The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-03-29
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE HOUSE

OF THE HOUSE
The Republicans got the Independents
all tangled up in the meshes OF Senator
kalauokaIanrs exemption bin yesterday
and an early adjournment for the day
was the result Senator Crabbe's @.
r. buttou-fraud bill was passed, as pre-
,iuusiy amended, notwithstanding an at
tempt by MIR Dickey to pun back all the
words previously stricken out but Two.
| Secretary Cooper announced that House
bill No 1 had finally been signed by the
! Governor. and the $4,000 will forthwith
Ibegin to disappear. Most OF the members
| got their warrant before leaving he
| nall The Emmeluth bill for restricting
! the time within which present plans Tor
| street-widculug must be completed went
| over on account of his absence. II
! would have passed third reading hut
Mr. Mossman objected and said he had
.uudrv questions to PROFOUND to tIe
leader of the Independents in relation to
| the bill The school library bill by Kn-
waihoa was passed on second reading IN
opposition 10 the committee report on It,
| and comes up for final passage today.
| The committee thought 1t was too eXpen.
| sivc but the House thought It was a good
| thing. and through 1t went. The special
] committee on lltf Nlththdh county Dili
was appcirted. consisting of Makekau,
! Mossman. Fmmcuth. Paele and Mahoe
/ Independently and Avlett and Keild Gre
! putlioans). A digest Of this important i'll
! appears elsewhere IN this issue. In In
/ Producing the bill, Mr.. Makekau stated
/ that there were many corrections to he
made in It before It would be IN shape
! to present to the House. and wanted
special committee appointed then, hut 1t
| f4, NH moi h4 no
is said to he a combination Of the Ok
llahoma and Nebraska laws.
| The House met little after nine ard
! was soon in full swing. Makainai held
the center o. the stage with six corn
nittee reports In a bunch recommending
the HE two bills. one for numbc",ng
; oiolulu houses and the other for NAM
ing Honolulu streets, be passed. They
a'so reported that they thought $l070oH
for roads was more than the District Gf
| Hama was entitled to, but Mossman's ics-
clItion To- $1,000 for Palolo roads hoy
thought proper, and also Kekaula's re-
quest for $1,000 for Kau. Hawaii, roads.
Mr.. Beckley the Vice Speaker threw
Z two bouquets at the Republicans by an
nouncing that Wilcox and Gilfllan would
act as chairmen OF the Agriculture and
Manufactures Committee and the Com
mittee on Public Health and Education
| during his occupancy of the Speakers
| chair.
| Several resolutions We're brought in all
asking Tor appropriations and all were
laid over until the appropriation hi
comes up. They asked for $1,000 for
school house, Kealia, Kauai; $500 for a
storehouse. Kohala; s1,4OO for a school
house, Kohala; $3.50 for a teachers cot
| tage, Kaanapali, Maui.
| Mr.. Monsarrat then brought in his
resolution asking for the appointment OF
n special committee to investigate the po-
Ice call box system now being exhibited
in the City and after a big debate 1t
was adopted, and Messrs Monsarrat,
Mossman, Makainai, Kawaihoa and Ku-
/ malae will inve tigate into its intrca-
cies and report whether they think sl5
900 should be spent on 1t.
Mr.. Robertson introduced one of the
bills he had gwen notice of, relating to
amendments to the Audit Act OF 1898. Ka-
niho, who was the only man who voted
against the Crabbe G. A. r. bill, gave
notice of his intention to bring another
bill, Notwithstanding his unavailing eff
! forts TO get any action on the bills he
has already introduced
The balance Of the morning was taken
up with Senator Kalauokalani's bill ITO
Provide for the Exemption OF Certain
Personal Property from Attachment,
J Etc" Robertson wanted it referred to
Committee on Judiciary, but some one
suggested that as ii had gone through
the Senate Committee on Judiciary, that
step was unnecessary In the House. He
succeeded in getting It read by sections
and then the fun began.
Mr.. Dickey thought If 1.-TWO oxen" We're
exempt that surely two cows" ought
to be also. The amendment was adopted.
Mr. Paele wanted "canoes" specifically
added. as the word boats was not big
enough to include them. Kumalae want
ed the Instruments of pupils as we'll as
% teachers of music exempt, but the
House was catching on to the Republic
can game by that time and downed the
motion. Robertson moved to strike all OF
the section relating to bicycles, which
specified what kind of bikes We're exempt
and the House agreed with him, but
when Glhllan got up and wanted to ex-
empt horse and carriage for everybody,
instead of only doctors, ministers and
surgeons, as provided in the bill, the
House got into n big debate and nd-
iourned in the middle of 1t. Meantime,
Robertson had got in another blow, NOV
ing to insert "a watch and chain" as
one of the exempted articles, claiming
every Jap had a watch and chain even
II he was only getting SIS per month.
They sat on that idea. Robertson fol-
lowed ii up with motion to commit 70
n special committee and Prendergast
moved to adjourn shortly after noon.
Dickey got in n motion to take a recess,
but could not find n second in time 10 be
n avail JOnGa nd 20 lo