The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-10

street railroad in Hilo, which was re-
ferred to the P. int ng Committee.
Senator Carter reported on bill AZ as
follows:
To the President of the Senate: The
Judiciary Committee begs to report on
Senate bills No. AZ and No. 4S, referred
to it on March %, as follows:
Your committee finds that bill No.
fixes the compensation to be paid in con.
demnation proceedings for private prop
erty taken for public use, and provides
that the returns made for taxation pur-
poses of the two years preceding snail
be the basis of valuation, and that the
compensation shall not exceed its assess
ed value, computed by the number OF
square feet, and rs cents additional per
square foot, with the improvements at
20 cents per square foot.
Your committee believes that private
property required for public use should
be obtained at its fair market value and
that the provisions of the above bill,
limiting all classes of property at rs
cents additional per square foot and all
kinds of improvements to 20 cents addi-
tional per square foot, would wor,. great
injustice
They therefore recommend that the
bill be rejected.
Your committee finds that Senate bill
No. As provides for the repeal of the
present method of condemning property,
which the committee is not ready to rec
ommend until better and more suitable
Act is prepared, and they therefore rec
ommend that bill No. As be tabled
WIN. WHITE
n. Russell.
G. R. CARTER.
His next report reads as follows:
| To the President of the Senate: The
Judiciary Committee, to whom was re-
ferred House bill No. 13 on March 20, beg
to report as follows:
] The committee finds that this bill SIM
ply repeats certain obsolete laws which
now cucumber the statutes, and are
without force and effect, such as, IAN
! Act to Promote Inter-Island Steamer
Communication of the Session Laws of
! 1876; ''An Act to Provide for the Light
ing of the City of Honolulu With Gas or
Other Artificial Means" contained in the
Franchise to Hamakua Water Works.
in the Session Laws of 1873; etc.
/ The committee recommends the pas
sage of the bill, with the following
amendment: Add to section /. line 80,
the following: And sections 1917, 1913
/ forest roads"
VIM WHITE
G. r. CARTER
| N. Russell
And finally he presented the following
report:
To the President of the Senate: The
Ways and Means Committee begs to sub
nit the following report on Senate bill
No. rs referred to them on April 3:
Your committee finds that section sos,
chapter So, of the Civil Laws has already
been repealed by Act IA of the Laws OF
1898.
Section SOC, chapter So, provides for a
poll tax of 81 upon every male inhabitant
Of the Territory. the collection Of which
could formerly be enforced by inipr!s3n-
ment; under the Organic Act this Is now
prevented, and as a large portion OF tho
floating population of this Territory
would evade the tax, the committee is
a in favor of repeating the sa ne.
However. your committees recommends
that this bill be laid en- the table. and
the introdut er reque ted to bring In
, new bill relating to the poll tax alone.
DAVID X ANUHA
) G. r. CAR TER.
! N. Russell
Achi gave notice>of an Act to provide
for a steam railway in Kona and Kau,
Island of Hawaii
Senator Brown gave notice of an Act
granting a franchise to construct, main
tain and operate an electric railway in
the District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii.
Territory OF Hawaii.
Senator Kalauokalani reported for the
5 Printing Committee as follows:
Your Committee Enrolment pre-
scented to Governor Dole duly enrolled,
House bill NO. 9, entitled An Act to
Repeal Sections 800, 925 and the second
Paragraph of Section 94, Part V, Chap
ter So of the Penal Laws as Compiled
in 1897, Relating to Vaccination" and al
so House bill No. 5, entitled AN Act to
r Amend Section SI4, Chapter SO, of the
| Penal Laws" at the hour of o'clock p.
m, this 9th day of April, A D. 1901.
D. KALAUOKALANI.
Senator Achi endeavored to resurrect
I his dead poll tax Act, and then Senator
! Kanuha gained the floor and lost his
, temper while springing the following
amusing resolution on the by that time
:. drowsy Senate. The resolution reads as
: follows:
Hon. S. E. Kaiue President of the Sem
4 ate:
. 1 beg to complain to this honorable
:, body that have good reasons to believe
that my name has been fraudulently used
by one l.. B. Hao in circulating "a petit
ton now before this honorable body
0 against the Dispensary Act, and present
t ed by Senator White yesterday in this
: House. Two individuals. r. Ii. holbron
+ and Nose Mae, who signed their names
n to the said petition, are willing to swear
= that they were fraudulently represented
: in signing said petition by the state
II ments made by said l.. B. Hao that the
: Dispensary Act was directly against the
: consuming of liquor by any person OIL
Individual; and that 1 presented the pc
e tition to l.. B. Hao for signatures, an6
,r that / recommended them to sign the
petition. Therefore / humbly ask thi.
:, honorable body for an investigation O.
this serious matter, especially agains
my honor, reputation and the interes
n of the people.
l. DAVID KANUHA,
t. Senator from Third District.
" Senator Baldwin said 1t was not
&C matter for the Senate, as no Senate
r was involved If the parties referred Z
Is had been aggrieved their redress wa
T. in the courts.
Ia Mr.. Cecil Brown followed in the sam
- vein, while Senator Russell wanted tn
resolution referred to the committe
~ which had Senator Whites petitions i
III charge. Then there was squabble be
sfd mr.