The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-09-25
Hawaiian Parliament
Legislative AssembIy-One Hundred
and Tenth Day.

FRIDAY, september Z4th.
The House met at $50 a. IN. Prayer
by the Chaplain. The following members
answered to the roll call: Their Excellen-
cies Gibson, Creighton and Dare; Hons.
CleghOrn, Bishop, Wilder, Bush, Kaae,
Kuihelani, Walker, HayseIden, Keau,
Baker, Kauhi, Amara, Brown, Kaulia,
KaulukOu, Pahia, Kaunamano, Wight,
Nahinu, AhOlo, Kaukau, Richardson,
Castle, Kaai, PaehaoIe, Kauai and Palo-
hau. The minutes were read in Hawaiian
and English and approved.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Second reading of an Act to regulate the
observance of Sunday.
The report of the committee was read.
Mr.. Aholo moved the bill pass to en-
| grOssment.
Hon. Mr.. Wilder moved that after the
word day" there be inserted railroads
may on Sunday carry passengers to con-
meet with steamers"
Hon. Mr.. Bishop accepted the amend
ment, which carried.
! Mr.. Dickey moved to insert the word
"hOrse-cars" after the words public car
riages." Agreed to.
On motion of Hon. Mr.. Cleghorn, the
/ bill passed to engrossment, and will be
read a third time on Friday.
COLLISIONS AT SEA BILL.
Hon. Mr.. Wilder, from the Committee
on Commerce, presented the following re-
port:
Hon. J. S. Walker, President Legislative
Assembly-Sir: Your committee to whom
was referred bill entitled IAN Act for
preventing collisions at sea-" have the |
honor to report that they have considered
the same, and recommend that it do pass. |
The bill is intended to make the Hawa-
ian law conform strictly with the laws |
upon this subject in force in the United |
States, England and other maritime |
powers, and its enactment by the Legisla-
tive Assembly of the Hawaiian Kingdom |
has been suggested by the representatives
of those powers, with the view of establish
ing universal code of signals to prevent |
collisions at sea.
Your committee do not deem it advisa-
BILE, under these circumstances, to suggest
any amendments to the bill, although at
the present time several of its details do
not seem to be necessary to the protection
of Hawaiian shipping, Should, however,
direct trade with European ports be
opened under the Hawaiian flag, these
provisions would become essential, and
therefore should remain in the bill. Re
spectfully submitted,
SAMUEL G. WILDER,
f. K. LILIKALANI,
J. T. BAKER
On motion of Hon. Mr.. Cleghorn, the
report of the committee was adopted.
Tho hill Nos coed II and will
be read third time on Tuesday.
KEEPING OF ACCOUNTS BILL.
Second reading of an Act to provide for
the keeping of accounts in English and
Hawaiian.
Mr.. Brown moved the bill be laid upon
the table.
Mr.. Kaunamano moved the bill pass to
engrOssment.
The motion to lay upon the table was
put and lost.
Mr.. Dickey said he did not think the
native members understood what they
were voting for. By passing the bill, it
would double the number of clerks. Very
few clerks can keep books in both
languages, and they are supposed to have
all they can do to keep them in one
language.
Mr.. Kaulukou did not know what harm
there was in keeping the accounts in Ha-
waiian.
Mr.. Dickey said it was because it would
double the expense There had been no
argument in favor of the bill. There are
English schools, and Hawaiians are being
educated, so that they could keep books in
English, as well as in Hawaiian.
Mr.. Keau said that when he went into
department to look at the books he could
not understand them, because they were
written in English.
Mr.. Brown asked if there was any differ
ence between the figures in Hawaiian and
English.
Mr.. Keau said he could read the figures,
but not the items. He moved the previous
question.
On the question being put, it resulted in
tie vote, the President deciding against
the motion.
Hon. Mr. Bishop said he did not think
it was any use saying anything. He could
not but express his surprise at majority
of this House favoring this bill. No pos
sible good could come from it at all. 1t
would simply amount to the copying of
books, and there would be an unnecessary
expense for a useless work. He was sorry
to see it, as it would be a step backward.
A great deal of money was being spent in
educating Hawaiians, not only at home,
but abroad. The Representatives were
getting to understand the English Ian
guage better and better every year The