The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-15
AFTERNOON SESSION

wv afternoon session Speaker Akina
asked whether he had the right to
appoint a special committee to carry
passed bills to the Governor for sigma
ture Prendergast thought, by the
rules, the House had the power 70
do SO.
Makekau took contrary view. He
said the House committee on rules had
endeavored to call a joint meeting with
the Senate committee, but was always
unsuccessful. He thought the bill
tee got together.
Robertson did not believe that any
joint rules had been adopted as yet
The rules of the former House of Rep
resentatives had been adopted for use
and the House had drafted such other
rules as were necessary. He thought
the best policy was to hold on to the
bill and bring the Senate to it's senses
The speaker inquired whether the
joint committee would have 10 carry
the bill to the Governor for signature
Robertson replied that he was strongly
of that opinion.
Beckley inquired if the certificate of
the speaker of the House and president
of the Senate were not sufficient guar
antees to carry the bill up to the Gov
ernor. Receiving a partial affirmative
reply. he said that the bill should be
sent by a messenger to the Governor
The latter had seen fit to ignore the
Legislature by refusing to send nomi-
nations to the Senate, and he did not
believe in being too courteous to the
executive.
Kekaula said that according to the
Organic Act the only requirements
We're that the speaker and president.
as well as the clerks of the House and
Senate, respectively, should certify to
bills to have them referred to the Gov
ernOr. Makekau said the rules did moi
specify what messenger could carry
such an important document to the
Governor. The Governor might say in
case the House messenger did not de-
liver it to him, he had not received
the passed bills, and there would be no
record of it.
Robertson said delivery by a mes
senger of the House to Governor Dole's
messenger was a very SloVenly method
of handling important documents OF
this kind. He also favored the APP
pointmefft of a passed bills commit
tee" TO. go over the final typewritten
drafts TO see that the words are prop
erly spelled, and not put the House to
the trouble which had arisen at the
morning session.
Paele was of the opinion that the
quickest way for the chair to send a
request to the president of the Senate
what had been done with the bill, ara
ask that body to appoint committee
to join one from the House, to place
the bill in the Governors hands
Makekau thought the best way would
be to have the joint committee on rules
come together and draft a special rule
pnu lot caU ion at.. %
motion was reduced to writing. ineor-
porating Makekau's suggestion as an
amendment The motion carried.
The House then took up the con-
sideration of House Bill 81, relating to
Sunday laws, 1t was moved to refer
the bill to the committee of the whole.
Dickey opposed He said the House
did not have the proper law books to
carry on proceedings in this manner.
Beckley said Dickey was out of order
on the law book proposition Kekaula
then sprung the fact that the bill
had been referred to the judiciary
committee on March IL. A rising vote
on the matter referred the bill to the
committee of the whole House and
Representative Beckley was called to
the chair by the speaker. The bill was
read section by section.
Aylett, the author or the bill, said
he could see the bill had created a
y
pal reason for repeating the laws was
because the rich people were the ones
who broke them oftenest, but We're not
arrested The poor man. however, was
arrested for the slightest infraction of
the law. According to section 1873 OF
the Penal Laws. the breaking of the
Sabbath is prohibited. He made the
foolish contention that the government
broke the Sabbath by allowing the
band to play on that day The gov
eminent was breaking the law OF
Moses. but the poor man could not do
So The law was a good one for those
who wanted TO go to church, but what
about those who didn't want to go?
Would they have to sleep all day Sab
bath? Before the band was allowed to
play on Sunday the Minister of the
Interior asked them whether they
wanted to play on Sunday The boys
demurred, but finally acquiesced. Since
then. instead of having Sunday as
their day of rest, the band boys had
Fridays for their Sundays. The speak
er thought the law of God still held
good. He wanted the rich and the
poor To do as they liked on Sunday.
Now that Hawaii is part of America,
he himself, wanted to be whole Am
erican. and not half a one. He had
travelled all over the United States,
and knew they had circuses and all
kinds of sports, and those who wanted
TO go 10 cnurcn cOuln 90 so, ana those
who wanted to attend the circus could
do SO. He wanted things done in Ha-
wall as they were in the United States.
He wanted to go ahead and do exactly
as they did on the Mainland That
was his idea of progress.
The train that Travelled from Honolu-
III to Kahuku made poor people work
while the rich owners could go to
church, with one pocket IN the train
and the other in the church. On Mon
days the owners go to their offices and
receive the moneys taken in the day
before Seeing the rich can do this !
why couldn't the poor man do the
same?
Aylett made about the most ridicu- |
louS speech ever perpetrated upon the |
House members. not even barring Ma
kekau and Kaniho- He descended into |
horse play which even a circus clown |
would have blushed to use
He thought that barber shops had |
to close at 9 o'clock. He went to one |
one day, and the police caught him |
IN the middle of a shave and he HAD |
10 leave half shaved.
He had seen by personal observation |
IN the plantations, laborers working on |
Sunday. He did not think a law of this /
Kind was right, as the rich man can
nave his mills go on grinding on Sun
lay, and the poor man has to go on
working. Such a one-sided law ought |
o be repealed. Complaint was filed |