The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-08

| The amendment was hopelessly snow
| ed under.
| Nakuina moved similar amendment
with reference to Waikiki as the coun-
ty seat of the county of Maui, but was
| ruled out of order.
Coelho had an objection TO making
! the leper settlement into the county
of Kalawao. 1t was taking the control
| of the place away from the people and
placing it in the hands of the oil
garchy, the Board of Health. He NOV
ed that the settlement be included in
the county of Maui.
The amendment found little favor
and was lost, only Coelho and Kaniho
voting for it.
COELHO'S CHANGED HEART.
Then, after over an hours discussion
Coelho rose and said that he had just
read the bill over and found that all
of his objections had been provided for
in a subsequent section. The House
voted to reconsider its former vote,
whereupon Coelho withdrew his amend
ment, Kaniho withdrew his seconding
and the whole bubble burst
Smith drew attention to the wording
of the section which placed all of the
islands not included in any other coun-
ty under the jurisdiction of the Court
of the First Curcuit. This would bring
in Bird Island, Laysan and the other
islands to the northwest of Oahu. He
thought that this would endanger the
whole County Act before the Supreme
Court and he moved to strike out the
clause
The amendment carried and Section
1, Chapter l. was passed as amended.
The Committee of the Whole rose at
4 o'clock reported progress and asked
leave to sit again at 7:30.
The report was adopted.
THE MORNING SESSION.
During the morning the following
routine matters came up:
A petition was presented from Kau
asking for the opening of the lands of
Hionaa and Kaalaiki for homesteads.
FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORTS
The Finance Committee reported adj
versely on Sheldons bill to provide that
water rates. fines and costs and other
Territorial charges should be payable
in warrants at par, on the ground that
the bill if passed would subject war
rants to all sorts of speculation and
manipulation.
Smith presented four petitions for the
division of the island of Hawaii into
two counties.
The Finance Committee reported on
the request of DR.. John Atcherly of
Kawaihae, for compensation for loss
of salary owing to the reduction of sal
aries of government physicians, rec
ommending that its consideration be
indefinitely postponed. This was done
On the plain showing that DR.. Atcherly
had resigned when the salary was re-
duced.
The Finance Committee recommend
ed the appropriation of $4,000 for the
expenses of the Court of the Fifth Cir
cult
The Finance Committee recommend
ed the tabling of the Communica ton
of Young Bros. offering to do the work
of the pilots, now done by boat boys,
for the sum of $1,000 a year. The COM
mittee found that the work done now
by boats could not be done as satisfac-
torily by launches, as Young Bros.
suggest. the pilots also preferring the
present system. The report was adopt
ed.
The Finance Committee reported ad-
versely on Holstein's bill to exempt all
males of 80 years and upward from poll
tax instead of from so years upward.
The report was tabled to be considered
later.
HEALTH COMMITTEES VIEWS.
The Health Committee recommended
an appropriation for medicine, but re-
jected the suggested repeal of the sus-
pect laws, as it was not in form, and
it was referred back for translation into
English.
The Health Committee recommended
that the laws be enforced to prevent
the contamination of the auwai, which
supplies water for the school at Waia-
hole. Oahu.
The report of the Honolulu Park
Commission was received and placed on
file
The statement of incidental expend1-
lures of the Commissioners of Agricui-
ture and Forestry for the last six
months of 1904. amounting to $2,73S.S5,
was presented and filed.
The indicidentals of the Public IN