The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-12-06
THE LEGISLATURE.
10Th DAY.
TUESDAY, Dec. 5, 1892.
Morning Session.

Prayer at 9 o'clock after which
roll call and reading of minutes of
previous meeting.
The following items of the Appro-
priation Bill were re-considered to
be acted on tomorrow, viz: Salary
of Harbor Master, Salaries Deputy
Acknowledgement, Marshal, Portu-
guese Interpreter and Translator.
Motions to reconsider the salaries
of Tailor Oahu Prison and Store
keeper, Custom House, were lost.
Clerk Mccarthy, for the chairman
of the Finance Committee, read
report therefrom relative to loan
fund to be called the Hamakua and
Hilo Railroad, amounting to $780,
600, to be bonded by the Govern
ment, Report tabled for considera-
ton with bill
Rep. Smith offered resolution
relative to the question of the neces-
sity of the Royal signature to
amendments to the Constitution,
and which question is to be referred
to the Supreme Court.
Rep. Kamauoha did not consider
that it was necessary to refer the
matter to the Supreme Court.
The President said that the reso-
luton was only in accord with
previous order of the House and
was simply matter of Information.
resolution passed.
At 1910 the Order of the Day
being moved, bills on third reading
came up as follows:
Bill It's, to regulate the hours of
labor of certain Government en-
ployees.
Rep. Smith moved that the bill be
indefinitely postponed. He said that
he had voted in favor of the bill be-
fore, but the more he thought of it
the more dissatisfied he became with
the proposed change. He considered
that the Ministers and heads of De-
partments had power now to order
their offices open at any hour and
close at any hour, he also considered
that the bill was interfering with the
functions of the executive.
The Acknowledgement believed in
not paying salaries to those who were
absent more than two weeks at a
time from their work. That portion
of the bill he favored
Noble Marsden believed that the
bill would strengthen the hands of
the Cabinet in controlling their EN-
ployees. He thought it was in the
interest of the community to have
Government officials kept to their
hours better than they have been.
He favored the passage of the bill.
Rep. White said that it was well
known what his feelings were the
other day in regard to this bill. He
said that since then he had had con-
versation with some of the Post
Office clerks, and they stated to him
that the public and not they would
be the ones who would be hit by the
provisions of the bill. The steamers
arrive from windward at 3 and
o'clock in the morning; they woulC
not attend as now, but instead would
remain home and come down anC
work during the hours set. Again
the police would only work during
the hours mentioned, 8 am. unit
4:30 pm, and who would then watcl
over the slumbering public? laugh
ter.) He had, since his last CONVEX
sation with the Post Office clerks
changed his mind
Noble Marsden (interrupting)-I
you considered that the bill wa
bad, why did you sign the COMMITTEES
| report in favor of it?
Rep. White said that he would re
mind Noble Marsden that in Scrip
ture it says to mot let the sun g
, down upon your wrath" When h
, spoke the other day he was angr,
on account of the impudence of tn
, post Office clerk. When he wen
home, however, and thought of tn
quotation mentioned, he had
change of heart and that was jus
} before shutdown. Uaughter).
Noble Horner considered that
was in accord with business primo
pies to extend the hours of labor c
Government employees. 1t was
fact that there was thick crust c
|, custom, but their duties as legisla
tors was to break through the trad
tons if benefit could be made t
@ result. The member depressed t
say that, in speaking the other da
q of a teacher who led a young Hawa
ian girl around as a mistress, he ha
since learned that the person wa
n not regular teacher, but had droI
5. ped in to fill up place. The Boar
of Education was not pleased wit
L his statement, SO he wished to max
!, the correction. He would say, hov
ever, that he had learned that thel
t, was cause for further remarks on til
Il same subject and in that speci;
department. He moved that tt
bill pass and also moved the previol
81 question.
n On motion the ayes and nays wei
Il taken on the question of indetini
postponement; lost by vote of
to 10 as follows:
y Ayes Ministers Ct. N. Wilcox, r
binson, Jones and Brown; Nobl
Ena, Hopkins, Cummins, Kauhan
Hoapili, Walbridge, Kanoa; Rel
Kauhi, r, w. Wilcox, WaipuilaI
y Kapahu, Nahum, White, Ioser
Smith-l9.
Noes-Nobles Pua, Male, j.
Horner, Hind, Marsden, Young,
IN Y. Horner, Anderson, Dreier; Rel
At Wilder, Bipikane, Aki, Pua, A. He