The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-28

| The passage OF Dill over the veto
of the Governor was an incident of
the session and a pleasing one to
the Hawaii delegation for it assures
repairs to the road on Kau destroyed
by the lava flow.
The Senate, or at least a portion of
| it, had in mind the matter of recon
| sidering and passing over the veto the
bill fixing the pay of laborers at $1.50
day but in the rush of business al
lowed it to pass over the time allowed
by law for reconsideration of bills.
REPORTS. -
| After the routine business of the
morning Senator Smith. from the Judi
ciary committee, reported on House Bill
No Al as follows:
section 2 of the Revised Laws pro-
vides for the PRONUNCIATION of laws en-
acted by the Legislature by publishing
the same in newspapers published in
the English and Hawaiian languages.
The amendment proposed by the bill is
to require that such laws be published
| in newspapers in the several counties.
There does not seem to be any valid
reason why such publication should not
be made" The committee recommend
ed the passage of the bill.
From the same committee he report
ed as follows on House Bill No. 81, en-
titled AN Act relating to Reserved
Questions, Amending Sections 1859 and
ommend the passage of the bill.
while the bill does not recite at
length the two sections as amended, the
nature and purpose of the amendments
are so manifest that we do not recon-
mend that the bill be amended SO as
| to set forth the whole sections.
| Following this came the report on
House Bill No. 1872, entitled IAN Act to
amend Section 2737 of the Revised Laws
of Hawaii relating to Coroner's In
| quests" and recommend the passage of
the bill
The provisions of this bill are the
| same as those of House Bill No. Is
/ heretofore reported by this committee
and subsequently vetoed by the Gov
ernor with the exception that the error
| in the former bill has been corrected
From the judiciary committee Sena-
/ tor Smith reported as follows on House
| Bill No 81, entitled An Act relating
| to Costs of Court" and recommend the
passage of the bill.
Section l of the bill provides that
neither the Territory, nor any officer
acting in his official capacity on behalf
of the Territory, shall be taxed costs
or required to pay the same, or file any
bond or make any deposit for the same
| in any case.
Section provides for summary
| judgment to be rendered against the
principal or principals and surety or
sureties on bonds and to issue execu-
! tons if necessary.
Section provides that bonds or
money deposited for costs by any party
| to suit may be enforced for the pay
ment of costs and for the winning par
| ty to have remedy against the other
party for his COSTS
| These reports were disposed of in the
usual manner.
THE MATTER OF POUNDS.
Senator Hayselden from the Commit
| tee on Public Lands reported on the
bill relating to pounds as follows:
Your Committee on Publ Lands
report having had under consideration
Senate Bill No. 10. relative to pounds,
which was referred to this committee
/ for recommendation The bill as in
| troduced in the Senate provided solely
| the change from territorial TO county
control, making no change in the law
| as it exists and which has been the
law in force since 1898. The bill was
referred to this committee and the pas
sage of same recommended in the first
report as dealing solely with the ques-
| ton of transferring jurisdiction to the
counties.
Upon the second reading of the bill
many amendments We're offered, ma
| teriauy changing the Act, an effect
which the bill as introduced and as
| first reported upon by your committee
did not contemplate, thereupon the bin
was referred back to your COMMITTEES
| to take up the material alterations
made by the suggested amendments
| Your committee called public meet
| ings for discussion and finds that in
| terest centers on Section Is las amend
| ed of the bill relating to unfenced
| cultivated lands. This section in the
| original bill provides that the owner
| of unfenced cultivated land shall not
be entitled to claim any damages by
| trespassing other than the sum of
| twenty-five cents (s.20 for each ami
NAL together with fifty cents (S 500
per head for catching and conveying
to the pound, provided for in Section
Is as amended.
The Wahiawa small farmers appear
ed IN force before your committee and
presented their views strongly and
there seems TO be some merit to their
complaint. The locality presents Pc