The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-07

According To- "a decision of the Bepub-
.Iulu Central Committee last night. the
secretary lis to bee a man who is "a menu f.
beer of the committee, and not am OUT .
slider as formerly. But. like other acts /
of the committee i'm recent meetings,
the decision will be brought up for rec /
consideration. Those who want an OUT
slider and who favor j. ID. Avery as sue
uessor to h. r.. Hendry, think they see
e disregard of instructions i'm the way
some proxies were voted. After Zee
solving that the secretary should be a !
member, the committee postponed the
choice to the next meeting, the evident
choice, however, being j. II. Fisher.
There were "a votes al the meeting,
and eight members present. Avery
was made temporary secretary, and
read the minutes and after the resigna-
ton of II. r.. hendry had been accept
ed. b. II. Wright moved that the new
secretary be a member of the commit
tee. r. McCants Stewart opposed i'm a
long address, i'm which he said that
Mainland precedent was against such
a move, citing the Republican National
committee, of which the chairman,
Mark Hanna, is not a member, nor is
the secretary.
When the matter came TO a vote ii.
was found that some of the commit
teemen present had proxies on which
they were instructed to vote for Avery
They did not vote at all on the ques-
ton of having a member for secretary,
and the motion carried by IL to 9, thus
shutting out Avery. 1t was claimed
after the meeting that instructions to
vote for Avery should have been fol-
lowed by casting votes against a reso-
luton which shut him out, and the mat
ter will come up at the next meeting
In the meantime, however, the mem
bers holding proxies Will write for iur-
Their instructions and, owing to new
rule adopted last night providing that
no member shall hold more than two
proxies, there will be some rearrange-
ments of proxies.
Wright nominated Col. j. II. Fisher
for secretary, and J. p. Cooke seconded
the nomination. McCants Stewart no
minated w. j. Coelho, who lacked a
second until Fisher seconded the mo-
minaton. The voting was proceeding
and evidently leading to the choice OF
Fisher when Renton said mo vote
-.,at,.t,,,r no. ~, bad l,,ar instructed ia
80, tra,,, Gov A,.ar,, stewart tben
- ,,,,,,t,,or,ir,o Tho whole matter
',rtt, tI,a na,,t ,,,aafing and there was
no opposition.
Fisher moved that the office of assist
an. sacrat,,.,, he created If is said to
49, bean the intention TO elect Fisher
secrata,v and Avery assistant. the un-
derstanding being that the secretary
l,,rnsalf should attend TO executive COM
mittee meeting matters and to the more
frDnortant correspondence. The matter
was laid over, however, and the COM
7,,-raa nroceaded to unfinished business
with nothing finally done.
The matter of the choice of a mem
her from EliIo. to succeed Committee
man Glib. was referred back to the
members from that district, who had
failed TO agree upon recommending "a
man.
Stewart proposed a committee to
make up rules for the committee em-
hodying those now on the record, and
the chair appointed Stewart Cooke and
Huddy.
The resolution as TO proxies, as
amended and passed, is as follows
Resolved that a proxy may be used
at any committee meeting Of the Ter
ritorial Committee, but no proxy shall
ice used except by member of the
Territorial Committee or of the last
Territorial convention, or of the dis
uict committee, and no members shall
hold more than two proxies"
Before adjournment Stewart offered
the following;
Moved, that this committee has
learned with deep regreat of the sad
death of the Hon. a. K. Giihllan, for
merly member OF the House OF ltep-
IesentauVes OF the territory OF Ha-
wall FOR the Fourth District; JhaI ne
was an earnest and faithful RepuDh-
can holding republican principles win
eiearhess ana eNpouhoihg them win
@'il'y' IheI ne was an earnest repre-