The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-30

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styled, respectively, the Senate and
House of Representatives, which shall
organize and sit separately, except as
| otherwise herein provided The two
Houses shall be styled The Legislature
| of the Territory of Hawaii.
This section of the Organic Act bears
striking resemblance to section l ofs ar
ticle IS of the Constitution of the Re-
public of Hawaii, which reads: THE
. Legislature shall consist of two Houses,
styled the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, which shall organize and sit
separately. except as otherwise herein
provided The two Houses shall be
styled The Legislature of the Republic
OF Hawaii.
| Under the old constitution the two
Houses sat together for the purpose of
electing a President (article 2D and by
custom for receiving the message of the
President. In the Organic Act, however,
there is no occasion mentioned upon
which the two Houses shall sit together.
but nothing except the section above
quoted would appear to prevent such
joint session.
AS the Independents have a strength
OF thirty to the Republicans fifteen on
joint ballot, it will be seen that only In
dependents will be elected on TINS plan
from Hawaii (three Independent Senators
and one Republican,, Maui Gwo indie
pendents and one Republican,, and Ka-
uai two Independents and no Republic
cans. The rub viii come with Oahu
which has four Republican Senator'S
Achi, Brown. Carter and Crabbe and on
" two Independents, Kalauokalani and
Kanuha. AS three of Oahu's Senators
must be given a long term under the
provisions of the Organic Act. one Of
them must perforce be a Republican. 1t
simply resolves itself into a question as
to which of the Republican Senators
from Oahu is least Objectionable to the
Independent majority. AS the vote Is
by ayes and noes, beginning with the
Senate and ending with the House, there
will be a chance for some fine politics
during the progress of the vote. AS Sen
ator Crabbe has made the least noise, his
chances of election appear to be good.
The joint session may adjourn from
time to time under the concurrent reso-
luton adopted for its government, and
it is possible we will see one Of the
deadocks common to joint sessions
OF the Legislatures in the States. At any
rate the developments are likely to
prove interesting.
The House had it's usual attendance
yesterday, all present but Speaker
Akina, who Is sick with the grip and
Gilfillan
The Senate sent In word of two bills
passing one Senate bill No. 30 and the
other Representative Robertson's bill re-
lating to Jurisdiction of Circuit Judges
al Chambers in matters relating to guar
dian and ward. This now becomes Act
of this Legislature, and is first blood
for the Republicans.
Hihio wanted to know about the La
hama water works, and the Superin-
tendent of Public Works was requested
to give the desired information. In the
afternoon a resolution by Mossman, who
was also the father of the session APP
preparation bill was introduced fixing
the salaries Of the officers of the House
as follows:
Clerk. s12 per day; stenographer, s12
per day; interpreter, s12 per day; ser
geant-at-arms, 81 per day; janitor, 81
; per day; messenger, 81 per day; chap
lain, 5000 for the session; first assistant
clerk, so per day; second assistant
clerk. 81 per day; typewriter. ST.
Mr.. Mossman moved that the resou-
ton be adopted. Mr.. Aylett moved an
amendment to make the pay of the mes
senger S. Mr.. Keiki seconded the
amendment, and it was adopted. The
resolution was then adopted as amend
I ed.
! Under further suspension of the
the following resolution was introduced :
! Mr.. Kauimakaole wanted an appropri-
: alton for lookup and jailors house, XII
pahulu, $1,000 for pay of deputy sheriff,
> kipahulu, two years, s720; and for a
school house and teachers cottage Ula-
inc, Hama. Maui, $500.
! The resolution was postponed to come
up with the appropriation bill
One new bill by Nailima, was brought
in on the taxation question, and notices
of four more bills to come were present
;, ed; by Monsarrat relating to real estate
: owned by the Department of Public In
structionS also one relative to trespass of
: animals; one by Prendergast laying a
Q tax of $40 per ton on sugar, and one by
r Emmeluth relating to auditing accounts
of corporations
g The House then took off its coat--or at
! least the Independent ajorfty d.l-anl
. made short work of the Republican on
position to Senator Kalauokalani's bill
O for exempting property from attach
4 ment, execution distress or forced sale
: OF every nature and description. The
questions pending when the House ad-
: journed Thursday were three Robert
n sons motion to send the bill to spc-
h cial committee came first. That was
lost by vote of 10 to 16. The sixteen
were all Independents, but Ahulii, Ke-
d kaula and Keliikoa voted with the Re-
J. publicans on the question. Next came
e Gilfllan's motion to give every working
J. a chance to have his horse and
e brake exempted. was lost on a show OF
+ hands. Then came Robertson's joke tc
/. make an automobile exempt This too
g was lost.
t. Then the Independents moved to re-
consider the amendments made Thurs
IF day. The ayes and noes We're agair
~ called; resulted in bare three-ffths, tho
number required to reconsider. IS to
the vote stood Kekaula of Hawaii agar
N voting with his friend Monsarrat ans
g. the rest of the Republicans, and all the
other Independents voting solid Aye,
r and Gilfillan were absent.
An amendment developed from an un
g. expected source. Makainai thought tn,
measure a little too open and moved M
amendment making the limit on persona
property exempted $500, but Emmelutl
threatened to send the bill to the Judi
IN ciary Committee If any amendments
Sc were made at all and when Dicke1