The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-29

IN the cnaiF. Alter prayer, the !ullu- /
utes of preceding day were read and
approved.
PETITIONS.
Rep. Bush presented petition ask
ing for an improvement Of Pail road.
Referred to Committee on Public |
Lands.
Also from Waimea, Kauai, asking |
for new treaty with the United |
States. Referred to Committee on
Foreign Relations.
Also, to abolish Board Of Health. |
Referred to Sanitary Committee.
Also, to make Crown lands Govern
ment property. Laid on the table
with bill.
Rep. Aki presented petition ask
ing for an appropriation of $1,000 for a
street from Smiths bridge. Referred
10 Committee on Public Lands.
Noble Williams presented petition
asking that measures be taken to ex-
terminate the mongoose. Referred TO
Committee on Public Lands.
Rep. Bipikane presented petition
from Hanalei, that licenses be granted
to retail spirituous liquors in each
district. Referred to Temperance
Committee. The speaker stated that
he was a temperance man himself,
and presented the petition because it
was sent to him, not because he en-
dorsed it.
Also, petition that three members
Of the Board OF Health be elected
yearly for each district. Laid on the
table with bill.
Noble Pua presented petition from
the Leper Settlement, asking that
certain rations which had been dis
continued be issued to them. Referred
to Sanitary Committee.
Rep. Koahau presented a petition
from Honolulu, that fish be sold by
weight at price not to exceed cents
IA pound. Referred to Committee on
Commerce.
Rep. Iosepa presented q petition
asking that $1,000 be appropriated for
landing at Hama; $500 for same at
Keanae and $1,000 for roads in Hama.
Referred to Committee on Public
Lands.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Noble Baldwin reported for the
Finance Committee on the bill pro-
viding for keeping Government books
in English and Hawaiian. The COM
mittee recommend laying the bill on
the table, because Of the great expense
it would involve, and the difficulty of
obtaining competent book-keepers to
do this work. The report was laid on
the table, to be considered with the
bill.
The same committee reported on
the bill to consolidate and amend the
laws relating to the Postal Savings
Bank, as follows:
/. In Section 3 of the bill. The
original Section of the Law of 1884
required that each deposit should be
attested by the signature of the re-
ceiving officer and the date stamp of
the office. The amendment proposed
is to omit the requirement of the date
stamp. The committee recommend
that the amendment be adopted.
2. Amendment proposed is in Sec
ton 10, where Withdrawals are now
required to be attested by signature
and date stamp. The amendment
proposes to eliminate the date stamp
requirement.
3. A third amendment is by the
addition of n new section, No. "A, by
which the Minister of Finance, with
tuS VI Uue OtDiutbt Will NC
allowed to fix at will the maximum
deposit in the bank which is now by
law $500. The committee recon-
mend that an amendment be made to
Section ii by WHICH the Minister may
in his discretion reduce the maximum
to $4,000.
4. The fourth amendment proposed
is in Section ii, and proposes to re-
quire deposits to be made two months
instead of one month prior to July 1st
in order to be exempt from taxation.
The committee favored the PROPOSE
ton, us it will prevent short deposits
for the purpose of avoiding taxation.
8. The next amendment proposed is
in Section II, and proposes TO increase
the maximum interest, in the discre-
ton Of the Minister of Finance, to
per cent. and to reduce the bond
which may be issued to $500. The COM
mittee recommend that the amend
ment be made, and that further
amendment be made reducing the
length of time from six to three
months, during which deposits must
have been in the bank prior to bonds
becoming available, With q view to
further secure the bank against sud-
den and unexpected demands, the
committee recommend that Section
10 of the Act be amended so that all
amounts of 500 and under shall be
payable on thirty days notice, and
amounts over 500 ON six months
notice, with discretion in the Post
master-General to make payments
prior to the expiration of the time
mentioned in such notice. The COM
mittee submitted an amended bill in
conformity with the recommends
lions.
Laid on the table with the bill.
The same committee reported on
the claim of John Colburn against
the Road Board. The committee find
that Mr.. Colburn has perfectly valid
legal claim, and that the Road Board
had no ground for refusing to pay it.
They therefore recommend insertion
OF the amount in the Appropriation
bill.
Noble Thurston said the Road
Board was very censurable. 1t had
simply taken the ground that it
would not pay any outstanding bills
incurred before 1t came into office.
The result was to waste the time of
the House. He was informed that
there were number of other claims
Of the same nature.
Rep. Kamauoha said the report
should be adopted, but the Road
Board was not censurable as the
account was an old one of which it
knew nothing