The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-15
LEGIsLA1URE..-ExTRA sEsaoN...l2rn DAY

| ZION 1OT JHe 1OuIt Ol IldHO IetSlStI d
ton to $4,000.
Dickey had said that the 2. c. Jones
Palama case, mentioned in the Senate
| Friday, had been misstated, in thai
Jones had not been given his title. He
| then made lengthy statement of the
Jones case.
} "Well,' said Dowsett, elf Jones die
not get his title, he was so darn near
! getting it that there was no fur in
ito
81 object to that Kind of language, .
] said President Isenberg.
DoWsETT APOLOGIES.
~ apologize, said Dowsett "Nev-
ertheless, l know the circumstances of
that case. That title was made out to
Jones without any knowledge by the
judge of this cloud on the title, and if
Mr.. Holmes had not gene TO the judge
of the Land Court ami told hlm of the
cloud on the title, Jones wculC have re-
ceived his title. 1 may have been mis-
taken in saying that the title had al
ready been given. It was ready, and
was to have been gwen"
Achi said that courts were not sup
posed to pay profits. That was not
what they We're for, and he said the
court had not been careless in the
Jones case. The certificate of title had
not been given. 1t made no difference
about Holmes having given the informa-
ton, and the title had not been given.
Achi moved to amend Dickey's motion
by putting the amount at $4,000.
McCandless moved to amend by max
ing the appropriation $4,000. This
amendment was accepted by Achi The
I.In To l.
were both lost, as was second one by
Dickey to give $4,000. And then Dow
sett moved to amend by making the
item $4,000. This carried
Dowsett moved to increase the bond
interest item from $3S5,700 to $395,700
as precautionary measure, in case
more interest should fall due
Dickey read letter from the Treas
urer asking that his incidental item be
increased from $4,000 to $4,000, ana
moved that the item be put in at the
larger amount.
Aehi said that he considered the let
ter of the Treasurer an insult to the
Senate and its WAYS and Means Com
mittee. That kind of lobbying was
most reprehensible.
Dickey explained that he had gone
to the Treasurer and asked the infor-
nation, and the letter was in response
to that inquiry.
THE BILL PASSES.
Dowsett explained that as chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee he
had gone to the heads of all depart
ments, and it was the same old story.
They all wanted their pay raised ana
all wanted more money.
- & nd 1yn frot Gil anJ %;rol
over the figures with them said
Dowsett.
Dickey then moved that the Incl
dentals of the Tax Office of Oahu be
raised from $1,000 to $4,000.
Dowsett explained that he had gone
into the expenses of all the offices with
the heads of the departments, and
while they wanted more than was Civ
en- them, they had admitted that they
could get along.
Isenberg took the floor and made a
speech in defense of the work of the
Ways and Means Committee. and in
reprobation of those heads of depart-
ments who sought 30 lobby in the Sen
ate for a raise of their appropriations.
1t was the duty of the Senate to stand
by the Ways and Means Committee.
Dlckev arose to throw some bouquets
at the Ways and Means Committee, but
said that all committees were liable to
err-and he believed an error had been
made on this item of incidentals for the
tax office.
The Dickey motion to raise the tax
office incidentals was lost.
Hayselden moved an item of $4,000
for grading and improving the school
grounds at the Royal and Normal
school lot He did this in response to
letter from the Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and not as a re-
Election on the Ways and Means Com
mittee. The item was lost
And then the vote came on the pas
sagg- of the bill on third reading and it
was. passed, no vote being against it.
SAVED ONE CENT.
When the session opened, the House
returned Senate Bill No 6, the de-
ficiency appropriation bill, amended SO
as to add about $4,000 to the amount
carried in the measure as it passed in
the Senate, and cutting out one cent
by reducing the appropriation to bind
Prof. koebele's note books from 1916
to $3-15. The BILL as it passed the
Senate, appropriated $10,221.33.
The Senate failed to concur in the
House amen iI,ents, and the bill was