The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-29
TERR|T D RIAL
BILLS AND.
NEEDS
Legislation for ha-
Waii in Con.
gress.
Mail Special to the Advertiser.l


Matters Of Hawaiian legislation before
! Congress have been in allegiance this
past week, except for favorable report
from the Senate Committee on Pacific
! Islands and Porto Rico, which reported
favorably the bill to recompense in full
the claims of Ex-Queen 1iiuokaiani
| The report was made by Senator Black
I burn, OF Kentucky, who made the same
report from the Committee last year
and there will be an effort to get it on.
the Sundry Civil Appropriations bills.
AS things look now the initiative will
be made on the Senate side, Just as
was done last year.
The House Committee on Territories
is awaiting the arrival of President Gar
tley of the Electric Light and Power
Company, when hearings will be re-
sumed on that bill. AS stated in my last
letter, there is no disposition to take that
matter up again till all the facts about
the company are available.
The bill to confirm another charter
for Hawaiian territory the company of
w. w. Dimond for the furnishing of
fuel and illuminating gas, has been in
troduced by Delegate kalananiole in
the House and by Senator Burrows, of
Michigan, at the other end of the Cap
itol. The bill will not be taken up till
some one comes prepared to present all
the facts in connection with it, as the
provisions will be as carefully scruti-
nized as those of the Electric bill. The
Gas Company bill is very lengthy one,
but provides simply for the ratification
of the act of the Hawaiian Legislature,
that act being Incorporated in the meas
tire as introduced here.
Delegate Kalanianolc is doing all he
can to further the passage of bill to
authorize the construction of Revenue
Gutter for the sole use of the Territory
of Hawaii The matter has been taken
up at the Senate end by Mr.. Perkins, Of
California, as already told, and the bill
over there has been favorably reported
from the Senate Committee on Com
merce and is now on the Senate calendar
The Delegates bill, which is identical,
provides for the construction OF cutter
at a cost of $25o,ooo. The bill has been
referred to the House Committee on In
terstatc and Foreign Commerce, OF
which Col. Pete" Hepburn, OF Iowa, is
the chairman.
REMISSION OF DUTIES.
The following bill has been introduced
in the House by Representative Cushman
of Washington state, and referred to
the Committee on Claims:
Be it enacted by the Senate and the
House of Representatives OF the United
States OF America in Congress assem-
bled, That authority be, and the same is
hereby, given the Secretary of the Treas
ury to refund and repay from the appro-
priation TO repay to importers the ex-
cess of deposits for unascertained du
ties, or duties or other moneys paid un-
der protest" made by section thirty-six
hundred and eighty OF the Revised
Statutes, the amount OF duties paid
without protest into the United States
Treasury on any and all goods, wares,
and merchandise shipped to Hawaii
prior to July seventh, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, the date OF the pas
sage OF the joint resolution annexing
Hawaii, and shipped thercfrom into the
United States subsequent to June four
tcenth, nineteen hundred, the date of the
taking effect of the Act 10 provide a
government for the Territory of Hawaii,
approved April thirtieth, nineteen hun
dred: Provided, That such claims shall
be presented under such rules and regu-
lations as the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall prescribe, and within one year
from the date of the passage of this
Act.
PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS.
Delegate Kalanianaole has also intro
duced several other bills during the past
week Most OF these are the same bills
that Mr.. Mitchell introduced in the Sem
ate some weeks ago. One of them pro-
vides for the purchase of site and the