The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-03-28

visions and that the method Of regis
trat.on It suggests is defective
Sheldon moved the adoption Of the re-
port
Mahoe moved that the bill be laid
over until the introducer Of the bill
Representative Kaniho was present TO
defend it.
Rawlins made a hot speech in which
he intimated that there was bad faith
on the part OF the supporters Of the
bill. He said the committee had held
up the bill for three weeks awaiting for
Kaniho to recover from an illness, and
had then requested him several times TO
appear before the committe, but he had
failed to do so He had been asked
yesterday to appear, and he was not
present in the house today.
Coney supported the motion to adopt
the report as Kaniho he, said had
habit of not attending meetings where
he would be supposed TO be interested.
The question being put, carried and
the bill was tabled
Sheldon introduced a bill to license
the sale of ava, imposing a fee of $50
per year in Honolulu and $25 per year
in other places
The bill passed first reading.
Paoo introduced a bill imposing a
fine Of $1,000 on ship masters for throw
ing oil or debris into the waters of Ho-
nolulu or Hilo harbors.
The bill passed to print
Rawlins introduced a bill to exempt
steamships of the Commercial Pacific
Gable Co., from taxation.
The bill passed first reading.
THIRD READINGS.
House bill 1876 providing for the pay
ment of claims for service of police Of
ficers of the county of Hawaii came
up for third reading Various mem
bers began to amend the bill as to the
amounts to be paid on various items.
Rawlins thought the amounts should
lay the bill over until something de-
finite was learned.
Coney stated that when the commit
tee considered the bill, he supposed the
amounts were correct, and didn't think
it should be made grab box out of and
therefore supported Rawlins' motion to
defer action
Kaniho thought that the bill was open
to amendments and this privilege should
not be abridged
The motion to defer carried
House bill 1876, fixing the salaries Of
county officers came up for a third
reading after having been deferred from
last week
Quinn moved that action on the bill
be indefinitely postponed
Coney moved that the salaries of
Supervisors be put back to it's original
figure of $500 instead of 5000
The motion lost.
r A motion to pass the bill on a third
reading was then put and carried the
vote standing as follows: Ayes, A1awa,
= Correa, Coney, Joseph, Kalana, Kaluna
Kaleo, Kaleiopu, Kahana, Kaniho, Ke-
ouli, Leleiwi, Long, Mahoe, Moanauli,
Nakaleka, Pail, Paoo, sheldon Wal
waiole; noes Akau. Castro, Comes,
Hughes, Nallma, Quinn, Rawlins, Rice
Silva Absent J.
; House bill 14S eliminating the an
nual fee of 800 to corporations for filing
their exhibits, was passed at thirt
reading all voting for it except Correa
Kaluna, Kaleopu and Kalana.
Senate bill 55 providing for the filing
d of notice of increase Of capital stool
3, by corporation, passed it's third read
20 ing by unanimous vote.
If Sheldon presented a bill making it {
misdemeanor to girdle, destroy or in
n jure any tree or timber, or dig up o
e destroy any tree or shrub on private o
e public land or pull down fences sur
rounding enclosures, and imposing
penalty of a fine not to exceed $500 O
Imprisonment
The bill passed first reading anC
was referred to the printing committee
! The House took a recess at II o'clocl
until 2 o'clock this afternoon.