The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-03-31

1t developed at the meeting of the
Dowsett special committee on the
County Act held yesterday afternoon
that a good deal of the county gov
eminent sentiment in the Senate is just
as genuine as the Senatoriaf dread of
/, the majority of the voters of the Ter
ritory, and no more. Indeed. this has
perhaps been apparent all along, but
it has never been quite so frankly
stated as it was at the committee meet
! ing.
The members of the Dowsett commit
tee, namely Senators Dowsett, Gandall,
Hewitt, Kalama and McCandless were
present at the meeting, and there were
in attendance, besides, Senators Woods,
Lane, Achi, Paris, and Chaplain Desha
of the House of Representatives. The
| committee was called to consider Sec
tions 10 and 80 of the County Act, pass
ed back to the committee at the morn
ing session of the Senate. Section 19
relates to the election of district off,
Gals in certain districts, and was not
| changed by the committee from the
provisions of the bill.
Section 80 relates to election pre-
! cincts or districts, and to this an
amendment was submitted requiring
the Governor to change polling places
! so that voters could vote for the Su-
pervisors from the districts in which
| they had been registered.
Attorney Holmes, of Holmes & stan
| ley, present in an advisory capacity
! was consulted as to the amendment
and thought that it would meet the
| objection which some of the Senator.
had made to the provisions of the bill
| Senator Achi likewise urged the adop-
ton of the proposed amendment by
the committee. Then McCandless mov-
ed that it be adopted and the motion
carried after McCandless had been sent
for to vote upon it.
| 1t was after this that the sensation
of the meeting developed. Palmer
Woods brought up the question of the
number of Supervisors in the county
of Hawaii stating very frankly that
! he favored seven in place of nine. as
| in the bill, both on account, of the saw
ing in expense, and because he thought
| that under the allotment as 1t stood
| the people who paid the taxes would
+, not have enough say in the matter OF
spending the income. He proposed
. first, to combine the two Hilos and
give the combination district two SUI
pervisors. 1t would be unfair to give
each Hilo one, South Hilo having 800
votes and N. Hilo only about 81. His
plan was to have the Board of Super
visors consist of seven members three
from West Hawaii and four from East
Hawaii. The Konas, he said, had the
most votes, which they would put
against the money of East Hawaii
East Hawaii paid the taxes, and West
! Hawaii would say how the public funds
should be expended.
Achi objected TO the Woods plan, a.,
putting the two Konas in one super.
visorial district would throw too much
work on the district magistrates ano
| deputy sheriffs.
But IL the, members of the lower
House from there are satisfied. you
ought to be-" said Woods. They live
there"
NO" answered Achi. ~ take no.
body's satisfaction. 1 am basing my
opinion upon my own knowledge If the
country" And then he went on to
state at length why he favored giving
the proposed county of Hawaii nine
supervisors.
ct am glad to hear this discussion
broke in Dowsett. "Still. 1t is a ln..t-
ter with which We have nothing TO do
1t has not been referred to this COM