The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-02-05
Who S WHO IN
HOUSE AND
SENATE


House on the morning of February II
and the President of the Senate rises
to receive the Governor address. In
the Senate there are, of course, the
| hold-overs to welcome the new Senators
| and instruct them in the way they
should go, but in the House all will
meet on terms of equality. Tho re.
elected win be prominent, picking out
their seats, talking of points of order,
precedence, committees and other things
to impress the novices, as the old stu
dents are accustomed to do when school
reassembles and there are scared new
arrivals hugging the corridor walls and
wondering what comes next.
| The working rooms for the Legislators
are now about in shape to receive them.
The walls of the Senate chamber, for
merly the offices of the Public Works
| Department, have been beautifully, not
to say esthetically, tinted; new chairs
of revolving pattern have been
bought, old desks have been scraped
and vanished and the comfort of the
great fifteen provided for. The House
members will also have new seats and
shiny desks. The chairs are pretty, the
kind that you can swing around in
and turn your back on the Speaker il
anything so rude can be conceived of
but they are sadly lacking in cushions
The old chairs were straight up and
down in the back, were too heavy to
lug around and had arms on them that
made a man sit up whether he wanted
to or not, but they had cushioned seats
with working springs and the bounce
they gave was joyful.
\ There arc aiuht ho1d.nyar Sam fore
4 Brown, Makekau and Palmer Woods
from Hawaii; Coelho, from Maui; Knud.
sen, from Kauai, and Smith, Mccarthy
and Chillingworth, from Oahu. Kala.
ma, who was one of the shining lights
of the last two sessions, will be back
from Makawao, having been reelected.
He is the only one of the old Senators
back to start in a new term. There
is one promotion from the lower cham.
Der, however. Quinn, of Sunday fame
being the exception which proved the
rule that House members cannot move
up without taking a vacation as pri.
vate citizen. Two graduates of the
Oahu Board of Supervisors will be on
the roll, Moore and Harvey, both Demo.
Gratis, who will find more company in
the Senate than they did on the board
|
stood in the shadow of grand Jury
investigation while the ballots were be
ing counted that elected him, is the
only new Home Ruler, the rest of his
party being made up of Makekau
Baker is issuer of marriage licenses
and is now holding down deputy sher
if IS job.
George H. Fairchild, of Kealia, Kau
| oi 80 tnt e.,
| his first term. He is manager of the
Makee Sugar company. w. 7, Robin
son, of Waikiki, is said to be on his
way over with fixed idea, that being
to get even with Treasurer Campbell
for refusing to let him attend the Re.
publican National Convention last fall.
Robinson had been elected a delegate
from Hawaii, but, as the trip came just
at the time when was required to stay
at home and attend to the business of
deputy tax assessor, leave of absence
was denied
Politically the Senate will divide this
year as follows:
epublican-Brown, Chillipgworth
Coelho, Fairchild, Kalama, Knudsen,
Quinn, Robinson and Smith.
Democrats = Harvey, Moore, Nc
Carthy, Woods.
Home Rulers-Baker and Makekau
By race, the Senate is composed of
four Hawaiians, five part. Hawaiians
and six whites.
Changes in the House.
| Those who attend the sessi )ns of the
House will miss several of the old
timers, Pail, who shone in borrowed
plumage ut the National Guard reviews,
as chairman of the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, has fallen by the wayside.
| He was offered a nomination to the
| House by his Maui and Molokai con-
stituents, and was also offered nomi.
nation for the Senate. He turned them
both down, however, and announced
that he was going to run for super
| viror. He did, and the count fourd
him shy. He was the leader last SEES
sion of the Maui contingent. A. ].
Comes, who hustles freight at the Paia
station of the Kahului system, will
disturb the solemrity of the commit
tees of the whole no longer with his
| fiery speeches; Levi Joseph failed to
| get return ticket and John Kalana
also. Only two of the Mari six will
be back, j. Nakaleka and NJ. p. Wal
! waiole. The latter was seen little in
his seat during his last term, sickness
in his family and with himself keep
ing him away. When he was present
~ak.-1k-zak>lk,-2k~a
told visitoY that he is certain now the
Secret Service portion of his message
will be remembered long after the re.
mainder of the document has been for
gotten. He is not at all displeased at
such an outcome. He believes public
sentiment will eventually force legisla-
ton putting the governments detec.
tive organizations on more effective
basis and that it will make for the i'm.
provement of facilities for tracking
down offenders against the Federal
laws.
He has plenty more ammunition, bow
ever, and if the occasion warrants will
again join issue with either the Senate
or the House. In a message last week
the President poohpoohed the idea that
he had had detectives shadowing Con
gressmen but he is now telling how, as
an incident Of the operations of the
Secret Service and of other like forces,
that an occasional Congressman has
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