The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-04-02
THE UNDATED
RESIGNATION
sENATB-THIRTY-FoURTH DAY.

sENATE-THIRTy-FouRTH DAY.
The members of the Senate are sat.
isfed that the taxpayers get only a
one.man form of Government when
each head of department signs a
resignation when he accepts the posi-
ton which the Governor tenders him.
They feel, further, that 1t is In direct
violation of clause in the Organic
Act which says that certain officials
shall be appointed "by 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
ing the session and accept his resigna-
ton the day after the Legislature ad-
journs and put in a person known not
to be acceptable to the confirming
body.
In order to put an end to the practice
Senator Hewitt presented the following
which passed first reading on Satur-
day:
Be it Enacted by, the Legislature of the
Territory of Hawaii:
Section /. 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 employee
whose resignation as such official or
employee, dated or undated, is in the Off
cial 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
authorized by law to fill the office COW
cred by such resignation either by nomi-
nation or appointment. Provided, how
ever, that nothing in this act shall be
construed to prevent the bona fide
resignation of any official or employee
of the Territory.
Section 2. All laws and parts of laws
in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.
Section 3. Any person who shall vio-
late the provisions of this act shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and upon due conviction therefor, shall
be fined not more than One Hundred
Dollars ($1o0.0o) for each such offense.
Section 4. This act shall take effect
upon the day of its approval.
There is not doubt that the bill
will go through a-humming but there
is question as to the effect. There is
fear that Governor Carter may send
another resignation or refuse to enter
tain the Congressman when they come
here, but the Senators in the local
Legislature are willing to take a
chance.
The introduction of that bill was
the real feature of the session on Sat
urday. The climax was when Senator
Dowsett asked consideration of his mar
ried 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
er day he brought up the case of
teacher whose husband has deserted
her but that was found not to fit the
bill, so he abandoned that particular
instance as one that would be affected
by the law. On Saturday he moved
to amend the bill so the aim of the
introducer would have been entirely
lost by it's adoption. Senator Dowsett
said that to insist upon keeping mar
ried women in the schools is to en-
courage race suicide.
In conversation after adjournment
he referred to young lady, graduate
of university, working in one of the
schools at a paltry salary of forty-two
dollars and fifty cents n month. She
is fitted to fill any position aside from
principal, and youth is the only draw
back to that, in any of the schools in
the city. One of the barriers to a
better paying position than the one
she holds is the married women who
teach. One of them draws hundred
dollars a month in school while her
husband gets two hundred and twenty
five dollars month in the same insti-
tuition. The Senator is of the opinion
that equally good, and perhaps better,
results would be obtained if those sal
aries were divided among two families
instead of being kept in one-all things
being equal.
The Senator has list of about
twenty married women on this island,
some of them getting as high as hun
bred dollars month. In one instance
mother and daughter are employed
by the Board of Education and the hus-
band draws good salary for clerical
position in a business house ON Fort
street. Still another is the teacher
whose husband is drawing good salary
in an institution while she teaches
school because she would rather hire
the household work done than have the