The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-25
HOUSE IS
AGAIN SHY
Expense Money Is
All Gone
Now.
PLAN TO USE THE
DEFICIENCY BILLS
Will Leave Money Appropriation
But Provide New Uses for
the Cash.

Although the House at its meeting
yesterday passed the act providing for
the payment of the unpaid bills of the
various departments upon first reading,
there is good prospect that there will
be such fight precipitated before Fri
day that the end Of the session may be
put off, even now that it is in sight.
Behind this fight is the old plant of
the extrayagances of the House. When
the extra session was called there was.
no money to pay any quantity of Bills
which had been put over. There Wa d
scramble for the cash. and as the
House had got to the money first it
was the Senate bills which Welt over
Then the $4,000 was licked up in short
order. When the last appropriation
came up there was a movement in the
Senate to provide enough to pay all
bills that might arise and as result
there was ar amendment which put the
amount in the Appropriation bill at
$40 600, instead of the first amount, Sl5,-
0O0 The compromise which WAS reach
ed came about in the Conference Com
mittee. The conferees asked fur actual
figures as to expenditures but these
were impossible of entertainment, as
1t would have required great hardihood
fer any one to estimate what was L.
be Gcne il. the matter of Introducing
bills, and thus show what was to be-
paid out in the way OF printing. The
best estimate was that the Senate
would need $4,000 and the Ffouse $60no
to which the sum of $1,000 for each
House was added. and the bill passed
at $1,000.
J. Events have proved the correctness of
the estimates on the part of the Senate
conierees, for should the Senate adjourn
on Saturday there would remain, after
all bills had been paid, some SO TO the
credit of the upper body, out of the
apportionment of that last appropria-
ton. But the House is not 50 fortu-
nate. The money set apart for that
body will not hold out. The estimate is
,thatsthere will be a shortage. when all
hills are paid, of something like 600.
which Will have to go over to the next
session of the Legislature. unless the
members stay here for another week or
attach their bills to the deficiency meas
ure, which is now under consideration.
The former course is not to be thought
of at all, they say, and the latter pro-
poses some difficulties. The way at
last seems to be opened for the lower
body to get the money for its bills, and
this plan may cause a deadlock in the
upper body.
One Of the three amendments which
have been put into the unpaid bills act
! is that which provides for the repay
ment of s1.929.3s to the Hawaiian Fer
tilizer Company, which paid that
amount excess In license and stamps.
Senator Carter persuaded the Senate of
the correctness of this claim and the
result was Its Insertion in this bill. The
House is perfectly willing to pass the
item as to the cash. but it proposes to
make new object for the disbursement.
There is a sentiment in favor of apply
ing the amount to the payment of the
bills Incurred by the Legislature, and
it is said that this will be done when.
today the bill is referred to committee
for action. The result Is certain, there
! will be q fight provoked in the Senate
which may make ii hard or impossible
for the final adjournment to take place
Saturday. as is now proposed.
Members of the Upper House insist
that the bills of the Legislature should
be paid out of a specific appropriation
for the purpose. There will be argu-
ments made setting forth that as there
is no more money in the Treasury to
the account of the running expenses
there should be a putting off of the bills
or an appropriation made for the pur-
pose. The first will not appeal to the
men to whom the money is due and the
second would mean six days more. This
is not to be thought of, and there will
result another disagreement between
the two bodies.
There was nothing done in the Senate
yesterday except the passage of the
Brown bill on it's third reading. This
was accomplished. by the presence of the
bare number as prescribed, ten mem
bers being in their places and voting
for the bill. The business was done in
side a half-hour and the Senate then
adjourned until Friday afternoon at
o'clock. BY that time it is expected
there viii be no question as to the re-
suit of the consideration of the bill by
the House.
The message of the Senate to the low
er body was ready and the latter was
| in shape to get to business as soon as
it came to order. In the first place, as
soon as the morning business was con-
cluded there was motion to take up
the bill on its first reading. and there
was no objection, so this was done. Aft
er this stage there was a fiat place for
a minute, when Prendergast moved
that the bill be sent to committee AT
once. This does not accord to the rules
of action in the House, and to aid his
fellow over a hard place En1meluth
moved the rules he suspended. There
was no enthusiasm over the matter
| however, and the House adjourned
| without action. The plan was to have
the bill sent to special committee SC
| that change could be made and Their
| in case there could be no agreement by
this morning let the bill be sent
| through its second reading and give
the committee two days instead Of one
to act The adjournment was to 10 a. m