The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-09
I'HE LEGISLATURE
Fiffy-Nfnfh Day.
MONDAY, Aug. s.
The House opened at 10 A Il.
PETITIONS.

ton from Kohaia, asking for a new
constitution. Referred to Constitu-
tional Committee.
Rep. Kaunamano presented petit
ton agajnst the cession OF Pearl Har-
Dor. Referred to Committee on For
eign Relations. Also a petition that
$1,000 school house be built in Hama
kua, among honneSteads. Referred to
Educational Committee. Also a petit
ton for another school house. Re-
ferred to the same committee. Also
petition for road from the home
steads 10 Hamakua. Laid OH the
table with bill on the subject. Also
a petition that Hamakua be divided
into two Judicial districts. Referred
to Judiciary Committee.
Rep. Iosepa presented petition
from Hama, praying % that the Court
House at Ciupalakua be moved to
Maizena,, and ~ that Jail be erected
at Honuaula. Referred to Public
Lands Committee.
Rep. Kamauoha presented q petit
ton asking for new constitution.
( Referred to Constitutional Committee.
Rep. Nahum presented petition
from Pelekunu, Molokai, asking for
$500 for an English school. Referred
to Educational Committee.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Noble Williams reported Bills 1876,
l57 and l5S printed.
RESOLUTIONS.
Rep. Kamauoha presented a reso-
luton that the Minister of Finance be
requested to return the sum of S25 to
Jas. NATION and A. Homer, being
election fees paid twice, viz: at the
first election afterwards declared
void), and afterwards at the second
elections; and also resolved, that an
item for the amount be inserted i'm the
Appropriation bill.
Rep. Kapahu held that the candi-
dates should not have been compelled
to pay twice, as they were not re-
spoDsible for the failure of the first
election.
Rep. Kauhi moved the resolution
be laid on the table. The Government
was not responsible for the failure of
the election, but the inspectors. Let
the candidates bring their action
against them. Those wicked inspec
tors were the cause of all the trouble.
Rep. Smith moved the resolution
be referred to the Judiciary Commit
tee. Carried.
The Secretary read the reply of the
Minister OF the Interior to questions
OF Noble Thurston, relating to the sea
wall and road at Waikiki, as follows:
~ The estimated cost prior to the
commencement of the work was from
S1l 900 to $4,000; ~ the actual cost
of the work is $16,343.97; (3l paid
for from the Appropriation of roads
and bridges, general, $4,000, of which
the above amount, or p little over one
half, was expended upon this work;
AZ In the absence of the late Road
supervisor, unable to give exact num-
Der of days of prison labor expended
upon this work; learn from one of the
lunas employed for this special work,
that an average of twenty-five prison.
ers was employed. The pay rolls for
other regular labor amounts to eighty
two days; according to that the total
would be say 2l32 days. o. On ac-
count Of the unsafe and rotten condi-
ton Of the old bridge structure through
the sands, the matter of thorough re-
pair had become q necessity. The
work was Of such a nature that it was
difficult to specify for tender in lump.
sum. For this and other reasons It
was acknowledgement that the Govern
nent should prosecute the work.
Rep. lkamauoha introduced q reso-
luton requiring the ADVERTISER to
publish an apology for having called
the Military Committee O useless
body.
The member said the idea was that
the reporter publish an apology
in the paper, and that all reporters
desist from such comments in
future. The resolution was not severe.
This was the second time that the re-
porter had transgressed. He was
merely called upon to apologize. The
reporter had called the committee a
useless body. The House did not
think so, because it accepted their re-
port and laid 1t on the table to be con-
sidered with the bill. The committee
was part of the House, and contempt
cast upon the committee was an in
suit to the House. The scripture said
If n man smite you on the right cheek
turn the other. If he smite you on
that it is time to take action.
[Laughter]. This reporter has smit-
ten the House on the left cheek, and
1t is time to take action.
Noble Baldwin said he did not think
the language was right and suitable
to be used toward the Military Com
n1ittee, or any committee of this
House.
Rep. Bush moved reference of the
resolution to the Military Committee.
1t was true that The House got occa-
sional siaps from the newspapers; but
the papers should be allowed some
latitude. Some of the members had
given the House black eye by their
own actions. If he could trace them
ne would be glad to bring them up
mere Tor rebuke. The ADVERTISER
nad said nothing in its issue of the
9th about the Military Committee
which was unjust. If the House
would have due regard to its own
actions, the papers would not saw
these things about it. When mem
Der brings things of this kind up he
should see that his own hands are
clean.
Rep r. w. Wilcox said it would ha
better instead OF spending time in dis
cussions of this kind, to have the
committee show by their efforts that
they were not useless bodies. 1t was
very foolish to notice little squibs of
this kind.
Noble Thurston did not propose to
express any opinion as to the merits
of the Military Committee, but he did
most emphatically wish to express his
opinion That the ADVERTISER, or the
Eleie, or Mr.. Huntsman, or anyone
else, had perfect right to discuss the
political conduct of the committees