The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-03
HOSMER'S GOOD
HOUSE RECORD
Probability That Former Oahu
College President Will Be
Renominated.

AMHERST, August 1.-frlends OF
Frank A. Hosmer are well pleased with
the record he has made as representa-
tive of the Third Hampshire District
in the last Legislature. Speaker Cole,
recognizing his ability, gave him an
appointment on the ways and means
committee, an honor seldom conferred
upon member of the Legislature dur
ING his first year. This committee
passes upon all bills carrying approprl-
ations of money. It's members there
fore must be men of business ability,
willing to work hard from the begin
ming to the end of the session, for they
are the guardians of the treasury or
the commonwealth. 1t is their duty to
protect the people from the crowd Of
applicants always seeking TO increase
taxation that they may share In the
distribution of the public funds. But
on the other hand, they must see to it
that the general welfare does not suf-
fer from parsimony. A needed appro-
priation withheld may cause greater
loss than some foolish expenditures.
Mr.. Hosmer has devoted himself to
the work and has taken pains to in
form himself upon all measures of I'M
portanee, denying himself the pleas
ures enjoyed by many of the members
of the House who have found oppor-
tunities to travel at the public ex-
pense and TO participate In the social
life of the city.
He has ever remembered that the in
terests of the whole State as well as of
his own district have been committed
10 his care. This has brought him into
18th Iaa1ino mon He Lon
ed from Charles Francis Adams the
history and needs of the Metropolitan
park system. He has worked In close
harmony with Hon. Robert Luce, the
candidate for lieutenant governor.
He steadfastly opposed extravagant
appropriations He not only worked
for the defeat of bills increasing the
salaries of department clerks, but also
strenuously opposed the attempt to IN
crease the pay of members of the Leg
islature He insisted upon economy
in harbor appropriations. He main
tanned that the present is no time for
extravaganza.
His own constituents found in him
champion of their just claims and al
ways ready to promote their interests.
Believing in the wisdom and economy
of education, especially in industrial
lines, his best efforts were successfully
directed to securing for the Agricul-
tural College the funds necessary for
the maintenance of its work and the
carrying out of President Butterfeld s
plans for the development Of the insti-
tuition.
Besides the appropriations for new
buildings and the care and repairing of
old ones, he gained an increase of
$4,000 for the annual income to be
used for teachers and for the short
courses in agriculture. The total
amount secured for the college was
$166.317.
Mr.. Hosmer is an expert in matters
of education. A graduate of Amherst
College. a graduate student there, a
teacher and school superintendent in
Berkshire county. and for ten years
president of the Oahu College, Hawaii,
his long experience has fitted him to
appreciate the value to the State of the
proper education of its youth and to
know that money wisely expended for
education is sound investment for the
commonwealth.
He successfully opposed the optome-
try bill which would have licensed ped
oilers of spectacles to endanger the eye
sight of young and old. But in this
as in other matters he acted only after
informing himself of the facts and prin-
ciples involved and taking the advice
of approved specialists.
Always on the side of good order and
public morals he favored temperance
reform. He was among those who took
the initial steps toward overthrowing
the present distribution of state liquor
license fees. This movement, though
defeated last winter, now has stand
ing never before attained, and will be
continued next year.
As the friend of the farmers Mr..
Hosmer did much to secure the passage
of the bill establishing standard for
milk of 1915 per cent. of solids and
3.35 per cent of fat to be the same all
the year instead of being changed win
ter and summer. He labored success
fully against the bill to put the produc-
ton of milk under the/supervision OF !
the Board of Health instead of the !
dairy commission of the state board of /
agriculture.
Mr.. Hosmer at the beginning of the /
session confined his work largely to the |
committee room. But at length it was
given to him to defend the action of /,
the committee on ways and means rela-
tive to fifty different bills. This made |
it necessary for him to participate fire.
quently in the debates upon the floor OF