The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-03
Legislature Takes Much Need
ed Rest.
The Use of (Which +" and . who"
More Appropriations Asked for
Schools - Four Bills TO Purify tho
City - Adjourned Until Monday.
Thirty.sixth Day.

Senator Northrup presented a set OF
resolutions passed at mass meeting
held in Hilo last Saturday. which wers
read by the Secretary.
Referred to the Executive.
Senator Lyman read a petition from
residents of North Kohala asking for
the appropriation of $4,000 for a new
road in the eastern part of the district
Referred to the Committee on Public
Lands.
Senator Horner, from the Miscellane-
Gus Committee, presented report ON
certain sections of the License Act,
which was tabled be considered with
the bill.
Senator Wilcox gave notice of his in
tention to introduce a bill to reorgnize
the Bureau of Public Instruction.
Section so, relating to the license of
butchers, passed as in the bill-$4O for
Honolulu and 500 elsewhere.
Section 50, requiring the Minister of
the Interior to furnish butchers with
record books, was stricken out, and the
butchers will now have to furnish their
own books.
Senator Brown moved that new Ii
cense of $40 be inserted for boot and
shoe manufacturers, who do not now
pay any license.
Minister Damon thought so would
be enough, and Senator Brown accepted
the suggestion. The license then car
ried at $40.
Senator Brown moved that a license
fee of $25 for Honolulu and $40 else
where be imposed on tailor shops. Car
ried.
The merchandise license was taken
up on the proposition of Senator Nc
Candless to make the tax $50 for all
sales under $40 900, and % of 1 per cent.
on gross sales above that amount, and
an argument ensued in which yester-
days debate was again gone over
Senator Baldwin said that to carry
out the theories of Senator McCandless
the 70 of 1 per cent. should be levied on
every merchant, whether his sales were
500, 81 900 or $4,000 a year.
The amendment finally passed by a
vote of to 4.
Senator McCandless withdrew his
amendment placing a tax on horsesho-
ers, stating that the men could not
agree on the matter.
The bill then passed as a whole on the
second reading and was referred to tho
Committee on Revision.
Senator Brown, under suspension of
the rules, presented petition from the
Kahuku plantation and II. Hackfeld *
Co., stating that in 1891 they had inn
ported a sugar mill plant for the Ka-
huku company, on which $4,870 duty
had been paid. Under the improved
process now in use the plant was use
less and had never been used II was
the intention of the petitioners to ship
the plant abroad for sale, and there
fore they ask that the duty paid on the
same be remittted. Referred to the
Finance Committee.
Minister Cooper presented the report
of the Electric Railway Commission
appointed by the President. The Com
mission say that no part of Hotel street
or Thomas Square or the Beach road
should be used by any company; that If
any company wishes to use the Beach
road it should be compelled to obtain
a right of way along said road at their
own expense. They say the present is
an inopportune time for granting of
franchise to any company on the ground
that an elaborate system of widening
the streets of Honolulu is under consid-
Grafton, and no franchise of any kind
should be given until that is settled.
The report contains much information
gained by Mr.. Dodge during his trip,