The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-07-11
PREHDERGlsT WANTS
EVERYTHING IN PRINT
WOULD HAVE CONSTITUTION
AND ORGANIC ACT INCLUDED
IN HOUSE JOURNAL
oiekey At Firss jumps at the Propo-
sition sut Takes = Tumble
Close Race for Reaching the
Goal in Sixty Days.

Il is now simply a question or
time for routine with the Legisia-
tare- II the fornaIIties OF confer
ence committees and typewTiting bills
and checking back with originals
could be avoided and IL the law did
not require the Legislature TO be IN
session when a bill is presented to
the Governor and when the Governor
signs a bin. there would have been
an adjournment of the extra session
last week
As il is. the conference committee
has still considerable work to Do.
then their report must be made up
and when found correct must be sign
ed and sent TO both houses Then the
two houses must take a formal vote
on the adoption of the committees
report That finishes the work of the
Legislature. but they can not adjourn
sine die. They must be in session
until the bills can be typewriter and
compared with the conference com
mittee report. compared again with
the Senate amendments and compar-
ed a third time with the original
House bills to be sure that they are
I<dLu VIII 1u4l
day for typewriting after it is. ready
and it will take fully another day for
each bill to be read back with the
originals. Thus. after the Legislature
is entirely through. barring the i'm
probable event of the veto of the
Governor requiring further action by
the Houses of the Legislature. they
must continue to meet from day to
day until the bills have been made
ready for presentation to the Cover
nor and he notifies the Legislature
that he has signed them. II both bills
are passed at next Fridays meeting
of the Senate and the House it will
be impossible for the Legislature &c
adjourn until Wednesday, the 18th
That will make the sixtieth day of the
session and will be the day upor
which it would expire by limitation
| as did the regular session.
Yesterday morning the House me-
at the usual hour, but the conference
| committee had not sent back the
House salary appropriation bill which
they have finished and the result wa.
a necessary adjournment until Friia,
| afternoon when both bills are expect
| ed TO be ready for consideration. Their,
was some disposition to adjourn TO
a shorter time. but the Senate hai
| already set 2 o'clock Friday as thei
next session day and had shut VI
shop. so there was nothing for tn,
House to do but follow suit
One resolution was introduce,
| which read as follows:
Resolved. that the Constitution o
the United States and the Organi
Act of the Territory of Hawaii b
printed and bound with the journa
of the House" This shot was fired b.
Prendergast and Dickey promptly sec
onded the motion to adopt il. Thi
rather drew the breath of the Hous
for the memory of man runneth no
back to the time when Prendergas
and Dickey had agreed before. Prer
dergast represents the radical HON
rule, anti-missionary wing of the Ii
dependents and Dickey. the radica
missionary wing of the Republican,
The cause was soon apparent 70
lDickey thought the constitution an
organic act were to be printed by Sc,
rotary Cooper with the laws and c
course be done by the Gazette. an
when he found that it was to b
done by the clerk of the House, b
quickly withdrew his second.
Beckley said there was no none
left and Dickey wanted to know VIII!
hakainai said that there was none
left and as chairman of the committe
on accounts he ought to know. FINAL
Mahoe moved to lay the matter owe
for the present and there it went.
Speaking of the matter afterward
Prendergast said that the idea wa
that the Journal would be distribute
among the people at large and the
were just the people that had neve
had an opportunity to read the Coz
stitution and Organic Act and New
lands resolution annexing the Island
The laws on the other hand went
the lawyers who were familiar wit
the provisions of that document {
at least were supposed to be. =
thought il any money could be spare
eat of the 900 that it could be ps
to no better purpose than to give Ii
people of the Territory an authenti
copy of the laws which govern tn
Territory since the American fla
went up. The matter may be brougl
up again.
The House then adjourned unit