The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-10
Feels That representatives Voted
L Lack Of Confidence IN A.
IW proving Loan Bin
SENATE LEADERS SHOCKED
WHEN NEWS REACHES THEM
Worried Over Prospective Fate
Of Pending Appropriation
Measure IN Lower House


Representative Clarence Cooke yes
terday rendered to Speaker Holstein
his resignation as chairman Of the
finance committee Of the house. He
took this sudden, but not altogether
unexpected, action on the ground that
the house, by adopting Representative
Norman Lymah's minority report IN
favor Of the farm loan credits bin,
over the unfavorable recommendation
Of the majority Of the committee and
his own personal protests, had voted
want Of confidence in the committee
chairman.
News Of Cooke 3 resignation was not
made public to the house, but IL
reached the senate yesterday pfternoon
and created CONSERVATION. In the mid
die Of the session President Chilling
worth announced that very disquiet-
| ing news had just reached him from
the house, and he asked the indulgence
| of the senate to declare a brief recess.
! Asked what was the nature Of the
news he had received, ChiIlinqworth
replied that he had heard that Cooke
had resigned as chairman Of the house
| finance committee. An Advertiser man
Ia minute later asked Cooke, who was
| at his desk, IL the report were correct.
Declaring that II had not yet been an
Inounccd to the house, Cooke affirmed
1.-THE report ~. ast
Beason For Resignation
what was your reason for resign
| ipgfv he was asked. e
| Because the house voted want Of
confidence In the chairman Of the
finance Committee he replied. "It
passed the farm loan credit bill ON
second reading over the report of the
COMMITTEE / spent two Sundays and
many extra hours studying that bin,
| trying to find some means Of making
tits construction such that / could
recommend it. But there was abs0-
lutely no way, so the committee was
| forced to recommend that IL be tabled
| .sBut this morning the house
adopted the minority report of
Dhe7 member, Lyman. Aside from the
members Of the committee who signed
the majority report, only one other
representative, Kauka Wilder, voted
with us. That was certainly vote
Of want of confidence in the chairman
Of this committee
| "I've been working here days,
nights and Sundays, but I'm through.
If the house has no more confidence in
me than that, III not serve as chair
man of the committee. have not,
however, resigned as a member Of the
committee. / have told the speaker
that he could appoint another chair
man. -
At this juncture several members of
the senate, including President Chill
lingworth, r. w. Single, chairman Of
the ways and means committee;
Manuel Pacheco, Robert Hind and
others arrived and asked as to the
correetness Of the rumor, Cooke yeri.
fed 1t and explained his action to
them as he had already explained II
TO The Advertiser man.
4 IF had known you were going TO
do that" exclaimed President Chilli
ingworth, the appropriation bill,
Especially with the public works provi-
sions, would never have got out of the
senate, except over my dead body"
Finds Bill Impossible
~ wanted to introduce the farm
loan credits bill myself in the senate
for political reasons said Paeheco,
lstbut when / read IL over, saw that
II would never do. If 1t had provided
a revolving fund of million dollars,
II would have been all right, but we
can't spare that amount, and the hum
bred thousand provided by the bill 10
only joke
Single, too, expressed his regret at
the action taken by Cooke. 81 We been
respecting to work with you on the ap.
preparation bill', he said, "and now
! don't know what's going to happen
to it.
j Several senators expressed the opin-
ion that there is no member Of the
Hover house qualified TO take Cookies
place as chairman Of the finance com.
mittee. The chief financial bill now
before the lower house is the appro-
n priation bill, carrying several millions.
II was struggled with desperately in
the senate, and finally passed after In
Vulnerable amendments. What the
house win do 10 II, unless il Is care
! fully shepherded by some one who
knows how to compare income with
outgo, is fearsome problem.
Speaker HolsteiR said late yester.
day afternoon that he had not been
formally notified by Cooke of the lat
ter's resignation as chairman of the
committee, and hoped that Cooke could
be induced TO reconsider his determine
tion in that respect. He didn't think
that Cooke should take as personal the
! faction Of the house in overriding him
ION the farm loan credits bill matter.
- have been slapped ON the wrist by
J the house myself he said, "but /
! took il, and | hope Representative
} Cooke will do the same
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