The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-19

Iaulty. The amendment of Article
IS we believe to be proper one. but
present a modification thereof and
recommend its adoption as modified.
signed: Paul Neumann, c. w. Ash
ford, VIM. White.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE
LXXyI. OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Section l, Article rs of the Consti-
tuition Is hereby amended to read as
Article 70. The enacting stvIe in
making and passing all Acts aud
Laws shall be: "Be ii enacted by the
sovereign and the Legislature of the
hawaiian Kingdom"
Received and tabled until proposed
amendments are presented.
~ Bill II, relating to holding All
additional term of the Circuit Court,
third judicial circuit.
The committee recommended that
the bill pass.
The report was accepted and passed
to engrossment, TO be read a third
time on Saturday.
Regarding petition No. 205, praying
that persons having five or more chill
drcn be exempt from taxation, the
Judiciary Committee recommended
that the petition be tabled. The recon-
mendatiOn was accepted and the bill
! tabled for consideration.
! Bill "A relating to the appointing of
| District Justices for Kalaupapa and
| Kalawao, MolOkai. The committee
! found the bill unnecessary and recon-
I mended it be tabled. The report was
adopted.
Bill 81 relating to dividing the Dis
| trict Of Hilo into three separate judi
cial districts, providing for the APP
| pointment of one Police Justice and
| two District Justices. The commit
| tee thought the bill unnecessary be-
cause it entails increased eXpendi
! lures on the government. Report
was adopted ard tabled for cOnsidera-
ton with the bill.
Noble Williams reported Bill l22
| printed.
SELECT COMMITTEES.
Rep. Iosepa reported Bill rs
relating to restoration Of HOnua-
ula to the District of Waikiki.
The committee reported that the
bill had been corrected. Passed
| to engrOssment to be read n third
time on Saturday.
RESOLUTIONS.
The Minister of the Interior pre-
scented resolution as follows: For
the purpose of paying the amount due
Mr.. II. Vischer for examination and
survey for bringing water supply
from the Kohala mountains to Hama
kua and from the KOhala mountains
to kOhala, and also on the facilities
for the storage of water in connec-
ton with these lines, therefore, re-
solved that $1,000 be inserted in the
Appropriation bill under the heading
of Water Works in the Interior De-
partment. Referred to the judiciary
Committee.
Rep. KamauOha presented q resOlu
ton whereas, it is the bounti
full duty of the members of this House
to know how the public money has
been expended by the Board of
Health; be it resolved, that this
House do request the President of the
Board of Health and the secretary, to
present to this House full statement
of the expenditures of the Board of
Health, all persons paid by the
Board, the list of government physi-
clans and their salaries, and all per-
sons employed by the Board in what
soever capacity during the last bien-
NAL period. The resolution was
adopted.
Rep. Ashford directed the following
resolution to the Minister of the Inte-
riOr: Resolved, that question No. Is
concerning the dredger in Honolulu
harbor and the reply of His Excel
lency the Minister of the Interior
thereto, be referred to the Com
mittee on Public Lands and In
ternal Improvements, with instruc-
tions to inspect said dredger and its
workings, and to inquire into the
matters involved in said questions
and answers, and to report their
findings thereon to this House.
Referred to a select committee con-
sisting of Mobiles Thurston, Young,
and Williams, and Reps. Wilder and
Bush.
Rep. Ashford asked the Minister of
the Interior these questions: ~ To
whom does the harbor of Honolulu
belong? ~ Who owns the water
from the wharf to the entrance to the
channel? 49, TO whom does the fish
belong? ~ Has the konohikis and
chiefs any right over the fish in the
said harbor?
Minister Spencer replied that the
harbOr belongs to the Hawaiian Gov.
eminent, and the fish belongs to any
one getting them.
At 1857 AN. the House took q recess
until 100 p. NJ.