The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-08
THE SENATE
FORTY SECOND DAY.
Afternoon Session.


litary organizations passed third
reading.
Senate bill prohibiting the unau-
| thorized wearing of uniforms of the
Army and Navy and National Guard
was amended so as to include the uni
forms of the Public Health and Ma
rine Hospital Service and passed third
| reading.
Senate bill relating to fines and
costs and turning these over to the
counties, as amended by the ways and
means committee, passed third read
| ing Chillingworth and Smith voted
against it.
THE PRIMARY BILL.
| With Knudsen in the chair, consid-
Grafton in committee of the whole of
the direct primary bill was resumed at
section II.
Moore wanted the adoption of bal
lots uniform in size and color.
Without deciding this, some think
| ing it was covered IN a former section
on ballots, the committee discussed
the provision that each voters name
and residence should be announced in
a loud voice. President Smith and
Judge Whitney supported it as a pre-
ventive of impersonation. Smith furth-
er called attention to a seeming hodge
podge in the rest of the section, pro-
viding that voter might write upon
his ticket the name of a nominee on
some other ticket, such vote to be
counted for the party upon whose tic
ket the name is written.
Robertson denounced the provision
as absurd.
Whitney defended it as being ex-
actly that for which Mccarthy argued
in the morning, to enable one to vote
for good man on the ticket of an
other than his own party
| Chillingworth called for vote on
his motion to strike out subdivision
(2) of the section, being all about the
giving and announcing of name ano
residence.
Smith wanted the whole section de-
ferred for careful amendment.
Emmeluth thought the provision for
diversified voting right, as conform
ing with the intent of the measure.
Robertson believed the previous
speaker correct in view of subsequent
clauses.
The motion to defer the section
carried.
Section 70 referring to challenges
passed.
Section 10 on the counting of votes
was queried by Coelho for it's provi-
sion that a copy of the returns should
be sent to the chairman of each party
central committee. The county COM
mittee was ignored. 1t was another
instance of having the affairs Of the
country districts handled by Homo.
lulu oligarchies.
Smith asked it the copy for the
country clerk was not sufficient FOL
local information.
Chillingworth made playful allu.
sion to his holding the Maui proxy
on the central committee, which sem
Coelho up in the air, declaiming thai
it was further proof of what he com
planned about. Talk about party dis
loyalty!"
Mccarthy thought it little use t
proceed with the bill until the Hous'
had disposed of the elections bill. HI
J.. moved to lay this bill on the tabl'
until then. While the object was goot
he did not think much of the bill.
| IA hn nlpptinnG
would be in the House for two weeks
which would bring it close to the en'
of the session. If the intention wa
to kill the bill, the motion should b.
to indefinitely postpone it.
Smith wanted to go ahead and MAX
amendments and Mccarthy WITHDRAW
his motion.
Robertson proposed and amendmen
simplifying section IA so as to Civ
the nomination of each party to tn
candidate receiving the highest mum
Der of votes on his party ticket, whic
was adopted.
Baker was troubled about the mat
ter of Independent nominations. Rob
ertson cleared it up, showing tina
an independent nomination was nc
conditioned on majority of a can
didate on one ticket over candidat
on another, but on the securing by
partisan candidate of at least
per cent of all the votes cast at tn
primary.
Smith moved to strike out the co
4 laboration of the Attorney Genera
with the Secretary of the Territor
in preparing forms necessary to CA
: ry out provisions of the act. Ca
ried,