The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-09-09

MIIliSbCI plOM u saw bllC Dill WIS
full of incongrnties and absurdities,
but perhaps some committee was
willing to wresllc with IT,.
Noble Marsden moved the hill he
referred TO select committee of
seven comprising the legal talent of
the House. The Judiciary commit
lee was evidently overburdcncd with
the opium investigation.
Rep. Paehuole moved II he referr-
ed to q select committee of seven,
TO include the introducer and the
Minister of Finance. This amend
ment carried.
Second reading of bill to amend
the Homestead law. Read by title
and referred TO select committee on
the subject.
Second reading of hill restricting
the importation of material for pub
lie works. Read by title and re-
ferrcd to commerce committee.
Second reading of bill TO amend
the Sunday law.
Rep. X. w. Wilcox moved that
the bill pass 10 engrossment. He
referred TO the freedom in Germany
and other European countries, and
said anybody who chose could go to
church.
Rep. Brown moved that Sec. l
pass, and that the other sections be
stricken out. The first section only
extended the time for certain works
to he carried on, from nine o'clock
till eleven o'clock Sunday morning.
The rest of the bill repealed the pro-
hibition Of public amusements on
Sunday. Personally he believed
that it was the business of nobody
else how he spent Sunday but many
of his constituents at Waikiki had
asked him to oppose these sections,
and did so although he believed in
the sections.
Rep. Paehaole moved the bill be
| referred to select committee. He
did not know why the time for the
works in question should be extended
| to eleven o'clock.
Rep. Bush was in favor of the bill
going TO committee. 1t was un-
constitutional in its encroachment
on religion. The native version
called the day the Sabbath, which it
was not. Sunday was heather in
stitution, first made a Christian day
by the Emperor Constantine. He
kept the seventh day as the Sabbath
according to the moral code, but
was liable TO imprisonment if he
completed his six days Of labor on
Sunday. He did not believe in any
law that would restrict any man. 8
right to worship according to the
dictates of his conscience.
Noble Baldwin was opposed to
the bill as too sweeping in Its provi
sions, but would like to see it go to
committee, where the introducer
could fully present his views.
Noble Mccarthy was not going to
discuss the bill now. 1t was so
simple that there was no necessity
of giving it to committee, hut out
of respect to those who so desired
he would agree to its reference.
Noble Isenberg said that Rep.
Wilcox had referred to Germany. 1t
was true that they had very free
Sunday in Germany for amusements,
but there was also great deal of
labor there. He was glad that the
present Emperor was taking steps to
restrict Sunday sport and Sunday
labor, and soon the beer saloons
would be closed on that day. In
Germany the amusements made a
great deal of labor, and it was the
poor that suffered thereby. You
could buy Sunday labor or anything
for money there, but the working
classes were degraded by it. lie
would like to see the whole bill indie
6nitely postponed. A butcher should
he able to get through with his de-
livery by nine O'Clock, and if man
could not get shaved before then LET
him go unshaved. He should much
rather see the Sunday law made
stricter than have it made looser in
regard to amusements.
Noble Baldwin took the floor.
Rep. Hookano moved recess. Car.
ried.
The President appointed, as Tho
select committee on the Saving:
Bank bill, Messrs. Marsden, j. M
Homer, Hookano, G. Brown, Peter
son, Paehaole, and G. Brown.
Recess from IL to 80.