The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-03-16
IN The HOUSE


u.uI, Time.
The resolution Hs passed endorsing
tho County Act and drawing attention
to thc attitude of Senators Lane. Dow
sou and Bishop on the matter as well
as Geo the position generally assumed
10y the Republican party was read
through Zoo both languages.
Harris moved at once that the Cen-
trail Committee be notified that the
House had redeemed its pledge to the
people by unanimously voting FOR the
passage of a County bin on the 18th
Of the present month.
Greenwich moved the tabling of the
resolution. Smith secondng with a
hot speech in which he characterized
the letter as unseemly and unwar-
ranted
The motion to table failed on vote
of 16 to s.
Harris motion to reply was carried
with little show Of opposition.
The Senate notified the House Of its
having passed the bill TO provide for
the deposit Of public money I'm desig-
mated repositories and for the terms
and conditions governing such deposits.
The same information was given res
pecting the bill to license second hand
dealers. The bin respecting the dis
/ play Of the United States flag was re-
! turned with minor amendments. There
! will be a conference committee on this
as well as on the bill respecting the
pay Of government laborers.
Speaker Knudsen appointed the fol-
/ lowing TO the conference committee on
the flag display bill: Long, Shipman
and Cox.
on the conference over the nay Of
government laborers the Speaker APP
pointed Holstein Aylett and Nakuina.
THE PROMOTION BILL.
The miscellaneous committee report
ed unanimously in condemning Harris
resolution to appropriate 100000 for ad-
vertising the advantages and resources
of the Territory.
There was nothing Of the kid-glove
method in the way that the commit
tee punished the Harris resolution.
I'VE cannot take care of the people
that are now with us" said the report
much less any more. Work is scarce,
money is more so and it would be a
penury and vagrancy where they would
be changed with neglecting to work on
plantations that do not want them, and
be convicted for it.
TT is no more right for us to invite
our fellow countrymen to labor and
invest under the conditions that pre-
vail here than it is for US individually
to invite "A friend to dinner when there
is nothing to eat.
when the monied interests here rea-
lie that it Is their bounden duty Ia
keep alive, encourage and patroniZe
those on whom they rely for the pro-
lection Of life and property we car
rest assured that there will be no need
for any special money appropriation t.
entice immigrants here"
The report was signed by Sheldon
Aylett, Pulaa Pail and Kalawaia.
BIG TOURIST MONEY.
Harris opposed the shelving Of his
resolution and moved that the report
be tabled to be considered with the APP
preparation bill His motion carried
after his statement that 100000 had
been spent here by tourists last year
and 100000 could easily be brought
here by judicious advertising.
The Police Committee reported on the
non-payment of different coroner's
juries on Molokai to the effect that they
had not been paid as the last legisla.
ture made no appropriation for coron.
ers juries. 1t recommended that the
items be inserted in the Deficiency Ap.
preparation bill.
Holstin notified the House that an
exhibition by the Fire Department al
the Beretania street station at 4 o'clocI
and an invitation to witness it was ex
J tended to the Senate.
The Police Committee recommends,
the tabling of the petition for the pay
ment of police officers i'm Kalawao un
der the defunct county government.
Coelho introduced a resolution for an
appropriation for a home for non-lep
rous male children Of lepers at the IA
? lihi receiving station which was refer
b red to the Health Committee,
Mahelona's resolution to direct tn
Superintendent of Public Works to re
pair the Keepers cottage at the Mauso
leum went to the Committee on Pub
lie Lands.
r. Awana petitioned for an lnvestiga
ton into the proceedings by whicl
some 80 acres of his grant Of land 4
Keaaula have been alienated causin
- him a loss of $4,000. The Committee o
Public Lands win take the matter M
-, The Precinct club Of the Seventh Pre-
cinct, Second District of Hawaii, peti
v toned for the passage of a County Bi
and for changes In the registry offices
a petition was presented from Kailu
Directing to the proposed removal q
70 the court honse to Kainalin.
:, Holstein presented a petition for $25
!, 600 to be appropriated for the Waiea
Papa road and $4,000 for relocating tn
n main road to Hookena
g The following bills We're Introduce
o and read by title a first time:
Il To amend the Revised Laws relatin
n to indictments, informations and al