The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-13
THE LEGISLATURE
One Hundred and FOrfy-fOnrfh
Day.
MONDAY. Dec. Il, 1892.

rum ten minutes later. The minutes
were read and approved.
PETITIONS.
Noble Peterson presented six petit
lions as follows: 0) A petition from
Won Werthern asking for an appro-
priation of $1,000 for damages sus-
tanned by him. He was promised
position in the Household Guards.
Referred to the Military Committee.
~ Also petition from Macfarlane
& Co. asking for an appropriation of
S51l.75 for liquors furnished to the
Hawaiian Legation at Samoa in 1856.
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
(3) A petition from the Hawaiian
Hotel Co. praying for damages of
Sl27.30 for the Government failing at
times to supply the Hawaiian Hotel
with gasoline. Referred to the Judi
ciary Committee.
(4) A petition from a. B. Lindsay
for election inspection unpaid. Re-
ferred to the Finance Committee.
(5) Two petitions from 1872 residents
of Honolulu asking an appropriation
for carrying on historical work. Laid
on the table to be considered with the
Appropriation bill.
Noble Young presented a petition
from Hilo praying for $1,000 to be in
serted in the Appropriation bill for
fire plugs; and that Hilo be supplied
with fro anninaS Rpfarrpd tn the
Public Lands Committee.
Noble COrnwell presented a petition
from residents of Kula, Maui, pray
ing for $500 for repairing roads there.
He moved that petition be referred to
q select committee composed en-
tirely of members from Maui. Car
RED.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Noble Williams reported several
bills as printed.
SELECT COMMITTEES.
Rep. Kamauoha presented min
GRITTY report on Bill 127, relating to
the Board of Health. They recon-
mended abolishing the office of Presi-
dent of Board of Health. Tabled for
consideration with the bill.
RESOLUTIONS.
Noble Peterson moved that Petition
1T6, relating to fire limits, be taken
from the table and given to q select
committee. Carried.
Under suspension of the rules, Rep.
Wilder, from Committee on Com
merce, presented report on Petition
AS, from w. e. Simpson, representing
Puget Sound company. The COM
mittee recommend the granting of a
subsidy to this company of $500 for
each monthly round trip.
Tabled for consideration with the
appropriation bill ON the same day.
The rules being suspended, Rep.
Kamauoha read for the first time
bill regulating the appointment of
teachers in primary schools of this
Kingdom. The bill was read a second
time by its title and referred to the
Educational Committee.
The President announced the follow
ing committee on Maui roads: No
bles Cornwell, Walbridge, Reps. r.
w. Wilcox, Kanealii and Edmonds.
Committee on Petition 176, on Ala
kea street fire limits: Mobiles Peter
son, Berger, Reps. Wilder, Kauhi and
Attorney General.
Rep. Kapahu presented questions to
the Minister of the Interior regarding
the cutting of timber on certain lands
at Kau, Hawaii.
On suspension of the rules, Rep.
Waipuilani gave notice of his inten-
ton to introduce bill authorizing
lawyers in lower courts to practice be-
fore Circuit Courts.
At 9:47 A. NJ. the House proceeded
to the
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Consideration OF the Appropriation
Bill.
Minister Jones moved to insert in
Customs Department balance due Gus
toms guards of Honolulu to Novem-
Der 80, 1892, $500. Carried.
Also, in Bureau Survey to insert
balance due employees to November
80, 1892, 5000. Carried.
Rep. Kaunamano moved to insert
in the Appropriation Bill, telepho he
line from Kailua, Kona, to Kawaihae,
$1,000.
Noble Marsden objected as there
was nothing but lava for forty miles
of the distance. The motion was car
ried.
Noble Hopkins moved to insert
compiling and arranging Historical
Works of Hawaii nei, 1896.
Rep. Smith moved it be amended tC
S25GO. He favored preserving the
4 archives, but the amount asked wa:
too much.
Rep. Kanealii opposed the item a!
past sessions had given over $4,000 tt
the Hawaiian Board of Genealogy, bu
there was nothing done. The money
was sqandered. He moved indefinite
postponement of the item.
Rep. KaunamanO favored passing
at $500. He said that he had book:
in his possession printed at Lahaina
luna Seminary in 1880. In it he fount
that the first vessel that left Hawai-
nei for foreign shores was in 1867.
Rep. Iosepa wanted to know whe
Their the required researches would in
clude Hawaiian history in the time
of Kumuhonua, or Papa and Wakea
If so he doubted whether there is al
authority living. Kamakau, the his
torian, is dead, and no one had sue
ceeded him. He failed to see an,
good reasons for inserting the appro
priation.
Rep. S. X. Pua favored passing a
1895.
Rep. Kapahu wanted to know
Mr.. Hoes proposed work on ancien
history would be printed in the Ha
waiian language too. There wer
enough works already printed bearin
on the subject. Prof. Alexander