The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-25
NO NEED FOR. AN
INTERPRETER NOW
House May Get Along This Ses-
sion With Less Talk and
in Better Time.

Several of the representatives-elec
have expressed themselves as unfavor.
able to the appointment of Hawai-.
ian interpreter at the coming session
of tho legislature as far as the house
is concerned, on the ground that such
an Official is not necessary any more
to the transaction of business.
OF the thirty men elected to the
house tins term only two or three may
be considered as having any need of
an interpreter at all, and when the
knowledge of English these three
possess is analysed, two of them have
practically no need to have English
speeches or readings interpreted or
translated into the Hawaiian language.
| OF all those elected on this island,
Represcntative.elect Mahoe is said to
be the only one who is not possessed
of a fluent knowledge of English, but
even he speaks English, understands it
and writes it. From Hawaii there will
be two Home Rulers and one of these
is fluent in the English language. Con-
cerning the other, Oahu members have
no definite knowledge. Every Kauai
man is educated in both languages and
the Maui delegation each is fluent in
| English.
Where the necessity will be for a
Hawaiian interpreter for house which
speaks and understands English has not
been shown thus far. Ever since the
| legislature was organized under the
| Territory, the position of Hawaiian in
] 4 -. - .uN
sought for Each succeeding term of
the Legislature brought forth a galaxy
of applicants for the job, which has
always been fat one, with pay of
from eight to ten dollars a day and
pickings.
1t has become habit for each legis
lature to figure on the interpretership,
lust as they do on the clerkship, the job
of stenographer and the clerks to com
mittees. while the Job of Hawaiian
translator has been one of the fattest
in the gift of those in power, thousands
of dollars having been expended for
translation from English into Hawaiian
and paying the printing bills for the
results.
The coming legislature has one OPP
portunity to cut down expenses and
that is the position of Hawaiian inter
prefer, now as unnecessary in the house
as it was last session in the senate.
The elimination of the interpreter will
also result in great saving of time.
Contests in the Air.
The Republican campaign managers
are not the only ones talking of con-
tests, for the Democrats have been
quietly figuring on the situation and
are securing affidavits in the event of
a contest on their part being decided
upon McCandless says he may attempt
to unseat Delegate Kalanianaole, and
may go to Washington to present "evi-
dence' of coercion, misuse of money
and fraud, as he alleges the Republicans
made use of various schemes to get
Kuhio in.
While the Republicans have been
| gathering material for contest in the
sixth of the fourth to unseat Fern and
| install Lane, the Democrats have been
gathering a few statistics in other pre-
cincts and now assert that a contest
over Shingles position may be insti'
tuted, to keep Trent in Office as treas
urer.
Jim Quinn is not altogether satisfied
that he was iuggled out of his job as
| supervisor on election day and talks
about something in the thirteenth of the
fifth which may give him back his
office for the next two years.
Links Money Shouted.
When it comes to the statement of
McCandless that the Republicans used
money in their election, the Republicans
smile broad smile when they look over
Link s statement of expenses amount
ing to over $4,000 which he had to put
up for his own election, as well as to
carry on the county campaign. If
money talks, says the Republicans,
Link IS $4,000 did lot of shouting.
The Democratic county committee,
however, has held meetings and is Of
fcially going over the returns from
some of the precincts where they be-
lieve a contest would result favorably
to some of their own candidates. or
course they would like TO Oust Shingle,
his election being a blow to the Demo.
cratic machine composed mainly of
Fern, Jarrett and Trent, the latter hav-
ing been regarded as the keystone to
the machine standing. Colonel Nc
Carthy, manager of the Democratic
county campaign, declared yesterday
that other precincts may be contested
exactly as the Republicans may do in
Kakaako. lie declares that the com
mittee has received information of n
precinct chairman who put his watch
back twenty minutes to allow voters
TO get in before five O'Clock. He con
siders this just as illegal as the alleged
d, illegal voting in the sixth of the fourth.
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