Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-02
c A n n OF RE NJ 0 We
Hawaii's New Governor Must
Keep Obnoxious officials,
EFUS E TO RESIGN
OF DOLE AND CAR
TER BLOW TO HOME RULERS.
The Judge to Be Very Busy During His
First Term on the
Bench.
REFUSE TO RESIGN
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HONOLULU. r. H.. November Is, 1908.
Gov. Dole has been removed at last.
After nearly four years of efforts by a GER
tain element in the local republican party.
aided by home rulers. to remove" the gov
ernor, which efforts were so persistent and
often so ridiculous that the removal Of Dole
became local joke. the governor today
retires as the chief executive to take the
position Of United States Judge for the ter
ritory. The United States judgeship in Ha-
wall is in some respects of unusual impor-
lance. In the first place, there are many
federal laws with which the islands are not
familiar, and. in the second, there is practi-
c2lly no appeal from many of the orders
OF the federal judge in Hawaii.
On the mainland party claiming to be
aggrieved by an order of the United States
district judge In a habeas corpus or many
other matters may go at once to another
judge of a similar Jurisdiction There Is
no such possibility in Hawaii. There Is
only one federal judge in all the islands,
and the only appeal from his rulings Is to
the ninth circuit court Of Appeals, at San
Francisco. Appeals take time and in many
cases so much time as to make the right of
appeal useless.
The Minority Rebuked.
Gov. Dole's receiving the appointment of
federal Judge and Secretary George r. Car
ters appointment as governor were q hard
blow to the noisy minority who have so bit
terly pursued the retiring governor through
his administration. Carter, though differ
ing from Dole in many policies, and often
having warm discussions with him, is to be
controversy Is concerned. His administra-
ton Will differ from that of the retiring
executive IN important respects, however.
and, 1t Is believed, will be marked by less
of the race and old monarchy feeling for
Dole Is ever a target for native hatred as
the man who took the helm In 1893 and
kept it until Hawaii was piloted into the
American Union.
With one exception all of the Dole ap-
pOinteeS as heads of departments of the
territorial government offered their resig-
nations when the news of the appointment
was received. 1t was the general idea that
the new governor should have clean slate
so that he might choose his own officials
and Carter himself freely stated that he
considered that ali the department heads
should resign and that he would insist upon
having the designations before he was i'll
augurated
Governor Cannot Remove.
IF the governor is to be held responsible
for the administration, he should have the
right to name his department heads" said
the new governor. The organic act of Ha-
wall, however, while providing that the
governor shall appoint, with the consent of
the Senate, gives him no power to remove
or suspend. as Governor Dole found when
there were large embeZzlements in some of
the departments and the responsible heads
refused to resign.
Treasurer "A. N. kepoikai a well-known
Hawaiian. and former circuit Judge on the
Island of Maui, has so far refused to state
whether he will resign or not, and has
brought about peculiar situation. Carter
has even gone SO far as to say that he will
not be inaugurated as governor at all If he
cannot have a free hand to choose his own
officials, and sarcastically remarked that
If kepoikai continued to refuse IL would
be necessary for President Roosevelt to
find d governor satisfactory to the treas
urer In Kepoikais attitude some think
there are indications of the manipulations
of the old semi-home rule wing of the To-
cal republican party.
Reappointments Expected.
1t is generally understood to- be Carriers
intention to reappoint most of the present
heads of departments, or to decline their
designations which would be the same
thing. Kepoikai, however, is one who will
not be reappointed. it is thought. and E. S.
Boyd. land commissioner, is also doubtful
of reappointment Kepofkai is mentioned
of the Maui circuit court. The position is
now held by another native J. w. Kalua
against whom the most serious charges
were presented before the commission
which visited here over year ago, pre-
sided over by Senator Mitchell of Oregon
The commission recommended his removal
but no action was taken.
All Of the Hawaiian judicial commissions
expire next June. and there is a good deal
of quiet work being done to secure reap
pointments A fight is being made against
Gilbert F. Little of the fourth circuit and
against Judge George D. Gear Of the first
circuit.
Judge Dole to Be Busy.
Judge Dole begins his term as federal
judge with a somewhat extraordinary calen-
dar of business. There are about twenty
indictments of Japanese for importing wo-
men and keeping them for unlawful pur-
poses, as result Of vigorous campaign
carrying on against a villainOus organiza-
ton of Japanese who were living on the pro-
ceeds of such business. number of other
cases are coming up, and these Japanese
cases alone will make very heavy GRIM
inal calendar. In addition to them. there is
an investigation being made by the grand
jury into the scandals of the last Legislature
The Legislative Scandals.
AS formerly published in The Star the
vouchers for the session expenses of the
House of Representatives disappeared after
the session and were reported to have been
burned. Each of the thirty members of the
House has now been subpoenaed to appear
before the federal grand jury and testify
regarding them, and regarding scandaIous
reports in connection with them and other
matters. 1t Is possible that some very SEN
sationai revelations viii be brought out be-
fore the jury gets through.
At the same time the territorial grand
jury Is making an investigation into charges
of election frauds in Honolulu. The home
rulers claim to have been counted out of
several offices. and the jurors are examin-
ing ballots and questioning witnesses On
Kauai and in East Hawaii the republicans
have been making similar charges. In
Maui county, which had clean home rule
sweep, and in West Hawaii where the re-
publicans carried everything, there are no