The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-19
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BILLS INTRODUCED.

tion from Superintendent Rabbit TO
1.-The Senators to visit the Normal and
High schools and the Boys and Girls
industrial schools, Secretary Atkinson
larrived with a message from the Gov
| ernor in which he expressed desire TO
nominate, and with the advice OF the
Senate appoint
d. p. r. Isenberg, a Commissioner or
Agriculture and Z orestry, vice L. A.
Thurston, resigness.
James r. Judd. medical examiner.
Olof l.. Sorenson, J. H. Rowland and
G. H. Gere, commissioners of streets
and sidewalk lines in Honolulu.
Action was deferred until afternoon.
FROM THE HOUSE.
| Communications from the House an
nouncing action on sundry bills was
read.
The bill relating to marriage licenses
as amended in the Senate was passed
in the House.
| House Bills So and 81 passed third
reading without debate and No. Al was
deferred to March 80.
House Bills 40, 81, SO, 81, SO, 1o4, were
Preferred to the Judiciary committee
after passing second reading and No.
| 1913 went to the Miscellaneous commit
| tee
Senate Bill No. 63 passed second read
ing and was referred to the Special
Committees on Counties.
House Bills Sc, lis, 123 and 147 passed
first reading without debate and were
referred to the Judiciary committee.
RAILROAD AID.
Senator Dowsetts report on the bill
to aid railroads on Hawaii is as fol-
lows:
The object of the bill is clearly set
forth in the title thereof, and in the
opinion of your committee the proVls-
ions contained in the bill are good, in
sofar as they will tend to encourage
the construction of railroads on the
Island of Hawaii, but your committee
suggests that the following amend
ments be made to the BILL Amend
Section l to read as follows:
Section l. For the term of ten 10)
years from and after the first day of
January A. D. 1905 all the property,
both real and personal, of railroads
that are common carriers in the Island
of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, act
ua1ly and solely used in their opera
tions or workings, situated and lying
in the Island of Hawaii, shall be and
is exempted from all taxes in this Ter
ritory or County taxes"
Amend Section II to read as follows:
Section II. THE provisions of this
Act shall only apply to those railroads,
five miles at least of whose road may
be constructed, in running order and
in perfect condition, and approved by
the Superintendent of Public Works
during the next two years.
1t is obviously clear that the exemp-
ton sought under this bill should be
confined to railroads that are exclusive
ly common carriers, and for that rea-
son Section 1 is amended to read that
the exemption shall only extend to the
property of a common carrier railroad,
after the word actually
The amendments to Section II are
simply transposition of the wording
of the paragraph, which your commit
tee thought would more clearly ex-
press the provisions of the section.
With these amendments your COM
mittee recommends the passage of the
bill
House concurrent resolution re ap-
portionment of Federal appropriation
being one third to the Senate and two
thirds to the House. The resolution
was adopted.
The House failed to concur in the
Senate amendments to House Bill 81.
relating to divorce, and it was sent to
a conference committee.
House Bill IS, relating to the legiti- |
matizing of children; No. 20, relating
to the issuance of certificates of Ha-
waiian birth, and No. los, amending
section 235 of the Revised Laws, and
No. 1913, relating to an appropriation
for the Board of Agriculture, passed
first reading and were referred to COM
mittees.
passage by the House of Senate Bills |
So, % and 81. and that it had con-
CURED in the Senate amendments to
House Bills So and Y.
HOMESTEADER'S CLAIM.
A communication from Mrs Sarah |
B. Henry Of Puma, relative to her
treatment by the Hilo sub-agent Of the
land department, was read. 1t seems
that the land was originally held by
Miss Elsa Grub, who in turn sold
it to Z. a. Koran, from whom Mrs.
Henry bought the right She claims
that d former land agent, Mr.. Baldwin, /
failed to take proofs of residence from
Koran, who has left the country, and |
the present land agent, Geo. H. Will
liams, will not acknowledge Mrs. Hen |
rvs claim.
The original holder, Miss Grubb, after
Judge Little went to Panama, claimed |
to be, his wife, having married him /
while she was in charge of the Hilo |
Hospital. The judge denied the ale
cation and Miss Grubb was never able |