The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-12

TUESDAY, Oct. IL.
The House met at 1910 A. NJ.
Ihe minutes of the preceding day
were read and approved.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
The Finance Committee presented
report on the bill relating to pilots
and pilotage. recommending the bill
to passage.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
Bill 81, the Registration Act.
Rep. Ashford renewed his motion
that the bill be postponed until after
the constitutional amendment had
been disposed of.
Noble Marsden strongly opposed
That course. He had taken the pains
TO interview mechanics, who were, to
man, in favor of the bill. The MEM
Der from the Third District had made
strong point in his campaign of pro-
lection to the mechanics against cheap
iaoor. Yet he opposed this bill, which
was brought to protect the mechanics.
The motion was lost-15 to 25.
Rep. Ashford moved the bill be in
definitely postponed.
The motion was lost on the follow
ing division.
Ayes - Reps. Bipikane, Ashford,
Aki, 5. K. Pua, Kauhi, r. w. Will
COX, White and Kanealii-8.
Noes Ministers Macfarlane, Par
ker and Gulick; Mobiles Berger, Ena,
Hopkins, Peterson, Cummins, Wilt
ans, Male, Kauhane, Horner, Hind,
Hoapili, Marsden, Young, Baldwin,
w. Y. Horner. Cornwell, Walbridge,
Anderson, ftiurstOn, G.. n. Wilcox,
Kanoa and Dreier; Reps. Wilder, Koa-
hOn, A. Horner, Kaunamano, Wal
puilani, Kapahu, Nahinu, Edmonds,
kaluna, Iosepa, Akina and Smith
81.
Absent-Minister Neumann; Reps.
Bush, Kamauoha and A. S.WilcoX.
Noble Pua was excused,
The House proceeded with the con-
sideratiOn of Section 10.
The Attorney General moved to
amend in the first line by making it
read "any person liable to registra-
ton"
Noble Thurston moved to amend
"failing to register instead of "to
present himself for registration"
Noble HOrner moved the penalty be
reduced to $25.
Rep. Ashford moved the section be
stricken out. The craze. of paternal
government could go no farther than
it did in this section.
Rep. Smith opposed the motion.
Rep. Ashford said the bill was no
more necessary now than ten years
ago. The idea was that this bill was
going to be necessary because hordes
of Chinese would be introduced. He
warned the House that the Labor bill
would fail if this passed.
Noble Thurston asked if the mem
Der would favor the Labor bill If this
was defeated.
Rep. Ashford said yes.
Noble Thurston asked how he would
identify them?
Rep. Ashford: The same as under
the bill. He would rather see the
plantations and everything go to
Lophet than wear a dog collar on his
neck.
Noble Thurston said the member
would rather see everybody in hell,
including himself, rather than let this
bill pass He is willing to have the
country swamped by the Labor bill,
but in the interests of labor opposes
this bill which will prevent labor be-
ing swamped. What kind of logic is
that? The hon. member is tillibus-
tering now and talking nonsense. He
abandoned logic yesterday. He says
he would identify the Chinese as the
Labor bill provides. Under that bill
there can be no Identification at all.
The Chinese when landed receives q
certificate. He will go into the back
yard and burn his certificate, come
out into the front yard with new
suit of clothes, and when the police
men wants to arrest him, he will say:
az didn't arrive from Canton this
morning. I've been here two or three
years." He was at loss to under
stand the mental idiosyncracy of the
mem Der in view of his opposition to
Chinese immigration in the past.
There was no explanation OF the
members extraordinary conduct eX-
cept his mental idiosyncracies, unless
he had taken a retainer from the Chi
nese, and that he did not charge him
with. So it must be his idiosyncra-
cies.
Rep. Ashford said if the Labor bill
was not sufficiently stringent, let it
be made more so. Ii it could not be
made so, he would vote against it.
Noble Marsden asked the member If
he represented the Mechanics Union.
Rep. Ashford said he had no official
knowledge Of the existence of any
such body. He believed there had
been something of the kind which had
fallen to pieces from its own weight
or some other inherent defect.
Rep. Waipuilani moved to reduce
the line to So.
Rep. Iosepa favored that.
Noble Thurston moved to amend
the section by providing that if the
failure to present the certificate was
due to forgetfulness simply, the fine
should not exceed S..
Rep. Bipikaue said the man who
got this bill up was murderer al
heart and so was every man who sup
ported it. Ee did not favor amending
the bill, but tearing it up into shreds
The House took the usual recess al
noon.