Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-05-21
A,thur tombstone, Editor and Prop'r

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THE Assembly did some good work
yesterday for, besides disposing of the
usual miscellaneous work of the morn
ing session they cleared off quite
long list of bills on the "Order of the
Day" Under this head the bill fixing
the '6re limits" of Honolulu and reg
ulating the style of buildings to be
erected therein, finally passed its third
reading and now only awaits His
Majesty's signature to become law
At the last moment a change was made
< by which the clause permitting fire
proof buildings to be ceiled with wood
was amended. 1t was pointed out that
building with wooden ceilings could
not be called "fre proof" at ALL In
fact, such building though with outer
walls of brick, stone or concrete was
not so safe against fire as a wooden
building with lath and plaster ceilings.
The change was, therefore, made to
"lath and plaster ceilings" Very
wisely, in our opinion, the motion to
strike out the clause compelling fire
walls not less than thirty inches high
above the roof to be built at least
twelve inches thick, was defeated As
was argued by Hon. Noble Bishop,
such walls have no braces and must be
made sufficiently thick to ensure their
not being blown down
The Report of the President of the
Board Of Health, which was partly dis
tributed on Wednesday afternoon and
fully supplied yesterday morning, con-
tains much matter of Importance con-
corning the health of the people and
their sanitary condition. 1t will be motto
ed that no reference is made to the
work done by Doctor Arning during
the past two years. This omission
will probably be explained by
reference to the report of Dr.
Arning which was published at private
expense some little time ago. This
report was supplied to members by
Hon. member Thurston yesterday
We cannot say that we think there
should have been no mention whatever
made in the report of the Board of
Health of DIR. Arning or his work. His
name appears once in the enumeration
of physicians who have been employed
during the past biennial period, and
that is all.
A bill introduced by Hon. member
Dickey renders certain persons--includ-
ing those who have within one year of
an election held office as Judges, Tax
Collectors or Assessors ineligible
forever" to sit as members of the Legis-
lature. This is rather more of pun
ishment than we think should be
inflicted upon the officials and ex-offi-
cials mentioned, and we hope the Hon.
introducer will let them off easier On
the second reading of the bill.
The Attorney Generals resolution to
have the roll of members called at the
commencement of each days session
is good one. Due provision being
made for crediting those who are alb
sent on committee work, or other neces-
sary business, the "record" at the end
Of the session will be an interesting
one.
To give little idea of how the
work Of the session is accumulating we
would state that up 10 the close of
yesterdays work, there has been intro
duced into the House and referred to
Committees besides those tabled for
consideration over seventy resolu-
tions and petitions, and notices of
intentions to introduce ninety-seven
bills. OF these bills, fifty-four have
been read the first time, eight the
second time and three the third time.
The various Committees have their
hands full of business, that on Public
Lands and Internal Improvements
having between thirty and forty little
matters TO attend to. 1t is rather to be
wondered at, in view of the above
showing, that the motion to give the
Committees chance to bring forward
their work by adjourning over until
Monday next was lost. Perhaps the
members had it in mind that next