The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-29

Coney asked for permission to make
an oral amendment to reduce the SUI
pervisors' salaries back to $500. On
a first vote the permission was voted
| down, the first time such a thing has
occurred this session. A reconsidera-
ton gave him the required permission
but his amendment was lost.
On roll call the vote stood:
Ayes: Alawa, Coney. Correa, Joseph,
Kahana, Kaleo, Kaleiopu, Kalana, Ka-
niho, Keouli, Leleiwi. Long, Mahoe,
Moanauli, Nakaleka. Pail, Paoo, Shell
don, Waiwaiole, Kaluna-20.
Noes: Akau, Castro, Comes, Hughes,
Nailima, Quinn, Rawlins, Rice and
Silva-s.
Absent: Holstein.
CORPORATION LAWS.
The two bills affecting corporations,
one to strike out the fee for fling
corporation exhibits and the other pro-
viding for the filing of certificates of
increased capital stock, were passed.
RAILROAD BILL IN HOUSE.
Senate Bill 81, the Hawaii railroad
bill, was sent in from the Senate and
given a first reading.
SPARE THE TREE.
Sheldon presented a bill for the pro-
lection of growing trees and shrubs,
evidently entered to take the place of
the bill from the Bureau of Agricul-
ture and Forestry, which had been
killed.
Afternoon Session.
There was hurrying up on the part
of the House clerk and his assistant
during the last few minutes of the
noon recess. 1t had leaked out that
Long had registered his vote in favor
of the salary grab bill when he saw
that it was to be carried in the morn
ing session in order that he might be
in position to move for its recon-
sideration in the afternoon and those
supporting the bill wished to get it
out of the House and into the Senate
with the least possible delay. There s
many slip and it is not the idea to
have any slip up on this and the posi-
bility that some of the nineteen who
favored the bill on its third reading
might have had a change of mind dur
ing the recess sent cold shivers down
their spine.
The word was passed and Wise got
busy. While he prepared his letter
for the senate, his assistant got the
bill in shape and it was rushed up
stairs just before the Speakers gravel
fell
Long, however, has twenty-four hours
to move for a reconsideration and will
probably do so today.
GOVERNOR KUKOA.
A notification of the signing of Sen
ate Bill Al by the Governor was read
from Secretary Atkinson.
Another communication from the Ex-
ecutiye chamber announced that the
bition drill in honor of the Legislature
at any convenient time after March 81.
PROTECTION OF RECORDS.
A petition from the Chamber of Com
merce and Merchants Association of
Honolulu was presented by Hughes.
The petitioners asked that some pro-
vision be made for the protection from
fire of the maps, drawings, data, ETC.,
now lying unprotected in the office of
the Government Survey, the destruction
of which would mean a loss of $1,000
900 and mean the final loss of some
of the documents, which could not be
The protection of the rec
ords of the Bureau of Conveyance was
also asked, these being at present in
a vault worthless in event of fire.
ANCIENT WITNESS FEES.
Two bills incurred in 1903, during
the trial of Fred. Gouveia for cattle
lifting, during the sheriffshlp of Lorrin
Andrews, were presented on resolutions
of Akau. One was for S12 advanced
by John de MelIo and the other for
$2450, advanced by John Caspar. The
resolutions went to the Committee on
Public Accounts.
SECOND READINGS.
House Bills 165 and 100 were
distributed and given a second read
ing. The former allows an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court from an
by Board of Supervisors,
and the latter providing for the set
ting aside of an amount from the sale
of public lands equal to the original
purchase price for the repayment of
any outgoing tenant.
INVESTIGATING TRIPS.
Before the House rose Speaker Hol- |
stein asked for information regarding |
the proposed visits to Lanai and MolO |
kai. There seemed to be some misun |
among the committees over |
these and the House took a fifteen min |
ute recess to allow the Health and |
Police committee to decide upon wheth- |
er the trip is a go this week or not. |
1t was decided that the Health com
mittee leave for Molokai tomorrow |
night and the Lanai committee leave
On their trip on Friday of next week.
SHELDON TRIES AGAIN.
Sheldon introduced a bin just before
he House rose, bobbing up with mat
er which the House had already
3quelched, the election of road super
Tisors in the various districts of the
Territory. The bin proposes good fat
alaries, $4,000 a year for the Honolulu
Dad supervisors, $500 a year for the
district of Waimea for example. The
Dad supervisors are to be wholly in
dependent of the county supervisors
nd authorized to appoint deputies, as
clerks and employ laborers, at
he expense of the supervisors, who
may" appropriate their salaries or
This time the bill IS put in as an
menament to the County Act respect
M, fhe election Of daDuty SberiffS