The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-25
ORGANIC ACT
AMENDMENTS
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move from Office any of such oai
GERS. -
This change is one that has beer
| discussed through a long period ans
widely agreed on. Surely this can no
come with the shock of surprise No
is the proposed amendment to sector
81 an unheard-of matter. 1t is as fol
lows:
q Nor shall any Judge sit in any
case in which he may have been OF
+! counsel or on an appeal from any de
| cision or judgment rendered by him
| and the Legislature of the Territory
may add other causes of disqualified
ton to those herein enumerated.
: Section 81 of the Organic Act i:
TO be further amended by adding
thereto the following:
And any such public property
| taken for the uses and purposes of the
United States by direction of the
| President or Of the Governor of Ha.
waii may be restored to its previous
| status by direction of the President;
| and the title given such public prop
erty in the possession and use of the
| Territory for the purposes of schools.
| @NiiANtN14 pains. IUduS. WudISeS. Wa
| ter works, sewer works. electric works.
public buildings, or other public pur-
poses, or required for any such pur-
| poses, may be transferred to the Te~-
| ritory by direction of the President,
and any such property may thereafter
| be transferred to any city, county or
other political subdivision thereof by
direction of the Governor of the Ter
ritory, when thereunto authorized by
the Legislature -
. Section 90 of the Organic Act is
to be amended SO as to read as fol
lows:
= The following officers shall re-
ceive the following salaries. to be paid
by the United States: The governor,
ten thousand dollars; the secretary of
the Territory, five thousand dollars: the
chief Justice of the supreme court of
the Territory, seven thousand five hun
dred dollars; the associate justices Of
the supreme court, seven thousand dol
lars each; the judges of the circuit
courts, four thousand dollars each; the
United States district judge, seven thou
sand dollars; the United States marshal
three thousand dollars; the United
States district attorney, three thousand
dollars. And the governor shall receive
annually, in addition to his salary, the
sum of one thousand dollars for sta
tionery, postage, and incidentals; also
his travelling expenses while absent
from the capital on official business,
and the sum of two thousand dollars
annually for his private secretary.
8 The following section is to be
added to section 100 of said Act:
" All records relating to naturaliza-
ton, all declarations of intention to be-
come citizens of the United States, and
all certificates of naturalization filed,
recorded or issued prior to June TWEEN
ty-ninth, nineteen hundred and SIX IN
or from any circuit court of the Ter
ritory of-Hawaii shall for all purposes
be deemed to be and to have been made,
fled, recorded OF issued by a court with
jurisdiction to naturalize aliens, but
shall not be by this Act further vail
dated or legalized.
- Section 70 Of the Organic Act
providing for a high sheriff and dep
uties and defining their duties is TO be
repealed
Regarding the amendment limiting
the amount of Indebtedness that the
Territories or counties may contract,
Treasurer Campbell says: Maui coun-
ty wanted to issue bonds for public i'm
provements. The authority of the leg
islature was secured and all other au-
thority required, and then the Supreme
Court said the bonds could not be Is
sued under the Organic Act because
the county did not have the power OF
taxation. This amendment removes that
difficulty and makes possible county
bond issue whether the county has the
taxing power or not, so long as the
requirements of the legislature are com
piled with.
"Another thing, under the Organic
Act as it stands bonds can only be
payable in fifteen. This makes a short
term bond not easily fioated. The
amendment simply provides that bonds
can not be issued for longer time
than thirty years. This will enable
the issuance Of a form of bond that
has become very popular in the East
This is called the one-twenty bond, or
the one-thirty bond. That is, ii it IS
a twentv-vear bond. one-twentieth of
each bond is payable every year. This
does away with the necessity of
sinking fund If it is a thirty-year
bond, one-thirtieth of each bond is
made payable each year. We won t
have to issue bonds of this kind under
this amendment, but we can if we
want to.
Still another thing to be secured
by the amendment is to give the Ter
ritory the power to refund its bonded
Indebtedness at a lower rate Of inter
est. The Organic Act as it now stands
gives the Territory the right to re-
fund existing Indebtedness. That has
been construed by some lawyers to
mean Indebtedness existing at the time
of the organization of the Territory.
We have refunded some of that indebt-
edness already. But there is no more
that we can refund There is, how
ever. a considerable amount Of four
and a half per cent. bonds that can
be refunded at lower rate Of inter
est this year if this amendment is
and we can save ten thousand
dollars in interest a year. The section
D as amended in this particular as
proposed viii read as follows:
- But the total Of such indebted /
ness incurred in any one year by the
Territory or any such subdivision shall