The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-15


! According to the House vouchers
that body spent approximately 100000
for services in translating, interpreting
and printing bills in Hawaiian. The
do, that now two or three weeks be-
forehand, that we want TO call the leg
islature together to pass a new county
act. when we don't know what the Su-
preme Court is going to do. l believe
we are going too fast, especially in
view of the revelations regarding the
legislature made within the past two
or three weeks.
II renew the amendment already
made, that the portion of the resolu-
lions be rejected that calls for a spe-
cial session of the Legislature. as this
would only further destroy confidence.
| l see the Attorney General quoted at
the last meeting as saying that 1t
would cost 100000 and while I do not
believe 1t would be that much. yet it
would certainly cost n great deal of
money, which we cannot afford at this
time. There Is no need of borrowing
trouble when we are not certain that
the Supreme Court will knock the
county act out. Because It did knock
out one section Is no particular reason
why the remaining portions are invalid.
Two prominent attorneys who have
been giving the matter some study are
positive that the reasons given by the
Supreme Court for knocking out the
Territorial Board of Public Institutions
do not apply to the balance of the law.
1t is unsound to consider beforehand
NO Mt trn a e,tiI
further increase the feeling of in
security. I am in favor of waiting I'M
til the Supreme Court has passed upon
the question:
T.. p. DOLE'S VIEWS.
Both political parties and the leg
| lslature were almost unanimous in
favor of county government" said f.
| +. Dole. II am in favor of giving the
county act a trial on it's merits, and 1t
seems to me that the only question is
how to best do this. While it might
have been wiser in the beginning not
to have sent Mr.. Hatch to Congress
yet according to the report cabled here
he has been doing good work in Wash
ington. 1t Is one thing to decline to
send an emissary to Congress and
|
his work is well done I believe also
In taking the case to the Supreme
Court. When you have two strings to
your bow, pull them both. While as
a citizen I was not in favor of sending
Mr. Hatch, I am not in favor of calling
him down, for the reason that the peo-
pie in Washington have the kindlest
If we lay our pickering aside and
| feelings towards this Territory, and
| stand together we can get everything
we want in Washington.
Now Mr. Hatch has gone there as
the representative of certain interests
and 1t Is up to us to show whether we
are going to increase our name for
, pickering, or whether we are going to
show the people that the people stand
by him for the public good.
1T Is wise to put the test case before
the Supreme Court, for If we fail on
the one hand we will still have the
other to fall back upon. One sugges-
ton 1 might make, is in regard to the
Japanese hackdrivers. Every lawyer
knows that one provision may be
| Knocked out without affecting the
whole act. If this section Is void. it
United States and not the Organic
is void under the Constitution OF the
Act, and the validating of the act as
a whole by Congress, cannot validate
the section, or put in force anything
which is in violation of the United
States constitution"
STEWART ALSO TALKS.
T. McCants Stewart opposed the COM
J y,nttf
his own. He opposed particularly the
feature which suggested calling upon
the Bar Association to bring a test
case, saying that the lawyers would
first have to be given a fee. II have
yet to know OF a member of the Bar
Association who ordinarily works with
out retainer and this resolution is
simply shooting into the air. Now If
subscription list had been proposed
to raise money for a retainer, there
would have been some practlcability
in the resolutions.
But another thing. The Supreme
Court has adjourned until January
18th and l say 1t as true that no man
can sit in this town meeting tonight
who can say that the Supreme Court
Will sit before that date, or that a
decision can be obtained within three
weeks. I endorse the suggestion that
the situation has changed since the
last meeting. am not talking for the
Governor, but am looking at member
of the government who should talk for
him. But in this instance it Is not
for this town meeting to turn down
the Governor Of the Territory or the
Delegate In Congress- nave here
resolution drawn by myself, which
have shown to but three persons in
this world-W. r. harrington, Judge
Humphreys and j. d. Avery"
The resolution was introduced as fol-
lows:
STEWART RESOLUTION.
Whereas the Governor md other