The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-02-28
HOUSE TABLES
SUFFRAGE BILL
Women Have One More Chance
When Senate Resolution on
Subject Comes Up.
trrom Thursday Advcrtiser)

TO warm time so far this session and
an occasion was furnished Kaniho and
Kuphea Of the minority to crate
through the interpreter.
sheldon preciptated the whole pill
kia when he, as chairman of the judi
ciary committee, filed report recon-
mending the tabling of Kupihea s ii.
B. 10 which would give the women of
the City and County of Honolulu the
right to vote, side by side, if not be-
fore. the men of the municipality.
The judiciary committee report held
the provisions of the bill were in con-
hict with the Organic Act and cited
numerous authorities to uphold its con.
tention. paele did not concur with the
other members of the committee and
signed his 81 do not concur with a
firm first.
Kupihea started the fireworks;
claimed he had not been heard in de-
fense of his measure; he could prob
ably have shown the committee where
it was wrong; women are intelligent
human beings and some of them even
more so than the orator. All the dis
cussion was out of order, but Speaker
Holsten allowed the tempest to spend
its fury until Tavares regularized parlia-
mentary procedure by mo ovins the adop-
tion of the committee & report
Sheldon arose to the defense of his
report had given public notice of the
meetings of the committees; was sorry
to chloroform such n dear child as Ku-
pihea S votegetting measure, but it
was entirely inconsistent with the Or.
ganic law of the land; the only way
~. ..F Nl,a
gentle sex, would be to petition con
gress, by resolution. He then second
ed the motion that his report be
adopted.
Wants Peace at Home.
Kawewehi had his usual measure of
oil to pour on the troubled waters;
did not believe in woman suffrage;
was opposed to it and had always been
of that way of thinking, when he
thought anything at all; the time was
not ripe to make the female of the
species the equal of the sterner sex
in politics, the only branch of human
activity where man had not yet been
crowded to the wall by the gentle but
insinuating and designing fair sex.
"Let us tackle the matter through a
joint or concurrent resolution eX-
claimed the now workedup chairman
of the military committee. 81 will
not bow down for political favor to
any newfangled proposition like this
Soon the japanese women will have
the same right to vote as our own
Hawaiian sisters would have. The hon
orable members of this house belong to
different parties / am the only Home
Ruler in existence here, but | am a
good and true one and big one
"Just think of the pickle / would
be in if we gave women the right to
vote. Here / am Home Ruler, my
wife is staunch and faithful Demo
crat, while my sister is n true blue
Republican. Another member of my
family is Bull Mooser. The peace
and quiet of my home circle would bt
shattered to pieces every time a poll
tical campaign and election would CONF
around. Lay the Honorable Kupihea I
bill on the table. | support the mo
tion to adopt the committee 8 report.
Kaniho could not let the opportunit,
pass him without getting word il
edgewise. He was rather confused il
his remarks; claimed former legisla
lures had passed a bill whereby Repub
licans were allowed to vote for thos
of their ilk, Democrats likewise an,
even the Home Rulers, whose part,
he deserted after being defeated in Ko
haa in order to join the Oahu Demo
Gratis on the chance of getting n nomi
nation. He favored a motion to refe
the report back to the committee, bu
nobody paid attention.
The report of the committee wa
or aI nf
bin went to the wood pile.
Get Another Inning.
The second inning for the wome
came along during the afternoon SCI
sion when communication from tn
senate transmitted to the house S.
r. No. 3 which requests congress
order plebiscite here on the questiO
whether or not women shall vote. I'll
Speaker referred the resolution to IL
judiciary committee, but Sheldon d
murred claiming his committe h,
troubles of is own and did not cal
to be saddled with trouble breeder
He wanted il referred to the commi
tee of the whole house. Cooke Of Mat
Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe thong
public hearing should be calle
There was a howl on this from maI
seats and Pnxson made his maid'
speech, claiming the platform Of bo
parties were Of record in favor
women suffrage; oven the torritori
Democratic platform called for
''EXcuse me' came across from Dc
tor Irwin, "thore was no such plal
In our platform.
The chair suggested the iudicia
committee might call O public heariI
but the Sheldon shook his white loe
and moved the pilikia resolution be
ferTed 10 tbs committee Of the VIII
house in which case the public mig
be heard kasewehi lent bis kok
and the Chair c0untermandol the Z
NOR order aud referred tho Tes0lntI
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