The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-03-12
SENATE STILL
DRIVING IN
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DAY.
BILLS INTRODUCED.


Senate Bill No. 40 To establish the
liabilities and rights of hotelkceper
and like person with respect to bag
gage and property of guests.
Senate Bill No. AZ. Relates to the
sale of intoxicating liquors and is
known in the Senate as the Repub-
lican Party Bill.
PASSED THIRD READING.
Rouse Bill No. 3S. Relates to the
payment of witnesses in criminal
cases.
House Bill No. z Provides for the
establishing of hospital in Kohala
said institution to be for INDECENT per-
sons
House Bill No. Is. Relates to the
pay of Jurors in coroner Is inquests.
House Bill No. 3s. Relates to the
disposition of Hawaiian Statutes in
bound form.
Morning Session.
ate, yesterday was one which stands
well up toward the head IN the mat
ter Of business done. There was work
of all kinds transacted and some of
the details show an apparent indif-
ference to the rules of the House as
well as lack of knowledge of the
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form, appointments of trustees of the
Queens Hospital have been presented
to the Senate for confirmation. When
these were brought up as usual the
other day the citizenship of some of
the appointees was questioned and ac-
ton on those particular ones was de-
ferred. Others were confirmed. Yes
terday there was fled in the Senate
a request from the Governor that all
names presented by him under this
head be returned to him. There was
no direct reason given for the request
but it transpired during the discussion
which followed that the appointments
were not, in law, considered as Gov
eminent appointments and for that rea-
son action by the Legislature was not
necessary.
Senator Hewitt questioned the right
of the withdrawal of names already
confirmed but the motion to return to
the Governor carried.
The House reported that the speaker
had appointed Representatives Raw
Inns, Pail and Mahoe as conference
committee to consider Bill No. %, re-
lating to the punishment for crime
committed with girl under fourteen
years of age.
UNREGISTERED VOTERS.
Senator Smith reported from the
Judiciary committee as follows:
The Judiciary committee report con-
sideraton of House Bill No. 80, en-
titled "An Act to provide for the vot-
ing of qualified Elector who has fail
ed to register as a voter as follows:
The object of the bill is to permit
qualified electors to vote who failed
tration because of sickness or absence
from the Territory during the regis
tration period.
We approve of the object sought to
be obtained by the bill but do not ap-
prove of the provisions that such cleo
tors may qualify before the inspectors
of election, but believe that they
should appear before the members of
the Board of Registration.
We therefore recommend that Sec
tion 1 of the bill be amended to read
as follows:
Section /. No qualified elector shall
be disqualified from voting by reason
of his failure to register, If such fail
ure be caused by sickness or absence
from the Territory during the last pre-
ceding registration period. provided
that he shall make and present to the
Board of Registration not later than
the day preceding any election an af-
fidavit in writing showing that his
failure to register was caused by such
sickness or absence, and shall also set
forth in said affidavit his place of resi-
dence and the facts necessary to show
that he is qualified voter in said
precinct, and shall prove before said
board by affidavit of two qualified
electors of the precinct in which he
offers to vote that he is a qualified
elector of the Territory and of the said
precinct, stating the length of time
said elector has resided in his repre-
sentative district and in the Territory,
and that such person offering to vote
was absent from the Territory or by
reason of sickness unable to register
during the last preceding registration
period. The aforesaid affidavits shall
be subscribed and sworn to before a
member of the Board of Registration.
''If 1t shall appear from said affida-
Wits and be manifest to the Board of
Registration that said elector desiring
to vote has failed to register because
of sickness or absence from the Terri
tory as aforesaid, such board shall
Immediately remedy such failure to
register by adding the name of such
-elector to the register OF voters. and
II a copy OF the register has been sent
to the election precinct In which said
,elector is entitled to vote, shall imme-
diately. in writing. order the inspectors
of election of such precinct to correct
such copy of the register by adding
| the name OF such elector. Such order
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