The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-12-15
Attorney Believes RebubEneNs
Are Pledged TO Make Much
80 Needed improvements
MOST IMPORTANT OF AL
PENDING LEGISLATION
Defends Proposed Feature, Pro-
+, yidinu For Recall Of untaith-
FIJI Or lnefticient Officials

Lorrin Andrews. one of the successful
candidates for the house in the last
election, believes in the need for the
proposed new charter for Honolulu, and
says so in no uncertain fashion, in an
interview given to The Advertiser yes
terIay afternoon.
The attorney believes that the piece
Of legislation pending for the legisla-
ture 10 act upon at the coming session
i the charter, and he also believes that
the Republican party stands pledged to
charter revision and must carry through
the necessary changes in the present
charter, ut the coming session.
Mr. Andrews also believes that the
work done by the charter convention
is most satisfactory, although he admits
that some of the provisions contained
IN the charter drawn up by the con
vention may be altered when the legis
lators get to -tinkering with the sub
iect. He is in hearty accord with the
feature in the proposed charter, giving
the people of the city the recall for
use in case officials should prove in
efficient OF unfaithful.
Believes In Charter
CT believe that the most important
piece of legislation for Honolulu that
win come before the coming legisla.
ture will be the charter for the city.
The Republican party stands pledged in
it's two last platforms to charter re-
vision. The last legislature, in obed-
fence to the plank in tae Republican
platform. called for a charter conven'
ton to draft a charter suitable to the
needs of this municipality. The mem.
bers of that convention were repre-
sentative of all classes of people resid.
ing in Honolulu.
The convention adopted a charter
which, among its most prominent feat
ures, gives to the people of HODcluiu
the power of electing the officers who
will handle each department, such Off
Ger to have full control over his de.
partment, unhampered by the board OF
supervisors, but subject to recall dur
ing his term Of Office by the people IL
he fails to make gOOd." This recall
is so arranged that an unfaitbful or
inefficient officer can be removed with
out interfering in any way with the
kNlance Of the city government.
This charter prevents concentration
Of political power in the hands of any
one city official by distributing the
power of appointment among the vari-
Gus elected officers, and yet makes each
elected officer responsible to the whole
public for the carrying out of the du-
ties of his office, and believe the fact
that out of fifteen candidates elected to
the senate and house of representatives,
at the election last month, eight were
members of the charter convention who
voted for the adoption of the charter, is
clear indication that the majority of
the people of Honolulu believe in the
provisions of the charter.
Bound BY Platform
81 believe that, as a Republican,
I'm bound by the party platform to sup
port the enactment of a new charter
for Honolulu. There is a possibility
that improvements can be suggested in
regard TO various matters in the charter
adopted by the convention, and / feel
sure that the Oahu delegation will give
the matter full consideration, but that
ia general, the system of elected officers
with full responsibility TO the people
who elected them, and coupled with the
right to recall an unfaithful or ineffi
cisnt officer will be the result of any
Legislation on this subject"