The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-08-07
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
Forty-eighth Day.


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any decision OF the Chair on the vote
on the Third Judicial Circuit Bill.
President Walker-There was not.
announced the vote. didn't get an OPP
portunity to say that the bill was indie
finitely postponed.
Rep. Kapaehaole thinks President is
mistaken. Vote was taken twice, and |
got up and moved reconsideration,
showing that there must have been time |
for the President to make the announce
ment.
President Walker--There is nothing /
before the House.
Rep. Kapaehaole said that there was.
Rep. Brown moved to reconsider the
vote.
Rep. Kalua wanted to know whether |
the said bill was unfinished business or
not. If it is, then the motion to recon-
slider is out of order.
Rep. Brown admit that
Rep. kalua-I think we must clear up
this matter here.
Rep. Brown-The President can decide
the matter right now, and that will stop
all discussion at once.
Rep. Kalua said when the President
announced that there were so many ayes
and SO many noes, that ends the matter.
The bill was defeated.
President Walker-It is not unfinished
business. Ny only mistake, if any. was
in not stating that the bill was indefinite
ly postponed. The House had the vote
| before them. A motion to reconsider is
| in order.
Rep. Kalua thought the motion to
reconsider was not now in order under
| Rule 70.
Rep Brownie is in order at any time,
| and takes precedence of everything else.
The President SO ruled.
Rep. kapaehaole-1 rise to point OF
order. The motion cannot be made now.
President Walker rule otherwise.
1t may be taken at any time within
twenty-four hours, or on the succeeding
day, according to general parliamentary
law.
Noble Marsden-So under Rule SO of
this House.
Rep. Bush-It is in order, but must
come in its regular order, after petitions,
committees, etc.
Rep. Kapaehaole said the rules show
the motion can only come under the
Order of the Day.
President Walker-My ruling is other
wise.
Rep. Kapaehaole appealed from the
ruling. This concerns the rights
of the House. If we allow these
: rights to be taken away from US by rul-
ings of the President, by and by we shall
have no rights left.
Noble Isenberg-The ruling of the
President is according to the usage of the
House ever since 1874. The ruling of the
Chair was sustained.
The motion to reconsider was, on q
rising vote, lost by vote of % to 81.
Noble Muller, from the Committee or
Commerce, presented the following re
port:
Honolulu, Aug. 6, 1890.
Hon. J. S. WALKER, President Legisla
tive Assembly.
SIR: Your committee on commerce
agriculture and manufactures, to whom
was referred statement of alcoho
drawn from the Custom House for con
sumption from June 20, 1888, to June 80
, 1890, in all 8, 416R gals, beg to report
that all parties having license to sci
, alcohol under the Act of 1888 have no
| knowingly infringed the law, if it ha
been intringed at all. Dealers holdinI
such licenses are keeping account of al
3 sales of alcohol and are making sworl
returns to the Interior Department.
The dealings of alcohol in bond, how
: ever, call for the strongest condemnation
a On the 18th of March, Mr.. G.. H. ED
ridge imported twenty-five half-barrels @
3 alcohol and exported same April 9th, pc
a Alton. Messrs. E. 0. Hall & Son have
on various occasions, imported an,
brought here ~ bbls. of alcohol and ex
= ported same. Neither of the firms hold
t | liquor license, and your committe
consider these transactions direct in
fringement OF the law. OF the 5,13O gals
of alcohol sold in bond here, 80 gals
Q have been used for the Smithsonian In
= stitute, 81 gals. sold to men-of-war il
f port, and 5,013 gals. have been sen
q north by whaling and trading vessels a
follows:
: F. Brown, agent, 21O gals.
l H. Hackfeld & Co., 80 gals.
=. ". Ildlt " COli, O,Otf/2 SdlSs
: G. II. Eldridge, 61511a gals.
q 1t is shamefully evident that, willis
y the United States Government have il
the interest of humanity made law t
r prevent trading vessels from carryin
Q and selling liquor, merchants have lent
d helping hand to evade that law by SUP
q plying them with raw alcohol, and i
= consideration of the extremely friendl
relations existing between this Govern
u ment and that of the United States, a
e we'll as for moral reasons, upon whic
|. your committee does not think it neces
q sary to enlarge, We hope that steps wi
be taken to avoid such exports hereafter
E. MULLER,
CECIL Brown,
l. A. S. WILCOX,
e E. G. MACFARLANE,
4 Jos. NAwAHI.
Rep. Kalua moved the report h
;. adopted. Carried.
I, Noble Crabbe for the committee pr,
q sented the following report on the pas
q port frauds:
70 Hon. J. S. WALKER, President Legisli
d tive Assembly.
4 SIR:-Your select committee appoin
e ed to investigate the passport fraue
u which caused the removal of five person
re from the Custom Department, after
careful and searching investigation be
O. to report as follows:
|, During May, 1888, on the arriva.
- the steamer City of Picking from HON.
kong the Port Surveyor. Mr.. MARKHAM
< with his assistant, Mr.. Gillian, disco
ID cred that forty-three return passpor