The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-01
THE END F THE HOUSE MAIL FOR MONTH Of NAYPOET VETO NRCEDL[S
HOW GOVERNOR DOLE DISPOSED
OF BILLS.
County Act and Liiuokalani's Benefit
Included in Number Turned Down.
Some Questions Arise.

Governor Dole has disposed of some
of the principal bills of the late Legis-
lature by what is termed pocket veto. -
pocket veto is triHe more cour-
teous. technically, than a waste BASKET
veto or a veto by the under secretary
who refuses to open the door to the
passed blls committee. Some of the
latter vetoes will be met with by the
Home Rulers in the next three days.
pocket veto, then, is one i'm which
the executive puts the bill in his inside
coat and forgets all about it.
The county bill went that course.
l was closely followed by the bill to
appropriate $250,OO0 for the remunera-
ton of the Ex-Queen.
The complete list of pocket veto"
bills is as follows:
Making an appropriation to satisfy
the claim and demand of Her Majesty
Liliuokalani against the Republic of
Hawaii and the Territory of Hawaii.
(This Act appropriated $250,000 in
lump sum- Was to have had the ap-
proval of Congress before becoming
valid.
An Act to amend section 81 and 55
of an Act to reorganize the judiciary
Department, approved the 25th of No
vember, 1892 being chapter 81 of the
Session Laws of 1892. (This law chang
ed the terms of the Supreme CourtD
An Act to create the office of Trans
portation Commissioner fixing his sal
airy and defining his duties and duties
of common carriers and providing pen
altieS for violations thereof
An Act relating to licensed physi-
slams
An Act to authorize and regulate the
placing of electric wires and poles of
the Oahu Ice & Electric Company in
the streets of Honolulu and elsewhere
D11 ~ Cl nd Of fai
to receive the Governors signature be-
cause it. did not carry a clause, sub
ject to the approval of Congress-
An Act to authorize w. w. Dimond,
his associates, successors and assigns
to manufacture and supply hydro-car-
bon gas and it's by-products in Homo
lulu. (This bill failed for the same rea-
SOM
An Act to provide for creating GER
tain counties in the Territory of Hawaii
and providing a form of government
for such counties. CThis is the famous
County bll' of the Home Rule p8~ty)
Vetoed bill Passed over the Cover
nor's veto. An Act to amend section
S14 of chapter SO of the Session Laws
of 1897 in regard to taxation of female
dogs.
MANY of the Home Rulers have eX-
pressed the opinion that a bill not
signed prior to the end of a Legislature
becomes law anyway, no matter If only
presented at the last moment. In other
words, that the ten days limitation
was only intended for sessions of the
legislature. They maintain that If a
bill remained unsigned and not return
ed at the end of session becomes a law
as soon as final adjournment is taken
no matter If the executive has had it
only a minute. Others contend that the
pocket veto" will not hold for the rea-
son that when the ten days are up, even
if the session has adjourned, an un-
signed bill becomes law. OF the matter
Secretary Cooper says:
by the pocket veto as you call it,
these bills have been killed We do not
think there is any question on that
point. There are numerous precedents
for it, 1t seems to us that bill un-
signed at the end of the Legislature
dies right then and there"
The county bill had its friends and
it's foes. Some Republicans favored 1t,
not for itself for it was an abortion,
but for the reason that they wanted
to make some start toward county and
municipal government. 1t was turned
down on account of its imperfections.
The Liliuokalani pension bill was
pocketed because, in the opinion of the
executive. IL was unconstitutional. In
addition it made charges against the
Territorial and United States govern
mentS