The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-13
LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAMMES
BEING FRAMED

pEIUO IIIlluIED
A large number of measures are be-
ing prepared for the session OF the
legislature which begins next month,
but as to most of them there appears
TO be such general agreement that the
work of the session is likely to be car.
red on very quickly, and the opinion
is expressed by some members that
the final adjournment will come this
time before sixty days of session.
The principal points of discussion
now are the proposed primary law,
and the matter of reappOrtioning the
island districts to make the represen-
tation in the legislature accord with
the figures of the new census. AS to
the primary law, the platform Of the
party contained the following:
1--WE favor direct primary law pro-
viding for the nomination of candi-
dates for elective offices on the island
of Oahu"
This is not as general as the-pri-
mary law proposed for the last legis-
lature. and is taken by some as mean-
ing under it some of the members ia
vor having primary law for this is
land only. It is also claimed that the
law may not be applied to members
of the legislature from Oahu, which
would make it practically a county
measure, providing for nominations of
county officers here by direct vote of
the people. Legalizing the primaries,
and making it an offense against the
law to commit fraud in primary will
be features of the law If passed.
The other principal planks of the
platform, urging laws upon which pre-
Iiminary work is being done, are as
follows:
) "If immigration be not conducted
: under government auspices, it must
; be privately conducted, subject to the
/ restrictions of existing Federal laws
! or it must practically cease, in which
case all industries will languish, with
resulting distress to all. Therefore
relying on the sincere and sound judg
ment of the voters, the Republican
party stands firmly for a continued and
improved policy of immigration, un
der government control, to secure the
immigration of Portuguese and such
other desirable immigrants as will ad
vance the welfare of the people of Ha
wall and assure the earlier attainment
of statehood.
Money for Roads and Labor.
'In this connection and in line witt
the special income tax, the object o
= which is the general development o
the Territory, we pledge the party t.
5 appropriate, for the next biennial pc
riod, not less than 100000 out o
, the general revenues in the territorial
5 treasury for the construction of bel
> roads on the several islands, thereb!
f assisting homesteaders and furnishing
g employment for citizen labor.
J Aid To Discharged Lepers.
+ eve pledge the Republican party t,
d work for the passage of such legisla
ton as will provide homestead froI
g the public lands of the Territory 70
each of the persons who have been dis
e charged as cured from Kalihi or fror
0 the Molokai Settlement, and to urg
: the approval of such legislation b
Il Congress.
4 New WharVes and Landings.
eve realize the paramount necei
}, sity' for providing adequate wharf an
i landing facilities and approache
G thereto, to accommodate the rapid
e increasing commerce of the Territor
n and, particularly in view of the al
e preaching completion of the Panam
IS Canal, we pledge our representative
C in the coming Legislature to make SUI
g ficient appropriations, through loa
o funds if necessary, for providing &c
such improvements as soon as practi
able.
County Government.
Reviewing with satisfaction the il