The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-18
INDUSTRIES
PROTECTED
Small Farmers Aid Bill
Passed Governors
Veto.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DAY.

OF the fourteen bills on the order
of the day yesterday twelve were
House measures, seven of which were
on second, and the balance third read
ing. Kerosene oil being on the list Is
responsible for the early arrival OF
Senator Chillingworth who is not usual
lv ON hand during the period for morn
ing devotions. This bill provides for
the sale of gasoline or gas engine
distillate, which gives off an infiamma-
BILE vapor at so deg. Fahr., and puts
the flash test of kerosene at 100 deg.
COUNTY REGISTRARS.
Senator Smith, from the Judiciary
committee, reported as follows on
House Bills Nos. 50 and 80:
An Act providing for the office
of County Registrar of Conveyances
and defining the powers and duties
thereof; also 'An Act establishing
offices for the registration of convey
ances in various counties of HaWaH
and to provide for the recording of
instruments therein.
ssThe object of both of these bills
is the same as that of Senate Bills
Nos. "a and 25 heretofore recommend
ed BY the committee to be tabled and
which recommendations were followed:
.We do not deem it wise or feasl-
BILE to attempt to establish reglstratlon
offices in the several counties at the
present time and see no reason fo1
changing our views as expressed IN the
report on Senate Bills "a and %. we
therefore recommend that House Bills
80 and 50 be tabled =
The report was adopted and the bills
tabled.
Senator Chillingworth reported that
EXPERT Schuyler would have his report
on Nuuanu dam ready for the commit
tee by the end of the week.
DUMPING RUBBISH.
Senator Hayselden reported on House
Riu No. 175 entitled .'An Act to
Amend Section 522 of the Revised
Laws of Hawaii, Relating to Harbors ,
as follows:
'sThe present law referred to as Sec.
ton 522. provides that No stones OF
other rubbish shall be thrown from
-anv vessel into the harbor, under
penalty of 800, and that the master
of anv vessel from which stones OF
rubbish are thrown shall be subject to
that fine
esThe bill under consideration IN
eludes crude oil, petroleum or other
refuse and provides that penalty no'
exceeding 800 may be assessed against
and collected from the vessel or the
owner thereof and provides fufthel
that the master of any vessel from
which stones. crude oil, petroleum, re
fuse or rubbish are thrown into the
harbor shall on conviction thereof alse
be subject to a like fine.
ssYour committee feel that tne oo
iect of the bill is good one IN the
protection that it affords to the mar
bors of the Territory, and deem II
proper and right that the protection
so afforded should be granted. we
therefore recommend the passage OF
the bill.''
MORE CLAIMS.
Also ON Senate Bill No. 103 entitled
.ssAn Act making special arpropria
.tions to pay certain claims against tne
Territory of Hawaii" beg leave te
report as follows:
s'This bill contains list OF claims
handed to the chairman OF your com
mittee by the Commissioner OF Puohe
Lands, and aggregate total Oh @o'
225. These claims represent sums o.
money paid into the treasury by nome
steaders on various lots taken up py
the parties named to which the leases
were surrendered, to the Government
leaving the lessees to lose the various
amounts which they had paid ana iof
which there is no provision by which
they can be reimbursed.
ga law passed at this session OIL the
Legislature provides fund from whlch
the Commissioner may reimburse claim
ants for moneys paid on account OF
improvements from now on; but nc
provision has been made for those en-
Sitled To be reimbursed up to the pres
4ant time. The persons named IN TINS
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