The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-04-21
DELAY IN
APPORTIONMENT
APPEAL TO coNoREss CHANGING
REPRESENTATION MAY
CAUSE FIGHT.
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Instead of an apportionmont bill
based on the figures Of the census as
TO citizens in this Territory, con.
current resolution (No. 2S) was sub.
mittod to the house yesterday by. Rep
resentative Williamson requesting con
gress TO amend the Organic Act to per
nit Of apportionment on the basis Of
voters in place of citizens.
"The time has come, - asserted vii.
Hanson, "when we should face the
problem of Chinese and japanese chill
dren born in this Territory and reclk-
oned as citizens. move that tho reso.
luton be referred to the committee of
the whole.'
Speaker Holstein suggested that be-
fore this was done it would be better
that each representative had copy
of the resolution, and with consent the
resolution with the attached table of
representation, was thus disposed OF
for the time.
The resolution, which may be respOn-
sible for an extra session, is as fol
lows:
To Change Organic Act.
Whereas, Pursuant to the provi.
sions of the Organic Act of the Ter.
ritory of Hawaii, being AN Act to Es-
tablish a Government for the Territory
of Hawaii, approved April 80, 100, it
is now incumbent upon the Legislature
of Hawaii to reapportion the members
of said legislature on the basis of citi-
zenship as determined by the last CEN
sus taken by the officials of the United
| States; and
Whereas 1t is evident that the basis
of citizenship fixed by,said Organic Act
is inequitable, and that such reappor-
/ tionment should be based upon the last
registration of voters in said Territory /;
therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Represen-
tatives of the Legislature of the Ter
ritOry of Hawaii, the Senate concur
ring, That the congress of the United
States be and it hereby is requested
to amend Section SO of said Organic
Act by striking therefrom the words
The legislature, at its first regular
session after the census enumeration
shall be ascertained and from time to
time thereafter, shall reapportion the
membership in the senate and house
of representatives among the sena-
torial and representative districts on
the basis of the population in each of
said districts who are citizens of the
Territory and by inserting in lieu
thereof the following: The legislature
shall every ten years reapportion the
membership in the senate and house of
representatives among the senatorial
and representative districts on the basis
of the voters in each of said districts
registered for the then last general
elections; and be it further
Resolved, That the said congress be
and it is hereby requested to provide
in such amendatory act that for the
next ten-year period the electors in the
several senatorial and representative
districts shall be entitled to elect sena-
tors and representatives, respectively,
as follows:
Change of Representation.
Gin the first senatorial district, three
senators.
- In the second senatorial district,
three senators.
In the third senatorial district.
eight senator's
In the fourth senatorial district, one
senator.
"IR the first representative district,
four representatives.
:" In the second representative dis.
trict, three representatives.
In the third representative district
five representatives.
"In the fourth representative dis.
trict, eight representatives.
Gin the fifth representative district,
eight representatives.
- In the sixth representative district,
two representatives. -
According to the statement by Sec.
rotary Mott-Smith appended to the res
olution, the citizen basis, as now re-
quired by the Organic Act, would give
Oahu seven senators instead of the pres.
ent six, and fourteen representatives
instead of twelve (seven each in the
fourth and the fifth districts); Hawaii
four senators as at present, and eight
representatives. as now Give in the first
and three in the second district instead
of four in each, as at presently; Maui
two senators instead of three, and five
representatives instead of the present
six; and Kauai two senators the same
as now, and three representatives in
stead of the present four.
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