The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-05-03

tain the veto In regari 10 Lueweiko ant
override u In regard 20 Maka.
sheldon said that two wrongs never
made right aud asked that both item,
bc carried over the veto.
Kaniho moved TO sustain the veto on
both items.
on veto the Makn veto was sus
tanned and the Lucweiko item carried
over the veto.
Afternoon Session.
After kicking back and forth from
Senate to House and House to Senate
seeking for someone to father It, the
resolution to increase the sessional in.
demnity of members to $1,000 a session
was presented yesterday in the House,
coming down as Senate Concurrent
Resolution o. This calls for ninety.
day session, mileage fee of ten cents
a mile for members, and no compensa-
tion for any extra session. This had
passed unanimously in the Senate.
"Who will move the adoption Of the
resolution7'' asked the Speaker.
Rice dared it. He said that there
were no holdover members of the
House to benefit by the change and
he moved that the Senate resolution
be adopted.
| Kaniho asked if he could believe his
ears that there would be no pay for
an extra session. On being told that
his ears were credible he promptly
moved the indefinite postponement of
the resolution. He said he would not
bind down any future legislature and
| deny them the inherent right of draw
ing down extra pay for an extra ses-
sion.
Pail moved to defer action until $3.50
in the evening, but no one seconded
this.
Kaleiopu said that nothing had oc-
CURED during the session to besmear
the record of the House and the adop-
tion of this resolution might besmear
it. Such action might be looked upon
as an attempt to grab money from the
treasury, while the same object could
be gained through the Delegate at
Congress.
"The morning paper, in it's editorial
column this morning, complimented this
| Legislature ON the excellent record it
had made, but towards the end of the
article it said that something might be
done in the closing hours to smear that
record. Has that time come9' asked
Kaleiopu.
The Speaker then asked the members
to carefully consider whether they were
justified in passing the resolution. They
themselves would not be affected, but
their successors would be.
cit seems to be applied to Hawai-
ians, 1 don't know why, that they are
grabbers of the public money. For
that reason, as well as others, ! second
the motion to indefinitely postpone"
said member.
Rice rose to withdraw his motion.
He said that he had not expected any
strong opposition and had made his
motion in courtesy to the Senate. He
asked leave to withdraw it and sub
stitute one to table the resolution.
Sheldon favored the resolution. He
reminded the members of the hard work
they had gone through and asked which
one of them did not consider that he
had earned that amount of money. The
adoption of the resolution would not
make law but would merely express
the sentiment of the House.
The measure had been long discussed,
continued Sheldon, and he had supposed
that the members were unanimous on it.
He had not considered that the record
of the House would be besmirched by
the vote to adopt. If there had been
a ninety-day session much of the work
would not show such signs of haste.
The rollcall on the resolution, which
was asked for by Pail, gave fifteen ayes
and fifteen noes, the resolution failing
to pass. The House divided as fol
lows:
Ayes: Akau, Alawa, Coney, Correa,
Comes, Kahana, Kaleo, Kalana, Mahoe,
Moanauli, Nailima, Nakaleka, Rice,
Sheldon and Silva-15.
Noes: Castro, Hughes, Joseph, Ka-
leiopu, Kaniho, Keouli, Leleiwi, Long,
Pail, Paoo, Quinn, Rawlins, Waiwaiole
and the Speaker-15.
MORE BILLS SIGNED.
Notification of the signing of an
other bill was sent in by the Secretary,
this being House Bill 216, Act 124,
relating to Insurance corporations and
companies.
PETITION / COMES BACK.
Rawlins, ON behalf of the Judiciary
committee, presented report on House
Petition /, asking that the rights of
Waiwaiole, Joseph, Kaluna and Naka-
leka to seats in the Legislature be in
vestigated. The report stated that the
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