The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-04-27
CORPSE or CHARTER BILL
KICKS UP LIVELY RURIPUS
Vetoed By Governor, Abandoned By House and Sup
ported By Senate, Measure Still Has
Chance For Life

N<uE now dead CORPSE or the ue
funct charter bill, as Senate
Pachecos classic phrase has 4
Kicked UP liveIier shindy at It's owl
wake yesterday than Ii decent of ever
Kilkenny corpse.
IN the frst place, the charter Is tech
nicolly dead by limitation Of time
call for the coming primary electiol
hns been issued under the terms Of III
old charter, and il win require the pas
aage Of an emergency enabling net =
revitnlize the new charter
On top Of that. the Governor votoel
~, and the house failed to override thu
veto. But the charter refused 10 sta,
dead. A motion by Lyman to defer in
definitely any reconsideration Of tn
action taken on the veto was defeated
TO make confusion worse confouhde'
the house then passed on second rendinl
the emergency enabling act, which n
ready has passed the senate. And TIL
senate did a thing without precedent Il
its history IN defiance Of the actiol
taken n the house, II voted the Gov
errors veto down, twelve 70 two.
As the dtuation stands this
morning, four things can happen.
The house can vote 70 recon.
slider its action, take up the Gov
ern0r's veto message second
time and oycrturn IL.
p The house can vote to recon-
slider its action, take an the Gov
ernof's veto message and fail again
to overturn t..
The house car. defeat n mo-
tion to reconsider It's action.
THE house can fail to pass the
emergency enabling act,
Above and over all these posi-
bilities lies the power Of the Gov.
erDor TO stifle the emergency. ena-
bling act by noiseless pocket
veto, whatever the legislature may
do.
Now Up TO the House
The whole situation now lies be
tween the house and the Governor
The senate has no further initiativ,
and no card of re.entry.
Predictions are futile in such a tan
gle, but Il IS possible to tell what Il
afoot and stirring. The friends OF tn,
charter are working for peconsidera
tion. To yoteSt the Governor, a tets
down and concur in the action of ths
senate, they must gnin six votes: and
they believe, with the moral supu6rt ~
the action taken in the senate, they car
do IL.
President Chiilingworth said Ne felt Il
has duty 70 explain his position, ever
though the presiding officer was not SUI,
posed to JOHN debate from The chair
~ l feel il my duty TO say. !, he *
planned, stthat il has been the wish oi
the President to assist the ndministra
tion Of the Territory OF Hawaii, Ieavint
all political consideratiohs aside. for tls
best interests Of the TERRITORY. but h,
cannot refrnin from expressing his senti
ments when the Governor threatens III
With military government.
When the Governor says we are due
for rude awakening, / for ON
want 10 know what he means by that
Personally, / feel that he is making nj
unworthy insinuation. feel the phrase
ology of his message goes outside tn,
Of q yeto.,,
Pacheco Explaing Stand 4
Touched by glancing reference asid,
from the milin intent of the president ),
speech Pacheeo. rose again to explain
his attitude on the election OF super
yisors by three and three from the tw,
districts.
"Ii IS true, = he said, nthat my op
position centers on three and three
That's the meat Of the whole act. Blu
could have consented to accept tire,
and three IL II had not been coupled
with a provision which requires the
approval Of three supervisors on all III,
mayors appointments. II the mayor
had absolute power TO hire and FIRE al
will, there might be Representative gov
ernment in the city hall The super
visors would not then be forced I,
qualify all their acts by consideration
OF political appointments. y
As the bill is now made; however
there will be absolute rule OF the eity
by one group or the other Of superyis
ors. The mayor will be forced to maxi
a hard and fast political alliance with
the three supervisors whose confirma
tion he must have for his appoi Afments
and the clique within. the board thu
formed, having majority Of one votl
the mayor 3 will rule absolutely Il
all mpttcrs, Legislative as well as polit
ical. Therefore i say the charter i
and unAmerican.
stBut leaving the merits Of the char
ter to one side, do you for one momen
expect that the Governor, having We
toed the charter, is going TO approx,
the enabling act by which alone il cal
livef He won't do il"
"Does the senator make that as I
statement of factf'' interrupted tn
chair.
"Not as a statement Of fact" re
piled Senator Pacheco, sbut az mat
ter of common sense. He can't do i
consistently. And if he doesn't, thei
we shall have a state Of chaos. Ther
We shall have an election held unde
the old chnrter. which this legislator,
has repealed, The election proclama
ton for the primaries, to be held un
der the old charter, already has beer
published. ~