The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-04-13
MILITARY BILL
HAS OPPONENTS
IN THE SENATE
Best Way To Be Sure Of the
Committees Attention Is
To Write Opinion

Several members Of the senate have
concluded that Speaker Holstein's com
pulsory military education bill, house
bill las, should be killed in the upper
house and they expect to successfully
attack the measure as soon Ms II is re-
ported by the military committee, Of
which Senator Coke Is chairman.
Age Limit wanted
The Holstein bill calls for "every
able.bodied male citizen Of the Terri
tory of Hawaii upon arriving at the
age Of more than eighteen years, who
does not Immediately declare his la
tention to enlist In the organized
militia and complete such enlistment
within period Of thirty days. TO take
one years course OF not less than
forty-eieht periods Of instruction OF
two hours each in, practical military
work. -
The first point which some Of the
senators believe will have 10 be made
more clear, Is the expression Eat the
age Of more than eighteen years. = II
is intended that every citizen in good
physical condition who is over eighteen
years Of age must spend ninetysix
hours out Of one year in drilling,
whether he be Just minnie over
eighteen years old or an octogenariani
There are those who are willing TO
eoneede that a years military eduea
tion might be a very good thing for
their sons, bnt they! don 4 relish the
idea Of having to turn ont eight hours
every month to tote rife and be in,
strueted in the right foot, left foot,
right about face business on their own
account. They believe in putting an
age limit somewhere. At present the
Holstein bill carries a minimum, but
no maximum age limit.
Written opinion welcome
Chairman Coke Of the senate mill
tary committee, who made such snc-
cess Of the Sunday moving picture
mass meeting in the senate chamber
not long ago, expects a full house to-
morrow evening when the subject Of
compulsory education comes mp. Sena
\ tors other than those who are members
OF the military committee may be pres
emit II they so desire, but II Is not oblig
atory. Most Of them win reserve their
thunder for the handling Of the bill
! in session Coke will endeavor to ap-
! ply the rule limiting speeches to 1--WE
I minutes, though this did not work out
very well in the Sunday moving picture
!, discussion Those who are anxious to
lget their opinions before the military.
committee win be wise If they write
them and hand the manuscript 70 Sena-
i tor Coke Those who are thinking Of
safety first will A thi8Way avoid dis
appointment in the event Of their not
being able 70 get word In edgewise
at Tuesdays public hearing.
Matter Of Appropriation
i Another feature Of the Holstein bin
which may be the subject Of amend
far as any amendments being adopted
!, by the upper house, is that which pro
1 vides $500 year to defray the ex-
penses Of instructing male citizens in
the art Of forming military reserve.
n The question Is whether $4,000 q year
is sufficient to accomplish the object Of
the bill. Instructors, according to the
bill, are to be paid not more than $3.50
for each instruction period Of two hours
in one day and no one Instructor is to
be paid more than ten periods Of in
4 struction month, making a limit Of
/ instructor. This would give one hum
dred instructors each month out Of
ia year, fifty Instructors two months
u each, or twenty-five instructors four
months each. Several senators are anx-
wardness OF the method by which II Is
claimed the proposed system will work
n out.
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to see how il will be successfully APP
Iplied.
loss Of citisenship
i II is understood that President Chilli
ingworth is among those opposed to the
Holstein bill. One Of his reasons Is
that many young men are likely 10 auf-
fer loss OF citizenship II the measure
becomes a law. They will negeet to
attend the compulsory drills, eventually
be dishonorably discharged, and 50 suf-
fer under section 2l0 Of the 1915 Re-
yised Laws covering dishonorable dis
charge, which provides that; g Any ofii
Ger or enlisted man Of the militia who
shall be dishoporably dismissed or dis
charged from the National Guard Of
Hawaii, shall thereby be disqualified
from holding any Office or employment
in the service OF the Territory Of Ha
wall or any city or county thereof, UNI
less pardoned by the governor
i Chillingworth, in the cases Of young
men Of eighteen or thereabouts, does
not believe that II Is fair to render
them liable to loss Of citizenship by
any such measure as that proposed
Boys of eighteen have not sufficiently
formed their characters, he believes, to
realize the responsibilities Of citizen
ship, and, in very many eases, the pos
Sibility Of losing their citizenship would
not act as a deterrent 10 their absent
ing themselves continuously from the
compulsory drills.