The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-25


ing and No. III was again deferret
on motion of Senator Mccarthy. Hous
Bill No. 19S, relative to immigration
passed third reading. House Bill No
210, relating to the reorganization O.
the Bureau of Agriculture and For
estry passed, as did House Bill No
| %, relating to agents to take acknowl
edgment, also House Bill No. pa, de.
fning taxation period. When the in
come tax bill was read it was found
| that no tax period had been provided
and this bill was introduced in bott
Houses to supply the deficiency. The
report of the committee on the bill
relating to laundries was adopted and
the bill passed second reading.
THE TOLL BILL.
The bill authorizing the levying of
toll at ten cents per ton was wrangled
over considerably and finally went to
the ways and means committee. SEN
ator Bishop took the floor to hammer
the bill and during his remarks it was
brought out that the passage of the
bill meant treble taxation. There Is
now ten-cent tax paid by the mer-
chants and it was paid willingly be-
cause it was used for the Board of
Health. 1t was noticeable fact that
when it came to securing appropria-
tions for the Board of Health for the
care of the Molokai wards the money
was handed out with lavish hand but
when it was asked for other purposes
such as keeping the town free from
contagious diseases, like plague, there
was nothing doing, the money had to
come from private sources. This tax
would be burden on the consumer,
nobody else, and he did not believe it
just to add any more than now exists.
The bill was deficient in several ways
one of which is the omission as to
it is on ton weight or meas
Senator Chillingworth said the toll
should be collected from every vessel
the harbor otherwise the peo-
pie the bill is after will not be reach
ed.
Senator Bishop said many vessels dis
charge at the railroad wharf and this |
bill refers only to public wharves, 9TH |
erwise government wharves. 1t would |
mean that the Superintendent of Pub
ic Works would have to appoint agents
to collect toll on everyone of the land
ngs.
There was a motion made to in
postpone but this was lost.
Senator Chillingworth then showed that
he bill is aimed at the lumber men
who pay no wharfage tax. 1t can be
lmended so as to reach that class of i
people. The motion to refer to the
Ways and means committee carried.
ANOTHER VETO.
Secretary Atkinson entered during
he discussion and presented the fol-
owing veto:
Herewith I return House Bill Mum,
er Thirty-four.
'"This bill is almost identical with one
which was presented at the last ses-
ion of the Legislature and vetoed for
he reason that the bill did not provide
DE- the issuance of a citation to persons
LEGGED to be suffering from leprosy.
Tho shall be capable of spreading that
isease.
Whether intentional or not, the
resent bill follows closely the wording
the former bill, and provides that a {
itation shall be issued to persons suf-
ering with leprosy who shall be pro-
ounced capable of spreading that dis {
ase for the purpose of securing their
ppearance at a time and place spec1-
ed, then and there to submit to med
al examination for the purpose of de- !
ding whether or not the person cited
suffering from leprosy.
Thus, as 1 stated in my message of
pril "A, 1905, the passage of this bill
ill make the issuance of citation to
otermine a fact conditional upon the
xistence of the fact itself-a thing {
early impossible. A District Mag,
,trate has no discretion in the matter;
2 can only isue a citation to persons |
with leprosy.' 1t must be /
roved TO him that the person has lep- {
,sy before he can legally issue the
tation, and there will be no process
law by which that examination can
Ike place. If he should take the 7
atement of a witness and issue a cita- {
on, the attorney for the person cited :
,uld at once successfully attack the :
lme, claiming that it had not been c
gally proven that his client had lep- /
'sy; that, therefore, the citation had
zen illegally issued, and that his client
as not held by due process of law;
Id this could be done without any de- L
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