The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-20
SENATE LATE YESTERDAY.
An Afternoon Given over to Reading
String of Bills.


The Senate yesterday afternoon gave
its entire time and attenti IN TO bills.
The session lasted until nearly o'clock.
Being rather dry mot the Senators but
the SESSION. adjournment was then
taken to 10 o'clock this morning.
Senate bill 40, limiting the time for
the recovery of land, passed final read
| ing by vote of s to 3.
House 50, PRONUNCIATION &C Territorial
laws passed second reading.
House ST. providing for the temporary
transfer of Circuit judges from one cir
cult to another in case of emergency,
passed second reading.
Senate SO, taxing tailors AMI dress
makers, passed third reading by "a vote
of IL to 2.
Senate 80 and Senate SO, relating to
defrauding drivers of vehicles and ow-
ners of hotels respectively, were read by
title and went to the Judiciary COM
mittee.
Senate Sc, relating to license laws,
went to the Ways and Means commit
tee.
The ava license bill passed second
reading.
Senate 95. providing for a shoemaker's
license, went to the Ways and Means
committee.
Senate SO, regulating fiduciary COM
Senate 81, relating to wheels and tires
went to the public lands committee.
Senate &c. sale and exchange of ami
mails, went to the Ways and Means
committee.
Senate So, relating to chattel mort
cages, passed second reading.
BECKLEY'S LAND RESOLUTION.
Beckley's concurrent resolution on the
land question which passed the House
yesterday asks the President to direct
the Encouragement of the United
states to commence suits in the United
States courts for recovery of all public
lands in Hawaii illegally and unlaw-
fully disposed Of"
Congress is memorialized in the petit
ton as amended and now adopted to
send to Hawaii a commission to in
quire into local conditions relative to
the public domain and the disposition
that has been made thereof.
The resolution as amended retains
the statements already published re-
garding The instructions given by the
governor to Land Agent Brown to
work for repeal of the section of the
Organic Act prohibiting corporations
acquiring and holding more than 1000
acres of land each and adds that "the
governor has without authority of law,
held regular secret conferences with the
heads of the departments under him
since the erection of this Territory and
has denied to the House of Represen-
tatives access to or copies of the rec
ords of the proceedings thereof"
The resolution prot against the re-
peal of the Organic Act mentioned.
Copies of the resolution if it passes the
Senate are to be forwarded to Congress
and to the President and Secretary of
the Interior.
After the reading of the petition Rob-
ertson wanted to know if any member
knew of any case of an illegal sale of
land, or if the House was proceeding
on hearsay. There was a solid Home
Rule vote behind the resolution and it
was duly passed, the opposing votes be-
ing those of Dlckey, Keiki Kumulae,
Robertson and Wilcox. Other Republi-
cans were absent.
The bill to grant a franchise to w.
W. Dimond to erect poles etc, to supply
gas fuel and lights in Honolulu passed
third reading in the house.
Senate bill number II, having refe-
renee to birds and the protection of
their nests, was objected to but went
through by vote of 26 to 6.