The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-04-12

House Bill lpa, requiring the fuf'
nishing Of information regarding the
possession and ownership Of firearms
and ammunition within the Territory,
were all given second reading and
assigned to their appropriate commit
tees.
AN INTERESTING REPORT.
The report OF the Health committee
on their recent visit TO the leper set
Element on Molokai was presented. The
report was a long one and gave a de-
tailed account of the various meetings
held there. The recommendations of
the committee were:
That the case of Naiwi. who has
been at the settlement since 1868 and
who shows no sign of the disease ex-
cept for q cramped right hand and a
broken sore on the end OF the small
finger. be thoroughly Investigated and
the man discharged II cured:
That goods be supplied to lepers at
cost price, minus the freight charges
which should be born by the Terri
tory This is preferable to raising the
yearly wage from $40 to SIC.
That the lepers receive a supply of
s pounds Of beef in place of z pounds
as now.
That the sale of liquor be prohibited
in the Settlement.
That the pay of laborers be raised to
81 per day. and that the Kalaupapa
band be not paid any salary.
Further recommendations are: The
construction and erection of a break
water at the Kalaupapa landing; the
erecting of hosting machine, the re-
newal Of warehouses, the erection of
an octagon building at the landing
similar to the one at the Insane Asy-
lum; repairs to Beretania hall; the
erection of home for non-leprous
boys of leprous parents; the establish
ment of court of last appeal at Ka-
laupapa; the furnishing of machinery
for cutting firewood: the establishment
Of an ice plant: the repairing of
houses Of lepers, and O supply of fire
hydrants.
All these improvements have been
recommended at a meeting of the COM
mittee. held in conjunction with the
chairman of the Health committee of
the Senate.
TObLlC LANDS HEHORIS.
The Public Lands committee pre-
sented many reports on bills in it's
hands.
Tabling was the best recommended
ton the members could make for
House Resolution 1853, asking $4,000 for
payment for 2. p. Kalokuokamaile for
land taken by the government; House
1852, asking $500 to repair.
the landing at Kailua, North Kona,
and House Resolution 161, asking &c.
300 for the widening of Desha lane
The request for $4,000 to repair the
wharf at Kahalepalaoa, Lanai, was
also turned down, but an item of $250O
'or new landing at Manele was rec
Equally favorable were the report
IN House Petition A. asking for 5000
or a wharf at Kalihiwai, Kauai, and
House Petition As, from the guards
Ind nurses at the Oahu Insane Asy-
UNI. asking that their salaries he re-
stored to $50 a month. House Resolu-
ion $50, that $500 be appropriated to |
Jay Kauwe for land taken by the gov
was tabled as coming in af-
er the unpaid claims bills had gone |
tut of the House.
HUGHES LAND BILL APPROVED.
The report of the committee on
hughes House Bill &c, creating and
roviding for Board of Commission
rs for Public Lands, was a favorable
ne although there were three pages
I amendments suggested. The major
ty of these changes are verbal ones
My, the material changes being the
that the sizes Of the
visions into which the public lands
e surveyed being: first-class agricul-
ural land, so acres; second-class agri-
ultural land, 100 acres; first-class pas
oral land, 800 acres; second-class pas
oral land, $40 acres, and pastoral
gricultural land, 800 acres. These
mounts are to be the maximum
mount acquirable by any one person
nder the act.
All the reports of the committee
ere adopted, there being only one
iscussion and that being occasioned
y Kaniho confusing the words
and bridge" and talking for
quarter of an hour before the House
,uld grasp the purport of his argu- .
ent.
House Bill 1853, appropriating money
n the repair of the stone breakwater
Waimea, passed second reading.
Rawlins raised the question of the
'nfict between the rules of the House
Id the order given the previous day
the Speaker to the Clerk to hand
yer the original papers of the House
anyone He desired, he said, to
lst no reflections on the honorable
oeaker. but thought the rules of the
ouse should be observed.
The chair stated that there had been d
} resolution introduced that the Clerk I
ould have to have the permission OF [
e House to turn over bills and other Z
-pers to the chairmen of committees o
Rawlins still thought that their o
ould be a resolution to take all re- n
onsibility off the Clerk in case any n
the papers be lost and moved a
rbal resolution to that effect. "
The Speaker called for more express +
ms of opinion. n
We don't want to go bull-headed n
any OF these things" he said.
Long argued on the technicalities of n
g case and he and Rawlins discussed n
g matter between themselves. The !,
ter pointed out the difference be- ;,
cen handing papers to committee,
part OF the Legislature. and to prin- -
= and proofreaders, who were In no =
lse n part of the House. .