The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-07-24

Inc House OpeucU III ~ IT, III.
President w. r. Castle in the chair.
Roll called and absentees noted.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Noble Jaeger reported from the
Committee on Public Lands on sew
eral petitions referred to it, recon-
mending that they be laid on the
table to he considered with the APP
preparation Bill Adopted.
Also from the same committee on
several other petitions from various
parts of the kingdom, in which they
state that they can only give cur
sorry report, rs they were not able
OF visit all these localities and judge
for themselves. Therefore they re-
commend that all of them be laid on
the table to be considered with the
Appropriation Bill, also in regard
to the petition to abolish the Road
Boards on the island of Oahu, that
they think the system has not as
yet been thoroughly tested, and
therefore recommend that it be laid
on the table. Adopted.
Rep. f. Brown reported from the
Printing Committee that two bills
were printed and ready for distribu-
ton.
Noble Baldwin reported from the
Finance Committee on the bill re-
lating to the circulation of CONNER
cial paper as currency, recommend
ing that with few amendments,
the bill pass. The report was ac-
cepted and ordered translated and
printed.
Noble Robinson reported from
the Committee on Commerce on the
petition from one Miller of New
York, for rebate of duties on Ii
uuor. The committee think that if
this Legislature allowed rebate on
this LIQUOR, it would be establishing
q ruinous precedent for this country,
but they think that the charges for
Storage are eXorbitant and should
be changed. They therefore recon-
mend that this petition be laid on
the table to be considered with the
bill to regulate storage charges in
the Custom House, noticed by the
honorable Frank Brown. Adopted.
Rep. G. Brown reported from the
Judiciary Committee on the petition
from j. w. Hawai-, that $500 be
paid him for land taken by the gov
eminent for water, in Makiki, stat
ing that as no claim has been made
on the Minister of the Interior for
such land, they recommend that the
petition be laid on the table.
Adopted.
Also from the same committee on
the bill to amend the law relating to
commissioners of boundaries, re-
commencing that the bill pass.
Laid on the table to be considered
with the bill.
Noble Townsend reported from
the Committee on Education on the
petition for an English school al
Makena, Maui. They find that
there is an English school there now,
and therefore recommend that the
petition be laiG on the table,
Adopted.
Noble Widemann under suspen.
sion of the rules read petition fol
refund of taxes paid twice. Re.
ferred to the Judiciary Committee
He also reported from the Com
mittee on Double Taxation or
several petition submitted to it
that sum sufficient to refund these
amounts be put in the Appropria'
tion Bill. 1t recommends tina
the petitions from w. E. Rowell anc
Mr. Robertson be laid on the table
Rep. G. Brown was in favor o
!, adopting the report with the eXcep
tion of the amount TO Allen q Ro
binson. He contended that the,
should have action against TIL,
bankers, and not against the Govern
ment. He said the object o
the law although not so expressed
was that the bankers should furnish
to the tax assessors list of depo
sitors with the amount to thei
credit, so that the assessors nigh
compare this list with the return
made by the parties assessed. HI
said that this money was charged t.
the account of the depositors by tn
bankers and that they should 90 t
the bankers for redress. He there
fore moved to make this report OF
these petitions the special order c
the day to-day when it can b
argued.
Noble Widemann moved to amen
by leaving the claims of Allen
Robinson and Mr.. Goldberg, unit
the committee report on the petitio
of II. A. Widemann as they all in
volve the same principle. Carried
RESOLUTIONS AND BILLS.
Noble Smith gave notice of tw
bills, the first relating to seductio
and the other to grant permission t
the trustees of the LunalilO estat
to transfer certain property.
Noble Foster said that the con
mittee to whom was referred til
Anti-Aslatic petition, found man
difficulties in the way of investiga
ing this matter, and therefore Intro
duce "A resolution. to the effect TIL;