The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-01
BECKLEY WANTS
GOVERNOR OUT
Futile Attempt to Get the Loan
Bill Through at Eleventh
Hour.
Sixtieth Day-One hundred and
twenty-six bills introduced; forty
seven passed.
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To be or not to be was the burning
question of yesterdays session. Only fif-
teen members were found ready to call
1t the fifty-seventh day of the session.
the other fourteen voting it the sixtieth
and last day. In any event, none of the
Republicans will turn out tomorrow, and
many of the Home Rulers want to go
home.
Beckley has anr need his intention of
returning on tonight's steamer
with the s, and Monsarrat. too.
is pau. Gem Gems s is all packed for NOV
onlyfa sclAl session win hold the
House together any longer. The ques-
ton os days came up over the reading
of the reports on Robertson's resolution
to change the minutes and so alter the
dates as to make yesterday the sixtieth
day The majority report ran as fol-
lows:
"The resolution recites various data
| for the purpose of proving that the 18th
| day Of April was the forty-eighth day of
| the session of this Legislature. This
would make this day the sixtieth day of
| the session. Your committee feels that
| to undertake at this time to change the
| session days as recorded in the journal
would be not only unwise but unwar-
ranted by the circumstances.
I'VE therefore recommend that the day
as indicated by the journal of the House,
be declared that day of the session, by
| the terms of which, II no further ad-
journment be taken, beyond that of from
day to day, this session will close or
FRIDAY, the third day of May"
A. G. M. Robertson made a minority
report in which he said: "The fact that
a correct count of the number of days of
this session under the rule of the Or
ganic Act makes this the sixtieth day Is
a very lame reason for not approving the
resolution. The truth cannot be ignored
The Organic Act expressly excepts Sum
days and holidays only. There can be no
additional implied exemption. Today is
clearly the sixueth and last day Of this
session.
| Dickey said that he would like few
more days in which to consider the APP
; preparation bill, the non-passage of which
was a disgrace to the House, tying up
as it did public improvements for the
next two years. He said, however, that
1 it was impossible to get around the fig
; ures.
2 Prendergast, as Monday, thought
, that the House could make sixty any
number that it wanted to, and claimed
5 that Washington's birthday was a holi-
( day, because the State so acknowledged
! it
/ | Keliikoa after struggling with a sum
' | in mathematics on a scratch-pad, an
|, nounced his result to the House. and said
| that he signed the report without think
= ing, now finding that this was the six
y tieth day, and the report was in error.
{ Robertson, as introducer of the resoIu-
e tion showed the count of days, less Sun
( days, quoting the Organic Acts provis-
: ion on that point. He showed what
Y would occur if days which the Houses
e did not meet We're not to be counted, In
e case a Senate should decide to meet on
r ly every other day, while a House kept
Y on in the usual way. The House would
8 reach the sixtieth day when the Senate
i was only at day number thirty, and the
:, Senate would exist alone and useless fol
t a month.
y On the vote the following favored de-
claring today the sixtieth day of the ses-
e sion: Aylett, Dickey, Ewaliko, Gilfllan
d Hoogs, Keiki, Kekaula, Keliikoa, Ku.
: malae Makekau, Monsarrat, Nailma
: Robertson, Wilcox. Those voting for the
S fifty-seventh day proposition were Ahu
lii, Emmeluth Kaniho, Kawaihoa, Ma
: hoe, Makainai, Mossman. Paele, Prem
!, dergast and Puuki.
g The record of the proceedings that tool
place Monday night after Beckley declar
:, ed the House adjourned, were ordered
e stricken from the minutes, Robertson
:, cnntendtng that the members who were
r absent from duty had no right to com
plain Of what had been done by those
= present and ready to do their duty By
i, their constituents, adding that the alb
u sentees should be excluded from voting
: on the measure, as they had no persona
o knowledge of what they were voting
? about.
:, A bill relating to the compensation o
= pilots came down from the Senate ant
- passed first reading, despite Dickey's OBJ
= jections on the score of useless expense
a for printing.
A Senate bill licensing vendors OF AMI
mails was unanimously rejected on mrs
reading.
g The Senate holidays resolution wa
Y referred to the Judiciary Committee Th'
IT holidays named were January l. Febru
ary %. June II and Il, July 4, Noyembel
- 1s, December 25 and Labor Day.
A general clearing up was indulged IL
during the noon recess, the member
: taking away the bills, notes, etc, tina
20 had accumulated during the session
"a some may be framed, others kept fo