The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-09

Section 20: No license shall be gran
ed to any person for more than oil
saloon to one person, firm or corpri
ton, was stricken out
The license for clubs outside a radil
G Of five miles from a first-class pos
}, office was reduced from $3.50, as in II
8 bill, to $3.50.
Senator Coelho moved that the CON
nittee report progress and beg leav
e to sit again and report certain amend
q ments.
APPROPRIATIONS.
The Senate again resolved itself int
= the committee of the whole with Sen
: ator Knudsen in the chair.
} Senator Smith moved to amend tn
: item Landings and Wharves so tina
it shall be as in the bill. a lump sun
of $45,0 900.
Senator Dowsett moved to make i
$4,000
Senator Kalama objected. He moved
that the item be made $4,000. Sen
ator Woods seconded and the Dowset
motion was lost. The Smith amend
ment segregating the amount, $4,000
carried.
KEROSENE OIL.
| The item of $500, rent of kerosene
| oil warehouse was up against it when
it struck the eagle eye of Senator
! Woods, so he moved to strike out the
item. In this he had strong supper,
from Senator Chillingworth, who said
| he had called on members Of the Mer-
| chants Association and Chamber of
Commerce and found them opposed 10
the present custom.
Senator Bishop said the statement
that his opposition to the bill was
due to the fact that certain parties
build warehouses was an error on the
part of some one. He opposed the bin
because he wanted to let the govern
ment have the revenue.
Senator ChilIingworth said the act of
charging storage is unconstitutional
and in violation of Act 10 of the Con-
stitution of the United States which
provides against double taxation.
Senator Smith asked in whose inter
est Senator Chillingworth was work.
ing.
The Senator declined to answer until
the question was made palmer. It
then developed that Senator Chilling
worth was favoring the bill in behalf
of the oil dealers.
Senators Smith and Bishop remarked
that they thought so.
The motion to strike out the item
was lost.
Senator Dowsett moved to reduce the
item for the survey department to
$4,000 Senator Brown wanted it re-
duced to $4,000, same as last year.
Senator Smith made an appeal for
the preservation of the item. He NOV
ed to make it $4,000
Senator Woods seconded the motion
to make the sum $4,000.
Senator Brown supported his motion
for reduction because the Surveyor
General was unable to tell the commit
tee what his department would do with
the money when he got it,
Senator Dowsett thought the present |
force would be able to handle the work
and believed $4,000 would be sufficient. |
Senator Hayselden called attention
to the fact that the Board of Immi. |
grafton has recommended that lands be |
opened, in which case it would require |
the surveyors services. He would |
second the Dowsett motion to fix the |
amount at $4,000 and this carried.
Industrial and manual training $500 /
was, on motion of Senator Dowsett, re-
duced to $4,000.
Superintendent Rabbit reported sales
Of books during the biennial period to
be $10,067.50 instead of $4,000 as he had
previously stated. The item of $12 500,
book and library fund, passed. School
supplies $4,000 and materials for lace
making $500 passed as in the bill.
Lahainaluna, on motion of Senator
7ayselden, was raised to $4,000. SEN
ltOr Kalama moved to strike out $500
Tor summer school. Carried.
For repairs to school buildings the
Oahu item was cut TO $685. 900 on mo-
ion of Senator kalama. He moved to
ut Hawaii appropriation to $780, 900 and
Makekau kicked as hard as Senator
smith against the reduction for Oahu,
% it stood at s26,S75. Senator Bishop
moved to cut the Maui, Molokai and
ANAL appropriation to $4,000. Senator
lalama said $4,000 would be sufficient
nd his amendment carried.
Senator Smith objected to reducing
he Kauai item below the amount in
he bill. Senator Dowsett wanted to
educe it to $4,000. Coelho moved to
ASS as in the bill. Carried.
HEALTH M T'TEpS