The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-21
Senate Approves Heavy License
on Live Stock Dealers.
SOME ARGUMENT ON ACT
Report on Carter Memorial Foun-
tain Site-Location Not Approv-
ed-Data on Landings Wanted.
SENATE.
Fifty-ffth Day, April 20.


The Judiciary Committee does not
approve of the site of the Carter memo
rial fountain. They believe that another
desirable location could be procured.
There have been complaints to the
Committee that the fountain is an
obstruction in the square, but the Com
mittee recognizes the restriction of its
| jurisdiction in the matter. 1t believes
| that the subject should be left to the
| Judgment of the Legislature.
So the committee reported to the
Senate. Senator Hooking submitted
question to the Minister of the In
terror touching on the authority that
caused a dedication of a public square
for the erection of a memorial. The
question and the answer were referred
to the Judiciary Committee to report
thereon The Committee reported that
it had failed to note any express
authority vested in the Minister of
the Interior, but that it thought such
powers existed by implication. The
Senate accepted the report.
1t was announced that the President
had attached his signature to the bill
relating to the disposition of the school
tax and a bill providing for the cleo
tion of Senators.
House bill 40, relating to the limita-
ton of time within which actions may
be brought to recover possession of
land passed third reading.
The House bill amending the act re-
lating to assault and battery passed
second reading on recommendation of
the committee. Third reading was set
for Thursday.
The act relating to claims against
the estates of deceased persons and
limiting the time for commencing such
suits came up on second reading. The
Judiciary Committee recommended
several changes in the bill as reported
to them for consideration. One
amendment provides that it shall not
be necessary to publish a notice of
the estate in Honolulu. The commit
tee reduced the time for bringing suit
from three months to two months, as
it existed in the old law.
Senator McCandless moved that |
consideration of the bill be indefinite |
ly postponed He said that the Homo |
lulu newspapers have a much wider |
than the HilO papers. He |
considered it an injustice to the cred I
itors not to have the widest circula-
ton. The motion was lost and the
bill passed second reading. Third
reading was set for Friday.
House bill SO, prohibiting the sale
etc. of foreign goods marked to deceive
people into thinking that they are Ha-
waiian came up on second reading.
The bill went to the Committee on
Commerce.
House bill 68, providing for the ap-
pointment of a substitute during the
absence or temporary disability of
Circuit Judge passed first and second
reading and went to the Judiciary
Committee.
Deficiency appropriation bill was
from the House with amend
ments. The new total Of the bill is
s87, ,45219 The Senate concurred in
all the amendments, including the
out of the item providing for
claims arising from possible decisions
Of the Courts adverse TO the Govern
ment for the killing of tuberculous
cattle.
The House bill amending the license
act was taken up on second reading
with the report of the committee. The
committee recommended the adoption
Of the bill as a whole. Senator Nc
Candless moved that the section re-
ating to importation of live stock ba
stricken out He said he believed the
bill to be in violation of the whole
lenOr of the reciprocity treaty. It was
practically, he said, creating a mono
poly for the Honolulu merchants al
the HiI0 merchants could not import
i've stock at the rate Of taxes. 1t look
ID to him like an import duty.
Senator Brown said that the bill
placed no restriction on the importa-
ion Of live stock. Il was simply to
compel those who offered live stock
or sale to pay a reasonable tax. The
notion was lost and the bill passed
second reading.
Minister Cooper then introduced
wo acts, the first relating to Chinese
immigration provisions, the second
the land act The bill re-