ASK FOR ACTION
Said to Be in Favor of Plan
Suggested in the Brown
Bill.

"a OLD-OVER Senators will occupy
much of the attention of the Re
<-A publican Territorial Committee
when it meets next, if the plans which
are being considered now are not
changed. 1t is proposed by several of
the leaders of the party in this city to
have the committee pass resolutions
and take steps to present to Congress
the facts concerning the long term
senators, so that action may be taken
which will prevent confusion at the next
election in the Territory.
The plan which it is expected will be
endorsed by the committee, is that
which was proposed by Senator Cecil
Brown to the Senate in the form of a
bill, but which received scant courtesy
at the hands of the Independent ma
jority. This is that the men receiving
the greatest number of votes should be
declared the long term senators, the
eight being apportioned two each to
the islands of Hawaii and Maui, one to
Kauai and three to this island. This
would mean that the odd senator of the
quorum would be given to Maui, the
apportionment in all other cases being
One-half the total representation. This
plan die not meet with the favor of the
Independents, as by it there would be
an equal division of the senators as
to parties, the Home Rulers getting
only four, the Republicans having the
same number.
Had this plan been adopted the fol-
lowing would have been selected
through it as the long term solons:
Hawaii, ]. T. Brown and J. b. Kaohi;
Maui, S. E. Kaiue and H. P. Baldwin !;
Oahu, Cecil Brown, G. L. Crabbe and
w. c. Achi; Kauai, L. Nakapaahu. OF
the men named there are three who
now hold certificates showing that they
were chosen by a joint session of the
two houses of the first legislature of
Hawaii. as members of the senate to
serve for four years. There is in ex-
istence a fourth certificate, which is in
the hands of Senator White, of Maui,
and as there are no more certificates
out so far as is known, the selection
Of the four year term men is considered
TO be incomplete and it would entitle
every other senator 20 demand a seat
as one of the unsolicited four, if there
could such a possible contingency arise.
The partial selection of the four year
termers took place on Wednesday, May
1st or on the first day after the end OF
the session as the Republicans reckon
ed it, that day being recorded by the
majority as the fifty-eighth day Of the
session. At that joint session there was
Il sensation, and the whole thing broke
up IN row practically, nothing being
done to fill the list of the long term
men after the selection of Senator
White as one of the number. There
We're two ballots taken, on one of which
White received seven and on the other
six senatorial votes. and the members
opposed to him claimed that this not
being a majority of the members elect
ed to both houses. there was no legal
election. But after the Chair ruled in
This way the joint body overruled him
and the election stood, and was so an
nuunced at the afternoon session. Al
the night session the election of White
was reconsidered on motion of Prender-
CAST, and the vote again resulting in
the lack of majority of senators for
White, Kanuha and Russell voting in
the negative, the discussion began
again, being closed only when the
negative senators bolted the session
According to the official journal of the
senate there was never an announce
ment of an election.
There will be protest against con
cS| fnc Aho elections
the Republicans staying away from the
session, as they held the legislative tern
had closed, and the entire matter may
yet be aired in the courts, if White trie.
TO force recognition as four year sena
tor. It is said to be the plan of tht
Republicans to enter their ela,m tha
the Congress should take mp the worl
of selecting the hold-overs, as there ha!
been no compliance with the paragraph
% the Organic Act requiring the legjs