The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-14
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| cottage for the light keeper.
TO INVESTIGATES LEPROSY.
Oil presented several bills. among
them: For a meteorological laboratory
at Kalihi; for the control of the sew
erage system, and for suppression OF
vice, all of which passed first reading
| Haia presented a resolution for ar
appropriation of $500 for a school
house at Hama. Maui, and $4,000 for a
| government physician there.
Paele asked for $1,000 for road from
kulakula to the sea.
TO GOVERN ELECTIONS.
Damien presented his bill to govern
elections, fixing method of administer
ing oaths and election precincts.
Fernandez again reported this time
The city bill for Honolulu ana the House
rules. The latter went to the COM
nlittee on rules.
Kupihea presented resolution pro-
viding that the appropriation of $4,000
in the emergency bill be made avail
able for roads. bridges and landings
Maui and Molokai. The resolution was
withdrawn, to be presented later.
Speaker Beckley announced that
memorials and resolutions would be
considered only on Monday hereafter
After some inquiry as to printed bills.
the House took a recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House went into committee of
the whole Immediately after it had
been called to order for the afternoon
session, Mr.. Chillingworth being in the
chair. on the emergency appropriate
bill. The first item was that appropri-
ating $4,000 for dredging Honolulu
harbor. This was the first order under
the bill, but Keliinoi called attention
TO the fact that his amendment appro-
priating $4,000 for roads and bridges
on Maui had not been acted upon at
Thursdays session. Aylett made a
long talk in Hawaiian, and Keliinoi got
UP to ask permission to say flw
words at the same time that the inter-
prefer began to translate Ayletts re-
marks.
Mr.. Peliinoi will be allowed to
speak" said Mr.. Chillingworth.
Il have the floor said the inter-
prefer, and went on talking.
Then Keliinoi yielded to Haia, who
said that Honolulu wanted everything
and to give Maui nothing. He said if
this was not passed, then his people
would send word to the sheriff of Maui
to keep superintendent of Public Works
Cooper on that island until this item
was agreed to. Kaniho made some re-
marks, and then Beckley. stopped the
discussion by saying that il had been
agreed between Matgi and Oahu that
this item should go through. That was
eighteen votes, clear majority and
talk was useless. Then the item was
passed.
DREDGING THE HARBOR.
The item for dredging the Honolulu
harbor. SIS 900, next came up and was
passed, despite Vida's protest that the
work on the harbor, so far as he could
see. was mainly in the interest of the
Oahu Railway Company. In the course
Of his talk, Vida said that the Superin-
tendent OF Public Works had loaned
the government dredger to Cotton
Bros, and that it had been taken to
Pearl Harbor and lost, the government
never getting paid for it. Harris re-
rli to h In
ent superintendent who had allowed
the dredger to De taken away, and
there was bond to make good the
loss, any way.
Kupihea arose at this juncture to
remark: II object very much to this
chewing of the rag. We are wasting
time, and getting nothing DONE
He couldn't shut off the talk Fer
nandez asked the member from the
Fourth District row much the lost
dredger had cost, and Harris replied,
naively:
Why, haven't the least idea
The item of $4,000 for landings and
buoys in the Honolulu harbor was
stricken from the bill.
The item of $500 for sewers in Homo
lulu came next, and Kaniho asked
Harris how much there was in the
sewer fund.
You are asking me lot of things
said Harris. Il don't know
But he proceeded to find out that
there was none, and then the item
passed.
The item appropriating $4,000 for re-
pairs for government buildings passed.
WANT NEW CURTAINS.
The item appropriating $500 for fur
niture for government buildings passed
with the appropriation that out of that
sum curtains be purchased for the
assembly chamber.
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