The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-05-21

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language bars The consideration Ny
This legislature " legislation othei
Than appropriations 10 no such ppe
I .inc rtfiilrtiOn 10 created IN said Act
Nhui should prevent The Legislator,
passing un desirable other Legislation
during this session.
The only provisions " the ofgani,
] Att relative 10 extra sessions ana tbs
power NJ the Legislature az such scH.
siouH. 90 far ~ I have been able "a
q cover. are contained IN sections ~
| i3 aud g.
i herewith send you copy Of Mr..
! DUNES opinion upon this question. to-
| gethcr with my comments thereon. I
/ regret that IL Is In n somewhat Hoilcd
| and marked condition. 1t has been
/ used by one " the newspapers for the
purpose Of making extracts for publ
| cation. II iE the only copy ] have, eX-
/ Copt the letter press copy ! am, sir,
u. =. DOLE.
Attorney General.
The able opinion of Mr.. Dunno covers
| thirty-siX pages OF letter paper, and
| has already been reviewed by this pa
per II seems that the Senate had
| confined Itself to the question as to
whether loan bill could he consider
ed at this session. while the House
had asked the broader question as to
whether the powers Of the Legislature
were limited at special session un-
der the terms Of the Organic Act. The
opinion Of the assistant to the Attor-
ncy General clearly holds that this par
ticular session of the Legislature is
limited to the consideration of appro-
priation bills, but leaves the question
open as to what another extra ses-
sion could do after this session has
passed the appropriation bills and ad-
iourned
on motion of Mr. Pacle Gnd) the
entire communication. including the
opinion. was ordered spread upon the
journal, and on motion of Makekau
Gnd), was ordered translated and
printed "for the benefit of the new
lawyers of the House"
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House met again at 220, and
consideration of the report of the com
mittee on the permanent settlements
was resumed. The report was adopted
after a short debate, and ordered in
serted in the bill when 1t came up for
third reading
Mr.. Robertson CRep) secured the
passage of a resolution in line with his
remarks of the previous day. by which
the committee on finance was ordered
to bring in the balance of the Cover
nor's estimates for appropriations In
the form of an appropriation bill. The
debate on this resolution was princi-
pally between Messrs. Robertson and
Dickey, both Republicans, the former
remarking that if the committee un-
derstood the resolution and did what
they We're ordered to do. instead of
exceeding their authority ana cutting
down the recommendations, that the |
bill could be gotten up in short order |
and the House would attend to the re-
ductions itself Dickey thought this
was reflection on the brains of the
committee, and suggested that the Ho- /.
nolulu member might as well introduce |
he bill himself, or attach a preamble |
and instruct the clerk to get up the
bill. He claimed that a committee had |
some discretion, and if Il matter was
referred to q committee, they had a
right to make recommendations, and
those recommendations were entitled |
to consideration. However, the reso-
luton passed.
At this point Mr.. Makekau Gnd)
rose and asked whether there was any
chairman to the finance committee;
that is whether Mr.. Emmeluth had
really resigned or not. This brought |
forth an explanation from that gentle |
man to the effect that he did not wish
to be considered bullheaded, but he did
not think that the committee had been
treated with proper respect. He said
he trusted committees and trusted |
them according to the amount OF work |
they put on the matter before them. |
He REPEATED his statement of the day
before that he had worked night and |
day on committee work, and he con-
sidered that the committee was enti-
tied to respect at the hands of the
House. Personally, he did not have
anything to say. but he took the gem
eral ground that n committee was ap-
pointed to investigate and report. and
their report was supposed to carry
some weight with It.
Kaniho Und) then introduced a res
olution fixing the salaries or the Off
GERS of the House at the same rate as
in the regular session. This went
through without opposition. The House
has Topped off three clerks. at a total
salary of $21 per day. The Senate had
Topped off one officer whose salary was
$40 per day.
The House then started in to find out
where they had left the salary and
payroll appropriation bill when they
adjourned the day before, after such
A dramatic incident. The journal show
I'd that the bill had not been ordered
which is the usual prac-
ice after bill passes second reading,
SO Kumulae CRep) moved that the bill
De typewriter and placed on the cal
'ndar for Monday. Dickey (RepD
bought it would not take long TO type
write the bill, and wanted it ready for
oday. The bill was finally taken up
'or consideration without typewriting
I, The clerk started In To read the {
-wenty odd pages of the printed bill,
cut when the item of stenographers for
he first circuit court was reached, the
notes We're called for to
ascertain whether the amendment pro- !
posed by Mr.. Emmeluth had been ac-
,epted.
This Emmeluth amendment was to
the effect that instead of paying the
so much per month
$4,000 and allowing II cents a folio for
transcript, they We're to receive $40 per
day when actually in court, and 20
cents folio for transcript. This is
the same rate that Is paid In the Unit
I'd States Court here and in California.
1t was also a departure from the es-
tablished custom of sending stenogra-
piers from Honolulu to the other cir
cults, for each circuit judge is en-
powered to appoint his own stenogra-
pher. OF course, he could appoint Ho-
nolulu man If he so desired, but II he
desired to appoint some local stenog-
rapher who was competent, he could do
so. II Is further change by which !
the Territory will hereafter pay only |