The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-02-20
|SOLONSGAIRERt
| AND GRAVE hints
DROP IN CLUSTERS
Plenty Of Investigating Is 70 Be
Done To Hear the Members
Tel OF Plans On Hand
WHARvES, FILlPIN0S AND =.
GOVERNOR INCLUDED
Suburban Members Shy Away
From Reapportionment and
City Charter

There's then on" legislatively
speaking, IL one may judge from more
or less guarded hints let fall by mem
bers who arrived from the other islands
yesterday and Immediately proceeded to
get into hole.in.the.wall conference
with other legislators who were already
ON the ground.
Just what 8 coming of none is will
ing to say on the authority Of his own
name, but there is fairly lively under,
standing that when IL does come of,
Governor L. Z. Pinkham, superinten.i
dent Of Public Works Charles X. Forbes
and the national guard higher officers
win find job cut out for them and
there will be some tall and lofty ex.
planning. (, a..
Many 0rowis, Few Bites - .Msi
OF course il is general rule that
many things are threatened gust prior
to the convening of the legislature,
which never come of. Which does not
mean that they never amount TO any
thing. Sometimes they are intended
merely as the basis for trading. And
sometimes. unruly senators and repre-
sentatives are taken gently but firmly
IN hand by the men who really run.
things and are told just about where
they get of.
However, as matters stand now, there
is much talk Of nvestigations--an in.
vestigation, for instance, of the ma
tionai guard, with special reference to
.kense, o. q lot Of FiliPHio gus3dppen.
Members Of the legislRt1re from the
other islands profess TO view with great
alarm the prospect of Filipinos acquir-'
ing American citizenship e.. a
For this reason there has developed a
strong prejudice even against letting
the Filipihos dig trenches and bear
arms, and Bhei fact that the Governor
has unlpaded upon the guard great
number Of lhis proteges affords the pos.
sibility for which some Legislators are
looking for am Investigation Of the
guard. i
Public Works Probe #S
Likewise, the rumpus stirred up by
the discovery Of the condition of affairs
in connection with the construction Of
Piers 8, 8 and 10 on the Honolulu water.
front, under the plans and supervision
of Charles n, Forbes, sdpplies'al helve
for the ak that some of the solons are
threatening to drop upon the devoted
neck of the superintendent Of public
works II. l.. Holstein, who is one Of
those who arrived yesterday and who is
slated to be speaker of the house, said
that he expected the legislature to
authorize an investigation Of the mat.
ter of the piers. .tti, ttt.,.s !.
The proposed charter for Honolulu, il
now appears, is to be used by the out.
side legislators as club to be held over
the heads of the Oahu contingent. If
the latter are not good to their visiting
brethren, the Kauai, Maui and Hawaii
members will, il Is strongly limited, re.
fuse to let the charter bill go through.
Threat Loses Weight '@ ssg~,'-
But it looks very much rs IL that
might prove an entirely Ineffective
weapon--for the simple reason that the
Oahu contingent doesn't appear to give
a continental whether Honolulu gets a
new charter or not. Anyway they are
not evihcing any great interest in the
matter. - @F. NF
The question of reapportionment does
not seem to be troubling the legislators.
Even the fact that there are hints of q
possible injunction TO prevent the con.
vening Of the Legislature, on the ground
that II is not constituted according to
law, doesn L seem to make dent in
their consciousness, If, however, the
auditor should, as he well might, refuse
to. o. *. their salary vouchers, they
might waken up. Probably nothing
less serious would disturb their com,
placenes, 9. 49,. -.