The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-11
WITH LAW
AND FACTS
Prenderga CASTS Plan
to Make Journal
Readable.
CONSTITUTION AND
THE ORGANIC ACT
Incorporation With Records De.
sired Money Gone But Salar-
les Filed on in Advance.

The First Legislature of the Terri
tory of Hawaii may die with the week
Again. there may be a proongation Of
| the session into next week, but with
the rapid progress upon the Appropria-
ton bill there seems no reason to be-
leve there will be any longer time spent
upon the consideration of Che budget.
Both Houses will come together next
Friday afternoon a o'clock. BY that
time the salaries measure will be ready
| for submission. 1t has been enrolled
and is in shape for the last stages of
consideration.
| The sessions of the two Houses yes
terday were brief, but in the lower
| branch there was some point. This
was disclosed in the statement that the
| Legislature is once more broke This
is not actually the case, but the Treas
ury office has accepted the notice of
some of the officers of the Houses that
| they are coming with warrants, and
has marked those amounts as gone.
This means that there will be no chance
! for extravagancess during the few days.
In fact, the lack of the available coin
was brought out by proposition TO
add to the bill for the printing of the
journal of the House. This plan also
developed a desire on the part of Prem
dergast to give to the readers of the
journal a liberal education in the law
of the land in so far as it may be gained
| from the Constitution.
/ When the House was called to order
and the routine business had been got
out of the way Prendergast, who is
chairman of the Printing Committee
| introduced resolution providing for
| the Incorporation of the Constitution
of the United States and the Organic
Law of this Territory with the journal
of the House when the latter is print
ed for distribution. There was some
merriment aroused by the resolution
and there We're various suggestions as
to other documents which might be in
structive and uplifting if they were put
into the volume. Representative Dickey
/ failedH TO catch the purport of the mo-
ton at first and seconded it, believing
that it meant that the two documents
We're to be made part of the volume
which is to contain the, session laws of
the Legislature When he got wise
he withdrew his second and the resolu
ton was tabled never to rise again.
In explaining what was to be done
Prendergast said that arrangements
had been made for the printing of the
journal, the price to be paid being 81
800. II there was any more money left
of the expense appropriation he thought
that II could be used for no better pur-
pose than to print the basic law of the
nation and Territory with the Journal.
The legislator indicated that he expects
| that the volume which is to contain the
words of wisdom dropped by the law
makers will find many readers, for he
Explained that he wanted the two docu-
ments included, for the reason that fire.
quent reference was made to them in
the debates and it would be a hardship
for the reader 10 have to give up his
lreadng every time he came to such ref
erence and go to a library to see what
the speaker meant.
i 1t did not take long for the Informal
ton to reach Prendergast and the
House that there was no money for the
purpose. Dickey was up at once with
a query as to what had become of the
appropriation before the end of the
session had been reached. There were
more salaries to be paid. he said, and
then again came the information that
there had been the quiet tip given by
the officials of the Legislature that they
were coming with their pay accounts
and this had been accepted as a mort
gage upon the balance and so had re-
moved 1t. Beckley said that the cash
balance was dissolving view and that
any charge for extra printing would
have to go over to the next session of a
Legislature.
Despite the glowing picture of the
thrilling interest of the volume and the
breaking of the thread of the story fol-
the purpose of looking up references
the House would not take kindly to the
plan, and on motion of Mahoe put q
frost upon Prendergasts motion. Tier
the House adjourned until Friday.
THE SENATE.
The second item of interest in the
proceedings of the Senate, which occu-
pied but a small part of the morning
was the testimonial to the good worf
done by the clerk, by Senator Baldwin
1t came upon the report of the specia
committee which had for its duty tht
examination of the journal and the Ger.
LITIGATION of it's correctness, on the mo.
ton made some weeks ago when there
was an insinuation that the clerk haG
been editing the journal The report
was presented and explained by Sena-
tor Baldwin. He said that despite the
fact that Chairman Kanuha mad no
seen fit to make the report of the com
mittee, it was due to the clerk that ths
true state of things be set forh. HI
continued that the committee had ex
amined into everything and found tha
there was nothing out of shape, but or
the contrary that the whole record wa:
eXcellently kept. The utmost credit wa:
due, he said, to the clerk for the con
dition of the journal and the shape II
which he had kept everything of rec
ord. The report of the committee wa:
presented as follows:
Your special committee appointed I'M
der resolution introduced by Senator
Kanuha, May 91st, beg leave to report
Said resolution called for the appoint
ment of a committee ito examine an(