The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-10-04
The Legislature.

OK Wednesday resolution was introduced
by the Hon. Mr.. Birch thanking their Excel
lencies the Ministers of Foreign Relations and
the Attorney General for the favor they had
done the country in advising His Majesty not
to sign certain bills which, in their opinion.
were not calculated to result in good. It
was intended as sarkasm," as ARENAS
Ward used to say, and after little indulgence
in that spirit of mirth in which all great
minds occasionally unbend themselves, the
Assembly passed to the more sober business
of listening to the apology of Mr. Mahelona,
the member from Eva, who had been the cause
of the unpleasantness of the preceding day.
The Appropriation Bill was taken up. and
after some discussion the item for a subsidy
of $4,000 to the Pacific Mail Line was passed,
1t will be remembered that on the previous
reading of the bill this item was lost by
large majority, but since that time, some of
those who then opposed it most strongly have
come to the conclusion that it is a most de-
sirable thing, and it finally passed by % to
IL. The salary of the clerk of the Attorney
General was raised from 81, 200 to 81, 500. In
the department of education the item for Go
vernment schools was cut down to $4,000,
and the salary of Inspector General passed as
in the budget on the understanding that the
position should be filled by some one else in
the place Of the present encumbent.
1t was reported on Thursday morning by
the 41,o3
signed the Stamp Act The following reso-
luton, offered by the Hon. Mott Smith, was
adopted:
REsoLvED That in discussing the sum of
$4,000 placed in the Appropriation Bill for subsidy
10 the Pacific Mall s. S. Company no part thereof |
shall be used for any service already performed by
money shall be used only in payment for services
10 be rendered after a contract shall have been |
signed between this Government and the said |
steamship Company"
A much needed amendment to the opium
law, giving to the lower Courts jurisdiction
in causes brought for violation of the opium
law, was introduced by the Attorney General,
and passed its second reading, and was ordered
to engrossment A resolution of want of conf
dence in the present Inspector General of
Schools was passed, and the remaining items
of the appropriation bill were read for the
third time and passed. A resolution was in
PRODUCED to the effect that the Assembly have
one good square feed at the public ex
pense before separating, which was seconded,
but upon the Minister Of Foreign Affairs
that he and his colleagues pro-
posed to do themselves the honor of entertain
pg the House at lunch on the following
lay, the resolution was withdrawn This
ook place at the Hawaiian Hotel on Friday
and was well attended by members
If the Assembly, the Diplomatic and Consular
Corps, and prominent citizens to the number
# about one hundred
The session of Friday was brief and de-
Toted to the completion of unfinished bust
less. The committee appointed to inform
Bis Majesty that the Assembly would be
ready to be prorogued on Saturday, reported
hat His Majesty had signifed that he would
the House at that time with pleasure
Complimentary resolutions were offered and
adopted in regard to the Officers of the House,
md fattering and unctiOus speeches were
made, and soft-soap was distributed with that
for which the good-natured Ha-
vaiian is remarkable, and late differences
we're forgotten, and all were quite happy