The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-04-21
Observation-Disclosures DAY.

Will De sent INTO 1ne House ana maze
to block consideration of our bills
there
The motion to postpone was lost.
~ Achi moved an amendment that the
use of steam as a motive power from
Kamehameha " road to Diamond
Head be forbidden.
"This would kill the bill,' said Nc
Candless. eff Senator Achi wants to
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
waste of time, when every minute is
valuable"
BILL WITHDRAWN.
Bishop supported the amendment, ac-
cusing McCandless of inconsistency in
denourcing the Rapid Transit for en-.
dangering life by running its cars too
fast, and now seeking to imperil the
lives of the people by running chu-
chu ear along the streets.
Then Achi demanded the ayes and
nays on this amendment and it carried,
nine to five, as follows:
Ayes-Ach, Bishop, Dickey, Dow
sett, Gandall, Hayseloen, Kalama, Par
is, Wilcox-9.
Noes Brown, Hewitt, Lane, Nc
Candless, Woods-5.
81 ask permission to withdraw the
bill" said McCandless. 1t is kill
ed.'
And he was given permission. That
ends the attempt to secure a franchise
at this session.
VETO MIXED.
y, The Governors 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-
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-
port of the committee purporting to
set forth the financial conditions ana
obligations of that corporation, was On
motion of McCandless, who character
lied it as a 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 a railway
franchise for 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 SAID he was opposed
to it because the privilege given was
insufiiciently safeguarded in the public
interest.
Kalama agreed with Bishop and NOV
ed indefinite pOstponement. The mo-
ton 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 bill 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
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-
UOnally and its fairness in a rather
long speech.
Achi moved an amendment, which
carried, striking out the tax exemption
feature of the hill
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 a Tie
vote, as follows.
Ayes-Brown, Dowsett, Hewitt, Ka-
lama, Lane, McCandless, Woods.
Noes-Achi, Bishop, Dickey, Gandall,
/ Hayselden, Paris, Wilcox-7.