The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-25

Kauai and Molokai to get their &C
counts in by that time on account O
the poor travelling accommodations
tIn order to remedy that trouble
the Senate passed the bill amending
Section Sc so as to change the day Of
meeting to the first Wednesday after
the fifth day of each month. Thi:
was further amended by the House tc
the first Wednesday after the first Mon
| day in each month. AS the amendment
recommended by the House is more
| acceptable to all of the counties with
| the exception of Maui county, your
committee recommends that the Sen
ate yield to the House in it's amend
ment as far as the counties of Hawaii,
Oahu and Kauai are concerned, and
that the House yield to the Senate in
it's amendment as far as the County
of Maui is concerned. The section as
agreed upon will then read as follows:
Section Sc. The Board shall hold
regular meetings for the transaction of
public business beginning on the first
Wednesday of each month, except in
the County of Maui where the meet
ings shall be held on the first Wed
nesday after the fifth day of each
month, and continue in session for as
many days as the transaction of such
business may require, and it shall call
such special meetings as may be neces-
sary for the public welfare
TERRITORY AND COUNTY.
Senator Mccarthy read a resolution
relative to a change in the Government
of the Territory by dispensing with
the services of some of the employees
by merging the county and Territorial
Offices The document is as follows: !
"Whereas, The Congress of the Unit
ed States in the Act approved April
30, 1900, creating the Territory of Ha-
wall, and providing Government
therefor, made it clear by provisions
that it was the reasonable ex-
pectation of the Congress that the prin-
ciples of local self government would |
in time be developed within the Terri |
tory, comfortable to the spirit and |
methods of American institutions, and |
provided that counties, cities
and towns might be created, but
Whereas, It has been found, in the |
effort to carry out this reasonable ex-
oectation of the Congress, that the i'm
Mediate necessity it was under at the
lime to provide a complete form and
system of Government adequate to meet
he peculiarities of the situation, has
'esulted in serious difficulties in the
way of adjusting the Government of
he Territory to local self-government,
wen along lines of the most eonserva-
i've development, and the most usual
orms of local self government such as
COUNTIES and cities, resulting, unavoid-
IDLY, in burdensome and obstructive
and Implications of gov
functions,
"There, Be It Resolved, By the SEN
tie of the Territory of Hawaii, the
House of Representatives concurring,
hat the Congress is respectfully urged,
ither upon the recommendations of a
appointed to investigate
nd report on the subject, or upon such
Their information and advice as it ,
hall choose to act upon, to so amend s
he said act creating the Territory, that t
here may be appropriate and adequate f
eparation and distribution of the func- {
ions of Government between the Ter /
ltorial government and local govern '
rental bodies and jurisdictions, to the c
nd that duplication and overlapping
f functions may be avoided; that Ter I
Itorial Offices whose functions and {
uties have been, or may be transferred {
Il of given classes of duties may be I
ransferred from Territorial to local e
lrisdiction; and generally, that there
Jay be better adjustment of local and +
erritorial functions, duties and re- /
than is now possible, so c
nat the obstacle of increased cost of i
overnment will not constantly be in
lie way of the development of the :
rinciple of local self government in
lis Territory q
Senator Coelho moved the adoption e
the resolution but this was opposed c
Y Senator Smith who objected to such
rompt disposition of the measure
hich seemed to be of a great deal
Importance. He could not consent =
sending the resolution to Congress
its present form; it would do more
arm than good if it goes without be-
g more explicit in its explanations;
generalizes too much. He said the >
esire of the members of a Congression
committee was for information. This
solution is poorly drawn in that it .
.fers good deal to functions with