The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-12-17
COMMITTEE
WILL PASS
ALL BILLS
Home!R Rulers Have
Legislative
Plan.
uoME RULERS are preparing to

~ ONE RULERS are preparing to
III do politics on n scale never be-
~ fore attempted. The plans upon
which the members of the executive
committee and affiliated members of
the Legislature will work are now two
fold. While they are not overlooking
anything which might be considered as
ammunition in their warfare against
Governor Dole. they have inaugurated
a class of work which indicates that
they consider an extra session as i'm
possible.
Although there has been no formal
committee given the task OF preparing
q party platform for the campaign Of
next year. several members are hard at
work upon the preparation of bills.
which failed to pass the last Legisla
ture. for submission to the heads of the
party organizations. for ratification.
which will mean that these measures
shall constitute the platform of the
party. and that upon them each men,
beg shall be pledged before ne Is given
n nomination for a seat In the Legis-
lature.
The qualifications of the plan are
many. According to one member of the
prominence during the spring and sum-
mer sessions. the plan is to choose the
measures upon which the Home Rule
party Is to pin its faith, consider them
in detail and then when the form of
n measure pleases the executive COM
mittee make it an article in the con-
fession of faith to which each would
be Home Rule legislator must sub
scribe. The pledge is to be a steel
bound. copper riveted, alright oath
which binds the candidate; then in the
event of election he will vote for the
various bills enumerated in the plat
form, first. last and all the time. And"
continued the legislator, lin the event
Of Home Rule majority there is to
be not a single change in any one of
the bills SO chosen. There will not be
an amendment offered, but the bills vii
be rushed through on schedule time,
there being speeches only in eXplana-
ton
The special meeting of the committee
this evening will have several particu-
lar matters before 1t. The question Of
a mass meeting for the purpose Of
sending to the President a statement,
in the event Of Gov. Dole's new refusal
to call an extra session. will be up. and
there is a strong belief that it will be
adopted. The plan is to provide COM
mittee to arrange for such a meeting,
for speakers and resolutions. 1t is not
Thought any attempt will be- made to
call such a meeting until late in the
month Of January. There will be given
by this plan time for the preparation
OF the resolutions and addresses, and
Ill
ers on other islands to be notified of
the plan so that they may have oppor-
tunity to come here If found desirable.
or at least. to communicate to local
Home Rulers their wishes in regard to
the various questions.
It is desired on the part of many
Home Rulers that the mass meeting
proposed shall be held at time when
the various outside leaders are in the
city to take part in the great confer
ence which is scheduled for the latter
part of January. At that time it is eX
pected there will be a representative
session OF the heads of the various dis
trict anu other local clubs and COM
mittees. which shall decide the lines
to be followed in all subsequent, mat
ters OF party government. AS showing
how the party proposes to proceed the
following editorial, from the Kuokoa
Home Rula, the original organ of the
party and for which George Markham
the editor. still claims that honor is
quoted:
ARE NOW PREPARING.
Alma party are making arrangements for
the publication, weekly, of such laws as
are drafted. an that the said laws will
he in shape when presented for the con.
sideration of the legislature at it's regu-
lar session In 1903; and only those who
will in advance pledge themselves to sup
port and carry out the wishes of the Ha-
waiian people UahuD will be nomina ted
AS candidates for the next legislature.
The reason for publishing the bill is
SO that the Hawaiian people ULahuD will
be able to know the views and opinions
of its leaders. on those laws which may
be finally adopted, and also to prepare
q draft for the party PLATFORM and to
have the same ready by the time the
delegates come here from the several DIS
tricts Of the Territory.
These arrangements are being made
beforehand. for the reason that we do
not wish to leave any of our work of
whatsoever kind to do at the last mo-
ment. as all work done in haste is I'M
satisfactory and no good results will
come from It when presented for the ac-
ton of the Legislature
The senators who have been selected
and been declared to serve the four year
term. under the terms of the fundamen-
tai laws OF the Territory, should all be
requested to be present when questions
Of this nature are to be considered.
The time is very short. when the dis
eordant sounds will soon be heard from
the trumpets of the different political
parties and factions. giving vent to their
political views and opinions of their ad-
ministrative abilities. and also of the
platform. each one claiming theirs to be
the only right one. the others to be all
wrong: this one u only a goat within.
eutwardly covered with sleeps wool:
they are all wrong. they are not of us.