The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-28

Chief Justice, to say that he regrets
that the statistical part of his report IS
not yet completely printed. AS you
are about TO consider appropI iatlons
for the Judiciary Department, uncom-
pIeted copies of his report are here
With forwarded which will be re-
placed by complete copies when out
Of the printers hauds
"Your Obedieut servant,
al ENRY SMITH,
"Clerk judiciary Department"
Rep Kamauoha moved the COM
municatiou be acce pted aud placed
on file. Carried.
A communication from the Senate
announced the transmission to the
House of Senate Bill No. 3, n act re-
gardiDg biennial fiscal periods"
which passed its third reading in the
Senate, February 26tb.
Rep. Richards reported House Bill
No. l, relating to leases, as type
written.
Minister Smith announced his in
tention to Introduce a bill entitled
Gan ACT to amend IA act relating to
laundries ami washhOu>es,' approved
August 9, $780,.
House Bill No 1, relating to leases,
passed its third reading unanimously.
The order of the day was the con-
~ideTatiOD of the recommendation by
the Committee on Seals of the design
for Great Seal handed in by ViggO
Jacobsen.
Rep. Bond cautioned the House
consider carefully the matter in
hand. He had read a criticism n
the mornings paper on the design as
handed in by Mr.. jacobsen and was
of nj
had been displayed therein.
Rep. Bond Did not like the idea of
the bird, Phoenix. The little Re
public had not come to life out of the
ashes, but had grown. 1t did not pro
pose to live singly as it is chrouicled
of the bird Phoenix. The House had
committed itself to annexation and
the representation of the bird on the
seal was as much as to say that such
a course of things was not wanted.
Rep. Bond also objected to the let
tering. as being inappropriate, 1t
should not be fancy unless 1t could be
beautiful Plain characters would be
better suited. II gu" is meant it
should not be made a 'v."
Rep. Bond then passed around a
picture of the design for Great Seal
with another birdie on it, but the en-
chanting notes of this plumed visitor
did not strike very sympathetically
on the optic nerves of the two rows of
sturdy representa- ives.
Rep. Robertson rose slowly in his
place and began by agreeing with
the former speaker in the idea
that care should be taken in regard to
the Great Seal. The committee had
given the matter very careful thought
and after going through all the
designs handed in, had adopted the
one which struck them as being by
far the best one, members of the
House should recollect in considering
the matter of seal that i'll the design
each part was dependent upon the
other Each side was balanced 10y its
opposite and the top by the bottom.
Each part was necessary to the sym
patby of the whole design. 1t would
not do to take away something and
add nothing In order to be able TO
Judge of matters pertaining to seal a
person should be fully acquainted
with the various SYMBOLS that go to
compose it. The reasons for objection
to the seal as published in the morn
ing paper, were not sound. In this it
was recommended that the bird
Phoenix be omitted and the main
feature of the design dropped down a
trifie. Rep. Robertson said the center
piece could not be moved without
spelling the whole design. The star,
the center of the whole design would
become shooting star within limit
ed space. Out of its present position
it would look lost and bear selfish
expression.
When the committee met for a con-
sideration of the design it had been
thought proper by some that the date
be taken out. The designer was con-
suited aud he objected to such a
change on the ground that the design
would he completely spoiled by doing
this. The date was left where it was
first placed.
Certain people had interpOsed the
objection that the whole design SAVIOR
ed too much of royalty AMI that the
tabu sticks brought back too much OF
| the olden times.
Many objections could easily be
placed against the design, but were
| they worth while considering? One
might object to the figure of Kane
| hameha [ as representing savage
chasing around without full COM
| pletement of clothes, but the fact still
remained that the figure represents
the age that is past.
Others might pick out the star as a
point of attack. Stars were only
meant for the sky; therefore all peo-
pie here should consider themselves
angels since stars are to be found on
earth.
Then again certain people might
| take the sun rising over the whole as
a symbol of the ascendence Of the
Japanese over every one else III the
country, but in reality it was intend
ed by The designer to represent the
dawn of the new era in 1894
The taro and banana leaves might
be construed as meaning that taro apG
bananas were the only articles Of
food here. These and other objections
of the kind could easily be interposed
but il was evident on the face of them
that they.had no soundness of judg
ment Persons fully acquainted with
the meaning of the symbols were the
only ones competent to judge.
Rep. Robertson saw no room fol
objection to the design, and moved fol
its adoption.
Rep. Rycroft echoed the sentiments
axOressed nv the former speaker. To