The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-23
GOVERNOR
DOLE HAS
VETO READY
for
-Four Unpaid
Bills.
CFrom Mondays daily.)

Governor Dole's veto message on
various items in the unpaid bills meas
ure will probably go to the Legisla-
ture some time today. Legislators with
pet schemes which were provided for
In that bill, and who thought that 1t
had become law without the Gov
ernor's signature will be little dis
I appointed for the ten days limit does
! not expire until Tuesday and the exec
1 utive still has two days to make his
objections known to the legislators.
! The bill did not reach Governor Dole
until the afternoon of June 10th. Two
Sundays and one holiday, Kamehameha
/ Day, are to be deducted from the ten
days, so that the time limit does not
expire until June 23rd or Tuesday, in
stead of last Saturday as some of the
| legislators had figured II out
The Governor Is reported to be pre-
pairing lengthy veto message upon
the bill. The bill as a whole is not to
be vetoed. but there will be objections
to at least four of the items. 1t will
be remembered that the Senate con-
Cured in the Houses increases without
objection, and the understanding i'm
some quarters at that time was that
the Governor might veto the objection
able items, and he would be sustained
by the upper body.
One of the items coming in for the
executive veto is said to be the allow
ance of $146S.10 to Judge Ka.ua for
paiai he claims to have furnished the
Leper Settlement. The Board of Health
refused to pay the amount because the
paiai had been shipped when it was
not ordered, and most of 1t was spoiled.
The Senate rejected the claim upon the
showing made by the Board of Health.
With the House Kalua had less diff
iculty and though the item was in
serted virtually as he asked, there were
minority and majority reports upon the
matter, and the amount was not OBJ
tained without struggle. The Gov
ernor has both legal and moral objec-
tons to the item, 1t is said.
Another objection Is to the appro-
priation of 81 GA to reimburse the police
officers on Hawaii, for money alleged
to have been taken out OF their salaries
by Sheriff Andrews for telephone rent
There was a big fight on this item in
the House, but 1t was finally inserted.
Legally, it is said the money cannot
be paid to the officers, even though
the claim is just one. All of them
signed vouchers for the full amounts of
their salaries, and consequently can
not be reimbursed for something they
have received, according to the books OF
the Auditor.
Still n third veto paragraph will be
upon the amount of $500 for the pay
ment of n salary to Rev. j. Manase for
his services in administering to the
spiritual wants of the prisoners at the
oahu Prison. Manase, who is now the
chaplain for the House, was thought to
be laboring for love and God during
the twenty months for which he now
asks twenty-five dollars n month, and
no appropriation had been made for
salaried chaplain.
Governor Dole will also exercise his
veto power upon the award of $3.50
made to Mrs. Kekie Amara, for loss
sustained by her during the plague fire.
Mrs. Amara failed to present her claim
to the Commission within the statutory
time, and later 1t was refused. There
are many objections to this claim, chief
of which, is that 1t would open up
wide field for similar claims by those
who failed to receive an award, or who
are not satisfied with the award made
by the Fire Claims Commission.
Once again the legislators expect to
finish their labors within the week.
There are but seventeen days left of
the session, and much of the work has
been accomplished. The six months
bill Is ready for a report
by the conference committee, ami the
loan bill being completed by the House,
Is now up to the Senate. That body
will make short work of the BILL as it
has practically been agreed upon by
Island delegations. There are still to be
considered only the eighteen months
salary and current expense bills, and
neither of these should take up 80 much
time in the House, as did the six
months bills, for many of the offices
and expenses are wiped out by the
County Act.
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dea. 1t assumes the possession by
Congress- of power quite as omnipotent
"a that possessed by the English Par
lament. 1t assumes that Congress,
which came into existence only by vir-
ne of the Constitution may withhold
he fundamental guarantees of life and
liberty from peoples who have come I'M
Ter our COIlplele JuIlSultl'oilI anu pNti
whose country we have acquired the
to exercise sovereign domin-
on. In my Judgment neither the life
Tor the liberty nor the property of any
person within a territory or country
'ver which the United States is SOW
reign can be taken, under the sanction
# any civil tribunal, by any form of
Procedure inconsistent with the Consti-
If the accused had committed the
rhine with which he is here charged, in
he Territory of Arizona: If he had been
convicted OF murder in any court in
hat Territory, except under a present.
nent or Indictment of grand jury.
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