The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-06-09
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
Tenth Day.

| FRIDAY, June Sth.
The House met at 10 o'clock, the Presi-
dent, Hon. S. G. Wilder, in the chair.
Minutes of eighth days session were read
by the secretary and interpreter, and con-
firmed.
| PETITIONS.
| Rep. Kalaukoa presented petition from
| twenty-seven residents of Honolulu pray
! ing ID that the House look into the matter
of private ways, ~ that the law relating
| to private ways be amended, 90 that the
law state how wide private ways should be.
Rep. Brown moved the petition be laid
on the table 20 be considered with the bill
given notice of by Noble Castle on the
same subject. Carried.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Rep. F. Brown reported three bills
printed.
NOTICE OF NEW BILL.
Noble WaterhOuse gave notice of:
An Act to prevent the issue of CONNER
cial paper as circulating medium.
NEW BILL.
Noble Baldwin read, a first time:
An Act to amend Section 20 of An Act
entitled An Act to repeal Chapter \. OF the
Civil Code, and to regulate the Bureau of
PuOllc Instruction, approved January ~,
1865.
QUESTIONS TO MINISTER'S.
Rep. Kamauoha asked the Minister of
Finance:
1. If it is true that 500, 1853 48 had been
taken from the Treasury within the last
two years ending March 81, 1888, to pay
the expenses for the steam tug, and if
So ,269 is is still due by the Government
for such service?
2 What caused the expenditure of
$17 $50 within the last three months end
ing March 81, 1888, for this service?
3. The Minister'S report states that
$500 48 has been expended over and
above the amount appropriated by the last
session, and that the Government still
owes IS, 269 48-why has the average cost
of this service for those three months been
so much greater than for the preceding
eleven months
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Attorneys and Counsellors-SecOndr read
ing of an Act relating to attorneys and
councillors at law and to practitioners in
the inferior Courts of the Kingdom. Con-
sidered section by section.
The third section, providing that attOr-
neys and cOunsellors at law pay certificate
fees of 500 and practitioners in the in
feriOr Courts $25 Il year, brought on a long
and spirited debate, in which Messrs
Castle, Thurston, Kalaukoa, F. Brown,
Hitchcock, KamauOha, Smith, Kauhi, |
Green, Young, Waterhouse and Wide
mann took part. Messrs. KalaukOa, |
Kauhi and Kamauoha claimed that the |
payment of the fees would bear unjustly |
on native practitioners. The application |
of the proposed fees for the purpose of |
purchasing books for the law library, speci- |
fed in another section of the bill, Rep. |
Kauhi claimed, would be no advantage to |
himself and other Hawaiian lawyers who |
are not versed in the English language. |
Noble Young supported this view of the |
matter. On motion of Rep. Kauhi, an |
amendment was adopted, by a small ma
jority, that the fees payable by attorneys |
and cOunsellOrs be 500.
Noble Castle then moved that the fee of |
$25 for practitioners in the lower Courts be |
$50.
Noble Waterhouse moved recOnsidera-
ton of the former vote, which carried, and |
the $50 was reinstated in the bill.
Noble Castle withdrew his amendment. |
Minister ThurstOn at this point said that |
he was sorry to observe a disposition on
the part of some members, Rep. KalaukOa |
in particular. to excite race prejudice in
the House. Members are not here as
"hqoles" or as "kanakas," but as Ha-
waiian citizens, to legislate for people of |
all nationalities, of whatever race or color.
The section passed as in the bill
At noon the House took recess one hour.