The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-11

THE SENATE.

The Senate yesterday completed the
lob of taking the Molokai junket out of
the hands of its Health Committee,
passing a concurrent resolution TO give
the whole management of the affair
into the hands of a joint committee
of five from each house, the Senate
members of such committee to be Nc
Candless, Achi, Kalama, Brown and
Gandan.
And at that the thing was not done
without something of struggle on the
floor What the House will do to the
resolution remains to be seen, but this
Molokai junket is the particular joy
and pride of Mr.. Coelho of Maui who
is a member of the House Health Com
mittee and who was going to make the
junket a free thing for everybody, in
despite of the Board of Health, before
he found out that he would thereby
place himself in some danger of run
ming afoul of the Federal Court. When
that condition was disclosed, the House
Committee concluded to let the Senate
Health Committee have something to
say.
The matter came up in the Senate
yesterday on the report from McCand-
less of the special committee apo Mt
ed on Thursday to see the manager
of the Wilder Steamship Company as
to what terms could be made for a
steamer to take the legislators to the
settlement on the biennial junket,
leaving the outsiders out of the ques
ton. McCandless reported that the
company had made a very favorable
offer. but said that the committee had
not felt at liberty to close a contract,
and so submitted a report accompanied
by the letter of Manager Wight of the
Steamship Company. The terms con-
tanned in the letter were:
LIBERAL OFFER.
An offer f the Kinau, to transport
not more than so persons, including
members of the Legislature, Board of
Health, the press and the band, for
$3.50.
Or, an offer of the Likelike, with
cabin acc >mmodations for all but the
band, for 800.
For all others who go on either
steamer, full deck fare. SO each for the
round trip shall be charged.
Whatever steamer goes will leave
Honolulu at 10 p. m. on Saturday
March IS, returning will sail from Ka-
laupapa on March 10 at p. m
With the report, after it had been
placed on file McCandless presented
a resolution for the appointment of
the joint committee of five from each
house to have entire charge of the
junket The mover of the resolution
thought that this was far and away the
best method of reaching the matter.
And to insult your own Health
Committee, which has already taken
: this matter up. and reported on it,
said Achi- IT move you that this reso-
luton be laid on the table,
The motion was lost on a rising vote,
and Dickey moved to amend the reso-
| luton by authorizing the committee
to make arrangements to pay only the
fare of members and attaches of the
Senate
And the band" exclaimed several
members at once.
"Oh. of course, the band" said Dick
| ey. graciously.
"And the press" said McCandless
and Achi together
why" complained Dickey. 'T sup
pose the members of the press can pay
their own way. if they want to-" Never
theless, he consented to amend his
amendment so as to take in all these
classes left out in the first place.
Then McCaudless thought that men,
bers of the Board of Health should be
included also, and Dickey likewise al
lowed that
Now, is it intended that nobody else
shall go?" asked Dowsett.
Not at ALL said Achi. Anybody
can go who can get a permit from the
Board of Health and who will consent
to stay in the corral"
With this understanding the resoIu-
tion went through-and so it is up to
the House
MATTERS OF ROUTINE.
The House reported failure to concur
in Senate amendments to House Bill
I designating where terms of the Cir