The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-23

ing in the present Third Circuit may
he heard in the new Fourth Circuit.
Passed
Section provides that ans acts to
be performed les the Chief Justice
may be performed i'm case Of his dis
ability by All Associate Justice.
Passed with verbal amendments.
Rep. Smith moved a new section
amending the Old act, 80 as To permit
district magistrates To practice law.
Passed.
Rep. Kamauoha moved to recon-
slider the section in order To provide
that district magistrates must be pro-
licient in the Hawaiian language.
Reps. smith and Ashford opposed
that
Rep. White favored reconsideration.
Rep. Waipullani favored reconsider
alton because there had been too
much favoritism in the appointment
Of these judges.
Rep. Kauhi favored passing the
section as it Is.
The motion 10 reconsider was lost
10y a vote Of Is To Is.
Section passed.
The Act passed to cHgFOssment, 10
be read the third time on Friday.
Second reading Of Bill 2l9-Electric
Light bill, Section ,.
Minister Jones Withdrew his motion
IN favor Of Noble Marsden's motion
free for first two years, and after that
:. per cent. upset price.
Section passed rs amended.
Sections !, >, IS, :, 5, 9, 10, IL passed.
Section - passed, with amendment
of words "year" in place of "quar-
ter" and ~ per cent" in place of
- per cent"
Section - passed with amendment
from the Attorney
Section II.
Noble Cornwell proposed an amend
ment i'm the last part of the section,
viz, "S1 per month for first five
lights Of Is candle-power, and % cents
per month for each additional light.n
Noble Marsdcn moved $50 per
month for all night lamp, and 81 -
per month for all other lamps. Lost.
RrN Ashford's amendment passed
as follows: The rates at which lights
will be furnished per month, rs fol-
lows: Saloons, billiard rooms, etc,
$1.25 per month for each Is candle
power lamp stores, 81 per month for
! each Is c. p. lamp; dwelling houses,
first five lamps, soc. per month each
is c. p. lamp; second five, 6Oc. all
over ten, Soc. Hotels, hospitals, halls,
churches, etc, special rates; all-night
| lamps, for each rs c. p. lamp, SIPS
! per month.
The section passed as amended.
/ Section ID.
! Noble Marsden moved to strike out
/ this section. Lost.
Noble Horner moved to strike out
/ lines As. Lost.
! The section passed as in the bill.
Rep. Kapahu objected to throwing
| paper balls, rs he was hit twelve dit
/ ferent times.
Section 16.
| Rep. Pua moved to reject the sec
ton.
Noble Marsden moved TO pass the
section.
Minister Brown said that the Gov
eminent had nothing to do with the
company. He said that he would not
vote on the bill because he had intro
| duced a similar bill before. But he
favored striking out the section, be-
cause the company is SO established
that it could very we'll afford to bid
for the Government plant.
Noble Marsden held it was Justice
for an outside bidder to buy the plant
| of the company. This bill is entirely
different from the one in which the
Attorney General was interested.
Noble Ena moved an amendment,
that the purchaser of the franchise
shall within one year take over from
the Hawaiian Government all of the
incandescent plant now used by the
Government, etc.
The House adjourned at 4:l7 p. N.