The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-27
THE LEGISLATURE
One Hundred and Fiffy-Fifth
Day.
SATURDAY, Dec. 81.

SATURDAY Dec. n.
| The House met at A. ". Roll
call; twelve members present. Quo
rum at 9:25 A. NJ. The minutes were
read and approved.
On suspension of rules, Noble Pua
presented petition from the Leper
Settlement, signed by 732 persons,
praying that Mr. w. II. Tell be re-
instated as Superintendent at the
Leper Settlement. Referred to SAM
tary Committee.
Hon. JOS Nawahi's credentials were
passed over to the Committee on Gre
| dentials, who found the same in order.
Noble Anderson and Reps. Kamau-
oha and Kauhi waited on the Chief
Justice.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Rep. Smith, from the Judiciary
Committee, reported on Section s of
Appropriation bill, recommending an
! addition as follows: "And no public
work, material or supplies shall be
divided, or parcelled out, for the pur-
pose of evading the provisions of this
section" Report adopted.
RESOLUTIONS.
Rep. Kapahu, on suspension of
rules, introduced an Act relating to
fences. The same member was then
permitted to read the Act for the first
time.
First Associate Justice Bickerton
tIof, r
bly, and Rep. Nawahi was sworn to
support the Constitution.
Rep. Kamauoha moved to recon-
slider Section I of the Appropriation
Bill. Carried.
Rep. Bipikane asked whether Sec
ton of the Appropriation Bill had
finally passed as he intended to add
new item. He was answered in the
affirmative.
Rep. Smith moved to consider the
Appropriation Bill. Carried.
The clerk read Sections and 8.
The sections passed.
The title and enactiDg clause
passed.
The bill then finally passed third
reading.
Second reading of Bill 800, relating
to bringing of suits against the Ha-
waiiian Government. Referred to
the Judiciary Committee.
Second reading of Bill 139, relating
to amending certain sections of the
Election Law.
The clerk read the report of the
Judiciary Committee. The commit
tee did not favor some of the proposed
amendments. The committee pre-
sented an amended bill.
Bill 139 was read section by section.
The bill provides that the following
officers shall be eligible for election:
Privy Councillors, Honorary Mem
bers of the Boards of Immigration,
Health and Education, Notaries Pub
lie, or Agents to take acknowledge
ments to deeds or contracts, or who
shall have any direct pecuniary inter-
est in any contract or contracts with
the Government or any department
thereof.
Rep. Kamauoha favored passing the
section, while Rep. Pua favored in
definite postponement.
Rep. Smith found that Section /
was in conflict with Article 20 of the
Constitution, which debars executive
officers of the Government from sit
ting in the Legislature. He favored
indefinite postponement of that Sec
ton.
Rep. Iosepa said that the section
was clearly in conflict with the Con-
stitution. He had always held the
House wrong in allowing Rep. Ash
ford to have q seat in the House. He
himself had returned his "License to
Marry" which he had enjoyed for
ten years, yet he was too law-abiding
to defy the Constitution and the deci-
sion of the Supreme Court.
Rep. Nawahi opposed the section.
Rep. Kamauoha moved that the
bin and the report of the committee
be indefinitely postponed.
The motion to indefinitely postpone
the bill was lost on tine following dlvi-
sion:
Ayes - Noble Pua, Reps. Bipikane,
Pua, Nawahi, Kamauoha, Kapahu, Ma
hinu, Kanealii Iosepa-9.
Noes - Ministers Wilcox, Robinson,
Jones and Brown; Mobiles Williams,
Ka1hane, ]. NJ. Horner, Hind, Hoapili,
Marsden, Young, Anderson, Kanoa
and Dreier; Reps. kauhi, Kaunamano,
Waipuilani, Kaluna, Smith and A S.
WilcoX-20
Absent - Mobiles Berger, Ena, Hop
kins, Peterson, Cummins, Male, Bald.
win, w. Y. Homer, Cornwell, Wal
bridge and McBryde; Reps. Wilder, Ash
ford, Aki, R.W. Wilcox, Bush, Koahou.
A. Horner, White, Edmonds, and
Akina.
Section passed as amended.
Section passed.
Section passed with an amend
ment by Noble Marsden.
Under suspension of rules, Minister
Jones read by title an Act TO authorize
National Loan.