The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-15
Ninety-ninth Day.
SATURDAY.. June


After the usual opening exercises il
the Senate, Minister King reported thai
the President had signed the following
bills: EXempting California wine from
duty, the bill setting apart certain lands
IN HIIo for public purposes, the license
Dill and the income tax.
| Senator Lyman called attention to the
fact that the Senate had not followed
the rules OF parliamentary law in ia
bling the report of the Conference Com
mlUtee on the wide tire Act.
President Wilder said he had had the
matter under consideration and had
come TO the conclusion that the action
of the Senate was an irregular proceed
ing. He consequently announced that
The report of the committee would again
come before the Senate under the head
of unfinished business.
A message was submitted from the
President containing the report of the
Fresh Meat Commission. The Commits
sion stated that nothing had been done
owing to the death of j. T. Waterhouse
and the inability of the chairman to
give his time and attention to the mat
ter. An extension of time was REQUEST
eQ. The report was received and refer
red to the Executive
Under unfinished business the confer
eHce report on the Wide Tire Act was
again brought up.
senator Brown opposed numbering up
Che statutes with such an Act and he
moved that the Senate should not con-
cur IN the conference report.
minister Cooper came to the rescue
or the bill by stating that it was one
that met with the favor of the Execu-
tive. In fact the President had drawn
the bill q Il
senator Baldwin opposed the bill on
the grounds that it could not he on
forced without great hardship in the
country districts and on some of tho |
senator Hooking continued his oDno-
slCion along the same lines and gave
some practical hints from personal ex-
peTience.
Senator McCandIess argued long and
earnestly in favor of the bill. bnt the
hoIlon to nOn-cOncur in the conference
,eport was carried by vote of 7 10 /
Inc motion to adhere to the bin as
'"Soeu oy the Senate was also carried
)y the same vote.
ne Registration Repeal Act passed
ne I!fst reading and came up on second
e@uinS uhder suspension of the rules.
senator Lyman wanted to know why f:
ne hepeal Act had been brought in.
= " HIoh minister Cooper replied that s
~ 1..I iIie''o uIe was the result of unani- {
nous vote in the Senate caucus :
senator Brown said he had not been {
resent at any caucus. He had oDDosed
ne registration bill at the Outset bnt t
low that it had become a law he be- I
IeVed IN sticking to it. The onIv noint a
n which any very great objection had | /
een falsed-the thumb mark-couId Y
aSlly be stricken out by the Minister c
l Che interior. The Minister could re- t
lace the thumb mark by signature in t
aSeS Where people could write their 4
aHeS' Senator Brown did not believe /
passing and repeating an Act in the 7
anne session. c
MUNSTER cooper, replying to Senator o
'Io"h' sald that to substitute a sig
azure as had been proposed. would be t.
lScTImlnatIon against the Asiatics C
furthermore, the bill was not a DOnu- t
II one-corporations and workingmen 7
ere opposed TO it. In the Cabinet the a
JIofney General was the only one in b
tNor OF the measure. Minister King 2
au oeen IN doubt about it. but was now n
lIHng to go on record as opposed f
senator Baldwin stated that he had
oted for the bill because the mechanics .
opeared to want it.
Without further discussion the Re G.
eaI Act passed the second reading. Fl
7nator Wright voted NO" and Sen g
-ors Brown and Lyman declined to W
)te. f,
House bill No. so. amending the Land
Ct passed the second and third read b.
gS by unanimous vote. II
he concurrent resolution from the &C
ouse, placing the records of the Sen
e in the hands of the Minister of the St
terror was adopted. 0f
The Committee on Accounts reported 8,
proved bills against the Senate am i
nting to $263. so ht
No further business arising, the Sen in
e adjourned.