Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-04-10
ROUTINE MATTERS Up
BEFORE HOUSE YESTERDAY
AT AFTERNOON SESSION
Sunday Law Bill Takes Up Time
Members Vie Each Other on Bible
Learning Other
Matters.

| Senate Concurrent Resolution 3 was
read and action deferred.
BE 1t resolved by the Senate, the
House of Representatives concurring:
81. That the chairman of the Fin
ance Committee Of the House of Rep
resentatives and the chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee of the
Senate are hereby appointed special
Joint Committee for the purpose OF
examining into the special deposits in
the Treasury for the redemption OF
gold and silver certificates issued by
the Hawaiian Government.
"2. That the committee hereby APP
pointed shall count said certificates
and also count the coin remaining in
special deposit for the redemption OF
outstanding certificates, and finding
the same to correspond with the &c.
counts of the Treasurer the commit.
tee shall give to the Treasurer a YOU.
cher setting forth the amounts of both
the gold and silver certificates deliver.
ed to them. and said committee .hall
lnen, in the presence OF the Treasur.
Ter, cause said certificates to be de-
stroyed by burning.
20. The Treasurer, upon receiy.
ling such voucher from said committee,
shall cause proper entry to be made In
THE books of his department. charging
each special deposit with the amounts
to correspond with the amounts ex'
pressed in said voucher, and the bal
ances brought down shall he the eX-
act amount of coin remaining in each
deposit for the redemption OF out.
standing certificates.
"a. All new and unused certificates
shall be delivered by the Treasurer
to said committee who. after giving a
voucher for the same to the Treas
urer, shall cause same to be destroy
ed In the presence of the Treasurer by
burning.
"5. All remaining gold and silver
certificates shall be redeemed before
L ecember 81, A. ID. 1901. and the
Treasurer shall cause public notice
to be given to that effect. The Treas
urer shall, upon redemption of said
certificates, cancel same by perfora
. ton and charge the amount of such
u redeemed certificates to their respec
tive special deposit accounts.
&c. The same committee hereby
v appointed shall at the same time ex
anime into the accounts of the bonds
issued as security to depositors in the
=, Hawaiian Postal savings Bank, au
% thorized by an act of the Legislature
m OF the Hawaiian Islands approved
4 August IT, 1883, and as the payment
q of the amounts due said Postal say
is ings Bank depositors has been provid
Is ed for by the Congress of the United
,. States, the committee shall cause SAID
ly bonds to be cancelled and destroyed
"a in same manner as provided for II
| Of
he nishing the Treasurer with voucher
~ setting forth the number and the am
~ cunts of each bond so cancelled.
ed az. That said committee shall up
y on completion of the destruction o
the gold and silver Treasurer's cert
ficates and the cancelled bonds here
tofore issued as security to the depo
sitors of the Hawaiian Postal Saving
Bank, report to the Senate and tn
U =, House of Representatives, respeC
lively"
D. House bill So, relating to election
: laws, was referred to the Judiciar
Committee.
House bill &c, relating to the trespas
: of animals, was referred to the judi
clary Committee.
oeHdtt Diii W. l'iaihS w INV uSioi -
ing OF girls feet. Referred to Publ
Health Committee.
b Senate bill 10, relating to gross chea
: was referred to the Judiciary Commit
tee.
Senate bill So, prohibiting any bu
voters working on public works, wa
referred to the Judiciary Committee,
Senate bill Il, relating to the r.
ceiving OF stolen goods, was referred
the judiciary Committee.
Senate bill 30, relating TO the estat
lishment of a boarding school at Ia
hainaluna, passed its first reading an
was committed to the Committee Q
Education.
House bill 20, relating to Sunda
laws, came up for first reading. III
House now took another dive into n
ligious lore, and Beckley, Keliikoa an
Kumalae rivaled even Hihio in the
extensive exposition OF the Bib
Beckley stated that In the olden DAY
the Hawaiian race numbered In n
hundred thousands, but when u
blessed word" came, the Hawaiian
Immediately dropped of until they no
number less than 10000.
!. Keliikoa took up the strain fro
here, denouncing the bin as heath'
idea. Akina stated that he hoped ne
year the people of Hawaii would sci
10 a phonograph with the orator,
Aylett replied 10 his opponents, sta
ing that he did not think II was rlsl
for a man 10 be- nuablo 10 buy ciga
or soda water on sunday,
- A motion was made 10 reject the bi
aud the result was ayes n, noes n,
lsmmoluth introduced a substitute Il
claims bill which passed its first roa
ing,
Prendorgast reported thai four hil
had been turned over 10 the Governs
and that three more we're ready Z
him
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