The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-04
WHO'S WHO IN
HOUSE AND
SENATE
The Legislature Soon
to Meet Has Many
New Members.

Some familiar faces Will be missed
when Mr.. Speaker raps for order in the
House on the morning of February II
and the President of the Senate rises
to receive the Governor 5 address. In
the Senate there are, of course, the
hold-overs to welcome the new Senators
and instruct them in the way they
should 60, but in the House all will
| meet on terms of equality. The re,
elected will 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 if
anything so rude can be conceived of,
h,,+ bo, 10
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 are eight hold-over Senators,
Brown, Makekau and Palmer Woods.
from Hawaii; CoeIho, 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 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-
waite 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.
David K. Baker, of Napoopoo, who
stood in the shadow of a grand jury
investigation while the ballots were be-
ing counted that elected him, is the
tsonly new Home Ruler, the rest of his
party being made up of Makekau.
Baker is a issuer of marriage licenses
and is now holding down a deputy sher
if S Job.
George H. FairchId. of Kealia, Kan
al, is a baron representatives. due for
his first term. He is manager of the
Makee Sugar company. W. 1. Robin
son. of Waikiki, is said to be on his
way over with a 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, Chillingworth,
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 sessions of the
House will miss several of the old
timers. Pail. who shone in borrowed
plumage at 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 bv his Maui and Molokai con
stituents. and was also offered a nomi-
| nation for the Senate He turned them
both down, however, and announced
that he was going to run for super
visor. He did, and the count found
him shy. He was the leader last SEES
sion of the Maui contingent. A j.
Comes. who hustles freight at the Pala
station of the kahului system, will
disturb the solemnity of the commit
tees of the whole no longer with his
fiery speeches; Levi Joseph failed to
get a return ticket and John kalana