The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-04-23
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ing TO vote against the bill. A mat
has n right to have his clothes ironc'
by hand IL he wants to-, he said.
Sheldon said the bill spoke for II
self. Tho bill was not for the pur
pose Of protecting certain steam laun
dries, but the committee did regard
the Government wash houses in Iwi
lei as menace to the public health
because of their unsanitary condition
81 assure you, gentleman, that the
bill is not to protect certain interests,
but is drawn up in fair and open
way" concluded Sheldon.
Kaniho moved the indefinite post.
ponement OF the bill. He saw the
cloven hoof, or thought he did, along
the same lines as objected to by Raw
Inns. He saw the time coming, il the
bill passed, where he would have to
pay four bits to have his coat pressed
instead of the nickel it now cost him
In going around with the laundry com.
mittee he had noted the great interest
that Sheldon took in the steam laun-
dry plant and he detected the same
great interest in the bill presented.
Kaleiopu also opposed the bill as
one aiming to create a laundry mo-
nopoly.
Sheldon closed the debate. He said
the law applied, it was true, principally
to the Honolulu laundries, but the Ter
ritory was paying a part of the Homo
nolulu laundry bills by bonusing the
Chinese laundrymen. He opposed the
idea that the bill was monopoly and
again described the condition of the
wash houses at Iwilei.
Kaniho and Rawlins got upon the
floor at the same time to reply, the
latter asking the Kohala representative
for permission to move an amendment
as both seemed of one mind. Kaniho
told Rawlins he could wait, however,
and went along with his speech. He
accused Sheldon of holding commit
tee meeting without notifying him and
wanted to know why Sheldon IS bill did
not confne itself to abolishing the
wash houses at Iwilei. The orator took
a swipe at the Board of Health for not
keeping the Iwilei houses clean and
talked until the Speaker warned him
that he had only two minutes Of his
time left.
Rawlins then put in his amendment,
which cuts out the more obvious refer
ences to steam laundry machinery. His
carried and Hughes added
a couple more, one to cut the license
to so year and the other to cut
the maximum penalty to $40.
This last amendment was jumped on
by Rawlins, who thought the bill might
as well otherwise be cut out. The low
fine proposed, he thought, was an invita-
tion to break the law.
In spite of Rawlins' objection to the
they carried, but the bill
itself was showed under, the vote
against it on rollcall being 90 to none,
Sheldon voting against his own bill
with the rest of the House.
Afternoon Session.
The order of the day was resumed
after the noon recess,
House Bill 900, regarding the bonds of
public officers, being up for third read
ing. There was only one vote regis
tered against it on the rollcall.
LOCAL OPTION BILL.
The vote on the Local Option bill, on
third reading, began with its friends
certain of its passage, Kaniho and one
or two others who were thought certain
to fight it being absent.
Rawlins said he was not anxious to
be again accused of trying to kill the
He called upon Hughes to
explain certain clauses.
Hughes said he was willing to let
the bill go as it looked and moved the
third reading, whereupon Rawlins ask
ed for recess in which to draft an
Three minutes were grant
ed him for that purpose.
The amendment was to the effect
that existing licenses would be UNI
affected by vote in any precinct
against the licensed sale of liquor. The
carried.
Rollcall found Silva, Correa and Ka-
luna alone against the bill.
MORE THIRD READINGS.
House Bill $50, amending Section
1866 of the Revised Laws, respecting
Acknowledgements, was carried through
the final stage without debate.
House Bill 231, revoking the com
missions of those empowered to take
acknowledgements, under Section 2355,
net with an almost unanimous support. |
House Bill 232, an act giving the
of the Board of Health |
light of way on the public streets
.gainst all but fire engines, went