The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-09
SENATE STILL
DRIVING IN
The GovernorWithdraw
Names---LandIords
Friend Active.
sENATE-FoURTEENTH DAY.
BILLS INTRODUCED.

Senate Bill No. 40. To establish the
liabilities and rights of a hotelkeepe1
and like person with respect to bag
gage and property of guests.
Senate Bill No. Al. Relates to the
sale of intoxicating liquors and is
known in the Senate as the Repub
ican Party Bill.
PASSED THIRD READING.
Rouse Bill No. 3S. Relates to the
payment of witnesses in criminal
cases.
House Bill No. Z. Provides for the
establishing of hospital in Kohala
said institution to be for INDECENT per
sons.
House Bill No. Is. Relates to the
pay of jurors in coroner S inquests.
House Bill No. 3S. Relates to the
disposition of Hawaiian Statutes in
bound form.
Morning Session.
While not the record day in the Sen
ate, yesterday was one which stands
well up toward the head in the mat
ter OF business done. There was work
of all kinds transacted and some of
the details show an apparent indif-
ference to the rules of the House as
well as lack of knowledge of the
laws. 1t seems that as matter of
form, appointments of trustees of the
Queen s Hospital have been presented
to the Senate for confirmation. When
these were brought up as usual the
other day the citizenship OF some OF
the appointees was questioned and ac-
tion on those particular ones was de-
ferred. Others were confirmed. Yes
terday there was fled in the Senate
a request from the Governor that all
names presented by him under this
head be returned to him. There was
no direct reason given for the request
but it transpired during the discussion
which followed that the appointments
were not, in law, considered as Gov
ernment appointments and for that rea-
son action by the Legislature was not
necessary.
Senator Hewitt questioned the right
of the withdrawal of names already
confirmed but the motion to return to
the Governor carried.
The House reported that the speaker
had appointed Representatives Raw
Inns, Pail and Mahoe as conference
committee to consider Bill No. 70, re-
lating to the punishment for crime
committed with girl under fourteen
years of age.
UNREGISTERED VOTERS.
Senator Smith reported from the
Judiciary committee as follows:
The Judiciary committee report con-
sideration of House Bill No. 81, en-
titled AN Act to provide for the vot-
ing of a qualified Elector who has fall
ed to register as a voter az follows:
The object of the bill is to permit
qualified electors to vote who fa1leo
to register before the Board of Regis
Jration because of sickness or absence
from the Territory during the regis
tration period.
We approve of the object sought to
be obtained by the bill but do not ap-
prove of the provisions that sucn elec-
tors may qualify before the inspectors
of election, but believe that they
should appear before the members or
the Board of Registration.
We therefore recommend that Sec
ton 1 of the bill be amended to read
as follows:
Section l. No qualified elector shall
be disqualified from voting oy reason
of his failure to register, II such Iall-
ure be caused by sickness or absence
from the Territory during the last pre-
ceding registration period, proViueo
that he shall make and present TO the
Board of Registration not later tha1
the day preceding any election an al
hdavit in writing showing that ms
failure to register was caused by such |
or absence, and shall also set /
forth in said affidavit his place of resi-
dence and the facts necessary to show
that he is a qualified voter In SAID
precinct, and shall prove before saio
board by affidavit of two quallfeo
electors of the precinct in Wnich ne |
offers TO vote that he is qual1ned
elector of the Territory and of the SAID
precinct, stating the length of time
said eIector has resided in his repre-
sentative district and in the TERRITORY
and that such person offering to vote
was absent from the Territory or Dy
reason of sickness unable to reglster
during the last preceding registration
period The aforesaid affidavits shali
be subscribed and sworn to before
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