Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-10
governor IS
!, Determined TO
LEAVE OFFICE
Triu to Washington Said to Be
Primarily to Insist on Be-
ing Relieved
DECLINES TO SANCTION
REAPP0INTMENT MOVE
Chief Executive Anxious to Re-
turn to Private Life and Re-
sumo Legal Practice

Governor Frear is going to Wash
ington primarily to insist on his inn
mediate retirement from Office and
under no conditions that he can now
foresee would he accept reappoint-
ment, according to close friends Of
the executive and according to men
who have talked recently with the
governor about the unique situation
in which he finds himself.
That the governors wish for a
leave of absence ct this time Is due
to his intention to make his own at
titude personally known to the presi-
dent and to Secretary Lane is the
statement of some of the men who
have stood closest 70 Frear during his
administration 1t is known that
more than once In the last few
months he definitely and emphatically
declined to sanction any move toward
q reappointment, that he has stuck to
an intention to quit on September /,
and that when September arrived
and his successor did not arrive,
Frear decided 1t was about time for
him to make an active step toward
Fastening the appointment of that
successor.
Last spring the governor made 1t
known to the secretary of the interi
or that he wished to quit office- not
later than September Y. He hoped
to be able to complete his report and
wind up some of the current affairs
of his administration that he regard
ed as particularly important. This he
has done and having done it, he is
said to feel that he should take a
mucKneeded vacation and then re-
sume his professional practice.
Recent deve1opm In the contro-
versy over the appointment Of L. E.
Pinkham as governor are believed to
be responsible for the trip to, Wash
ington. It appears that Pinkham is
not to be confirmed right away. The
governor sees no immediate prospect
of handing over his gubernatorial
toga and scepter-as well as his fa-i
nous revolving chair-to successor,
and he intends to convey the news
gently but firmly, it is said, that he
really cannot consent to hold down
the job indefinitely.
May Hasten Franchise.
DlScUSSlO0 Oh = = TCdE y Trip 4dluOu6
those who have talked with him late
" also deals with the Rapid Transit
franchise. The franchise bill, after
the territorial legislature,
went up to congress for necessary
passage there Nothing has been
done with 1t during the extra session,
but Delegate Kuhio cabled few days
ago that he would introduce it soon.
s 1t Is known that Governor Frear Is
exceedingly anxious that this bill be
passed He fought the Rapid Transit
company during the last legislature
until a bill was passed to whose
terms he assented, and he thinks that
the franchise should pasf congress in
virtually the same form. Whether he
can hasten its passage any during
his stay in Washington is yet to be
seen. The bill is not expected to pass
during the special session, but will
be up for action early in the next
regular session.
1t is possible also that Frear in his
private capacity as an attorney, will
represent the Hawaiian Dredging
company in Washington in the ad-
justment of the drydock damage mat
ter. Walter F. Dillingham;, president
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