The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-22

,vS He Senators are In training now
and apparently sparring for time
Senator Carter is still laid up for
repairs but it is hoped that he Will
be in his chair before White and
Brown come to practical hostilities.
Inkstands are rather expensive and
should not be used as missiles.
The Senators were good humored this
morning and if they had only adjourn
ed before they met there would have
been no special row. AS it was, a gen.
eral row occurred to the delectation of
the members of the lower" House who
had come over to take in the Senatorial
circus
| The old bill relating to the pay of the
solons was of course the bone of eonten-
| ton, but most of the time was wasted
on act 36, relating to the appointment
of bailiffs for certain courts in the Ter
ritory of Hawaii and defining the duties
and powers of such bailiffs and fixing
the amount of their compensation and
providing for the payment of such COM
pensation."
The bill may be of great Importance,
but it was hardly expected that it
should be the cause of a long and heat
ed debate.
Senator Cecil Brown wanted a writ
ten report on the bill. He said that
since 1876 he had been in the Legisla-
Iture and he had never heard so many
verbal reports as were offered in this
ASSEMBLY. The honorable gentleman
suggested that the august body was
like a flock of sheep following the bell
of the "wether'' and he didn't care to
have his picture in TIE Advertiser car
toons illustrating him as saying
I"Bahn
At this critical moment Mr. White got
the floor and said he was astonished.
What had surprised the honorable gem
tleman from Lahaina was never learn
led, because Achi got his oar in and in
few minutes Cecil Brown, Russell,
White, Kanuha, Achi and few others
were on their feet and doing a big,
bunch of talking.
''Kekila,'' as they call Cecil Brown,
claimed that the political medicine man
in the chair could neither speak nor
understand the English language as
suffered by Brown, and the chair re-
taliated by saying something like this:
"Meester Brownorowski. 1 speakeraski
re Englees very intelligerutsky."
That settled poor Cecil and the bill
passed by a vote of 9 to S.
The bill relating to the expenditures
of the Legislature, which has caused so
much vexation on account Of the spell
ing of the word forty" has been buried
and instead a joint resolution has pass
ed both houses and the boys" can get
the dough tomorrow If the Governor
will attach his signature to 1t. The
resolution reads:
A joint resolution to appropriate money
to defray the expenses of the session Of
the Legislature of the Territory of Ha-
wall for the session commencing Febru-
airy 20. 1901;
Be il resolved by the Legislature of the
Territory of Hawaii, That there is here
by appropriated out of any funds in the
Territorial Treasury not otherwise APP
lpropriated the sum of forty-five thousand
| dollars Cs45,000) for the purpose Of de-
| fraying the expenses of the session of
the Legislature of the Territory of Ha-
wall, commencing February 20. 1901. Said
sum of $4,000 shall be Immediately avail
able upon the passage and approval OF
| the resolution. VIM. WHITE.
Honolulu, T H., March q. 1901.
Reports from committees were intro
duced as follows:
We find that bill "a requires that every
| instrument in order to lie recorded must
have an affidavit attached, sworn to by
the party or parties executing the same.
| l. That the Consideration in the Dody
| OF the document is tie only amc unit to
| be paid for the same.
! q Where the consideration is nominal.
an affidavit must be attached stating the
] full value.
| Your committee fall TO see any good
that will be accomplished by this law.
| Where considerations nominal we
| find the Registrar often requires the
part to take oath TO The true value
before the instrument l. recorded.
| If for taxation, the value easily be
got by the adjoining properties.
| We consider that il viii only make doc
uments more complicated by attaching
an affidavit to each one. and therefore
recommend the bill be la d on the table.
J. r. BROWN.
J ID. PARIS.
L NAKApAAHU