The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-03-19
WERE MIXED ABOUT THE MUSIC

! amendments 1t will be- typewrittet
and made the order of business or
/ Monday.
House Bill &c, relating 20 the deser
! ton Of husband or wife, was called uI
! for the second reading. The speaker
y said the report of the committee OF
| the bill was to be considered The
members began wrangling over the
bill as on the day when the commit.
tee of the whole House adopted an
| adverse report on it, Makekau con.
tended that when the committee report
! was adopted the bill was "kiled.'
Robertson stated that If the chair had
taken his suggestion on the day the
House battled with the report the
matter would not have come up again
He said that notwithstanding the ract
the adverse report had practically re-
jeCted the bill yet the bill could not
be so rejected until it had been read
for the second time ili connection with
the report
Prendergast was now of the opinion
that the House showed too much haste
in adopting the report. Robertson said
this on Wednesday, Prendergast
thought 1t was a lesson to the House
I to go slowly In future. He was of the
opinion that the bill had already been
killed"
his ruling of Wednesday, and after
blowing hot and cold, as he was sway
ed by the arguments on the floor, final
ly declared the bill had been "killed'
on Wednesday by the adoption of the
adverse report Of the committee.
House Bill is. defining felonies and
misdemeanors, was called for passage
on its second reading. The report OF
the judiciary committee was adopted
and the bill passed its second reading
The bin will be read for the third time
on Monday.
was called for second reading.
Robertson said that there was no
provision giving the Board of Health
power to make regulations during an
epidemic, and the whole country would
be at its mercy. To get the consent
of the Governor and Senate would be
only practicable when the Legislature
was in session. Furthermore. he could
not understand why the House should
be ignored, and he, as n Representa-
tive, strongly objected to any such ar
rangement The House was just az
important, and in some respects, more
so, than the Senate, ana he did not
propose to give legislative power en-
tircly to the Governor and Senate
Emmeluth said this was only one OF
the conditions they wanted to deal
with. There was another bill already
before the Senate, containing all the
matter in the House bill, and would
reach them in "A short time. He be-
lieved in yielding to the board the
power to act and give regulations dur
ing intervals between legislative Ses-
SiOnS. but he did not believe in yield
ing such matters as should be entirely
handled by the Legislature He favor
ed tabling the bill until the bill provid-
ing for new Board of Health regula-
tions was brought into the House.
Paele, the introducer of the bill, favor
ed considering the report of the meln-
Der from HilO relative to the bill.
"kokua," shouted Kaniho.
Th" speaker reminded HIM that "ko-
kuas' We're not necessary.
The resolution was to the effect that
the Board of Health regulations made
during and after the bubOnic plague
should be resCinded
Makekau moved that the bill and
resolution be tabled to be considered
with the Senate Board of Health bill
Paele wanted to cut off the power OF
the Board of Health because it had
more power than the Governor or Su-
preme Court"
Beckley wanted to know whether
the members We're to stand up when
the band played Yankee Doodle" etc
He would introduce bill to keep the
band from playing within mile OF
the capitol.
The speaker said it was because the
House members were gentlemen.
The call for the order of the day
brought the incident TO a close.