The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-03-14
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| The Senate Saturday passed House
| Bill 80, providing for the encourage.
ment of infant Industries of an ag-
ricultural kind. upon second reading
the measure being recommended fol
passage in a long report made by the
Judiciary Committee. The report fol
lows:
1.-The bill is for the purpose of encour-
aging infant industries and Is in the
main a good one.
1.-The Ways and Means Committee has
already reported favorably on the bill
recommending slight amendment
which your Judiciary Committee thinks
should be passed.
Your committee thinks that the bill
should be amended further. Chocolate
is mentioned as one of the items ex-
empted from taxation. This is wrong
as chocolate is not a production but
merely a manufactured article made
from cacao, one of the items exempted
with other ingredients. Cacao being ex-
empted. 1t is not necessary to exempt
chocolate
"This bill was thought by some to be
too sweeping. We have met that OBJ
lection by exempting only those prod
ucts raised for mercantile purposes.
I'VE recommend that Section 1 be
amended to read:
"'Section /. For five years from and
real and personal, actually used for the
production of tobacco. rubber, cork
oak, manila hemp, sanseveria, salonica
hemp and cacao for mercantile pur-
poses shall be exempted from taxation.
with this amendment we recommend
that the bill pass"
The bill, as it came from the House,
was extremely short, containing, be-
sides the enacting clause and the title,
only one section, as follows:
For the next five (5) years all prop
erty real and personal in use for the
production of tobacco, rubber, choco-
late and cacao shall be exempt from
taxation of any kind"
When it came to action upon 1t, a
letter was read from Jared G. Smith
disappearing the policy of encouraging
agriculture in the way provided, never
theless the measure passed and will be
read for the third time on Monday.
Consideration of the bill to exempt
homesteads from seizure went over I'M
til Monday, on request of Senator Achi,
although the Judiciary Committee had
submitted a long report upon the mea-
sure.
This is Senate Bill No. rs, and the
committee report upon it Is very in
teresting. In text, 1t is as follows:
COMMITTEE REPORT.
your judiciary Committee. to whom
Senate Bill No. 70 was referred. re-
lating to the setting apart of home
steads for the heads of families, begs
leave to report as follows:
I'VE have examined the act and find
that 1t Is a copy of the California
law providing for the exemptions of
family homesteads from forced sale,
beings Sections 1851 to 1865 inclusive.
"In the United States similar legis-
lation is in force for at least thirty
two years. Sixteen states have con-
stitutional provisions requiring such
protection to the homestead of a fam
lily. They are as follows; Alabama,
Arkansas. California, Colorado, Geor-
gia, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Michi-
gan, North and South Carolina Ten
nessee, Texas and Virginia, and West
Virginia.
1.-THE homestead continues exempt
after the death of the head of the fam
lily in Michigan, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Arkansas. West Virginia, Ala
bama and Louisiana, and during the
of the wife in Michigan and
North Carolina. (See Simpson on
Statutes.)
"Other states having provision in
their laws for homestead exemption
are the following: Indiana, Idaho,
Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire,
New Jersey. New York. Pennsylvania,
Vermont, Wisconsin
The present law of Hawaii .was
passed in 1876, and exempted half an
acre where taro or some other vege-
able is cultivated for family use. This
s preserved in the proposed bin in adj
iition to house lot, up to the value
IF $4,000 for all. The old law allows
'nly $3.50 as the value of the house
md lot and the taro patch. This is
Entirely unified TO the modern value of |
properties on these islands. Land has
'isen in value from about one dollar |
IN acre for kula land in 1876, to from
20 to 800 an acre. City property has
greatly increased In value. the needs |
Il the home are greater, and no fam
ly should be compelled to live in such |
lovel as this old act provides to ex-
mpt.
PASSAGE RECOMMENDED.
The sections nine, referring to ex-
Of the proceeds of a policy of |