The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-01
WORK Of THE LEGISLATORS.
LITTLE BUSINESS THIS MORNING
IN THE HOUSE.
Emmeluths Ponderous Roll of Manu-
script and It's Approaching Fate
Dickey's stn Born Point of Order.

Dickey's stin Born Point of Order.
The House this morning passed the
appropriation bill to second reading and
passed the first reading of four other
acts of which notice had been given.
as follows:
Dlckey (Rep)-An act to abolish
personal taxes.
Robertson, (Rep)-An act to repeal
certain obsolete laws.
Kaniho, (Bem)-An act to repeal Sec
tions OF the Civil Code, relating TO vac
cination.
Haaheo. Qnd1-An act providing for
taxes on female dogs
Minutes and morning prayers seem to
have no charm for representative Em-
meluth. He never reaches his seat I'm
the House till the chaplain has finished
and the minutes have been read one
reason may be that the Independent
leader is being put upon SO many COM
mittees that he has no time TO spare
for anything but the sternest neces-
sities Of his legislative position AS
chairman Of three Of the most import
ant standing committees, member of
several others and chairman of com-
mission appointed TO investigate and
report on taxation, Emmeluth is i'm
line for night work. When he did come
in this morning it was with a ponderous
roll of manuscript under his arm. Sc
cretary Meheula ga2ed at it in alarm
and motions to adjourn We're threaten
ed from several quarters where it was
suspected that the weighly document
was going to be read
The heavy roll was the county gov
ernment act, which Emmeuth wanted
: TO look over while the various experts
on rules made points against one an
other Dickey, Mahoe and Makekau
can always be depended upon to spend
some of the time with points of order
Emmeluth never discusses rules. When
a Wrangie about them begins he bures
his head In some weightier topic to
emerge when Robertson has stopped
the row.
/ The county government act makes
the governors message look like a one
minute talk. 1t fills about fifty type
written pages and secretary Meheula
/ Will have to oil his throat well when he
starts to read it. 1t will not be intro
duced for a few days yet, because it is
not quite ready. Some tinkering has to
! be done.
When we bring it in" said Emme-
luth, lit Will be ready to be passed at
once, as far as we are concerned.
This means that members of the. OPP
position need not waste time in de-
batting, for when the bill comes in it
VIII have been passed by the caucus
and twenty votes win be behind the
! proposition that il is a good law
4 The Hoogs bill for putting wires un-
der ground promises to be much
amended before it reaches the final
vote. 1t is now proposed to make the
| measure much more radical than its
4 originator made it. All wires now on
the streets will be ordered under ground
within two years by one amendment
and another amendment that has some
supporters allows use of the streets for
wires to companies having less than the
ten thousand light capacity named in
the bill as the minimum.
House bill number one moved on a
peg this morning, being passing its sec
ond reading without dissension. 1t is
the bill appropriating $45, 900 for the ex-
penses of the session. RobertsOn's act
to repeal obsolete laws. Dickey's act to
abolish personal taxes, Haaheo's act to
change the dog license law and Kant
hos act to repeal the law COMPEL
Ing vaccination all passed the first
reading.
Dickey had only one point of order
this morning. 1t was when the second
reading of the bill number one was pro.
posed. He began an objection but de.
cided himself wrong before he got
through stating 1t.
You are out of order" said speaker
Akina.
II think l am" said Dlckey, as he
sat down, and no one knew what was
the objection he had risen to make.
! Robertson wanted to know why bills
ordered printed were slow in coming
from the printer. Prendergast for the
printing committee reported that he
had ordered copies of several bills
printed by yesterday afternoon and
they had not been delivered yet.
Dickey then made a motion which
gave Emmeluth chance to show hi.
mastery over the forces he leads.
Dickey moved that bids be called fol-
the printing Of bills. There were sew,
. eral seconds.
Emmeluth rose to protest. He said
| that If the Republicans had been in G
majority they would never have offer
ed such a motion and that all the Re
publicans were seeking was to give tn,
work to their friends. "The trouble
with the Home Rulers is that they ar,
, trying to give all to their friends" sait
, Emmeluth. II think the motion Is on
that should be voted down"
! After that the vote of Independent
was solid. and the bid scheme was de
/ feated. 1t Is stated that the delay II
J getting printing done was due 10 tn
OYercfoWding of one Office and that tn