The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-17
SENATORS AND BILLS.

members.
SENATORS AND BILLS
Senators, generally speaking, have not
their bills in shape as yet The fact
is that there is feeling on their part
that there should be action given first
to the county measure, and then gen.
eral legislation might we'll be taken up
Senator Achi said that he would de-
vote his attention to the license law,
and would try to secure it's passage.
He thought there should be more rev.
enue secured by the Territory, and that
in this way the need could be met
Senator Isenberg will have charge of
the plumbing regulations bill and other
better sanitary and building laws.
| Senator McCandless will, in addition
to work for roads in Eva and Waianae,
| try and secure a franchise for railroad
extension through the Kalihi valley
and thence down the other side of the
Island to Kahuku to connect with the
road now in operation.
Senator Dickey will devote much of
his attention to the license system, he
favoring local option.
Senator Baldwin said that he did not
think there could be any forecast made
of legislation, and that he had not form
ulated any measures which he would
press.
All the members of both houses ex-
pressed the opinion that there would
be bills making operative all the planks
in the Republican platform.
HOME RULERS PLEASED.
There have been several meetings of
Home Rule members now in the city,
but there has not been definite action,
according to one of the older members.
Senator John T. Brown said yesterday
that he was pleased personally with the
county bill and that he thought there
would be many Home Rule votes for
the measure as it will be presented to
the Legislature. AS to the opinion out
of town, he said there was a general
belief that the bill had in it the prin-
cipal features for which everyone was
striving. and it would be satisfactory
to the people at large.
NJ K KeaIawaa said that the senti-
ment among many of the Home Rule
members was that the Republicans
should take the lead in introducing
and that when they were good
ones and appealed to the sentiments of
the Home Rulers there would be no OBJ
tections raised on their part, but on the
other hand the bills would have general
support.
HALLS READY FOR MEMBERS.
Both the Senate Chamber and the
Hall for the House of Representatives
are in readiness for the opening of the
session tomorrow.
The Senate Chamber will allow of no
for spectators and it
will be rather crowded even for the
Senators alone. The Presidents chair
is on raised platform at the Eva end
of the chamber. which was formerly
the Secretary's office. The secretary |
desk Is ulGeCJlE DGlON lile1L VI LIZ - N-'-
dent and there is a double row of two
desks each facing the presidents chair
On either side is a row of four desks
making the fourteen required in addi-
ton 10 that of the president. The
press table has been placed at the wal
kih end and there is hardly room for
a half dozen ordinary chairs in addi- !
ton. There is plenty of light in the
room. however and with open windows
there should not be much suffering be-
cause of the narrow quarters.
The room in the Eva corner OF the
building opening into the Senate Cham
Der and now occupied by the electoral
registrar has been set aside for the use
Of President Crabbe, and there is one
other smaller room for the accommoda-
ton of the secretary. Committee room
are sadly lacking.
The House hall has not been changed
much from what it was two years ago
The members of the House will face
the speaker in a double square. The
Jerks desk is right below that Of the
speaker and to the rear of this desk
: a double row of desks for the mem
oers, one of three and the other of FIVE.
On either side is a double row of five
lesks each, making up the required to-
al of twenty-nine, without the speak
er's chair.
All of the desks have been newly
-arnished. and couple of Portuguese
we're engaged yesterday in the prosaic
ask of cleaning ink stands. Every
hing will be in readiness for the legis-
ators tomorrow as far as concerns the
furnishing of the respective legislative
lalIs.