The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-16

to the said Secretary of the Terri
tory of Hawaii.
Kumalae moved the report De adopt
ed Carried
Ewaliko presented the following res
olution:
'.One hundred thousand dollars to
widen the front of Hilo, be inserted
in the appropriation bill"
The resolution was tabled, to be
taken up later with the appropriation
bill
Hoogs moved to return the Auditors
communication with a request to place
the amounts opposite each name of
those who received salaries While on
vacations The chair did not view the
report as unfinished business. Hogs
said it was an oversight of his in not
asking for the amounts in his original
resolution.
At this moment the Government
Band, stationed in the capitoI grounds,
struck up the air America" although
in this instance it was God Save the
King" in honor of the admiral and
officers of the English flagship War
spite. who were calling on Governor
Dole. Makekaus ears opened wider,
and he promptly moved that the entire
House stand during the rendition of
America" The House arose and
stayed their deliberations until the
close of the piece.
The Hoogs motion was passed.
Beckley said that as Representative
Dickey was one of the persons named
in the list he should be made to an
swer as to the amount he received
while absent. The chair came to
Dickey's rescue by stating that "the
honorable member was not required to
make an answer to such a question.
The House enjoyed Dickey's embar
raSSment, while the latter looked wise
over his spectacles.
Makainai presented a reDOrt of the
standing committee on the control of
sewerage system bill, recommending
it's passage.
Under the order of the day House
the Territory. and repeating chapter
V, title II, Civil Laws of Hawaii, was
read for the third time. Upon motion
of Mahoe the bill was passed as fol-
lows: Ayes %; noes, l.
The band again struck up God Save
the King" and the speaker said the
House should stand up again. The
House did stand up, although there
were many protests that it was not
America" but Edward Wis anthem.
! When this was learned Emmeluth sat
down and so did few others. but the
. speaker called them to order, telling
them to stand up with the speaker,
| to which they reluctantly complied.
| Beckley sharply called for a point OF
| order. That is not America" but
| the national anthem of the British
| empire, and is played in honor of the
| visiting British admiral, who had Just
| looked in,'' said he angrily.
| who gave this notice in the House
that that was America anyhow
| inquired Emmeluth, gazing sharply in
| the direction of Makekau.
! House Bill 16. relating to criminal
/ jurisdiction of district magistrates
was read for the third time and passed
upon motion of Mahoe.
House Bill Il. relating to practice
and procedure in criminal cases, was
read for the third time, with two
amendments. 1t will be typewriter
and made the order of business on
Monday.
House Bill 26. relating TO the deser-
ton of husband or wife, was called up
for the second reading. The speaker
said the report of the committee on
the bill was to be considered The
members began wrangling over the
bin as on the day when the commit
tee of the whole House adopted an
adverse report on it. Makekau con-
tended that when the committee report
was adopted the bill was killed.
Robertson stated that if the chair had
taken his suggestion on the day the
House battled with the report the
matter would not have come up again
He said that notwithstanding the ract
the adverse report had practically re-
jected the bill, yet the bill could not
be so rejected until it had been read
for the second time III connection with
the report.
Prendergast was now of the opinion
that the House showed too much haste
in adopting the report. Robertson sale
this on Wednesday. Prendergast
thought it was a lesson to the House
to go slowly in future. He was of the
opinion that the bill had already beer
killed..
The speaker went back entirely or
his ruling of Wednesday, and after
blowing hot and cold, as he was sway
ed by the arguments on the floor, final
~ declared the bill had been killed
on Wednesday by the adoption of the
adverse report of the committee.
House Bill IS, defining felonIes and
misdemeanors. was called for passage
on its second reading. The report o.
the judiciary committee was adopted
and the bill passed it's second reading
The bin will be read for the third tim,
on Monday.
House Bill 20, relating to cemeteries
was called for second reading.
Robertson said that there was NJ
provision giving the Board of Health
power to make regulations during al
epidemic, and the whole country woulC
be at its mercy. To get the consen
of the Governor and Senate would b.
only practicable when the Legislature
was in session. Furthermore. he coult
mot understand why the House Shout,