The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-03-08

before grand jury, Shall ne ehtiIicu
to one dollar for each day actually
in attendance and twenty cents mile
fee one way.
PASSED THIRD READING.
Senate Bill No. IS, relating to ap
peals from the court of land registra
tion, prescribing form for appellant
taking cases to Supreme or Circuit
courts.
Senate Bill No. 35. This bill pro.
vides that a new street, highway, road
or bridge may be constructed without
the consent of the Superintendent of
Public Works.
Senate Bill No. 40, relating to cruel
ty to children and prescribing the pun
ishment upon conviction Of the charge.
House Bill 80, providing that cleo
ton proclamations shall be published
IN the counties as well as in Honolulu
INDUSTRIAL EXEMPTION BILL.
The bill providing for the exemption
Of lands from taxation, under certain
conditions, had narrow escape from
death on second reading in the Senate
yesterday. Senator Hewitt, who will
be looked upon hereafter as the friend
of the small farmer, is the father of
the bill that protects the grower of
sisal fiber, pineapples, starch and ka-
sawa, and not only saves him from
taxes on his lands but on everything
used in the manufacture of articles
from those products. The Ways and
Means committee turned down the bill
on Tuesday, reporting adversely, but
the Senator from the district where
lava flows as freely as water on oc-
casions asked that consideration of
the bill be postponed.
The time expired yesterday and SEN
ator Dowsett from the committee made
on the way to the second reading. He
said the idea that an industry, as pros
porous as pineapple cultivation is here,
needed Government support is pre-
posterous. One gentleman engaged in
it had cleared twenty.seven thousand
dollars and the outlook was so good
that there was no difficulty met in in
cooperating and interesting foreign cap
ital in cannery. Certain parties to
be benefited by this law had gone so
far under the present exemption as to
insist that they were not to pay in
come taxes.
Senator Hewitt said the reference
seemed to be all in the direction of
companies on Oahu and no considera-
tion is given to the same industries
acres and acres of land ON Hawaii,
planted to sisal, that showed no sign
of crop large enough to pay dividends
or meet expenses. There are companies
on Hawaii struggling in en- effort to
DO something toward making pineap-
pies an industry that would be worth
something, but it is still struggle
and he believed the promoters of such
enterprises should have encouragement.
Senator Smith spoke in the same
way and the bill was saved in spite
of the talk Senator Dowsett gave
against it. 1t will be brought up today
from the Lands committee to which it
was referred, for third reading.
1t is said that one of the objections
TO the bill was on account of the
once paid a dividend that happens to
have been policy measure. The first
shipment of sisal from this company
was made on the China to Yokohama
yesterday.
What is to be passed, or rejected,
as the liquor bill of the Republican
party was introduced by Senator Lane
yesterday. What the merits of it are
were not disclosed and will not be
known until the bill is returned by the
Printing committee. There is to be
a clashing of sabers over the two meas
ures already introduced and the best
may win in the end.
In the past the complaint has always
been that the counties have not had
proper show in the matter of roads
and streets. Applications are made by
residents and half of the time moth
ing can be done for the reason that
the matter may come under the con-
troll of the Territory. In any event the
consent of the Superintendent of Pub
lie Works must be had before any rev
road, etc, is built. BY the passage of
the bill relating to the matter this
section of the law is eliminated
MOST PECULIAR MEASURE.
Senate bill No. 49, mentioned. in this
column yesterday, has its peculiarities
rather more than any other so far in
PRODUCED in the Senate. One OF them
u that the persons who are about em-
barking in business in the Territory
for the first time must file an estimate
of the amount of bushes thew expect