The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-06
SAYS LEGISLATION
is Rank FAIL gRE
Governor Dole is Disguised
With Hawaiian lawmakers.
" AsTE TINE AND MONEY
REFUSES TO GRANT AN ExTEN-
SION OF THE SESSION.

Honolulu. April q tvia San Fran
cisco, May Governor Dole has re-
FUSED to extend tlla session Of the
legisiature though requested to DO 50
by both houses. IN a letter to the sen-
ate answering its request Tor thirty
days more time IN which 90 complete
legislation. the executive said that the
session had been Wastefui of time and
money and he had no confidence that
an extension would result IN anything
better
The governors action is a great dis
appointment %. the home rulers and
to many others interested in bills now
before the houses. There are overs100
acts Of various kinds sunacted upon
and the session according to the gOv-
ernprss count, viii END next Tuesday.
The count by the houses makes Friday
the final day. The governor includes
three DAYS of APPOINTMENTS over in hrs
count, while the legislature. holds such
days not 10 cDunE one Of the sixty Of
the regular sesSicc.
The county government act has
passed through the senate and is now
in the governors hands, thought X was
passed so hUrriedly and with such adj
n1itted imperfeetions that some of its
friends say they do not expect the
governor to sign it. a law imposing
a 2 per cent tax on income, with $1,000
only exempt. has also gone tOs.Lhe eX-
ecutive, "A bill to- give The eX-Queen
S250, 600 from the treasury and "a bill
to appropriate 81 509,0O0 for payment
Of cl8irns growing out Of the fire in
Chinatown during the plague quaran-
tine have both passed finally in the
house. and the latter has. been ap-
proved by the Sc nate.
Can Impose Stamp Tax
United States Judge 1sstee has rem
dered q decision that the Hawaiian
law requiring spef raj stamps to be at
fixed TO deedseand other documents is
before the j0dge on the plea that a
territory ceul8 not impose a stamp tax
the issue being madekn a case where
legal documents necessa ry to q. trans
fer Of land required $l,5e0 worth Of
Delegate VVilc9x has nominated u.
" Richardson, an Hawaiian, for the
West Point caIetshiD for which. DO
seph AGA failed to pass the examina-
ton.
a movement - under way to bring
about ZOO men here from Guam as
laboreFs. The Gatuand for plantation
labor ia Hawaii IS sta far from satis-
ned and IL IS thought that the natives
OF GUIANA would be found very suitable
70 q0naluons here-
The Starssayss The home rule party
IS pau 9dead)s according to the state
.ments Of its former most ardent sun
porteFs. TRere is no party whip, no
leadership. no orga HEzation.
The Legislative sessions began with
"a solid home RUE majOrity Of more
than tWo-thirds in the haHse ana. al
m5st that much in the senate but votes
taken az enc present tiHpe show only a
few home rulers are hanging together
as such. The Rapubicans also have
split on Various questions and the
present situation IL The Legislature is
one III which rarity divisions seldom
occ-s-'s
AS 70 the brealSing up Of the heavy
majority Of the home rule party ia the
house. the Star saYst "seal0usies a'Fout
feadership had much to do with the
splitting up Of the solid twenty and
foolish freak bills ana resolutions did