Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-04
THAYER TESNO
REAL HlIMOR IN
1AWBOOk Fight

Secretary of the Territory Thayer
declines to see any humor in
the ''lawbook fight" He has written
a formal letter to the senate about it
with a rather summary request that
the senate come through with a re-
ceipt for one missing volume, Revised
Laws of 1915.
As told in the second edition of the
Star-Bulletin yesterday a baby ty-
phoon ragged around the senate cham
Der and capitol halls yesterday after
noon because Thayer had taken from
the senate chamber a copy Of the new
Revised Laws and because later the
sergeant-at-arms was instructed to
get it back.
The situation has seemed to amuse
the senators highly but ii does not
amuse Thayer He sent the following
letter to the president of the senate
today:
MAR 4, 1915.
Hon. Charles F. Chillingworth,
President of the Senate,
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dear Sir: Both in the afternoon
paper Of yesterday and in the morn
L
count of a debate which took place
in the senate yesterday relating to
the matter of the three copies of the
Revised Laws of 1915 which are in
possession of the senate. The impli-
cation in these articles and the state
ments reported to have been made by
the senators present a serious charge
against myself which do not feel
can leave unanswered. p. r i
II beg to: call your attention to Act
IL of the Session Laws of 1913, which
created the commission to compile
the Revised Laws of 1915. Section
10 of said act provides as follows:
1.-The said compilation shall be
printed and bound and shall be pre-.
sented by the commission to the
legislature at its next regular ses-
sion; provided, however, that when
said compilation is completed the
secretary of the territory shall
cause such a number of copies
thereof as to him may seem neces.
sary to be printed and bound,
which, when so printed and bound,
may be furnished by him free Of
charge to government officia4 for
official use, and may be sold by him
at ten dollars t$10.00) volume for
the benefit of the Territory
On Monday, March /, six copies
of the Revised Laws of 1915 were de.
liyered by the Star-Bulletin, Ltd, to
the Legislature These copies should
have been delivered, in accordance
with the terms OF the above quoted
section, to the secretary to be by him
delivered to the senate and the house.
The Star-Bulletin Co. informed me on
Tuesday that no more copies OF the
Revised Laws Of 1915 would be ready
for distribution until next Monday
AS the work of all the executive de-
partmeHts was being held up pending
the securing OF copies of the new
laws, secured from the house of rep
resentatives one copy Of the three
which had been delivered to it, and
took the same action in the senate.
You viii please note that these
volumes were legally placed in my
custody by the act referred to, and
the mere fact of their delivery to the
senate does not relieve me OF my re-
for accounting for them.
THE statements made in the sen.
ate, therefore, that Iehad acted with.
out right in securinga copy from the
senate for the use Of the executive
department are incorrect. All of the
volumes at present In the hands Of
the senate are still legally in my GUS
tody, and must be so until l have de-
liFered them to the senate, and re-
ceiyed the receipt of the clerk Of the
senate fhoFofor -