The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-04-20
IN THE HOUSE
FIFTIETH DAY.

percent of taxation, recommended the
tabling of the bill on the grounds
that it should be left to the Taxation
Commission which has been provided
by this Legislature.
Adopted.
The Finance Committee also report
ed on House Bill 227 providing com
pensation for the Corporation Law
Commission to amount of $3.50.
The report was adopted.
Kalana introduced a bill to license
dealers in second hand articles at
$25 per year and junk dealers at
$3.50.
The bill passed first reading by
title.
Two Anti-Japs bills were killed in
the House in quick succession. The
| first was to examine farriers and
horse shoers, and the second which
has been reposing in the Judiciary
Committee since early in the session
was reported for the first time.
Horse shoeh,g BILL
The bill to examine and license
horse shoers or farriers, which was
deferred from the morning session |
came up again for a third reading, |
and Sheldon offered an amendment to |
have an examining commission In |
each County instead if in one County
only This was in conformance with |
the objections raised in the morning |
that it would be hard to have shoers
come to Honolulu from other ISLANDS
in order to get licenses.
Kaniho wanted to know where the
the pay for these commissioners was
to come from.
Sheldon said that this was not an
insurmountable obstacle that for a
time the salary was not indispensable.
Pail said such a law would raise
the price of horse shoeing and tend
to create a monopoly.
Sheldon appealed from a humani-
tartan standpoint He thought the
horses welfare should be considered.
A vote being taken the bill failed
to pass by a vote of to 10.
The Judiciary reported on House
Bill No. 20, introduced by Kaleiopu
to regulate the following trades:
Carpenter Electrician,
Harnessmaker and Saddler,
Mason, Painter Plumber,
and Tailor, and to license the prac-
tice of same, recommended that the .
bill be tabled.
Rawlins made a verbal explanation I
that the bill was discriminatory and |
defective and could not be consider !
ed favorably by the committee.
Kaleiopu, father of the bill, thought a
the committee had been unjust to
his measure, and intimated that Il had U
choked the measure until there was
no hope of removing it in the brief,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lramas were not occupying share Of =
he public's attention. This newest
play. which, although written by an
Englishman, London, has yet to see'
s accredited with the longest run, at
east at the present time, of any play y
n New York this year. After its sue
,essful premiere last August the piece
las held the stage of the Hudson The
tier until quite recently.
The play is one of what used to be
allied revolutionary" ethics and is
concerned with momentous
moral questions with the frankness,
he fearlessness and the uncompromis-
ng vision of a Bernard Shaw. Con-
tructively it is said to be admirable,
exceptional opportunities for
citing of the highest grade. At least
ne of the scenes is said to compare
n splendid dramatic vitality to the
cross-questioning
Gene" between Mrs. Dane and the
udge in the same authors deeply in
eresting "Mrs, Danes Defense"
Mr., Jones has taken for his theme
Or The Hypocrites" a line from the
'ilgrim's scrip, "Expediency is mans
'isdom; doing right is Gods" And so
is story has for it's leading charac-
ers a set of narrow English provin-
lals' father the lord of the manor,
ho cannot do wrong; a mother con- =
lmed with love for her son; a son
no has betrayed a helpless young
oman, and the young woman herself
he central figure of the story IS the
Dung curate, who dares to do what
e conceives to be right despite the
yet that by so doing he may lose the
eagre stipend attached to his curacy.
harles Frohman has assembled a re-
cast for this fine play, the
'incipal members being Leslie Carter -
ichard Bennett, J. II. Barnes. Arthur
evils, John Glendenning. w. II. Den
y Jessie Millward Doris Keane,
ellen Tracy and Grace HadselI
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A little girl a few weeks ago be-
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