The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-10

1nger' be thoroughly investigated and
the man discharged If cured:
That goods be supplied to lepers q,
cost price. minus the freight charges
which should be born by the Terri
tory This is preferable 10 raising the
yearly wage from SO to SIS.
That the Iepers receive a supply o.
pounds Of beef in place Of : pound.
as now.
That the sale Of liquor be prohibited
in the Settlement.
That the pay Of Iaborers De raised 70
81 per day, and that the KaIaupapa
nand De not paid any salary.
/ Further recommendation 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 ar the landing
similar 10 the one at the Insane Asy-
lunn; repairs TO Beretania hall; the
erection Of q home for non-leprous
boys Of leprous parents; the establish
ment Of a court of last appeal al Ka-
| laupapa; the furnishing Of machinery
for cutting drewood; the establishment
Of an ice plant; the repairing OF
houses Of lepers. and a supply Of fire
/ hydrants.
! All these improvements have been
recommended at meeting Of the COM
mittee, held in conjunction with the
chairman Of the Health committee OF
/ the Senate
PUBLIC LANDS REPORTS.
The Public Lands committee pre-
scented many reports on bills in its
hands.
Tabling was the best recommended
ton the members could make for
House Resolution I5S. asking $4,000 for
payment for T. P. Kalokuokamaile for
land taken by the government; House
Resolution 1s2, asking $500 10 repair
the landing at KaIlua, North Kona.
and House Resolution ISL, asking &c.
900 for the widening Of Desha lane
The request for 5000 70 repair the
wharf at Kahalepalaoa, Lanai. was
also turned down, but an item OF $500
for new landing al Manele was rec
commended.
Equally favorable were the report
on House Petition A. asking for 5000
for a wharf at Kalihiwai, Kauai, and
House Petition Is, from the guards
and nurses at the Oahu Insane Asy-
lun, asking that their salaries he re-
stored TO $50 a month. House ResoIu-
ton $50, that $500 be appropriated to
pay KaUwe for land taken by the gov
eminent, was tabled as coming in af-
ter the unpaid claims bills had gone
out Of the House
HUGHES LAND BILL APPROVED.
The report Of the committee on
Hughes House Bill SIS. creating and
providing for Board Of Commission
ers for Public Lands, was a favorable
one although there were three pages
Of amendments suggested The major
ity Of these changes are verbal ones
only, the material changes being the /
recommendation that the sizes OF the I
divisions into which the public lands /
be surveyed being first-class agricul- 4
Tural land, 50 acres sec0nd-class agri-
cultural land, $50 acres: frst-class pas
toral land, go acres. second-ciass pas
torai land, $40 acres. and pastoral 4
agricultural land, $50 acres These 4
amounts are 10 be the maximum 4
amount acquirable by any one person
under the act
All the reports Of the committee
were adopted. there being only one
discussion and that being occasione1 4
By Kaniho confusing the words
wharf" and bridge" and talking for
q quarter Of an hour before the House
could grasp the purport Of his argu-
ment-
House Bill 1s3. appropriating money
for the repair Of The stone breakwater
al Waimea, passed second reading.
Rawlins raised the question Of the
conflict between the rules Of the House
and the order given the previous day 4;
oy the Speaker 70 the Clerk 70 hand !
over the original papers or the House
% anyone He desired. he said. to
asst no reflections or the honorable
Speaker. but thought the rules Of the
House should be observed
The chair stated that there had been
10 resolution introduced that the Clerk .
mould have 20 have the permission Of
he House 10 turn over bills and other
oapers TO the chairnen Of committees
RaRlins still thought that their
houId be resolution TO take all re-
possibility of the Clerk IN case any
f the papers be lost and moved a
-erbal resolution 70 that effect. Z
The Speaker called for more express :
ions Of opinion :
We don't want 20 go bull-headed :
I any Of these things. he said.
Long argued on the technicali1ies Of =
he case and he and Rawlins discussed
he matter between themselves The
after pointed out the difference be-
geen handing papers TO a committee.
part Of the Legislature, and 10 prin- :
7rs and proofreaders, who were in 10
snse a part OF the House.
He said that if he we're in the Clerk
lace he would hesitate 10 turn over
ny papers without some such author G
y as was given in his resolution He q
pologiZed al the end OF every sen "
nee for having 10 disagree with the =
lair in the matter Of dispute between