The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-08-07

MORNING SESSION.
The House opened at 10 q. IN.
President w. r. Castle in the chair.
Roll called and absentees noted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEES.
Rep. G.. Brown reported from the
Judiciary Committee to whom was
referred the bill to abolish tuition fees
in Government schools, recommend
ing new bill, and amendments to the
original bill. The reason they in
troduced q new bill was, that the
original bill contained two distinct
ideas. Adopted.
The rules were suspended and the
bills read again by title, and passed
to engrossment to be read third
time on Thursday.
Also from the same committee on
the petitions of John L. Bowler and
More * Co. for the payment of GER
tain sums for work and material
furnished for the Palace, recon-
mending that the three petitions be
laid on the table, and that the sum
of 50, 200 be inserted in the Appro-
priation Bill, to pay any Judgment
that may be obtained against the
Government, for labor done and ma
terial furnished.
Rep. Kinney moved to adopt the
report.
Noble Widemann moved to have
the report printed and made the
order of the day next Tuesday.
Noble Baldwin moved to lay the
report on the table.
Rep. c. Brown said if the House
meant to kill the report they could
have done it last week, and saved
the committee great deal of work.
He thought it was not serving the
committee right to refer back these
petitions to them, and then when they
make certain suggestions, throw
their report out of the window.
The motion TO lay on the table
was lost.
Rep. Kamauoha moved to receive
the report and lay it on the table to
be considered with the Appropria-
ton Bill.
Minister Thurston said the COM
mittee went along we'll enough until
they came to the last paragraph of
the report, where they recommend
that certain amount be inserted IN
the Appropriation Bill. 1t is none
of their business what is done with
the petitions after they are laid on the
table. He contended that the COM
mittee went beyond their instruc-
tions when they recommended the
appropriation of money to pay these
claims. All they had to consider
was, are these claims such as should
be recognized by this House and
paid by the government, or are they
invalid, and consequently to be
taken no notice of. He said it was
no use for the committee to argue
that the putting of this item in the
Appropriation Bill will not help
these people to recover judgment
against the government, because it
will. The Courts will hold that there
was some valid claim, or the Legis-
lature would not have made con-
tingent appropriation. He therefore
moved to accept the report up to the
last paragraph, and to reject that.
Noble Smith said that at the last
session matter of $75, 900 was dis
cussed, and it was concluded that
we had better pay that amount, al
though it was not strictly in accord
with law that the debt was con,
tracted, but it would protect oul
credit abroad. Now there is a claim
for SO, POO and the government say
repudiate it and then destroy oul
credit at home. He was in favor Of
having the report printed and dis
cussed, rather than to have hast,
action in which an injustice could bC
done.
Minister Green said that there wa
no parellism between the $4,000
spoken of by the Hon. Noble Smitl
and these claims before the House
He could not understand why th
Judiciary Committee insisted in fore
ing this House to insert certain
amount in the appropriation, TO
these claims.
Noble Baldwin favored the motiol
to lay the report on the table to b.
considered with the Appropriation
Bill.
Noble Widemann said we wer
now just where we were four day
ago, and he did not see the use o
discussing this matter any more. I'll
therefore renewed his motion to hay'
the report printed and day Sc
apart for its discussion.
Rep. Kinney said that he did no
think that the committee exceeded
their duty by making the recon