The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-25

| the appointment OF commissioners Oh
Deeds for the Territory in other parts
| of the world, amending the laws relat-
ling to the Board of Health to allow the
president of the Board to receive sal
larry, amending the statute of yagrancy
| to include as Migrants all persons con-
lducting an Illicit business, creating fire
limits in the town of Hilo and extend
ing the fire limits of Honolulu providing
for merchandise licenses, repeating stat
ute reserving belts of trees along new
forest roads, amending the military law
and creating the Office of Adjutant Cen
eral, .enlarging the list of articles exempt
from attachment, requiring building
permits within certain limits in
| Honolulu and Hilo and perhaps other
towns to be passed upon by an officer
of the Board of Health as to sanitary
condition of the ground and sanitary
character of the plans. providing for the
election of Delegate to Congress, amend
ing the lien law to require plaintiff to
prove delivery and good faith, restrict
ing the sale and use of opium, regulat-
ing the sale of spirituous liquors, pro-
ltecting the Territory from the immigra-
ton of persons afflicted with contagious
diseases, and carrying out the recon-
mendations of the Attorney General in
regard to the status and punishment of
offenses, and the jurisdiction of District
Magistrates in criminal proceedings, the
custody of kerosene and gunpowder, and
chapter Sc of the Penal Laws.
| I also recommend legislation for the
protection and increase of Hawaiian food
fish.
! 1 shall submit in a few days a brief
list of supplementary estimates.
| Reports making recommendations for
appropriations from the different Depart
ments and bureaus. together with the
lannual reports of Departments. have
been prepared and will be submitted for
your assistance. 1 commend them to your
careful study as giving a comprehensive
statement of the conduct of all execu-
| tive and judicial matters.
THE PAST YEAP.
During the past year the Hawaiian
community has twice been called upon
to mourn the death of members of the
| last royal line of the monarchy; Her
late Majesty Queen Dowager Kapiolani,
widow of His late Majesty King Kala-
kaua, and Her late Royal Highness Prin-
cess Kaiulani, daughter of Her late Roy
T, al Highness Princess Lfkelike and the
Honorable Archibald S. Cleghorn.
State obsequies were rendered to the
remains of both of these esteemed Aliis,
and the mourning for them by all
classes and nationalities was general
and sincere.
Public feeling was deeply aroused by
In0 QedLH Oh EIlICeSS hdluldfll- her
beauty and charm, the romantic Incl
dents of her short life in connection with
her brilliant political prospects as heiress
presumptive to the Hawaiian throne, and
their Illustration by no fault of hers, her
brave acceptance of the new and difficult
situation, and the tact and sincerity she
displayed in her changed relations with
the Government and the people, had won
for her a widespread interest and the
respect land regard of the community.
Her sudden death, coming when she had
INDICATED her superiority to circum-
stances. and had with sweetness and
gentleness turned her feet to the hum
bier life, feeling that the best things
were still hers to live for, and people
were fast recognizing her nobility of
the same time most favorable to the
permanence of tender and affectionate
memories of her life and personal quail
ties.
In inaugurating local legislation for
Hawaii nei in its new political depart
IRE, you hold a most conspicuous posi-
ton before present and future genera
tons and one probably of unusual in
fiuence.
The past with IFS records Of success
and failure cannot be changed, You
may 20 to It for lessons, but your work
Is for the future, You can hardly fail
I'm your legislative procedure to make i'm
uortant precedents. It Is in your power
to create useful or Injurious ones. When
the people of the future years shall talk