The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-25
UPPER HOUSE ROASTED.
HOUSE SAID TO HAVE BEEN
TREATED DIsCOURTEOUsLY.
Representatives to Begin Night Ses-
sions-Their Work Declared Useless
Under Present Senate Methods

The Senate was given a roasting in
the House this morning for its failure
to do any business and for alleged dis
courteous treatment of the House. Re-
preventative Robertson moved that the
clerk of the house be instructed to pro-
vide the members with daily schedule
of action in the Senate with regard to
measures from the House and in sup
port he declared that the Senate was
acting in such a manner that it was
about useless for the representatives to
try to do any work.
"The Senate doesn't seem to care
whether it does any business or no" D."
said Robertson, land there is not much
courtesy in it's treatment of House bills.
Some of them are summarily rejected
without the Senators ever consulting
the authors, or making any effort to find
out the probable or intended effect, of
the bills. If the Senate doesn't care to
do business in a proper manner / don t
see any use for the members of the
House to put in hours of hard work
here and in committees, all for moth
! ing"
Emmeluth added a word in the same
strain. He wanted more details about
what the Senate was doing than Rob-
ertson called for.
There were no objections to the Rob
ertson resolution but some of the In
I
picion, perhaps because it came from a
Republican. A lot of speeches We're
made in an effort of a few to have it
tabled for discussion tomorrow, but
they were defeated, and the resolution
passed.
The House will probably begin night
session tomorrow evening, in the hope
of expediting business. A month has
been employed in getting one bill to the
{ Governor and the Home Rulers have
decided that they will put the screws
on for the benefit of those members
whose speechmaking is considered an
obstruction to business.
I'VE have a clear majority and yet
can't do a thing" said one of the lead
ers today. THE only course we can
follow is to meet at night and continue
in session and after tonight we propose
to do So This will give us afternoons
for caucusses and other work and when
we come together at night we shall be
prepared to go right ahead with effec-
tive voting and we can tire out some
of the long winded members"
The course by which bill number one
finally did reach the governor was a
tortuous one and members of all parties
are laughing while they complain. Bill
number one will probably have the re-
cord of the session though there never
was any uuestian that both Houses
y
ages to and fro between House and
Senate has been required to enact a
piece of legislation that met with alb
solutely no opposition.
House members blame the Senate for
the delays and they base their censure
on the following record Of the various
stages in the life of the bill. Passed by
House and sent to Senate: Senate
amends spelling of the word forty
and sends it back, House agrees and
sends bill to Senate again Senate
amends to substitute con approval for
ION publication" in enacting clause;
house agrees and sends bill to Senate
again; Senate tables bill and passes a
joint resolution to take the place of the
bill; House agrees to joint resolution
| Senate takes the bill from table and
decides to approve it in place of joint
resolution; House agrees and bill is
placed in the hands of Governor Dole
| for signature.