The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-16
SENATE AND HOUSE
HAVE LIVELY DAY

| that the dispensary bill do not pass.
and upon motion it was lald ON the
| table to be considered with the bill.
| Mr.. Paris reported from the mlscel-
Ilaneous petitions committee on the pc
tition from the Protective League of
Eonoiuiu against the passage of the
idisnensary bill LAID ca the table, to
! be considered win the bill. He also
reported from the pubic lands commit
tee on petition Il, asking that the law
BE- Changed as to road commissioners
so there would be OILY ole paid SUI
perintendent.5 The report was laid on
the table. Mr.. Paris further reported
from the same committee on resolution
g. asking that certain items be inserted
Ia the appropriation BIZ, for the roads
ard improvements il North and South
Kona amounting to $44.SG0. The re-
port further recommended that the res
olution asking for 81 900 to condemn
land at Napoopoo, be LAID on the ia
BILE. The entire report was laid on the
table. to be considered with the ap-
preparation bill. Mr.. Paris further re-
ported from the same committee on pc
tition %, asking that $4,000 be appro
priated for rebuilding and repairing
the road through lao Valley, Maui.
The report recommended that $4,000 be
appropriated. Laid on the table, to be
considered with the bill.
Mr. Achi reported from the printing
committee as ready for distribution,
Senate Bills IL 80. 81. SO, IS and 81.
Mr.. Carter presented the minority re-
port on Senate bills a and IS, referring
to the statute of limitations, and recon-
mending that bill 45 be tabled, the re-
port to be taken up when the majority
report was handed in. Carter explained
that several of the first lawyers of Ho-
nolulu had been consulted and 1t was the
general opinion that the bill would not
10 attachment IF
brought into court-at least, he was so
advised by the ttorneys spoken to. The
report was laid on the table to come up
with the bill.
Mr.. Kanuha reported from the Com
mittee on Education recommending the
adoption of joint resolution 2, which au-
thorizes that May 1 be declared school
holiday. The report wAs adopted.
Mr.. Kalauokalani reporteu that the
"Act to prevent the employment Of mi
nors in places where intoxicating liquors
are sold and to prevent minors from
visiting such places" had been present
ed to Governor Dole for his signature.
Mr.. Baldwin gave notice of an Act to
amend Act 81 of the laws of 1896. Refer
red to Printing Committee.
Mr.. Paris gave notice of an Act pro-
viding for the Incorporation of the Ko-
ma and Kau Railway Co. 1t was read
by title and took the usual course.
Mr.. Carter gave notice of an Act to
regulate fiduciary organizations Read
by title and referred to the Printing
Committee.
Under suspension of the rules Mr.. Car
ter reported from the Ways and Means
Committee on Senate bill "a This bill
relates to ava licenses. which the re-
port recommends be tabled until final
action is taken upon the Dispensary bill.
So ordered
Mr.. Carter also reported from the
same committee on Senate bill 70, relat-
ing to poll, school and road taxes. 1t
was recommended that the bill be Ia
bled, with Senate bills "a and rs, which
relate to the same subject, until the re-
port of the Committee on Taxation is
ready.
Mr.. Achi was strongly opposed to de-
laying bill 49, He thought the commit
tee was trying to kill the bills the peo-
ple wished to have pass; he did not be-
lieve the committee on taxation would
ever report, and Senator Cecil Brown
was sure to filibuster. IL the committee
did report He was In favor OF consid-
ering the bin tomorrow today
Mr.. Cecil Brown rose to a point of or
der that the report of the committee on
bill 70 was all that was before the Sem
ate and he moved the adoption thereof.
Carried.
Mr.. Carter further reported from the
Ways and Means Committee on Senate
bill 81. This bill relates to the pay of
pilots for the port OF Honolulu, and the
report recommends that no changes be
made as proposed by bill 81, as the pres
ent charges are fair and just and in
keeping with the development of the
commerce Of the port. The report was
laid on the table to be considered with
the bill.
Under the order of the day Senate bill
So. appropriating $500 for a school exhib-
it at Buffalo, New York, passed third
reading.
Senate bill II, for the protection of Ha-
waiian BIRDS their nests and eggs, after
a slight amendment by Senator White
passed third reading.
At noon the Senate adjourned until 2
o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The following report from the Com
mittee on Public Lands relating to fire
alarms was presented and laid upon the
table to be considered with the appropri-
alton bill:
red resolution. relative to the install
ling of fire alarm telegraph system in
Honolulu beg leave to report as fol-
lows:
We find that nearly all municipalities
in the United States of from $500 inhab-
itants and upward, are provided with
this service. Experience has shown that
with the electric fire alarm, when prop
erly installed the greatest efficiency is
assured in the fire extinguishing facili-
ties that any municipality may possess.
If the fire department. of Honolulu can
receive instantaneous and accurate noti-
fication of fires while said fires are In
their incipiency, it will be enabled to
arrive at the scene of said fires in the
shortest possible time, and to extinguish
same before much damage has been
done, a condition that does not and can
not exist under the present system. We
have a good fire department in Honolulu,
but very poor facilities for receiving no.
LITIGATION of the existence of a fire, and
nearly always much damage is done be-
fore the fire department. can get to work
owing to delay and errors In transmit
ting alarms.
In California, Oregon and Washington.
our nearest neighbors. even the small
towns of $500 inhabitants and upward
have. been equipped with modern fire
alarm telegraph system similar to the
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