The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-10
NO TROUBLE
IN HOUSE
Speaker Graciously Ac-
knowIedged His
Mistake.
HOUsE-FORTY-FIRsT DAY.

| Everything was lovely in the House
| proceedings yesterday-on the surface.
| The expected row between the Speaker
and Clerk Wise did not come off, prin-
cipally because the former saw that
! the stand taken by the latter was a
correct one and graciously gave in.
Rawlins brought the matter up a
short time before noon, at which hour
the clerk had been ordered to have
| the papers of the first ten days of
] the session ready to turn over. AS
| the clerk intended to do nothing of
the kind, there was every prospect OF
a lively time Rawlins, however, saved
the day and in as gentle manner as
possible told the Speaker that the rules
of the House were against him.
It is said, however, that this is but
the little curtain raiser to a merry
time which is to come very soon over
the same affair.
SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS PASS.
The one big event of the afternoon
session was the passing of the item of
100000 to pay the teachers of the
public schools for the next two years.
If the teachers have any enemies in
the House they failed to make them
selves heard yesterday, for the amount
was voted without murmur of dis
sent and the schedule adopted by the
Senate for the distribution of the fund
was cut out summarily and without
hesitation. This will, If allowed by
the conference committee, provide for
the payment of all teachers along the
lines recommended by the Department
of Public Instruction. Under it the
pay of the teachers will be increased
from twenty to fifty per cent. all
around. while in few cases the in
creases practically double the present
salaries.
Morning Session.
The House began it's forty-frst day
in session yesterday morning with
feeling in the air that before the day
was out there might be something do
inc in the threatened clash between
the Speaker and the clerk, although
word had been passed around that Wise
had decided to get from under and
was prepared to hand over any of the
original papers of the House asked for
provided receipt be given him accord
ing to a form prepared by him under
legal advice.
REDEEMING LICENSE FEES.
The Finance committee presented
report cutting down the two features
of the proposed license law most OBJ
noxious to the japanese and making
these more reasonable. The fee for
barber shops was made fiat amount
of so irrespective of the number OF
chairs in use, and the license of $3.50
to be levied upon all wholesale job
bers not doing their importing from
the mainland of the United States was
cut down to 800.
HOME FOR SETTLEMENT BOYS.
Hughes bill to appropriate $4,000
for the building and maintenance of
a home for the non-leprous male chill
dren of lepers parents was on the spe-
cial order of the day and was the first
bill to be taken up for a second read
ing.
A little cloud, as big as man s
hand with the fist shut, appeared on
the legislative sky when this matter
was taken up and Clerk Wise had an
uncomfortable few minutes when 1t
was brought out between the Speaker
and Chairman Quinn, of the Printing |
committee, that no copies of the bill
had been typewriter as ordered. Quinn
seemed to derive a grim satisfaction |
out of this as once or twice before he
had clashed with the clerk and the
House stenographer over the matter
of typewrlting bills.
Pail poured oil on the troubled
waters. however, by moving that the
House reconsider the order and go
ahead with the reading of the bill by
the clerk.
The bill passed its second reading
without a unanimous vote. Every mem
Der seems anxious to get this highly
necessary matter through with the least
possible DELAY and it will come up for
a final reading today.
(Cop+ipuad on page Three)