The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-14
DOWSETT RESIGNS.

recommended by the Dowsett report.
DowsETT RESIGNS
Senator Dowsett. for personal rea-
sons, asked to be excused from service
on the Special Railway Committee, and
his request was granted.
The House amended the Senate Bill
regulating the duties of the Registrar
of Conveyances, and Achi, Dickey and
Brown. were appointed a Conference
Committee in behalf of the Senate
Hewitt presented petition from citi-
zens of South Kona asking for the
building of a road all over that region,
but specifying no sum of money to 'be
appropriated, and it was referred to the
Public Lands Committee.
Wilcox from the Miscellaneous Com
mittee reported favorably on the flag
raising bill, and the measure passed
second reading. 1t will be read for the
third time today
The same committee reported favor
ably on the bill to establish a Board
of immigration, Woods dissenting, and
this bill likewise passed second read
ing. Will be read the third time to-
day.
message the bill condemned being the
leprosy divorce act. The veto went on
the record to be taken up today.
Achi introduced a concurrent resolu-
ton instructing the Ways and Means
Committee of the Senate and the House
Finance Committee to ascertain from
the banks whether, in case the County
Act We're passed they would discount
warrants at the rate of not more than
two per cent. This passed without OPP
position.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The order of the day came on the
third reading of the bill setting aside
certain lands for parks, and considera-
ton was postponed until Friday
Senate Bill 50, exempting school,
church and other real property from
taxation, passed third reading, the vote
being unanimous.
Senate Bill so, repeating certain sec
tions of the Revised Laws with refer-
ence to the marked regulations, passed
third reading without dissent.
Senate Bill 50. the pawnbrokers' bill,
came next on third reading, but was
found to be so ambiguously worded that
it was sent back to the Judiciary Com
mittee to be generally doctored up and
to have certain unconstitutional fea-
lures eliminated
Senate Bill 76, providing for the ap-
pointment of marriage license agents,
passed third reading, Achi voting against
it with statement of his doubt as to
its constitutionality.
Senate Bill a. providing for the man
ner of the payment of license fees.
passed third reading without dissent
House Bill 80, to exempt from taxa
ton property used in small farming,
passed third reading, Dowsett. Paris.
Wilcox, Woods. GandalI and the Pres
ident voting against it.
Senate Bill SO, taking from the Su-
perintendent of Public Works the pow
er to regulate the sale of fish crayfish
and she'll fish in the public markets,
was laid on the table on second read
ing-and laying on the table at that
stage is equivalent to legislative death. !
WOODS DOING POLITICS.
Senate Bill 20. exempting homesteads
from eizure and sale on execution,
was read section by section for the
second time. and was finally sent back
to the Judiciary Committee for various
correct ions.
Senate Bill A, permitting the Gov
error to take lands from the forest re-
serves was marked in its second read
in l~ a distinct victory for the mi
nortv OF the special committee Of
VIII Palmer Woods was chairman
Thee was a majority report favoring