Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-03-10
SENATE e.
Seventeenth Day.
Afternoon Session.

The bill TO license the brewing o
malt liquors passed second reading
The bill for the manufacture and sal,
of intoxicating liquors was referred t.
the committee on miscellaneous petit
lions.
Senator Crabbe presented a petition
from the officers of the Free Kinder
| garten Society asking an appropriation
from the Legislature for kindergar
ten in connection with the Norma
school, as recommended by Superinten.
dent Atkinson. II was referred to the
committee on health and education.
Law Amendments,
The bill making felonies of only
such crimes where the punishment OK.
Ceeds one year, and the one relating to
criminal jurisdiction of magistrates
passed second readings.
The bill relating to notice by publ
cation passed second reading.
The bill repeating the law relative to
"desertion of married persons" was
passed unanimously.
The bill reducing the punishment for
embezzlement by public officers was
passed unanimously.
The bill amending the law relating to
malicious injury was passed unani-
mously.
The bill amending the burglary law
and reducing the punishment to twenty
years for burglary In the first degree
and ten years in the second degree
passed unanimously.
The bill amending the law relating to
industrial and reformatory schools was
passed unanimously. The act gives
circuit judges the power to send minors
to the reform school. Senator Paris
suggested an increase of the age limit,
but Senator Brown replied that the age
had been fixed at 10 years, which was
the prevailing custom.
Criminal Practice,
Second reading of an Act relating to
the practice and procedure in criminal
cases. There is provision for pro-
ceeding against an accused person by
either information or indictment,
whether there has been preliminary
examination or not, in certain classes
of cases. Several old laws are changed
by the bill. II jury acquit n person
on the ground of insanity, the fact
must be stated in the verdict and. in
such case, the court must order the
confinement of the insane person in
some suitable place.
The bill passed to be read third
time tomorrow.
Felonious Branding.
Third reading OF an Act to amend
the law relating to the felonious brand
ing of animals.
Senator Achi questioned the phrase
goats or other cattle" and Senators
Baldwin and Dickey agreed with the
criticism. Senator Brown said the
wording was the same as in the old
law. Senator Baldwin did not vote on
the roll call and when asked to de-
clare himself said he didn't have his
dictionary with him, but II the word
ing was the same as that Of the old law
he would vote aye.
The bill passed.
Corporations.
Second reading of bill to amend
section 1926 of the Civil Code. It gives
q corporation the power to hold tho
stock of other corporations.
Passed.
PineappIes and Castor oil,
Third reading of an Act to encour-
age the cultivation of pineapples and
the cultivation of the castor oil plant.
Senator Achi voted doubtful on the
roll call. President Crabbe insisted on
his voting one way or the other, when
the Senator asked under what rule
The rule was quoted. requiring a Sen
ator to vote unless excused by the
| Senate"
On motion of Senator Baldwin. sec
onded by Senator Dickey. Senator's
Achi and Kalauokalani both were ex-
cused from voting.
The bill passed with 10 ayes.
Emergency Appropriations,
Third reading of an Act making spec
ial appropriations for Government de-
rartments.
On the item OF $4,000, inserted by
resolution on second reading. Senator
/ MCCandless moved to substitute $4,000
He stated That a resolution intro
duced by Senator Achi for the same
road provided $4,000 calculated to
macadami2e the road all the way to
Maunalua. The resolution OF Senator
lsenberg, which had not been given to
the Public Lands Committee, was to
eXpend the same amount for improv'
ing but half the length of the road
He had been informed at the Public
Works Department, where there were
estimates, that II would require only
$4,000 to straighten the Waialae road
1t was not the Governments duty to
construct wide roadway for the Rapid
Transit corporations track.
! Senator Cecil Brown said II would
cost the Rapid Transit Company $780,
900 to extend its line out to that local
ity, which, to his mind was the best
residence district in the whole district
OF Kona. 1t was going to be a great
benefit TO people of small means, that
they should be enabled to obtain homes
in that healthful section. Owners OF