The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-01
HE UNDATED
RESIGNATION
Bill to Abolish 1.-THE
Married Women
Teachers.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DAY.

The members of the Senate are sat
listed that the taxpayers get only a
each head of department signs a
resignation when he accepts the posi-
i tion which the Governor tenders him.
They feel, further, that it is in direct
violation of elanse in the Organic
S Act which says that certain officials
shaH be appointed 'tby and with the
consent of the Senate,'' and removed
the same way. Senator Mccarthy
thinks it would be an easy matter for
the Governor to appoint dummy dur
Z ing the session and accept his resigna-
tion the day after the Legislature ad-
sfiourns and put in a person known not
to be acceptable to the confirming
body.
In order to put an end to the practice
saator Hewitt presented the following
which passed first reading on satur-
day:
Be it Enacted BY the Legislature of the
Territory Of Hawaii:
Section l. From and after the 30th
day of June, A. D. 1907, it shall be
unlawful for the Auditor to draw any
warrant for the payment of any salary
to any Territorial official or employe
whose resignation as such official or
employe, dated or undated, is in the Off
<eial or personal possession of any heads
of departments of the Territory of Ha
waii, or in the official or personal pos
ession of any official of this Territory
4authorized by law to FIJI the Office COW
Fed by such resignation either by nomi-
tion or appointment. Provided, how
Ter, that nothing in this act shall be
Eonstrued to prevent the bona fde
resignation of any official or employe
sof the Territory.
Section 2. All laws and parts of laws
IN conflict with this act are hereby
=4'pealed
s. Section 8. Any person who shall vio-
sate the provisions of this act shall
Sc deemed guilty Of misdemeanor,
and upon due conviction therefor, shall
be fined not more than One Hundred
Dollars ($loo.00) for each such offense.
Section 4. This act shall take effect
upon the day of its approval.
There is not doubt that the bill
viii go through a-humming but there
is question as to the effect. There is
a fear that Governor Carter may send
another resignation or refuse to enter
fain the Congressman when they come
here. but the Senators in the local
Legislature are willing t. take al
chance
the real feature of the session on Sat
nrday- The climax was when Senator
powsett asked consideration of his mar
fled women teachers bill. Senator !:
Smith seems to be the champion of
the teachers in this regard and no one
knows just why he holds out. The 9TH
sr day he brought up the case of a
Acher whose husband has deserted
E but that was found not TO fit the ;
N, so he abandoned that particular I
Etance as one that would be affected
! ii the law. On Saturday he moved
8 amend the bill so the aim of the 3
Eroducer would have been entirely {
Et BY its adoption. Senator Dowsett :.
Id that to insist upon keeping mar !
ha cobnnlz fn an-i ,
Arage race suicide.
In conversation after adjournment
referred to young lady, graduate
/ . university, working in one of the
n hooIs at paltry salary of forty-two
lIars and fifty cents month. She h
Mitted to fill any position aside from g
Encipal, and youth is the only draw
ek TO that, in any of the schools IN
city. One of the barriers to
Ter paying position than the one {
"a holds is the married women who
Esh. One of them draws hundred
Lars month in a school while her t
lZband gets two hundred and twenty 9
III dollars a month in the same 1nstl-
ION. The Senator is of the opinion !
3 Il equally good, and perhaps better, a
llts would be obtained if those sal W
rss were divided among two fam1i1es G
.ntea6 of being kept in one-an things :
Lsing equal.
The Senator has a list of about p
4enty married women on this island, b
zsne of them getting as high as q hun al
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