The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-04-28

veto Of the measure providing funds
for the maintenance of the county
system by a vote of "a to s.
The House also passed bicycle tax
bill
When Speaker Knudsen appointed
Rice, Cox and Waterhouse as the House |
representatives on the Joint House and |
Senate Committee on the hash.t test |
bill, objection was made. to Rice, he |
being a l20-degree man. Rice offered |
Immediately to give way in favor OF
Aylett or Andrade, both strong $50. |
degree men. They refused and the
committee stood as appointed. The
committee was authorized to confer
with the Senate committee at once and
reported during recess that they could
accomplish nothing, the Senators stand
ing out for 140.
A long recess was taken to give the
clerk an opportunity to engross some
bills. In this interim Rep. Coelho, the
."sweet singer of Waikapu,o sang a
number of Hawaiian songs to the de-
light of the large audience present. Be
fore long Coelho had a double duin-
tette organized, and the House be-
came merry.
The bill to facilitate the collection
of certain debts failed to pass.
The recess was terminated at 1890,
when communications from the Govern
or were read.
The first was that he had signed
House Bill 221, to amend sections of
the Revised Laws; also House Bill
149, repeating sections of the Revised
Laws; also House Bill 203, to amend
Sections 2090, 81 and 80 of the Re.
vised Laws; also number of Senate
bills.
The following resolution was intro
duced by Holstein, who moved its adop-
ton:
Resolved, by the House of Repre-
sentatives that if the courts hold that
the County Act is to be tested in the
courts; therefore be it
Resolved, by the House of Represen-
tatives of the Territory of Hawaii that
if the Supreme Court of the Territory
should nullify the County Act, and il
there should be no appeal to the Su-
preme Court of the United States at
any time to make it so as to hold the
county election at the time provided
in such act, our Delegate to Congress
be, and is hereby, earnestly requested
to use his best endeavors to get a
County Act passed by the next session
of the Congress of the United States;
Resolved, That copy of this reso-
luton be transmitted by the clerk of
the House to Hon. J. X. Kalanianaole,
Delegate to Congress.
(Signed) II. L. HOLSTEIN.
Rep. end ,Elec. Dist.
Kaniho suggested that the House
had better pay attention to the Fed
eral law; that the "Territory should
tax itself.'' His opinion was that To-
cal efforts to establish local self-gov-
eminent were embraced in a CLAW"
That Hawaii "should take care of her
self" This was embodied in the Or
ganic Act The resolution asked Con-
gress to pass county law for Hawaii.
This would indicate that the statement
that "Hawaii is not able to take care
of herself is true. The day was
drawing near when the world would
say, "Our bin is filed only with mash
ed potatoes. We have shown we are
afraid that the county law is uncon-
stitutional, and to Offset an adverse de-
cision by the Supreme Court, we are
asking Congress to enact county law
| for us. 1t said to us that 1t IS full
of holes. / say, wait until we come
back here again and patch up those
holes. The Federal Government will
say that we people down here don t
know how to pass laws. If we permit
Congress to do this, we will show we
are incapable. 1 move to indefinitely
| postpone action.
The vote taken to postpone resulted
in defeating the resolution by 13 to 8.
The Governor notified the House that
he had signed House Bill POI, for the
departmental expenses of the govern
ment.
Speaker Knudsen asked that chair.
men of all committees return all papers
/ to the clerk
EXPENSES OF SESSION.
Chairman Rice of the Committee on
Accounts presented the following re.
port:
Honolulu, April 26, 1905.
Hon. E. A. Knudsen, Speaker, House
of Representatives, Territory of
Hawaii
Sir: Your Committee on Accounts beg
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