The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-03-29

| WIN tho least poNsifilr delay. There p
many n slip and Il IL not the idea 80
have any clip up on this and the posi-.
hiliiy that some of the nineteen who
favored the bin on its third reading
might have hail n change u mind DIR.
INK the recess sent cold shivcrr down
their spine.
The word was passed and Wise got
busy. While he prepared his letter
Tor the senate, his assistant got the
bill In shape and II 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 commur cation from the Elk.
ecutive chamber announced that the
militia was prepared to give an exhi-
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 end 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 loss of $1,000
900 and mean the final loss of some
of the documents, which could not be
duplicated. The protection of the rec.
ords of the Bureau of Conveyance was
also asked, these being at present in
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 sheriffship of Lorrin
Andrews, were presented on resolutions
of Akau. One was for $12 advanced
by John de Mello and the other for
$24.5O, advanced by John Caspar. The
resolutions went to the Committee on
Public Accounts.
SECOND READINGS.
House Bills 1855 and 1866 were
distributed and given a second read
ing. The former allows an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court from an
Impeachment 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-
kal. There seemed to be some misun-
Outstanding among the committees over
these and the House took fifteen min
ute recess to allow the Health and
Police committee to decide upon wheth-
er the trip is 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 bill just before
the House rose, bobbing up with mat
ter which the House had already
squelched, the election of road super
visors in the various districts of the
Territory. The bill proposes good fat
salaries, $2400 a year for the Honolulu
road supervisors, $500 year for the
district of Waimea for example, The
road supervisors are to be wholly in
dependent of the county supervisors
and authorized to appoint deputies, as
sistants, clerks and employ laborers, at
the expense of the supervisors, who
"may" appropriate their salaries or
compensation.
This time the bill is put in as an
to the County Act respect
ing the election of deputy sheriffs.
CASTRO CHAIRMAN.
A communication from the Commit
tee on Agriculture, Manufactures, For
estry, Promotion and Immigration was
read, announcing that Castro had sue
ceeded Comes as its chairman.
COURT INTERPRETERS.
Kaleiopu introduced resolution call
ing for information regarding the citi-
zenship of the interpreters in the Cir
cult Court OF the First Judicial Circuit.
KANIHO UNDISMAYED.
The sustaining of the veto on SEN
ate Bill 80 was brought up again by
Kaniho, who stays with his lava flow
road bill like pup to a root. In
view of the fact that the Senate had
changed its mind and overriden the
veto, he thought the House ought to
do the same.
The action of the House had been
communicated to the Governor and the
debated some time as to how
they could get that communication
back.
Pail smoothly assured Kaniho that
he was with him, then blandly asked
him how he had voted on the veto. All
the House knew that Kaniho had voted
with the majority minority" and his
motion was out of order. This Pail
pointed out, but the speaker wanted
to hear from more members regarding
this majority minority matter before
ruling. In the vote sixteen members
lost to ten under the two-third rule.
Kaleiopu wanted to know why the
House was wasting its time over this
and Pail promptly moved
an adjournment.
The speaker ruled against Kaniho,
but the member from Kohala was in
no wise discouraged and appealed to
the good sense of the House, prefacing