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SENATE
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Commissioner Pratt informed the
Senate that four clerks are regularly
employed in his department and one
temporary clerk on special Work. he
pives the hours of labor from $3.50 a.
m. until 4:30 p. m.
The Committee on Public Health
presented report on Senate Bill NO.
20. The report stated that the law
was enacted in 1888, to regulate the
manufacture of poi within the city OF
Honolulu.
"From the reading of the original
act" says the committee, lit seemed
TO us that the object of the same was
to place the control of the business
in the hands of one person or corpora
ton. Since the enactment of the law,
however. Us provisions have never
been carried out, on the ground that
successive legislatures since 1883 re-
fused to appropriate money for the
purpose Of providing the buildings re-
quisite to the proper enforcement OF
the said act. -
The committee report was laid on
the table to be taken up with the Dill
in regular order.
Increase in License.
Senator Coelho introduced an act to
amend Section 141SF, Chapter 102 of
the Revised Laws of Hawaii as amend
ed by Act 90 of the Session Laws of
1907 relating to Merchandise Brokers.
The amended section reads as fol-
lows:
EVERY person, firm or corporation
engaged in the business of buying, sell
ing, or soliciting orders for goods,
wares or merchandise, either on COM
mission as broker, agent or salesman
for either the owner or consignee, shall
nav an annual license fee of 5000. Pro-
yidd. however. that this section shall
not apply to any person, firm or corpor-
alton engaged solely in interstate COM
meree or employed solely by the Uni
ted States.
The bill passed first reading and was
referred to the Printing Committee.
The object of the measure is to pre-
vent evasion of the law by persons
holding a merchandise brokers license,
which costs 800 per annum, engaging
in sales by auction-an auctioneer s
license costing 5000 per annum.
Bills Are Passed.
The Senate gave it's final endorse
ment to number of measures upon
the order of the day.
Senate Bill No. II, increasing the
bond of City and County Auditor from
$4,000 to $4,000, passed third reading
with a unanimous vote.
Senate Bill No. rs, increasing the
bond of County Auditor, also received
final approval at the hands of the up
per house.
The act introduced by the Ways and
Means Committee to pay the claim OF
Levi c. Lyman for the purchase prlce
of two homestead lots in Puma, Hawai-,
passed third reading, carrying an ap-
preparation of $503.15.
There was lengthy discussion and
decided difference of opinion on the
questions involved IN the provisions OF
House Bill No. IS, relating to the ap-
pointment and removal of district
magistrates.
1t was this provision that Coelho
objected to. declaring that while ne
agreed with the principle, yet 1t would
be impossible for 'tlicensed practltlon-
ers'' to be had in many of the outside
districts. He declared that the en-
forcement of such provision would
practically close the courts in some dis
triets because of the impossibility OF
securing the services of men who mad
been admitted to practise law
w. o. Smith Opposes.
President w. o. Smith declared that
the point at issue was whether men
qualified to practise law were to be
alone available. He called Vice Presl-
dent Kalama to the chair and took the
floor against the passage OF the meas
ure. He declared that the two requl-
sites for a district magistrate were
character and knowledge, but he
thought that a decision on these two
questions could well be left to the
present appointive power-the Chlef
Justice of the Territory. He said that
in some case where lawyer was avail
able the lawyer would not possess the
degree of character needed for a DIS
triet magistrate. Senator Smith moved
for an indefinite postponement OF the
measure An aye and no vote was tax
en- upon the motion of Mccarthy ana
Senator Smith s motion lost by vote
of IL to 4, Coelho, Fairchild, Kalama
and Smith supporting the motion to
Law the bill on the table. The same
vote carried the measure past its thlrd
reading.
The only change that the bill makes
in the existing law governing the ap
pointment of district magistrates IS the
inclusion of specific provision that
makes licensed practitioners the only
available source from which to choose
appointees. 1t sounds the knell- OF the
layman Justice it does not
vary from the existing law.
Pass Third Reading.
House Bill No. Al, authorizing the
assessor to prepare notices of appeals
in tax eases, passed third reading on
a unanimous vote.
House Bill No. 81, providing for the
organization of juvenile court, passed
third reading, all the members of the
upper house giving it their indorse-
ment.
House Bill No. 81, extending the
provisions of the Incorporation law,
passed third. reading, Senator Baker
casting the only dissenting vote.
House Bill No. So, making jury
trial unnecessary unless one party to a
suit formally asks for it, received the
unanimous Endorsement of the Senate.
House Bill No. As, repeating the sec
ton of the Revised Laws dealing with
the manufacture of poi, came up on
second reading and was passed. Coel-