The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-18
A
LONE HAND
The House Has a Grind
All by Itself on
Saturday.
HoUsE-rwENTY-FIRsT DAY.

HOUSE TWENTY-FIRST DAY.
The defeat of Castro's bill, intended
to benefit the small farmers by exempt
ing their lands from taxation up to
twenty acres, was the feature of the
House session on Saturday. Rice, OF
Kauai, led the attack and was support
ed by some of the Oahu members.
In this particular, whatever may
have been the merits or dement's of the
bin under discussion, it was most no
tieeable how little in harmony and how
lacking in team play is the Oahu dele
CATION, while the contingents from the
other islands work as units, play into
each others hands and never disagree
on Castro's bill, Hughes found it
necessary to ask questions even on the
third reading, questions which Rice an
swered so that Hughes vote went
against his colleague from the Fourth.
Oahu's delegation does not let it's right
hand know, evidently, what its left
hand is trying to accomplish.
The Senate bill appropriating $4,000
for the repairing of the Kau road blot
ted out by the lava flow, which is an
exact copy of Kaniho's House bill that
the House turned down, was carried.
This is the measure which the House
tabled once in objection to having any
thing rammed down their threats and
then resurrected.
Morning Session.
The House plunged right into bust
ness upon converting Saturday morning,
having list of six House and three
Senate bills for a third reading, one
bill for second reading and two con-
current resolutions to act upon.
Following the reading of the minutes
an invitation from the Department of
Public Instruction was read, making
the members free to inspect any or all
of the city schools.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The Health and Police committee
presented four reports. 1t recommend
ed that the list of salaries in the de-
partment of the High Sheriff be con-
sidered with the appropriation bill; that
Coney's resolution, No. III, asking for
6SE0D for oil OF "a nabr1 1oil
be acted upon and the item go into
the appropriations; that House Bill So,
introduced by Comes, and comforting on
county supervisors the right to make
police and sanitary regulations not in
conflict with the general law within
the county and to provide fines and
penalties for violations, and that House
Bill 115, establishing a hospital at La
hama, be passed with an amendment
making it open to all persons. These
reports were adopted and the two bills
given their second reading.
The Miscellany committee recon-
mended the passage of House Bill 1913,
introduced by Moanauli, and limiting
the Office holding power of any person
to one office at a time. The second
reading of the bill passed.
NEW HONOLULU ROADS.
A resolution was presented by Kala-
ma providing for the appropriation of
$1,000 for road work, including the
extension of Bates street to Liliha, the
extension of Vineyard to Asylum road,
extension of Kukui to Asylum road, a
new road at the west end of Judd street
from Puunui drive to Nuuanu, new
road to Waialua, a new road from Aiea
to the railroad station and another
from Kalauao to the station. The reso-
luton went to the Miscellany commit
tee.
PUPUKEA WANTS A SCHOOL.
The settlers at Pupukea petitioned
the House for the establishing of a
school at their settlement for the use
of the seventeen children there. The
nearest school at present is at Waialua.
The petition was sent to the Education
committee.
FINAL READINGS.
The third READINGS If a number of