The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-05
THE LEGISLATURE
Twenty-ninth Day.
SATURDAY, July 2.

ltes of the preceding day read and
approved.
PETITIONS.
Noble Pua presented petition from
Hanalei with $50 signatures, asking
that the duty on rice be not removed
Tabled with the bill.
Rep. Nahum presented petition
for $1,000 for landing on Molokai;
also $4,000 for q well. Referred TO
Public Lands Committee.
Also petition from employees of
Electric Light Works, asking that
their pay be not reduced. Referred to
Committee on Ways and Means.
II STANDING COMMITTEES.
Noble Baldwin reported for the
Finance Committee on petition from
J. Haalou, mail carrier on Oahu,
praying that the sum of $204 be paid
for services rendered, and to the effect
that this was the tenth Legislature that
the petition was presented to for con-
rejected; and the committee cannot
obtain any evidence that it should be
paid, therefore they cannot recon-
mend that the prayer of petitioner
be granted.
Noble Williams, from the Printing
Committee, reported Bill 81 printed.
Rep. Smith reported that the Com
mittee for the Leper Settlement would
leave in the evening at I O'Clock.
RESOLUTIONS.
Noble w. Y. Horner read by title
bill imposing specific duty on rice
in certain cases.
Rep. Kanealii presented resolu-
ton asking for an appropriation of
$4,000 to purchase rights of the Wilder
S. S. Company in Kahului. Referred
4 to Public Lands Committee.
Rep. Iosepa presented the following
questions to the Acknowledgement !:
/. Have deputy-sherifis holding Ii
censes to practice law the right to
appear in civil cases =. If so, do
| they appear under instructions from
/ you?
Rep. Aki presented an Act to repeal
! the law relating tOthe carrying OF pas
| sengers and freights, and the letting
| to hire of carriages, wagons, carts,
drays and other vehicles in the dis
trict of Honolulu.
! Rep. Smith said, rs matter OF
privilege, he desired to call attention
| to the fact that papers paid for by the
House were brought in mutilated.
The sergeant-at-arms, or somebody
should do his duty and prevent it?
Noble Neumann said he objected tc
a mutilated paper, and was going tc
move that they be not paid for.
Rep. Smith said the Minister o.
| Foreign Affairs and the President
were the guilty parties.
Noble Neumann moved vote o
censure be passed on them. Calls o
kokua
The paper referred to was the AID
vERTISER, from which the ballots haC
been cut.
Rep. Kaunamano introduced q reso
luton calling for expulsion of tn,
ADVERTISER and the ADVERTISER
reporter from the House, because tina
paper had contained the followin!
item: "There is a Hawaiian idol a
the Bishop Museum which woul'
make better chairman for the Com
mittee of the Whole than Rep. Kau
namaneo
Rep. Smith said such remarks wer
very Improper. He had heard, for in
stance, a man remarking that Bipi
kane ought to be used as a fog-hOrn
Such remarks were very improper.
Rep. Kaunamano had not read tn
item, but he was told that was abou
the sense of it; that a heather idol u
there in the Bishop Museum woul
make better chairman than he did
He would move the adoption of tn
resolution. He was called to the chat
by the President, and was not sup
posed to make noise. The commit
tee under his guidance had passe
twenty items. If the reporter of th
ADVERTISER could show that an idc
would have accomplished more, h
would like to have him do it. III
(the speaker) was not supposed to d
the talking. The reporter seemed t
think his silence was offensive.
the reporter had said that some of tn
members talked SO long that the
nearly put the chairman to sleep, tina
would have been nearer the truth
ANY article ridiculing member in
volved, in q certain sense, the Who'll
House. He did not approve of sue
language to any member of til
House. The newspaper reporte
thought that the pen was mightie
than the sword, and he was abusin
his privilege. If he had to sit dow
, under q tree outside and take HI
notes he might appreciate his priv
lege better. He had probably bee
, up to the Museum and seen n heathe
idol, and now he compares membe
. of the House to an idol. If ministe
of the gospel (Rev. S. E. BishoI
keeps those idols and cares for then
he is acting contrary to the Scripture
He cannot serve God and those lido
too. The tendency of such q remag
was to bring him into disreput
among his constituents. He ha
known of a case where reporter ha
been imprisoned for calling member
hoopilimeaai. He had wanted to de:
gently with the reporter in this cas-
and only have him expelled.
Rep. r. w. Wilcox said he ha
been looking in the paper and foun
that the item was not part of the regl
I lar report of the proceedings of til
House, but in another part. He woul
therefore move to amend that the r,
porter be reproved, and a committe
be appointed to instruct him not to d
so any more. Calls of kokua).
Rep. Waipuilani said the membt
had just ground for feeling hurt. Tt
, item says that an idol is better tina
= he is, which is certainly ground fl
being hurt. The House has, undo
the Constitution, the right to de:
with such cases. During last sessio
reporter had to apologize. He ougl
to apologize now. If he is such q han