The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-17

.L. ,iouse ready TO vote down
anything the executive NAV do. This
was made sure yesterday when eue
members of the Home Rule party went
nome. These were Senator Ka,ue
president OF the Senates and Senator
j. L. Brown of Hilo, and Messrs. Nal
ilrna, Ewaliko and Keliikoa. of the
loWer mouse. Senator II. P. BALDWIN
aiso went 10 Maui. but his absence
VIII not AFFECT any vote to override !.
veto. These members could nor reInrn
10 the city before Saturday evening
ana IL is said that some or them viii
not come back during the term.
Even should the members named re-
turn Tor the extended session the prob
dpiilty Oh securing vote sufficient to
oVerrlue is remote The condition Is
lr mus put by one of the House members:
Inc majority party has given enough
members to the minority to give If the
majority, and the minority. on almost
every item of the bill, would have a
majority. The action of Makekau in
the conference committee indicates tina,
ne could not act with the Independ
ents In attempting to override a veto
and there are at least two others of
the Home Rulers who are expected to
vote with the Republicans In the Sen
ate there would be almost tie vote.
1t Is the report that there will be
an attempt on the part OF the Home
Rule members to- defeat any effort TO
carry into effect the recommendations
OF the Governor to fix matters so that
the new works will be taken care of
by any funds derived from the sale
OF bonds. The minority has enough
votes to prevent this, however. and
there seems no reason to believe that
| the plan of Mr.. Cooper to avert any
extra session will meet with any set
back.
| The apathy of the Independents leads
to the belief. which is shared and ex
pressed by members of the party, that
! the final action on the appropriation
bill viii be along lines set by the Re
| publican members. This will leave the
net result of the session a victory for
the minority, as the majority party
cannot go home and charge that they
We're not given every chance 10 make
/ the bill, being kept in session to exer-
else their prerogative to overlook any
/ veto and vote it down if possible
! Acting Governor Cooper, before going
| to his Peninsula home last evening"
/ said that he had gone over the bills
making comparisons and investigating
! the differences as to the figures and
/ those set out in the messages of the
| Governor. He took all the papers with
| him, so that he could work over them
during the evening. He said that lie
| would, in his message to the Legisla-
! ture, call attention to appropriations
for unpaid bills in the department or
| public works, and also try and find
| some way to secure some money for
! the needed schoolhouseS on this Island
| The meeting of the Senate yesterday
morning was marked only by a strong
effort on the part of Achi to get the
appropriation bills back into the hands
of the houses from the executive. He
i began by saying that the bills had
reached the Acting Governor through
| an unauthorized channel. Emmefutn,
he said, was not on the proper COM
| mittee of the House to send these bills
| to the executive. This attempt was
called out by the reading of a COM
munication from the chief of the De-
partment of Public Works, in which at
| tention was called to unpaid bills or
| that department to the amount OF S73,
and asking a further appropriation OF
| $4,000 to meet bills from Niihau ana
| Hawaii, which were incurred prior to
the close of the new fiscal year, and
which had not yet been received by the
department. 1t was to put In these
matters that Achi wanted the current
expenditures bill. Achi said that the
credit of the Territory was at stake,
and that he believed further that the
bills We're not regularly in the pos
session of the Acting Governor.
Senator Baldwin said that he did not
think that any lawyer would say thai
the alleged irregularity in committee
would invalidate the action on any OF
| these bills which had been passed by
both houses. The irregularity, II there
was any, he said belonged to the
House. and that body should take II
up The proper thing, he insisted
would be new bill. Senator ParS
was of the same opinion, and then
/ ttn or
say that the recommendation did no'
come before the Senate in the proper
way, as it should be in the form OF
message from the Governor, and thai
! he did not think the credit OF the Ter
, ritory would suffer if the bills had 4
go over. He therefore moved to table
, the letter, and this was done. Th'
Senate overlooked the fact that alnos
a month ago the Acting Governor sen
message to both houses calling at
tention to this very matter, and 1t wa
not acted upon at all.
On motion a committee was appoint
] ed to call upon the Acting GoVerno
: and notify him that the Senate nat
finished its business, and was reao.
to adjourn without day. The com
mittee named was Senators kalauoha
llani. White and Achi The Senate thel
adjourned until Thursday.
In the House the only action was I
j give the clerk thirty days IN whicl
to prepare the journal Of the House
e have 1t printed and sent to the mem
n bers. There were motions TO cut .l
, tima to ten fifteen and twenty days
but the original resolution prevailed
4 By it the clerk has custody of all prop
9 erty of the House, to turn 1t over 7
: the proper authorities to hold Tor Tn
use of the next Legislature
During the discussion of the resolu
ton the clerk said that he had mao
y a contract with the Bulletin Conipa,l al
s for tho n,hlication of the journal. Tn
: printing would be done, he said, With
g twenty days of the expiration, OF tn
e session. and it would take him te
days more to arrange and dispatch tn
q ten copies to each member OIL Tn
= House. This showing had the eIlse
of securing a majority for the resolu
o tion There were several kinds
hunoor in tbe proceedings: once, whe