The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-04-21
THE SENATE.

the pay OF jurors, ana spent most
THE SENATE.
There was a little spat and a large
amount of business in the Senate ses-
sion Yesterday. The spat, which after
all did not harm and served to wake
up the somewhat sleepy solons, came
at the afternoon session during the
discussion of the report of the Ways
and Means Committee on the second
reading of the bill defining the powers
of trust companies. rhe President had
put the question on an amendment Inn
iting the powers of such companies.
Zone, two, three, four, five, six, Nv
said the President, counting the hands
raised on the affirmative vote.
cone, two, three, four" said SEN
ator Lane, looking around in his seat
and counting in perfectly audible
tone of voice.
81 am counting here" said the
President, suddenly stopping the pro-
ceedings. ~ object to this. If you
want to count these votes, come up
here and take the chair. ~
81 meant no harm," said Lane.
"You have no right to count" said
the President. 81 will leave the chair
if this thing is continued.
81 beg your pardon" said Lane,
"'but / think that l have the right to
count the votes for myself
And then the little storm passed,
the Senate settled down to business
once more, and the session ran as
smoothly as Territory going down
hill on an oiled road with no brakes
, set.
REPAIRING THE COUNTY ACT.
The effort to repair the County Act
so as to make it workable was in evi
| dence at the opening of the session
Yesterday in the introduction by Dick
ey of bill transferring the use ant
control of roads, bridges, and Other
public works from the Territory to the
counties, and providing for their main
tenance The bill was read through
and passed first reading.
Dickey introduced a resolution ask
| ing the Attorney General for an opln
ion as to whether the Territory had
the right to transfer the control OF
roads and bridges to the counties. The
resolution passed.
The order then came on considera
tion of the Governors veto of the bill
raising the pay of jurors, and actor
was deferred until today.
House Bill 160, the trading STAMP
| bill, came in with report from the
Revision Committee, and it's third
reading was deferred until Saturday
House Bill 80, the Standard Tele
phone franchise bill, was read for the
second time and Bishop made a speecl
in support of the bill, although he wa'
doubtful as to whether the right OF
way across private property could b'
| given to the telephone company unde
the law. However, in order to get ;
half way modern telephone service, h'
was willing to take chance.
Dickey said the right of condemna
ton gwen under the bill was bu
slight, and should be given under th
bill, and then the section giving th
right to lay conduits passed.
There was. lot of discussion upol
the provision of the bill permitting
the purchase of the old telephone sys
tenn by the new, Dickey saying tha
he feared the possible creation of
monopoly. That was one of the evil
complained of now. The section, how
ever, passed.
The section providlng for the pay
ment of l-2 per cent per annum o
the gross receipts of the compan
to the Territory was amended so as t
make the payments begin at the en-
of two instead of five years. The hi
then passed second reading and wi
be read for the third time today.
LIQUOR BILL VETO.
The Governor veto of the liquC
! bill had come in during the consider;
tion of the telephone franchise bill
) and consideration of it was postpone
0 until this morning at 10 O'Clock.
Senate Bill 1913 was taken up G
, third reading, and passed. McCandles
, Paris, Achi, Bishop, Gandall and Hey
lit voted against it.
g McCandless from Public Lands Coz
, mittee reported adversely on Sena
!, Bill 1873 TO exempt railroads in Ham
kua from taxation for a given numb
H. of years, on the ground that there we
no railroads in that district.
Bishop, as the introdueer of the bi
:, protested against the report as mad
- quate, the bill being for the purpo
of encouraging the building of ra
" roads in the district mentioned III t
- bill.
~ The report was not adopted, and
T. n motion 10 POSTPONE to be consider
with the bilE McCandless protest
IN that the Public Lands Committee W
SIS not opposed TO railroads, but was
an posed TO tax exemptions. And he p
e. ceeded to charge that if Bishop
ed taken the interest in the bill for |
as building of railroad on Oahu Il
he did for a tentative railway in l
n. hala. he would have done more for I
Territory.