The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-14
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Ar lEltNooN SESSloN.
| At the afternoon session the House.
on motion of Keliinoi, went on with
| the disposition of reports of standing
| committees, in order to get them out
of the way. Two members of the Judi
ciary Committee reported against Kani-
hos bill to let any old body practice
law, and the other three submitted
this: 1--WE do not concur in the above
majority report
THAT Is misleading" said the Speak
| er, "and the report is referred back to
! the committee"
The Finance Committee reported
| against the resolution to award l.. Ahlo
s2277 from the Chinese fund, because it
| had not been shown that he was en-
! titled to any such amount, and be-
cause the house could not appropriate
| money by resolution, anyway.
There We're majority and minority re-
| ports from the Judiciary Committee on
Wright's bill to permit the government
| of the Territory to condemn and cover
back into the public domain all lands
that had been lying waste and uncul-
tivated for ten years or more. The
! majority report went to show that the
| bill was unconstitutional, but Wright,
! who had signed the minority report
alone said II have read the constitu-
ton of the United States and I don't
| find anything in that document In con-
hict with the provisions of this act"
| Then the bill was shelved.
REFUSES TO ADJOURN.
| An effort to get an adjournment at
| this juncture failed, and the nine MEM
bers of the Molokai special committee
OF oil ii -
ceiving Station with DR.. Cooper. The
| Speaker literally held the house to Its
| work. After many minor reports had
| been disposed of, dry matter but essen
tial to the labor of the house, the regu-
| lar order was taken up. This was the
reading and advancement of various
| bills on their way along the routine leg
islative path. Knudsen interrupted this
| to make a statement on a question of
personal privilege.
81 have heard on the street." he said,
| IAN intimaton that / had sneaked an
appropriation of $4,000 for the Waimea
| bridge into the Emergency Appropria-
| ton bill after that measure had gone
| to the conference committee. 1t will be
remembered that when that bill passed
the house. Kauai was given nothing at
all. / had been told that the building
Of the Waimea bridge on Kauai was
an urgent necessity, and / went to Su-
perintendent Cooper and was told by
him that the need for the bridge was
not an urgent need, and anyway II
would take months to get the iron for
II from the mainland. After the bill
had been passed in the House one of
the Senators told me that there was an
urgent need for this work, and accord
ingly / sent a note up to n Senator In
the conference to ask that the bridge be
provided for. That was all had to do
with 1t. / did not insert the $4,000
item, nor procure its Insertion farther
than this.
II would, as the bill is urgent. ask the
House TO take up and pass the Emer-
gency bill, and / am willing to let the
$50, 900 item go to bring about that
end"
There was some discussion following
all this, the conclusion of which will
probably be that the bill will be called
up on Monday.
GARBAGE BILL KILLED.
The House proceeded with the regu-
lar order, and the Boyd garbage bin
came up on second reading. The meas
ure, on motion of Wright, was in
definitely postponed. There was a close
call on the show of hands on this. and
Greenwich called for rising vote. Ten
members stood up In support of the
Wright motion to indefinitely postpone
consideration, and ten against it-and
then the Speaker declared the motion
carried, thus In effect casting the de-
Gliding vote against this piece OF in.-
guilty,