The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-01
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Kaleiopu, as a member of the society.
explained that the society had nothing
to ask for from the House except the
honor OF the presence OF the members
at the luau.
The Clerk was instructed TO thank
the society for the invitation.
LIBRARY BILL.
A report was presented from the
Committee on Education relating to
Hughes library bill, and was adopted
The bill provides for the establishment
of the Hawaiian Library and provides
for it's care and management.
REGULATING PRIVATE SCHOOLS
The same committee reported favor
ably on Senator Hewitt's bill to put
all private schools under the same reg
ulations as those governing public
schools so far as hours of attendance
are concerned, and also requiring pri>
vate schools to be recorded with the
Department of Public instruction.
LABoRERs' PAY.
A bill to take the place of the one
vetoed by the Governor, respecting tho
pay of road laborers, was introduced
by Nakaleka. This bill provides that
the daily pay for each working day or
each laborer engaged in constructing
or repairing roads, bridges or streets.
waterworks or other works either by
contract or otherwise for the Territory
of Hawaii, or for any political subdi-
vision thereof, shall not be less than
one dollar and twenty-five cents.
The bill passed it's first reading and
was put on the special order of the day
for Monday.
THIRD READINGS.
There was only one House bill on
the order of the day, that being Longs
act relating to negotiable instruments
which was deferred until Tuesday.
Two Senate bills, numbers 73 and A
were also on the calendar. The first
of these confers the power of eminent
domain on the counties in certain
cases, the intention of the bill being
to allow the counties to condemn
lands needed for county purposes, a
power at present only vested in the
Territory.
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The consideration Of this bill drew
from Rawlins the remark that he
wouldn't give the snap of his finger for
his chances when represented by one
man against two appointed by the
government in the matter of arbitrat-
ing prices of condemned lands. Hughes
and Mahoe asked a number of ques-
tions on this bill, which Rawlins an
swered, but Mahoe could not grasp
the purport of the bill. A motion to
postpone until Monday was lost,
whereupon Kaniho moved to indef-
initely postpone because of defects in
the bill detected by his honorable
friend Mahoe.
Kaniho said the law was a land
grabbing measure which might work
an injury against the kuleana owners.
He rambled on in his remarks for
considerable time.
II want to see a county a county,
not a half-grown babe that has to be
fed by the Superintendent of Public
Works or any other Territorial offici-
all said Rawlins. who described the
present system of having to come up
and knock at the superintendent
door and wait for him to say come
in" and have to say please" to him
to get land needed by the county. The
only point in the bill was I'm transfer
ring to the counties the power now
limited to the Public Works depart
ment.
Sheldon thought the law good one
although he had an idea that some
sections might be amended to make
it more fair. The matter Of publica-
ton Of notice might be made longer than
for three weeks. He favored delay
in order that these defects might be
remedied.
Kaleo took hand in the debate, ex-