The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-28
INCOME TAX LOST
Senate Votes Down the PROPOSE
ti0l Of The House.
SCHEDULE E REMAINS IN FORCE
After Discussion House Passes
Appropriation for Honolulu
Sewerage System.
SCHEDULE E REMAINS IN FORCE
SENATE.

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The objections of the House to the
section of the cable bill providing that
| the cable shall land "at or near Ho-
nolulu," which objection was expressed
10y an amendment striking out that
provision so as to permit the landing
of the cable at any point on the Ha-
Waiian Islands, has been met by a
| recommendation of a conference COM
mittee, which permitted the amend
ment to stand and further amended
the section by providing that the ter
minus shall be at Honolulu. 1t was
ccntended by the Senate portion of the
committee that the terminus should
be at the capital city. The report Of
the committee was adopted.
The Minister of the Interior in
formed the Senate that the President
had signed four bills; an act relating
to the construction of railways prOvid-
ing against the building of wharves,
piers and jetties by private persons
over tide water, the cemetery act, the
bill to permit the manufacture and
sale of wine from Hawaiian grown
grapes, and the bill regulating the
opening of streets through private
lands in the KOna district of Oahu.
The Senate concurred in the House
amendment raising the license of one
dollar on milk as fixed by the Senate
to $3.50.
The Judiciary Committee reported
that the Conference Committee recon-
mended that the Senate recede from it's
position making actions of tort tri-
able in the first circuit court, as well
as in the circuits in which
they arise. and that the Sen
ate concur in the House amend
ment making such actions triable only
in the circuit in which they arise. The
report was adopted The chief objec-
tion to the limiting such actions to
their own circuits was that in some
circuits such actions might arise by
plantations against a man and a jury
could not be secured except largely of
men in the employ Of the plantations.
The HiIO railway bill passed third
reading with an amendment that the
form Of fender for cars must first be
approved by the Minister Of the In
terror
The Income Tax bill came up with
the reports of the special committee.
Senator Brown attacked the bill on
the ground of it's cOnstitutiOnality He
quoted the constitutional provision
that each member of society shall pay
his prOpOrtiOnate share of taxation. |
The Legislature had exempted certain |
charitable and other institutions and |
thus imposed on the rest of the COM |
tax greater in its proportion |
than it otherwise would be- The con- !
stitution exempted no body of men by |
law, therefore, the Senator said, the |
Income Law. if passed, would be |
thrown out by the Supreme Court, as |
was the last one. Senator Brown said |
also that he believed the present Leg !
islature should not pass an income |
tax but should await the report Of the |
Special Commissioners authorized to |
devise some equitable method Of tax |
alton.
Senator Baldwin said that he be- |
lieved that both the proposed Income |
Tax bill and Schedule E should not be |
defeated Much as he disGked Sched- !
uIe Z and its workings he believed |
the Government should be given some
definite source of revenue from taxa
ton. He objected to Schedule E. The
Minister of Finance had reported an
increase in the taxes of the 1897 over
the 1895 period of S89 600. There was
reported an increase of $4,000, 900 in
taxable property which would make
up $50. 900 of the increase. The in
crease in cane valuations alone should
be $4,000 or $50, 900 He believed
that Schedule z was inequitable. He
was in favor of an income tax. There
were peculiar conditions why an in
come tax should be passed. A large
portion of the money made was sent
abroad, many people who make their
money here were absentee residents,
the bulk Of the products were sent
abroad and in many cases the returns
were made payable in New York or
London. The Senator cited instances
where an income tax taken in addi-
tiOn to a property tax might be double
taxation.
Senator AIcCandIess believed that a
graduated tax would be an equitable
one. He agreed with Senator Baldwin
that the Income Tax and Schedule E
should not both be defeated.
Senator KepOikai favored the In