The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-04

/ senators Met arthy ana JhiilIngworta
| urged that the bill be taken up in COM
/ mittee of the whole without further
delay. Makekau suggested Monday
night as an amendment to Quinn 5 mo-
ton but Chillingworth observed that
| Monday night was the time set fer.
the reception to the Japanese Admiral
| and his officers at the Young Hotel.
Bill Is Read
The Senate then resolved itself into
| the committee of the whole with SEN
/ aror Knudsen in the chair. Senator
| Kaiama moved to consider the bin sec
| tion by section and Clerk Sayidge pro-
! eeeded with the reading
The bill is voluminous document,
fifty-seven pages in length, and it took
| over two hours for the reading Of
seventysix of the eighty sections. SEN
ator Mccarthy explained each section
/ of the bin which included change
from the existing laws.
When Section IA, relating to the in
speetors of election was reached, Sem
! ator Smith expressed doubt as to the
wisdom of the provision that made It
/ mandatory upon the Governor to select
/ inspectors of election from the lists sub
mitted to him by each political party.
As it stood originally the provision read
. from the lists the Governor shall ap-
! point three inspectors of election for
| each precinct Senator Smith did not
/ think it wise to make the stipula ton
mandatory upon the Governor. The
sentence was finally amended to read
from each lists of names, the Gov
| ernor, in his discretion, may appoint
three inspectors of election for each
precinct. -
Senator Mccarthy stated that when
he was chairman Of the Territorial
Democratic Committee he submitted
list of his party nominees for election
inspectors to the Secretary of the Ter
ritery, but that official did not pay
much attention to the names on the
document.
The last portion of the section relat-
ing to the appointment of inspectors
reads as follows:
Section on Inspectors.
1.-TWO of the inspectors 70 be APP
pointed shall belong as far as praetie-
able to the same political party or be
of the same political faith and opinion
on national issues as the political party
which. throughout the Territory as a
whole, shall have polled the highest
number of votes for delegate to the !
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States at the last preceding general
election; and the other one of SAID
inspectors of election shall belong to
and be of the same faith and opinion
ON national issues as the other political
party which, throughout the Territory
as whole, shall have polled next to
the highest number of votes for dele
gate to the House of representatives
Of the United States at the last preced-
ing general election.
In response to question on the pro-
vision of the section, Senator Chilling
worth stated that the present practise
was to appoint two Republicans and
one Democrat, adding that they were
the only political parties in the Terri
tory that had any standing. He stated
also that it was natural to suppose that
the parties getting the highest vote
were the better organized and had more
capable men available within their |
ranks.
Senator Smith was not convinced, /
however, that the placing of, the nom |
nation of inspectors irrevocably in the
hands of the parties was a sssse
measure.
No Confirmation.
Senator Mccarthy declared that |
there was one thing left out in the |
section of the bill under consideration |
that is included in the present law
He said that confirmation of the Gov |
errors appointments of election in |
speetors was unnecessary and waste |
of time and was not included in the /
bill. He stated that the failure of the /
Senate to pass on the combinations |
made it necessary for the Governor te |
call in the commissions and issue new
ones, all of which he insisted was a |
waste of time and labor.
The County Register.
Senator Smith did not approve of /
the sections of the bill providing for |
the making of general county regis |
fer of voters. The text of the section |
is as follows:
As soon as may be after the pass
age of this act, the clerk of each coun-
~ and the Clerk of the City and Coun- |
ty of Honolulu shall proceed to |
register all the electors in his county |
or city and county in the general |
county register. Such register shall |
consist of one or more volumes for |
each county or city and county large |
enough to contain the names of all |
the electors in the county or city and |
county, together with blank pages for |
an index The clerk, shall. before pro-
eeeding to register electors, suitably di- |
vide the general county register into /
as many parts as there are election |
precincts in his county or city and /
county and index the various precincts |
in the front of the volume
.'The clerk shall. before the first
day of January, 1910. visit all the |
principal towns and places in his
comfy or city. and county for the pur-
mise of rari ST q rinfr vnfars =,