The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-11-04


Second reading OF an act relating to the
members of the Cabinet.
The bill provides that all executive
acts of the Cabinet shall be lawful when
ever a majority OF the members of the
Cabinet perform the same, and on the
performance OF all their duties the action
and the advice of majority OF the mem
bers of the Cabinet shall prevail. The
majority report states that the title and
the provisions of the bill are not alike,
itely postponed The minority report
think it good bill, and recommend it
to the favorable consideration of the
can Act relating to the duties of the
Council"
Rep. Brown moved the amended bill
pass.
Rep. r. w. Wilcox moved the bill be
indefinitely postponed.
Rep. Brown said the object of the bill
was to prevent repetition of what they
saw at the beginning of the session when
the Cabinet was one to three.
Noble Marsden favored the bill but he
thought it would defeat its object. He
supported the motion to indefinitely post
pone, as the bill would do no good.
The bill was indefinitely postponed
IS to Is.
A motion to reconsider was lost.
Second reading of bill No. 126, an Act
to extend the duties of the "Commis-
sioners OF Agriculture.
The report of the Committee on Com
MERGE was read, recommending that the
hill no indaflnitaly DOStDOned
The report of the committee was
adopted, and the bill indefinitely post
poned.
Second reading of can Act to re-enact
an Act entitled AN Act to regulate the
Hawaiian Board of HEALTH the same
being Chapter xxx. of the laws of
1856, approved on the seventh day of
October, A. ID. 1886"
The bill was read by title.
Rep. Brown moved reference to the
Sanitary Committee.
Noble Crabbe moved the bill be indie
finitely postponed.
Rep. Paehaole said the introducer was
not present.
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
A motion to reconsider was lost.
Second reading of bill 10Y, an act to
| provide for the keeping of books of
accounts in the departments in the Ha-
waiian and English languages.
Noble Marsden moved the bill be in
definitely postponed. 1t would make
| double work, require more clerks, and
| there was no money appropriated for
| that.
Rep. Paehaole moved it pass to be
| engrossed.
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
A motion to reconsider was lost.
Second reading of bill No lao, an act
to continue the subsidy heretofore grant
ed for mail communication between
the Hawaiian Islands and the United
States of America.
The bill was read through.
The committee report recommends
that no more money shall be paid than
appropriated by the Legislature.
Rep. Brown moved to amend the first
section by inserting one thousand dollars
for each round trip instead of fifteen
hundred dollars; also to add at the end
of the section, land shall expire on
! March 31st, 1892"
Noble Muller moved to amend section
by inserting, "that said subsidy shall
not exceed two thousand dollars each
month"
Noble Cornwel said the amount OF
$4S, 900 has been inserted in the approp-
ration bill. He moved the bill pass as
read.
Rep Nawahi said one of the conditions
in the bill is that the charge upon bana-
has shall not exceed fifty-tive cents for
each bunch. He had been told the COM
pany charged more.
| Noble Cornwell said they could not
charge any more than what was stated
| in the bill.
Noble Baldwin moved the bill pass as
read, with the following amendment,
THAT payment shall not exceed the APP
preparation of the Legislature"
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
A motion to reconsider was lost.
Second reading of bill No. 164, an act
to encourage the cultivation OF coffee.
The bill was read by title.
Rep. Brown moved it be referred to
! the Committee on Commerce. Carried.
Second reading OF bill No. 165, an act
relating to the Justices Of the Supreme
| Court.
The bill was taken up section by Sec
| ton.
The first section provides that the
| Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands