The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-08-21
THE LEGISLATURE
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19-Continucd.


Rowell, referred to a Select Com
mittee, upon which the President
appointed, Mcssrs. Rowell, Neu-
mann, Aholo, Hitchcock and Amara.
Mr.. G. Brown, by permission,
presented a verbal report from the
Finance Committee, upon the re-
ference just made to it of a case of
taxes.paid twice. 1t was found that
sl5 had been paid by the complain.
ant, only half of which had reached
the treasury. The Comcittce re-
commended that the only resoursc the
party had was against the collector
Upon the adoption of the report,
Mr.. Kaulukou was given the papers
in the case to aid him in taking
proceedings against the collector.
Mr.. Hitchcock submitted reso-
luton that evening sessions be held
till propagation, beginning with to-
morrow, at O'Clock. Carried.
Mr.. Lilikalani moved that when
the reports of this session have been
published, copies in English and
Hawaiian be sent by the Secretary
to each member. Carried.
Mr.. Baker moved that $50 be
appropriated for paying the expenses
of lighting the clock in Mr. Lucas's
building on Fort street. Carried.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
An Act relating to National Loans
was read q third time and, on motion
of Minister Ncumann, referred to
the Finance Committee.
An Act to protect creditors'agains
fraudulent lnsolvents was read Il
third time.
Mr.. Widemann moved the indie
finite postponement of the bill, which
was lost.
A motion to pass the bill was
about to be put, when
Mr.. Widemann rose and stated
that the bill was an outrage, legis-
lating out of existence within sixty
days -fourths of the retail store
keepers Of the city. 1t was in
reality a bill for the benefit of whole
sales dealers against retailers.
Mr.. w. O. Smith, in opposing the
bill, said the Objectionable classes Of
Cinnamon did not comprise as a
rule the Chinese merchants, who
had done great deal of good to the
country. While admitting the diff
Guilty of settling Chinese insolvent
estates, he said there were English.
using merchants whose accounts
were equally ineXplicable. He held
that the proposed law was II wrong
and an injustice, for which the re-
preventative of the Chinese Govern
ment might well ask an explanation.
Mr.. Dole held that although in
wording this Act was not class legis-
lation, yet in fact it was such and so
intended to be. The Act was also
unconstitutional, inasmuch as it was
divided in its objects. Its passage
: might complicate us not only with
China but with other nations. The
House might just as well, as it had
an equal right to do, pass law COM
polling the keeping of all merchants
books in Hawaiian. Where, then,
would some of the supporters of this
bill be?
Minister Neumann thought it was
strange that such little bill, simply
proposing to enforce due respect to
the two official languages of the
country, should have provoked such
display of learned opposition, He
felt that Mr.. Widemann, trained
merchant us he was, had not ana
lyzed the measure. AS to the admitted
hardship involved in the bill, he
could show in every page of the
Penal Code, hardships upon members
of the community. There was a
hardship, for instance, in sending a
man for a simple slip of the pen by
which he signs another mans name,
to hard labor upon the reef. There
was not in the whole bill section,
a sentence or a word that could harm
the hair of the head of Il single honest
trader. AS regarded the argument