The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-21
Observation-Disclosures DAY.

Kamehameha " road to Diamond
Head be forbidden.
''This would kill the bil,'' said Me
Candless. eff Senator Achi wants te
kill the bill, think he should come out
and do it,
Dickey favored the amendment, but
protested once more against the waste
| of time involved in considering a bill
which its introducer knew could not
pass. "He has only six votes, and he
! knows the bill cannot be passed. 1t is
a waste of time, when every minute is
| valuable
BILL WITHDRAWN.
Bishop supported the amendment, ac-
eusing McCandless of inconsistency in
denouncing the Rapid Transit for en-
dangering life by running it's cars too
fast, and now seeking to imperil the
lives of the people by running a chu-
chu car along the streets.
Then Achi demanded the ayes and
nays on this amendment and it carried,
nine to five, as follows:
Ayes-Ach1, Bishop, Dickey, Dow
sett, Gandall, Hayseloen, Kalama, Par
is, Wilcox-9.
Noes-Brown, Hewitt, Lane, Nc
Candless, Woods.
81 ask permission to withdraw the
bill said McCandless. 50 It is kill
ed.
And he was given permission. That
ends the attempt to secure a franchise
at this session.
VETO MIXED.
The Governor veto of the liquor
bill was taken up, the Senate having
already passed the new bill on first
reading, and Achi objected to consider
alton, that the veto spoke of the bill
by its title before amendment, claiming
that the error should be corrected be-
fore the message was acted upon. The
veto was accordingly sent back to the
Governor for correction, and he sent
back word that the House had acted on
the message as it was, that the veto
was sufficient to identify the bill, but
that he would cheerfully make the de-
sired correction if the message could be
called back from the House.
This did not please the Senate, how
ever, and the whole matter was referred
to a committee of two, consisting of
Bishop and Achi.
A communication from the Rapid
Transit Company in answer to the re-
set forth the financial conditions and
obligations of that corporation, was on
motion of McCandless, who character
lied it as slap at the Senate com
mittee, rejected by the following vote:
Ayes-Brown, Hayselden, Hewitt,
Kalama, Lane, McCandless, Woods.
Noes-Bishop, Dickey, Dowsett, Gan
dali, Paris, Wilcox-6.
ONE MORE FRANCHISE KILLED.
Senate Bill 81, granting railway
franchise for a railway on Maui to r.
A. WadswOrth ct al, was read for the
third time.
The bill was amended by provision
that the railroad company should pay
to the Territorial government 1-2 per
cent of its gross receipts after it had
been in operation for FIVE years. The
vote then came on the passage of the
bill, and Bishop sald he was opposed
to it because the privilege given was
insufficiently safeguarded in the public
interest.
Kalama agreed with Bishop and NOV
ed indefinite postpOnement. The mo-
tion received no second, and the bill
then passed third reading, Bishop, Dow
sett, Gandall, Kalama and Wilcox vot-
ing against it.
Senate Bill I29, to encourage the
building of railroads on the Island OF
Oahu, blanket bin for any or all
roads it might be desired to build any
where save in Kapiolani Park, was read
for the third time, and in the midst of
a somewhat prosy discussion of it Dick
ey raised the point that >the bill was
unconstitutional in that, instead of be-
ing a general railway bill, was a spe-
cial bill only for the Island of Oahu
Dowsett defended the bill constitu-
tionaily and its fairness in rather
long speech.
Achi moved an amendment, which
carried, striking out the tax exemption
feature of the bill
After lot more discussion. Dowsett
moved an amendment providing a tax
exemption for five years, which car
ried.
The vote came at last on the passage
of the bill, and it was lost on ii tie
vote. as follows.
Ayes-Brown. Dowsett, Hewitt. Ka-
lama, Lane, McCandless. Woods.
Noes-Achi, Bishop, Dickey, Gandan.
Havselden. Paris, Wilcox.
House Bill 125. providing for the in
stitution and regulation of trust com
panies. was read for the third time ana
there was a renewal of the fight to
keep such companies from doing Il gen.
eral banking business. It was finally
determined that they could not. and
then Achi wanted to defer considera-
ton until Friday hut was baatep an