The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-03
.SENATE WRITES A LETTER.CHNET BEFORE ESIEE
ASKS LOWER HOUSE FOR AN
EXPLANATION.
Eighteen Karat Solons Quite Angry
over Action of Representatives.
Salaries Bill Again.

The Senate devoted most Of its time
this morning to discussion of tue action
of the House in turning down the t'u
appropriating money for the expens,o
of the Legislature. In the original bill
the sum mentioned was Sl5,U00. Upon
investigation the Senate discovered that
the bills now due footed up SIG, 200 and
that more were likely to be contracted
The amount mentioned in the bill W. =
accordingly raised to $4,000 and ihe
amendment, which was summarily re-
jected, sent to the House.
During the debate of this morning
Kalauokalani, Cecil Brown and others
were particularly severe in Censurng
members of the lower no Isc, not only
for their action, which was character
lied as irregular and highly discour-
teous, but for remarks they had made
in town. Kalauokalani stated hat
Representatives had run around town
like lot of children. telling street
gamins and newspapers that the Sen
ate was gobbling up all the m 1ney.
These statements were untrue and
seemed to be intended to reflect badly
upon members of the upper house The
discussion ended with the adoption Of a
letter asking the lower house way 1t
had rejected the amendment of the
Senate.
The first thing taken up in the Senate
this morning was a notice from the
House that it had failed to concur in
the Senates amendment to House bill
4, appropriating money for expenses of
the Legislature.
| Senator Crabbe objected to certain
hard things representatives had said
about the senate 1t was clear that
$4,000 would not be enough and that
100000 would be required. If the House
did not care to appropriate money to
pay all the bills, it might as well pro-
vide none at all and he would favor
dropping the matter. John 7. Brown
suggested a joint committee to examine
the outstanding bills and TO report back
the exact amount due
Torrid atmosphere then appeared
kanuha declared that the House had
spent more than its share of money.
Crabbe agreed with him, and Achi in
/ troduced Cushings Manual and tried to
prove that the House could not turn
down the amended bill until it had fail
ed three times. Cecil Brown defended
the action of the Senate in raising the
appropric ton from $4,000 to $50, 600.
Mr.. Brown said the duty of the
House, if not favorable to the amend
ment was to appoint committee to
confer with like committee from the
Senate, to find out the reason for the
increase in the appropriation. In place
of that the body had spent the time
abusing the Senate and had returned
merely a note curtly informing the SEN
ate of its refusal to confer. The speak
er did not wish to handy words with
! the house. but did not believe the lower
body had done the square thing.
Achi wanted to send a letter to the
House setting forth the views of the
Senate on the matter, and was support
ed by Kalauokalani. The latter said
the Representatives had acted badly
and on top of that had run around the
streets telling all the gamins and news
papers that the Senate was robbing the
treasury.
Mr.. Achi introduced a short letter
addressed to the House, asking that
body why it declined to concur in the
trOublous amendment. This was adopt
ed.
The houses salary bill was then
taken up and work of amending 1t tC
conform to the Senate's bill passed
This continued to noon.