The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-31
SENATE RECEIVES REPORTS
UPPER HOUSE AT WORK THIS
MORNING.
Commissioner Knapp Presents a Peti-
ton for Exposition Funds-Revised
Laws Appropriation is Opposed.


Laws Appropriation is Opposed.
At the opening of the Senate this
morning a petition was received from
Commissioner j. F. Knapp of the South
Carolina exposition, asking for an ap-
preparation for taking the Buffalo ex-
hibit down to Charleston. 1t was re-
ferred to committee on education and
| health. The petition was as follows:
Il beg to petition your honorable
body for favorable consideration in the
matter of representation of your Ter
rtory at the South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian Exposition to be held
at Charleston, South Carolina, from De-
cember 1st, 1901 to June 1st, 1902.
THE Trunk lines of railway running
sodth from Buffalo have kindly proffer-
ed to transport government and state
exhibits from the Pan-American to
the Charleston Exposition without cost.
/ This Will reduce the expenses of your
| representation to a minimum and also
reduced very materially the cost of re-
| turning your exhibit home as it can be
returned by vessel the entire distance
! or by rail lesser distance than
| from Buffalo.
81 am pleased to hand you herewith
| printed matter indicating the scope,
| progress etc, of our exposition and
ever pray the granting of this petition"
Senator Carter, for the ways and
means committee, reported on the long
I batch of items referred in the past two
| weeks. One of the principal items was
that of $4,000 for compiling the laws.
The report was tabled to be considered
with the appropriation bill. The report
was as follows:
THE ways and means committee 10
whom were referred sundry items in
the Appropriation Bill under current
/
of the Territory, beg to report as fol-
lows:
Item 372, Incidentals, $1,000. Your
/ committee finds that this is the same as
has been provided in past appropriation
bills and that it has always been eX
! pended. The office work of this depart
ment has increased since annexation,
and the incidentals will also be larger
| We recommend the item pass as in the
bill
Item 1913. State Entertainments and
Ceremonies, $4,000. Your committee
finds that this is an item which has
| seldom been drawn in full. Should
President Mckinley or any other gov
ernment official or any foreign official
! such the Duke of Cornwall call here,
I it is q fund that could be used for such
| purposes! The committee recommend
| that it pass.
Item 374, Preservation of Archives
| $4,000. This item was first introduced
in 1898. Since that time this uepart-
| ment has gathered together all the cor
respondence as far back as 1850, and
| has had it re-copied and bound. The
committee believes it wise to allow this
work to be completed All the docu-
| ments connected with the legislature
can be rearranged and filed for easy
reference. If this data is of sufficial
! historical Importance to warrant its
preservation and if the records of the
people of Hawaii are to be preserved,
| in addition the foregoing, provision
should be made for a fire proof vault
| This could be accomplished without
| great expense, as the treasury vault
provides foundation and it only re-
| quies to be built up from the floor to
! the ceiling. Your committee therefore
recommends the passage of item 374
as in the bill. and an item be inserted
as follows: 374A, Fire proof vault, ST.
| 500.
Item 3i5 Expenses of Election $15,-
900. This item was formerly under the
! Interior Department, and represents
| alone what 1t costs to provide booths
and judges in all the precincts and dis
tricts. We therefore recommend that
1t pass as in the bill.
Item 376, Printing and Advertising,
i $1,S00. The committee finds this de-
partment is expected to print all laws,
many public notices. and proclamations
/ we ISSoliihtIlu tlldl the llelil pass dS
! in the bill.
Item 377, Compiling and Revising
Laws, $4,000. Your committee recon-
mends that the item be stricken from
the bill"
| For the Ways and Means committee,
Carter read a report treating tax esti-
mates. The total amount recommended
was $4,000, in a lump sum. Treasurer
W. II. Wright submitted letter in
which he recommended that the ap-
preparation be itemized. The commit
tee recommended extra clerks to carry
out the provision of the income tax
law, raising the amount of the appro-
priation to $1S5O0O. Tabled to be con-
sidered with the bill.
The same committee recommended
the following:
Salary clery assistent superintendent
of public works, $2,400; superintendent
sewers, $2.400; pay roll, $500; pay rol
= government grounds, $4,000; gardeners
$2,4OO.
For the Health committee Mr.. Ach
{. reported on various health matters.
Reports followed reports to noon. Al
of them were tabled to be considered
with the hill At ~ o'clock a rapaSS