The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-25
THE SENATE
HAS SPEED
Saturday Was Anything
but a Holiday
With 1t.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DAY.

Without Senator Lane to promptly
move the adoption of the minutes as
read the Senate would be out of joint
Just as regular as the clerk reads these
interesting records SO regular is the
Senator from the Fifth in having them
made permanent.
The continued absence of President
Bishop is causing alarm among his
friends His proinptness in acting up
on the reports and bills has much to
do with the record for speed which
the body has made. His successor
has the same characteristics and seems
to be well up in rules parliamentary so
that there is little lost motion.
Referring to motions Senator Coelho
has lost his hold on them. 1t is only
a short time ago that he was counted
on to make every motion TO adjourn or
for recess but as the session proceeds
he seems to fall back. Rumor has it
that early in the session he required
time in which to post himself on divers
and sundry matters and as chairma n
of both Health and Education commit
tees he communed frequently with the
heads of those departments.
The Senator S friends aver that the
result of the frequent intercourse with
Babbitt and Pinkham has prepared
h
cine. For himself, however, it is safe
to say that he would rather be a Sem
ator even without the extra session.
Maui, by the way, is pretty well repre-
sented by men who have had the ex
perience that gives them the power to
grasp subjects and handle them as their
the Miscellaneous committee Senator
Kalama has done well and there is no
such thing as delay with him. There
is no doubt if he had had to do with
the Appropriation bill it would have
been disposed of over night the same
as the bills referring to livery stables
handled recently.
Senator Hayselden, chairman of the
Committee on Lands, is known as
careful, conscientious man who will take
time to settle in his mind any i'm
portant question that may be presented
to his committee; the Pounds bill, for
instance, has had consideration on his
part for several weeks When he re-
ports on the bill it will be found that
he has conserved all interests and not
worked one against another.
The report of the Ways and Means
committee on the Appropriation bill,
No, so. relating to salaries was accept
ed on Saturday without much stir. 1t
seems that the report is merely a
foundation on which to make further
cuts or increases in salaries. The House
has promised to make a noise like a
and the Senate will not lie back. Some
salaries will have further reconsider
alton now that the members realize
that they were influenced entirely by
a member of another committee. The
rumor that Assistant Superintendent
Howland is to be made an engineer of
advance over his present salary lacks
verifcation.
Now that the Governor has his hand |
in he is willing that the statement of
Senator Smith, to the effect that the
privilege of the veto is good thing, |
without any perhaps to it, be put on
the record and he is keeping up his
ick. &
Veto No. 5 hoped in on Saturday
on the hand of Secretary Atkinson and
was read at the morning session just
| few minutes before the expiration of
he time limit. This one is against
he bill which provides hospital for
;he INDECENT sick in Kohala. Perhaps
before nightfall these same residents
# Kohala will make change of two
etters in the word and become in
lignant; it IS not a far cry where the
iick and infrm of district are con
.erned. The message will have con
liberation during the day and 1T may
,e there will be change, for there
s still time to override.
The Senators are not blowing be-
ause the last two are House bills, they
hink their turn may be the next.
The only new bill introduced Satur-
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