The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-05
IN LIE SENATE.

IN THE SENATE.
| Tne Senate got away with a lot OF
business yesterday. and adjourned at
noon for the day.
Secretary Savidge read a commu-
| nication from the House telling of the
| adoption of the Achi resolution praying
for an appropriation of $3.50, 900 from
Congress for Educational purposes in
Hawaii -
petition from ethe settlers in Olaa,
asking for an appropriation for school
house at the 22-mile road, was referred
to the committee on health and edu !
cation.
A petition from a number of residents
of Honolulu. asking for an appropria-
ton of $1,000 for an instructor in lace
making in the public schools, was re-
ferred to the same committee.
Thirty-f1ve settlers of Mountain View
asked for an appropriation of $4,000
for road in that vicinity, stating that
not been spent 1t was referred to the
committee on public lands.
THE BAILIFF LAW.
Senator C. Brown reported for the
judiciary committee. recommending the
repeal of the bailiff law, and it passed
it's first reading.
The judiciary committee reported
favorably on the Dickey bill designat-
ing public holidays. and it's passage was
recommended. The only changes are in
dropping two of the obsolete holidays,
January II and November %. and add
ing Decoration day and Washington
the bill was made the final order for
today.
WAYS AND MEANS REPORTS.
Senator Baldwin reported for the
committee on ways and means, rec
that the Kalauokalani bill
exempting all persons up to $1,000 and
providing that corporations, estates. |
ETC., should not be exempted. be laid |
on the table, as all these matters are
provided for in the county bill. The
report was adopted.
Senator Baldwin reported on the |
Brown loan bill, and recommended its |
passage. The report was adopted, and |
the bill will be put on it's psSsage to-
day.
Senator Baldwin reported on the Ka-
Iauokalani bill increasing the taxation
rate to per cent that "all taxation
measures are fully provided for in the
BILL He recommends that the
bill be tabled, to be taken up with the
bill.
The ways and means committee :ec-
,mmended also that the merchandise
pill introduced by Kalauokalani be
.abled.
SUBSTITUTE BILL
Senator c. Brown, for the judiciary
committee, reported a substitute bill for
he one providing for the repeal of the
ak on the importation of spirituous
liquors, saying that the whole law
hould not be repealed. The substitute
ill provides for a fine of $500 or a years
for Importation of liquors
W persons not so licensed, or not for +,
he importers own use. The report was
ldopted and the bill passed its first
eading.
JUMP ON McCANDLESs.
Senator McCandless was the target
f a general attack from two or three
{ the Senators yesterday. because of
report of the committee of public :
ands and internal improvements. Nc ]
andless reported that resolutions pro- /
iding S35. 900 for Queen street improve
lent, for improvement of Hilo and
-ona roads, for water main on Lilina | U
treet. $4,000 for a cemtery, $4,000 for
[oiliiIi road. and $4,000 on Maui roads, II
e laid on the table to be considered b
it'll the general appropriation bill He v
ated that many of the improvements
rovided in the resolutions were con-
lined in the estimates of the public f
orl.s department. The report was
ithdrawn because of objections from
chi, Isenberg, and Baldwin. .
NEED OF NEW LAWS. n
Senator Cecil Brown reported for the
dietary committee. recommending the a
lortion of the bill cutting the penalty o