The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-09
AT THE CAPITOL.
TIE COUNCILS MEET IN REGU-
LAR SESSION.
Routine Business-New Bills Passed to
Second Reading-Etc.

The councils convened at 2:1
Yesterday afternoon. There wer
present Ministers Dole, King, Da
mon and Smith. Councilmel
Brown, McChesney, Waterhouse
Emmeluth, Allen, Wilder, Tenney
Young, Mott, Morgan, Bolte, Men
donca and Suhr.
The minutes of the previou
meeting were read, amended anc
approved.
Mr.. Brown, of the Judiciary com
mittee, reported the new Posta
Savings bank bill, with a few
minor amendments, and recon-
mended its passage. The report
was accepted, and on motion the
bill took its usual course.
The same committee asked fol
more time in which to report on
the petition for pardon presented
by Peter Quinn, confined in Oahu
Jail. Granted.
Mr.. Morgan, of the miscellaneous
committee, reported on the petition
of Curator VIM. T. Brigham, of the
Bishop museum, for the loan OF
lightweight volumes of books be-
longing to the government, and
recommended that the loan be
granted upon the same conditions,
with the privilege of withdrawal,
upon which former loans to that
institution had been made.
First reading of the act relating
to the unlawful possession and use
of explosives.
On motion of Attorney General
Smith, the bill was considered Sec
ton by section.
Section / was passed after several
minor amendments.
Section 2, relating to licenses,
was read.
Attorney General Smith said that
a record of permits to use explo-
sives should be kept.
President Dole said the permit
should be more definite than pro-
yided for in the bill. A hunters
permit should not allow him to use
dynamite.
Mr.. Damon thought it might per-
haps be as well to exempt the Chi
nese using powder on their rice
plantations.
President Dole said they should
get permit which costs them moth
ing under the proposed law. He
thought this permit should include
everything they were to be allowed
to use, and the kinds of explosives
should be described in such per-
nit.
Mr.. Brown thought the kind of
explosive applied for should be
named in the permit; the use of
any other kind would then be In
violation of the law.
The attorney general offered a
written amendment covering the
points raised. Carried.
Another defect in the section
was then discovered.
President Dole stated he thought
there was still room for double
Interpretation and asked the at
torney general to read the remain
der of the section to see if it con-
flicted.
The section was finally amended
by the attorney general SO as to
give the power of granting bail,
under the act, to the Attorney gen
eral, circuit judges and the mar
shall or his deputies.
After considerable discussion as
to the application of the penalty
in the act the section passed with
the understanding it might be fur
Their amended on second reading
Section was amended and
passed.
Sections 4 and 5 were passed as
in the bill, and the bill was passed
to second reading.
First reading of an act to amend
the law relating to pounds, estrays,
brands and marks, by adding
new section.
Mr.. Brown said the bill was the
result of petition presented few
meetings ago from the graziers OF
Kauai, asking that corporations be
prohibited from using brands not
registered according to law.
After slight amendments the bill
was passed to second reading.
On motion ofthe attorney general
the councils went into special ses-
sion at 3 ~ PM.
New Missionary Vessei.
The London Missionary Society,