Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-10-28

servants to toe the mark II effect
ually silenccs the political bunko men.
Then, the initiative and referendum,
Senate Constitutional Amendment No,
%, which was No. on the ballot, re-
Ceived vote second only to the re-
call. The returns to date give the
measure over three to one That, too,
| Is enough to satisfy those who have
sophisticated in the recent campaign,
rallied at popular government and
wrung their hands while pleading spe'
ciously for reactionary system. The
answer of the citizens of the state Is
conclusive and satisfactory.
Then, too, the railroad amendments
all of them--were carried by for
! Governors appeal to the electorate
was all sufficient 1t was more than
necessary Senate Constitutional
| Amendment No A., making the Rail
road Commission u public service com
mission Senate Assembly Constitu-
tOnal Amendment No. q, enlarging
Railroad Commission, and Assembly
| Constitutional Amendment No 80, en-
| larging the powers of the Railroad
1 COmmissiOn-all three were carried,
and. from the incomplete returns, they
won by . to | vote.
SO the story goes. The whole list,
frage, went through without hitch
Even the amendments about which
there was some doubt and consider
able opposition were carried In the
tidal wave which made the puny kick
crs look ridiculous.
State inspection of weights and
divided Legislative session, eminent
domain to logging roads, new pro-
cedure for the adoption and amend
ment of city charters, the forbidding
of reversals in criminal cases for tech
nicalities, except where there has been
q miscarriage of justice: a workmen's
compensation law. the exemption OF
civil service employees from the four
year term. the enlargement of the
powers of city charters to include
authority over police courts, boards
of education and elections, the with
drawal of permission to tear up
streets at will, the retention of school
textbooks for four years, the author
/ iZation of majority elections, the max
ing of the Supreme Court appointive,
the making of Appellate judges sub
/ ject to an mpeachment-they all be-
came laws.
: Even the amendments authorizing
the Legislature to abolish justices OF
1 the peace and to substitute othe'
= cours, also authorizing officials to re-
0 ceive railroad passes, and exemptinf
o $1,000 of veterans property from tax
e ation-all these became laws, despite
the opposition manifested agains
e them.
e San Francisco decisvely adopted
e every amendment in the list eNcep
e suffrage, the amendment giving ire'
t railroad passes to officials and TIT
g amendment exempting veterans prop
o erty from taxation. These last I'VE
h were defeated by about 1000 vote
y each.
The returns by precincts in Sal
J. Francisco are interesting. Mob Hi
}, for instance, voted down everything
didn't care for initiative, referendum
recall, suffrage, railroad Legislation
sny and all progressive legislation. o
the other hand, the Barbary Coas
- went for reform. 1t cast u handsom
- vote for suffrage and for all the pro
- gressive amendments.
The total vote for the recall, as add
: ed from I243 precincts throughout IN
State, outside of San Francisco find
the amendment with 6S,22l 20 22'63
against. Alameda county's figure