The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-08-16

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Salary Minister of the Interior,
S11 900 instead of S12, 900. Passed.
Salary Surveyor General, $1,000
instead of 5000. On motion SO, 200
was passed.
Government Surveying, $685.
instead of S35, 900.
Mr.. Hitchcock moved the larger
amount be appropriated.
President Rhodes said he had
communication from the principal of
the Department, saying that if the
appropriation were materially re-
duced it would cripple the service,
but it would be able to get along
with $50, 900. $4,000 passed.
Salary Postmaster General, $1,000
instead of $4,000 The larger amount
passed.
Mr.. Rowel moved to insert, i'm
mediately after Road Tax, So, ,S24.73
unexpended road taxes. The item
had escaped the select road COM
mittee's attention when preparing
their report because it was in diff
ferent place in the report of the
Minister of the Interior. 1t was the
unexpended road taxes of the pre-
vious period. Motion carried.
Mr.. Rowell moved that the ar
rangement of the items for the road
service be changed, so as to have
the uneXpended balances due each
district placed after the new appro-
priation for it. Carried.
Mr.. Rowell then rendered scale
of the items so combined, which he
had prepared on behalf of the COM
mittee, for the acceptance of the
House.
On motion it was decided to have
the scale read, when
Mr.. Hitchcock objected, suggest
ing that it be referred to a Special
Committee, MS the House could not
know in the hurried reading whether
it was correct or not.
Mr.. Dole said the Hon. member
had systemized the work for the
House and corrected it, and no com.
mittee could improve upon it.
A motion was then carried to in
definitely postpone the paper.
Mr.. w. o. Smith moved that when
the Committee rise it recommend
that this document be printed and
a copy given to each member.
Mr.. Aholo blocked this with the
objection that the article having
been indefinitely postponed, nothing
further could be done with it.
On motion Of Mr.. Richardson it
was decided that the Committee rise
and recommend that the Appro-
priation Bill as passed be engrossed,
leaving blanks for the total amounts
under each head.
The Committee accordingly rose
and reported, the report was adopted,
and the third reading of the bill set
for Tuesday.
A good deal of time was spent in
discussing what bills to take up, and
q motion to give precedence over
other bills before it on the order to
an Act to facilitate the right to con-
struct street railways in Honolulu
received the requisite two-thirds
vote.
Then misunderstanding arose as
to which of the three bills that had
been introduced relative to the street
railway franchise should form the
basis of action.
Motions were severally made on
behalf of all three, but an appeal to
the minutes showed that the bill sub
mitted by Messrs. Isenberg and
Cleghorn, minority Of the Committee
on Commerce, providing for selling
the franchise at auction, had been
read a second time by title and its
third reading appointed for to-day,
while the bill granting franchises
respectively to Mr.. Austin and Mr..
Wilson had been laid upon the table.
That much having been accom-
plished, the House adjourned at
4:50 until 10 O'Clock tomorrow.