Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-26
Cemeteries COME
HIGH IN HILO town
$500 An Acre Asked
Burying Ground
On Hawaii
HOUSE.
Seventh pay--Aftsrnoon Session.


estimate OF the value OF land In that
salubrious distrlct-or perhaps his IN
tent was to start a boom. He intro
duced resolution to appropriation
$4,000 to purchase 10 acres OF land III
South Hilo-for cemetery. The
House smiled aloud until some mem.
bers suddenly thought that Kealawaa s |
idea was to use the townsite OF Hilo
as a burial place for the dead Instead |
Of the living.
VIM Savidge, cle,k OF the Senate.
In a communication read to the House,
announced the adoption BY the upper
body OF House Concurrent Resolution
No. s.
Senate Bill &c. which had passed
third reading in the Senate, was trans
mitted to the House This Is the EN-.
inent domain bill introduced by Sen.
ator Chillingworth.
I'm response to House Resolution rs,
instructing him forthwith to install the
engine and derrick for the Hama land.
ink. Superintendent Marston Campbell
addressed communication to the
House, which was read by the clerk.
Mr.. Cant bell stated that II was impos.
sible for him to comply with the reso.
luton as there Is oniy an available
balance of s35 In the appropriation for
Maui landings, an amount entirely in.
adequate for the purpose. 1t would be
necessary for the Legislature to make
an appropriation first.
To Divide conmissionI
The loudly expressed idea Of the
Kauai Legislators that they ought to
have due representation on the Board
of Education Is the cause OF a bill In
troduced by Rice, bearing the innocent
title ITO amend Section 1856, 1877 and
ISS of the Revised Laws relating TO
the Department OF Education" The
provisions OF the bill give each of the
six representative districts of the Ter
ritory one commissioner, to serve for
two years. No person In holy orders
or a minister OF religion shall be elig
ible as a commissioner, All commits
sioners shall serve without pay though
o their. actual travelling expenses shall
he paid. At least one meeting shall be
held In Honolulu in the months of
No Newspapers. ...s. ~
The Committee on Public Expendi'
lures and Accounts sat on Kinney'r
scheme to furnish the members Of the
House with free newspapers. IL re-
ported that to secure thirty copies OF
the six publications named in the reso
luton would cost $l00.50 a month, or
over $500 for the balance OF the SEES
sion. The precedent established would
necessitale further the subscribing to
the various English and Hawaiian
newspapers OF Hawaii, Maui AMI
/, Kauai. With a further substantial OK
pense. In view OF the necessity for
tee to be. justified aud 1t was recon
nized, The expenditure OF . these
amounts did not seem to the commit
tee TO be iustihgod and II was recon
mended that the resolution be tabled
The report was adopted.
The special appropriation bill, No
"a, for the payment OF certain claims
was reported back by the Financ,
Committee with certain minor amend
nients and the recommendation tina
II pass as amended. The committed,
report was adopted, carrying the bill
through second reading.
Fight 10 Coming.
It Is up to the House to decid'
whether sl.50 is enoigh pay for a lab
orer In the employ Of the Territory o
County, or whether the man who sho,
els dirt ON the government roads ough
to get 81. Plenty pllikia Is in sight.
The Miscellaneous Committee Wee
nesday reported favorably on Nakt
lekas bill to set the figure at $l.5(
But Maniahu, one member OF the con
mlttee, refused to concur In this r,
port, and yesterday submitted mino
ity report to strike out the words ION
dollar and fifty cents" and substitut
the words two dollars
Castro. seeing sudden trouble brew
Ing, moved to put consideration OF tn
conflicting reports over day, and tn
motion carried.
Alfonso went against the enem
with a resolution and got bumped. HI
resolution provided that the Healt
and Police Committee be instructed I
investigate the possibility OF locatin
and obtaining cemetery sites for tn
interment of the poor In the City an
County'o of Honolulu, and the Gown {
Hilo, Hawaii, and that the said con
mittee report to this House a. as earl
date as may be what locations an