The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-07-01
to bring in tomorrow for the more effectual punish
ment of cattle thieves. Adjourned.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

ment OF cattle thieves Adjourned.
FRIDAY, June %.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. HOLSTER, from the Committee on Elections. re-
ported adversely to the petition from Wailuku against
Hon. John Richardson, as in their opinion it bore
upon its face evidence of fraud in its production.
After a debate, in which Mr.. Kaumaea objected to
the report, it was adopted.
Mr.. Richardson asked permission to copy the petit
ton. 1t was got up by Mr.. Kamakau in opposition
to himself, and contained charges which he desired to
have investigated.
MIR. Sheldon moved that the member be furnished
with a copy of the petition, certified by the Clerk of
the House. Adopted.
Mr.. Hitchcock, from the Committee on Printing
the Rules. reported that they had accomplished their
work The cost was 81 % per page, amounting to
S45. Adopted.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The rules were suspended, and the appropriation
bill was read a third time and passed.
The Act to levy a tax on passengers leaving the
kingdom, was taken up on second reading and con-
sidered in Committee of the Whole.
MIR. Hollister said that these temporary measures
were all wrong. What was wanted here, and what
we must come to eventually, in order to provide pro.
perly for the necessities of the government and carry
on the improvements needed, was a property tax.
MIR. Austin opposed the passage of the bill as being
opposed to sound policy. But little revenue would
be raised in that way. He agreed with the member
who last spoke, that the only just and equitable mode
of raising a revenue, was by a property tax.
Messrs. Robertson, Kahai and Kaumaea favored
the bill, and Me>srs. Chamberlain, Sheldon, Hitch
cock and Dowsett opposed it. After an hours de-
bate, the bill was referred to the Joint Committee on
the Revised Statutes. Adjourned
SATURDAY, June 26.
PETITIONS.
From Hanalei, Kauai, for sundry alterations in
court practice that all woods on konohikis' lands
be free for an act apainst married DeoDle forSakinO
each other. Referred.
From Hama, Maui, to double the tax on animals.
Referred.
From Puma, Hawaii, to free konohiki's kula lands
for the cattle of their tenants. Referred.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Manini, from the Military Committee reported
in the matter of the petition of the Honolulu Rifles
for an Armory. They had received a letter from
Prince Kamehameha, stating that the Government
had the subject under consideration. The report was
adopted, and the chairman of the committee instruct
ed TO report to the petitioners.
Mr.. Chamberlain, from the Committee on the Ju-
dietary, reported in favor of referring to the Joint
on the Revised Statutes, the petitions on
the subject of married people f~orsaking each other.
Adopted, and ordered TO be printed.
DIR. Judd, from the Committe on Commerce, re-
ported on the five resolutions of the Chamber of Com
merce. The Report vas received and ordered for
Committee of the whole to-day. The following is the
Report
The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred five Reso-
LlLNHS Vi lr IlNLbiAIA y hAAt[I VI IhNDANtAF tlE-JIA|h " lIS
House by the Executive Committee, beg leave to Report:
That the Treaty Of 1916 is now in force, which in the 9th Ar
ticle provides that this article limits the power of the Legisla-
ture. No addition Of consequence can be made to the duties
charged at the Custom Honse while it is in existence, 1t was
therefore in the hope of its abrogation that in 1854 the then Min
lister of Finance proposed the Tariff Law in question, entertain
ing opinions which the Chamber of Commerce do not adopt, they
being satisfied with the present law, even If the new French
Treaty be ratified. They think that any alteration would be in
expedient and object, in any event, to a declaration by the Gov
eminent that the said Tariff go into operation.
1t would appear that the provision in the Tariff Law for its
going into effect twelve months after its publication, was made
upon a contingency which did not happen during those twelve
and there being no further provision for its taking eff
feet at any other time, the law must remain imperative until
or re-enacted by the Legislature, even if the 9Th Ari-
Gle were abrogated.
The Board Of Commerce appear to be apprehensive that upon
he ratification of the new Treaty with France, some necessity
exists either in the provisions II the Treaty itself or the policy
Of the present Ministry, II call into action this Tariff. which has
been the subject Of so much comment hut your Committee be-
ieye that the untiring labOrs Of the Minister Of Foreign Relations
Turing a period Of ten years, must have resulted in a perfect re-
noval Of all restrictions in regard to the power Of legislation
which belongs to this kingdom As a n independent state, or that
E on examination. any such restriction appears, they have the
unest confidence that the King, bearing in mind the 18th Arti-
lie Of the Constitution, Will decline to ratfy it.
We have further confidence in His Majesty that he will so or
,anize his Cabinet that it will 'ecome an efficient body. capable
intiainga foreign and financial policy that would receive the
Of the Representatives Of the people, advance the inter-
sts Of commerce, and promote the general welfare.
Respectfully submitted;