Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-08-03
THE LEGISLATURE.
TpE y N e. ~ PEOPLE nusr
PAN TANEs.
The senate Gets Through with u Lot
oTworE aud has Debate on
seCtHrIRnIsm,
FoRTY SECOND DAY, AUGusT 81.
THE SENATE.

ing OF Ginutes u com INJUNCTION
was red from the House that
that body had passed the Joint
Resolut on conc rning the pay of
members OF the old Labor Com
mission.
Sen. Rice from the Printing
Committee reported number Of
amendments to bills and Th RS
tons memorandum concerning a
Pacific cable as printed.
Senator Hooking from the Com
mittee on passed bills reported
that the Joint Resolutions on
Electric Tramways and annexa-
ton had been submitted to til
President for his signature.
Senator Waterhouse from the
Finance Committee reported
substitute bill in place of the one
exempting the Honolulu Library
from taxation.
Senator Brown from the Judi
ciary Committee reported in favor
of the laying on the table the bill
regulating appeals from the Dis
trict to the Circuit Courts.
A communication from the Cali
fornia State Viticultural Society,
concerning the increase in the
consumption of saki to the detri-
ment of California wines, was re-
ferred to the Committee on Com
merce.
Bill 10, regulating the practice
on motions for new trials, came
up on the order of the day. This
is a substitute presented by the
Judiciary Committee for the
original bill.
The bill passed its second read
ing and went to engrossment.
The Honolulu Library bill Al d
amendment were taken up. The
amendment exempts the pro p, rty
of the Y. M. c. A.
Minister Damon objected to the
amendment as being contrary to
the constitution and sectarian. If
the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation was not a Protestant in
stitution, pure and simple, he did
not know of any. He was OPP
posed to anything that saw
ored of sectarianism, no mat
ter whether Professionals or
Catholics were concerned. The
spirit of the constitution says
that the government shall not in
terfere in matters of such kind.
The government should sit down
now at the outset on any attempt
to bring religious controversies
into legislative affairs.
Senator Brown heartily con-
CURED in what the Minister of
Finance said and moved that the
original bill pass.
Senator Baldwin believed bat,
if church property was exempt as
it now is, all similar institu-
tons should be granted the same
privilege. Churches were secta-
rian and yet argument was made
against the Y. M. q. A. on &C
count of its sectarianism.
The Attorney General was in
favor of giving the Y. M. C. A.
the same privilege of exemption
as the library.
Minister Damon said it was his
duty as the custodian of the
peoples money to see that none of
it was used for sectarian purposes
and he should do it. He pro-
tested most vigorously against ex-
smpting the Y, M. @. A., the
whole aim and object of which
was to make Protestants of young
men. There was no use in trying
to gloss over the matter. The
institution was for the purpose of
max ing Protestant Christians out
of young people and whether it
offered special inducements such
as gymnasium, baths or library,
did not make any difference with
that object. The whole aim of
the society was to make Protest
ants and there was no getting
around it. The very rules of the
Association provided that no
member could vote unless he was
a member of some Evangelical