The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-09

leave TO offer the following amend
ments. to wit:
Strike out the last three words of
the title, as being unnecessary.
Strike out the word chapter in the
first line of Section 1 and substitute
the word Act Also, after the words
Section ga in line 3, strike out the
words relative to gaming or gaming at
horse races.
In line 3, after the words horse
race insert the words boat race
In line 6, after the word game in
sert the word sport
Substitute Section with the usual
effecting clause to read as follows:
This Act shall take effect from the
date OF its publication.
With these amendments your COM
mittee recommend that the bill pass.
Rep. Winston presented a petition
from the Chinese shoemakers of the
city protesting against the proposed bill
for the levying of additional license
fees.
Second reading of House Bill No. IL
called up on the order of the day.
Rep. Rycroft moved that the consid-
Grafton of the bill be postponed until
motion be made to bring it up again
this on account of the absence of the
Attorney General and Rep. Robertson
the two parties who were best acquaint-
ed with the bill.
There being no additional reports on
the Appropriation bill, consideration of
| the same was deferred and Senate
Bill No. 8 taken up.
| The report of the Committee on Pub
lie Lands, recommending that an item
of $4,000 be inserted for the rebuilding
of the Waiawa bridge in the district of
Eva, was adopted and the item insert
ed and passed.
Senate Bill No. Il, "An Act to amend
Section of an Act entitled, An Act
restricting Chinese immigration and
being Chapter of the Session Laws of
1892, and to amend Section 4 of Act 3
of the Legislature of the Republic of
Hawaii, special session 1895, being en-
titled, AN Act relating to the restrict
| ing of Chinese immigration brought
up in first reading, section by section.
Passed first reading and upon motion
read second time by title. Passed sec
ond reading and referred to the Print
! ing Committee.
House Bill No. 16, relating to the pro-
| hibition of gambling and gaming, ta-
ken up for consideration with the re-
port of the committee.
| After the reading of Section 1 and the
recommendation of the committee,
Rep. Richards said he thought that if
the bill were passed it would simply be
winked at by everybody. 1t was all
right enough to talk and read about,
but when it came to enforce the law,
such a thing would never be done. A
section in the Provisional Government
laws enumerated a lot of games such as
che ia, but the games mentioned in the
new bill Lad been avoided. The franz
ers of the law must have realized that
there could be no enforcement of law
in regard to these. Rather than pass
an Act that would not be observed by
people who voted for it, he moved that
the bill be indefinitely postponed.
Rep. Rycroft thought that the law
would practically become dead letter.
One man had said at a public meeting
that baseball in the United States had
been killed by the betting habit, and
serious results in the same sport had
come about in Honolulu through the
same cause. The law as proposed
might not stop gambling, privately, but
it would put stop to gambling public
ly. If the law guaranteed some good it
should be passed There were many
laws such as the one in regard to the
sale of liquor, that were being continu-
ally broken, but that fact did not prove
their uselessness.
Rep. Bond said that secret betting
could not be stopped, but such gam
bling as is found at baseball games
horse races and other places, and the
moral influence of which could not help
but be very bad, could be largely
stopped.
Rep. Rycroft explained that the COM
mittee to whom the matter was re-
ferred had all signed the report with
the exception of Rep. Robertson, and
from remarks made by him, he was
sure that member would not hesitate
for moment.
Rep. Richards withdrew his motion
to indefinitely postpone the bill.
Rep. Cluney said he did not believe
in bringing in all such samples of the
Connecticut Blue Laws. There had
been no such laws before, why should
there be now? No other country had
adopted such law. He did not believe
in preventing men from having a little
fun when they so desired. AS to chill
dren, if they lost money at the horse
races one day, or a baseball game, they
could go again and stand a chance of
winning back their money.
Rep. RycrOft explained that Captain
Cluney was just a little off, and that
there were the very Strictest kind of