The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-24
THE LICENSE BILL
Passed First Reading and Was
Sent to Committee.
APPROPRIATION TALK TODAY
Busy Day In House-OuestionsP Pro-
pounded to the Attorney
General.
APPROPRIATION TALK TODAY
SENATE.
Seventh Day, February %.

| Seventh Day, February %.
present at roll call Wednesday morning
| Business was disposed of expeditions
ly. On motion of Senator Waterhouse
the Report of the Minister of the In
terror was taken up and sent to the
Committee on Public Lands and I'm
provements.
The Judiciary Committee reported
| favorably on Senate bill No. 1, appro-
priating $4,000 for expenses of the
current session Senator Baldwin said
there was no reference in the report
to expenses for the special September
session, and asked if the committee
had not been directed to investigate
that feature. In explanation Senator
Lyman said the Committee had found
nothing in the Constitution either pro-
viding for or forbidding compensate
for special sessions. The matter of
the special session properly belonged
to the former period and should be
considered separately. For this rea-
son report had been made on that por-
tion relating to the present session
only.
Senator Waterhouse asked Minister
Damon if $4,000 would be sufficient
to cover current expenses. Minister
Damon replied that in thinking of the
in the present political situation with
the possibility that the members
might not wish great deal OF
legislation, $4,000 seemed enough.
The Legislature was law unto itself
and if the sum appropriated was not
sufficient the Legislature had the pow
er to appropriate more. On motion of
Senator Waterhouse the bill passed the
second reading, was sent to the enroll
ment committee and was made the
special order for today.
The special order of yesterday, the
bill introduced from the Printing Com
mite providing for licensing the sale
of wines, beers and ales of low alco-
holic strength, passed the first reading
on Senator Holstein's motion and was
referred to the Committee on Com
merce, Agriculture and Manufacture
In reply to a question from Senator
WaterhOuse as to the reason for the
introduction of the bill, Senator Hol-
stein stated that he would make full
explanation of the measure at the sec
ond reading. He had been requested
to present it by his constituents. The
need of legislation Of a nature provid-
ed for in the bill was obvious from the
report Of the Attorney-GeneraFs De-
partment.
In reply to a suggestion from Min
lister Damon that the Attorney-General |
be added to sne committee having the |
bill in charge President Wilder said |
that a Minister could be consulted but |
could not be made a member of the |
committee. Senator Holstein was made |
the third member of the committee in |
the absence of Senator Horner.
On question of privilege Senator
Waterhouse suggested that the atten-
tion of the Military Committee should |
be called to the firing of salutes from the
Executive Building grounds. A COM
mittee was in session at noon on Tues |
day when the salute of q guns was |
fired and the whole building shook |
with the vibrations from the shock. |
The members had noticed a crack in |
the ceiling enlarge, with some alarm. |
A section of the ceiling over the en-
trance to the Judiciary Building had |
fallen and there was some danger in it. |
The matter will be considered again |
when the Chairman Of the Military |
Committee is present.
At 1885 O'Clock the Senate adjourn |
ed