The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-16
HOUSE ACTS
AND REACTS
Denounces Senate Bills
and Then Passes
Them.
HoUSE-TWENTIETH DAY.

HOUSE TWENTIETH DAY.
| Yesterday the House members threw
down the gage to the Senate on two oc
casions but swallowed a Senate dose
on a third The vetoing by the Gov,
| ernor of Senate Bill Il was twice sus
tanned in the House, much to the dis
gust of the upstair legislators, and the
Income Tax Exemption amendment
which the Senate had killed, was
brought up again and made the special
order of the day for this morning.
In the morning session Kaleiopu de-
nounced the action of the Senate in
trying to ram measure down the
throat of the House, leading an at
tack against it. In the afternoon he as
sisted in getting the same measure re-
considered and adopted.
Following the afternoon session the
House members were descended upon
by the Senators and dozen warm argu-
ments were going on at one time in
the lobby.
Morning Session.
There is great falling off in the
attendance of spectators in the House,
yesterday morning finding only five per-
sons present in the legislative cham
Der when the House came to order, be-
sides those having business there. This
falling off may be due partly to the
fact that kaniho is still under the
weather and there are consequently
few oratorical fireworks during the de-
alterations.
There were six House bills on the
order of the day for third reading,
two Senate bills on the special order
of the day, one Senate bill and one
Senate joint resolution up for third
readings and three Senate bills ready
for a second hearing.
SCHOOL BUILDING APPROPRIA-
TIONS.
care there no resolutions asking for
an appropriation of moneyg' inquired
the speaker in amazement, after call
ing for some business to come before
the House, call to which there was
no immediate answer.
The spell was broken, however, by
Rawlins sending up a notice of bill
asking for $208,050 for the following
permanent improvements:
New school buildings, Hawaii, $780,
500; Kauai, $4,000; Maui, Lanai and
Molokai, $50,800; Oahu, $21, $50; new
high school, Honolulu, $4,000, and pur-
chase of additional land for Waialae
industrial school, $4,000
This bill was given it's first reading.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
The bill appropriating $4,000 for fur
niture for the Hilo high school was
passed for the second reading without
opposition, but objection was shown to
Senate Bill 50, which asked for $4,000
for reopening the Kau road, destroyed
by the lava flow. Kaleiopu wanted to
kill the bill at once, as being against
the opinion of the Attorney General,
which was being overcome in a House
bill, put In by Kaniho. Rice and Ka-
leiopu argued between themselves, I'M
til called to order by the speaker Rice
had evidently forgotten the point that
road repairing was a county matter and
none of the other members, who knew
there was a knot somewhere, could dig
up the point they wanted.
Rawlins objected to the putting in
of separate bills for each particular
appropriation. These items should be
put in the regular appropriation bill
and not scattered all through the bust
ness of the House.
While Rawlins was speaking a num-
Der of lei-wreathed Los Angelenos
came into the House, the presence of
whom had an enIivening effect on him
and the following orators
kaleiopu said that the Senate had
taken advantage of the House by send
ing down a bill which had been tabled
by the House, trying to make the
House swallow it. 1t would be inn
proper for the House to take any ac-
ton on this Senate bill until such
time as the members wanted to bring
their own bill up again.
Then the letter of the Attorney Cen
eral was recollected and an extract
read from it, but the point was studi-
ously overlooked.
On a vote the bill passed it's second
reading.
THIRD READINGS.
House Bill 81, allowing a verdict for
lesser offense than that charged,
passed third reading with 25 ayes, 5