The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-06
THE SENATE.

Senator Palmer Woods showed his
colleagues on Saturday what Demo-
crat could do as the head of a special
Sunday law committee, submitting a
report that reformed" the McCandless
bill for letting everybody do every
thing. The bill went over until Tues
day but the bill as it has been chang
ed presents a number of features of in
terest In it's text it is as follows:
AN ACT RESPECTING THE OBJ
SERVANCE OF THE SABBATH
DAY.
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature of
the Territory of Hawaii:
Section l. Sunday within the mean
ing of the provisions of this Act is the
first day of the week and includes the
time between the midnight preceding
and the midnight following the same
day.
Section 2 All labor on Sunday is
forbidden, excepting works of necess-
ity or mercy, in which are included all
labor that is sneedful for the good or
der, health, seomfort, or safety of the
community sSor for the protection of
property from unforeseen disaster, or
danger of destruction or injury, or
| which may be required for the pro-
secution of or attendance upon reli-
gious worship, or for the furnishing of
opportunities of reading or study; pro-
vided. however, that this Section shall
not apply to newspaper printing Of
| fees, steamship companies, railroads,
| telegraph and telephone companies,
hotels, inns, restaurants, restaurant
| cigar stands, stores for the sale of to-
| bacco products only, ice cream parlors,
| soda water stands, drug stores, fruit
| stands for sale of fruit only, livery
| sta bles, hackmen, owners and opera
| tors of licensed shore boats, news de-
pots, agriculturalists, florists, graziers
| and ranchmen. Farmers, graziers and
ranchmen shall perform such labor on
| ly as is necessary to the up-keep OF
| equipment and the care of livestock
electric light plants, ice making plants,
| gas works and slaughter houses; and
provided further, that personal bag
! gage may be conveyed to and from yes
sells leaving and arriving at Port on
| that day, and to and from any rail-
road station; that on sunday the load
| ing and unloading, coaling ana De
| spatch of. vessels engaged in inter-
|
carrying United States mail shall be
permitted. but no freight shall be dray-
| ed or conveyed from the dock, pier,
wharf or landing upon which it is I'M
| loaded. except livestock and perisha-
| BILE goods: that during the entire day
| milk, bread. fruit and ice may be sold
| and delivered: that until nine O'Clock
in the forenoon fresh meat, fresh hsh,
| fresh fruit and fresh vegetables may
, be sold and delivered. and that barber
| shops may be kept open until eleven
| O'Clock in the forenoon, and pubic
markets until nine o'clock in the fore
noon.
| Section 8. All outdoor recreations,
sports. museums, aquariums and games
| may be conducted on Sunday provided
/ il be done in manner not constituting
| a common nuisance.
| Section 4. Except as otherwise pro-
vided no person shall serve or execute
any civil process on Sunday and any
| such service or execution shall be void.
Section ;. Whoever wilfully inter
rupts or disturbs any religious assem-
bly, or assembly for religious worship
whether such offender commit such of
! Tense within or without the place OF
| assembly and whether such onense be
| committed on the Lords day or at any
other time. shall be punished as pro-
| vided in Section of this Act.
| Section 6. Any person violating any
of the provisions OF this Act shall. up
on conviction be fined not over 800
or be imprisoned not over thirty days
Section :. All parts OF Chapter 22o
Sections 31S9 to 1894 inclusive. of the
Revised Laws of Hawaii and all other
laws inconsistent with the provisions
of this Act are hereby repealed.
Section s This Act shall take effect
from and after the date of its ap-
| prevail.
WOODS REPORT.
Indeed. Senator Woods was the whole
thing at Saturdays session. pretty
nearly. for he likewise presented a mi
aority report on the forestry bin.
which is Senate Bill No. Il, which was
| a hummer 1t was a minority report