The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-04-19
POLITICS
IN HOUSE
HoUsE-roRTY-EIoHTH DAY.

There was plenty of politics rife In
the doings of the Legislature yesterday
afternoon and the doings OF the House
and the Senate brought the two bodies
together with a clash just as the
Municipal bill was about to be taken
up in the House the word was passed
around that the Senate had killed the
Primary law. This passed the death
sentence on the hostage Municipal bill
and it was killed out of hand but not
so dead but that it may recover on
word being brought to it in its resting
place that there has been a resurrec-
ton of the Primary law.
The tit for tat counter blow result
ed in a number of the Senators, head
ed by John G. Lane, laying in ambush
in the lobby and when the House rose
and the members wandered out there
was series of lively skirmishes be-
tween the Senate cohorts and the home
guard of the House. Lane expostu-
lated, argued and pleaded for his bill,
meeting a stout opposition in the par
tisans of the Primary law.
Senator Chillingworth joined the
fray and tainted the House members
with having made monkeys of them
selves over the Income Tax bill, hav-
ing sustained the veto.
"We have resolved to reconsider
that. We will bring it up again to-
morrow" explained Kalana.
81 don't care what you do now,
you have made - fools of yourselves
about it, answered the Senator, who
then expressed himself regarding the
Primary and Municipal bills, the former
of which he is credited with having
killed by his doughty efforts and the
latter of which he seemed glad to see
dead.
elf it comes to a question as to
which bill should stay dead the longest
it should be the Municipal bill. Just
see what are the forces parading the
streets today in support of that bill.
If it ever passes, I tell you we will
have crowd in power in Honolulu
that there would be no way of con-
trolling.'
Senator Kalama broke into the game
by asking the House members what
they meant by accusing the Senate of
holding up their bills.
"Why, we haven t one of them now.
We have cleared them all out. Every
thing is paul.
"Well where the are theya"
asked Kalana, eve haven't heard of
any of them coming back to the
House,
Indefinitely postponed" chuckled
Chillingworth.
At this juncture the Governor came
down stairs and wanted to know what
the row was all about. But as he ask
ed the question he acted as if he had
bunch, for he hurried on without
stopping to get any answer.
Sheldon was in the meanwhile con-
soling Lane.
"They are only playing little bit
of politics with you," he explained,
"and are holding up the Senate over
the Primary bill"
"They needn It think they can hold
the Senate up over the Primary BILL"
Clipped in Chillingworth.
Charley Motley was over in corner
shaking in glee.
"They said our Home Rule meet |
ing over the Primary law was frost, -
he chuckled, "but the frost was hard
enough to kill off the bill, anyway.
1t was that meeting that did the trick
all right
HOUSE HAD BUSY DAY.
The House had a particularly busy
day Of it.
The members discussed Local Option
and got over their desire to kill the
bill, a majority coming to its rescue
when its postponement to April 80 was
moved. They seemed to like to keep
the matter dangling in the air but did
not want to handle it, Rawlins spurn-
ing the offer to have it turned over
to his committee to be licked up into
passable shape. He explained that he
had plenty of troubles of his own
without picking up this matter.
The Governor 8 veto of the Income
tax measure was first solemnly sustain
ed and then suddenly reconsidered.
What will be done with it today will
depend upon the mood of the House
at the particular moment when it will
be up.
Morning Session.
A report from the special committee
named to investigate the conditions of
affairs at the Iwilei washhouse was
presented as first course for the
House members yesterday morning, be-
ing roast of the condition of affairs