The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-24
House Takes Up Standard Bill From
the Table and Beats 1t
on the Vote.
The Senate viii Finish Up Its Work on the
Amendments to the County
Bill Today.

CbfIs" And then he put the motion
10 adopt the committees report. and
ii was adopted. and the business of
the House went on smoothly until the
noon recess. And it was all the con-
sideration of the reports of standing
committees.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
I At the opening Of the afternoon ses-
sion a letter was read from Treasury
Agent MacLennan stating that he
would be glad to meet the special COM
mittee of the House. appointed to con-
fer with him relative to the manner of
expending the fire claims million at
p. IN. This committee consists of
Harris, Vida. and Purdy. Harris ask
ed the clerk to telephone and make
the appointment for O'Clock. and then
presented a number of reports from
the finance committee The first of
these was against the Brown bill to
make a trusteeship of the Chinese
Fund" and this was adopted
The Finance Committee reported in
favor of the Crabbe liquor license bill,
amending it so as to limit the issu-
ance of liquor licenses to citizens, or
to corporations having citizens in the
majority OF their stock holdings. The
bill was further amended to cut the
license fee from $3.50 to $500. and to
provide that no saloon shall be located
within three hundred feet of a school
or church. The report was adopted.
Kupihea tried to get in a report on
a resolution appropriating money, but
was shut out by a ruling of the Speak
er to the effect that hereafter all such
matters would go over without read
ing until the appropriation bills came
to be considered-and that, it is prob
able. will not be at this session. These
things only take up the time of the
House." said Beckley.
MEMBERS CALLED TO ORDER.
The House went on the regular or
der, and Harris tried to get Senate Bill
20, which is the loan bill, taken up.
There was a wrangle, whereupon the
Speaker said: IF the members did not
take up so much time talking to each
other, they might have passed the loan
bill ten days ago" Then the bill pass
special order for today Taking the
calendar in order the House went into
committee of the whole, with Green
well in the chair, on the second read
ing of House Bill IS The bill is
amendatory of the laws governing the
segregation of lepers, and was intro
duced by Kaniho. who defended the
measure. 1t developed in the discus
sion. however, that the bill was direct
" in conflict with the provisions of
the Paele bill, passed on Wednesday
after the members had !
had some fun with their chairman, |
they passed it to second reading.
The committee rose and reported ac- !
cordingly, but almost at once the :
House went into committee of the
whole again, Jaeger in the chair this ,
time, on the second reading of House,
bills 81 and So. Bill 81 prohibits the
storage Of lumber. coal or firewood
within the fire limits OF Honolulu. and
was passed. Bill 50 defines the fire
limits. and that also was passed. Then
the committee arose and reported ac-
cordingly.
The regular order was taken up. be
I
10 second reading. In the course of
this the bin TO prevent the destruction
u food fishes was killed.
AS TO LOBsTERs.
Then an attempt was made to
liI the bill providing for the appoint
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