The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-02
NJ CAR THY GOES
BACK ON BILL
WAR IN CAMP OF DEMOCRATS
Lawmakers Express Opinions
Concerning the Proposed
Legislation.
(From Monday s Advertiser.)

(From Mondays Advertiser.)
The legislative cohorts are gathering
for the fray, and by tomorrow morning
when the Mauna Loa arrives, all tho
lawmakers except the two or three who
are out of the Territory, will probably
be here and ready for the opening of
the special session few hours later.
And the prospects are that there is
going to be merry time, for the law
makers are by no means of one mind in
regard to the proposed bills. The Re.
publicans as rule are pretty well to-
gether on the conference bill, but the
Democrats are sadly divided, and there
promises to be as vigorous a fight in
their camp as there will be in the legis-
lature as whole. The land law bill
which has been published as the Demo
cratic bill is not Democratic measure
according to the way some of the fol-
lowers of Thomas Jefferson look at it,
and some of the most influential of
them refuse absolutely to stand for it
in its present form.
The same measure was introduced at
the regular session in the form of a
joint resolution, Colonel Mccarthy be.
ing the introducer. But after sober re.
Election and the lapse of several months
the bill does not look good to the
Colonel, and he announces that unless
it is considerably amended he will not
support it.
81 introduced the measure short
time before the regular session ad-
iourned,' said Colonel Mccarthy last
night, "but / did so by request and
without having read it over. did not
know what provisions it contained.
Since then have studied the bill and
am not satisfied with it. There are
several things that must be changed
before ] will vote for it. The bill is
not mine; it is Link McCandless'.
cone thing / shall insist upon is the
provision that was contained in the So
called Kuho resolution that was intro
duced last session, providing that tho
legislature shall have the power to
amend the land laws. And there are
some other changes that must be made
! in McCandless' bill before it will sat
isfy me.
Democratic Caucus
"The Democrats are going to have q
caucus at 7.30 Monday evening, and we
will go over the bill and try to get to-
gether on a course of action. OF course
/ do not know what we shall do, but we
will 90 over the bill carefully and ac
quaint ourselves with its provisions. y
Against Annual Sessions.
Regarding the matter of annual SEES
sions of the Legislature, Colonel Nc
Carthy stated that he was decidedly OPP
30, oh r
sat on that hard last session. he said
"and they will do it again if it comes
up. ] understand that Speaker Hol
stein is going to bring it up. ! am de
cidedly opposed to it and shall do every
thing in my power to Kill 1T II 1t get
into the senate.'
Affonso's Position.
GAS matter of fact, ] believe thai
we had better leave this thing alone al
together, said Representative Alfonso
referring to the land law amendments
''The Kuhio bill, providing for thu
| framing of a land law by the loca
legislature, is now before congress. /
has never been opposed, as far as
know, and is now merely resting. Thu
local legislature knows far better thai
do the members of congress the loca
conditions and needs, and congress hal
too many questions of national import
ance before it at every session to allow
| it to be bothered with questions which
while they seem of great Importance
to the people here, are of very small
Importance in Washington. Further
more, if we have a land law passed b,
congress, we will, after a few years
i ha, 20 hs
working it in actual practice, have t.
run to congress to have it amended.
The Deacon of Repeaters.
"However, if we are to work on tn
amendments proposed by the Governor
] can say that am in favor of the see
tion which is to prevent repeating.
personally should know something abou
this, as | have been called the deacon
of repeaters, although ! have at al
times been strictly within my lega
rights.
az am strongly in favor of the pro
vision which substitutes the disposal OF
public lands by lot rather than the
present system Of auctioning of sucl
lands, whereby the poor man has ahso
lutely no chance when lac Is forced Il
compete with the wealthy ones.
Opposed 10 Land Exchanges.
81 am decidedly opposed to the para
graph providing for he exchange Of
public lands, There should be no OK
changes made whatsoever, as past his
tory shows that wherever such have
been made the government has Away,
been the loser II tho government
wishes 10 acquire land, II can go about
II like any private individual uud &C
quiro u by purchase
Salaries should 80 Raised,
"Wifh regard 90 tho other proposed
amendments, rHu say that I believe
| iInI ~. .-r..-L.L.u- 81 H. Min. "A