The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-07-17
41sT DAY-July 18th.
MORNING SESSION,

MORNING SESSION.
The House opened at 10 q. m.
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 be 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, as they were not able
to 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 q few amendments,
the bill pass. The report was ac-
copied and ordered translated and
printed.
Noble Robinson reported from
the Committee on Commerce on the
petition from one Miller of New
York, for a rebate of duties on IL
quor. The committee think that if
this Legislature allowed a rebate on
this liquor, it would be establishing
ruinous precedent for this country,
but they think that the charges for
storeage 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-
commenting 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 at
r Maizena,, Maui. They find that
, there is an English school there now
and therefore recommend that the
+ petition be laid on the table.
{ Adopted.
Noble Widemann under suspen-
sion of the rules read petition for
. a refund of taxes paid twice. Re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
He also'reported from the Com
mittee on Double Taxation on
} several petition submitted to it,
that sum sufficient TO refund these
amounts be put in the Appropria-
ton Bill. 1t recommends that
the petitions from w. Z. Rowell and
Mr.. Robertson be laid on the table.
Rep. g. Brown was in favor OF
adopting the report with the excep-
} ton of the amount to Allen & Ro-
binson. He commended that they
should have action against the
bankers, and not against the Govern
, ment. He said the object OF
the law although not so expressed,
\ was that the bankers should furnish
to the tax assessors a list of depo
D sitors with the amount to thei
, credit, so that the assessors nigh
compare this list with the returns
D made by the parties assessed. He
said that this money was charged tc
D the account of the depositors by tn,
a bankers and that they should go I,
y the bankers for redress. He there
fore moved to make this report OF
n these petitions the special order o
the day to-day when it can b.
q argued.
o Noble Widemann moved to amend
0 by leaving the claims of Allen 4
0 Robinson and Mr.. Goldberg, until
0 the committee report on the petitio