The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-19
HOUSE.
Morning Session.

business was the presentation of a reso-
luton by Rice, this specifying that all
resolutions for the appropriation of
money for internal improvements from
current receipts be referred without mo-
ton and debate to the committee hav.
ing in charge the current appropriation
bills
Kaleiopu failed to see the point and
thought information on the various
points would be lacking.
Rice explained that his resolution was
to keep down the bulk of resolutions
and committee reports and save one
third of the journal space. Many things
are brought in on resolution, referred
to committee and reported on wholly
| unnecessarily, the committee on the ap-
preparation bills not reading most of
/ the reports at all.
| Sheldon wanted to know if the House
would get any report at all. or would
the resolutions be muzzled. directly and
/ quietly in committee.
Rice contended that valuable time
would be saved and the session expense
lessened, but was willing to withdraw
! the resolution if the House wanted to
| do the same as last year
| Sheldon said all he wanted was some
thing whereby the House would know
what was going on.
Rice withdrew the resolution, promis.
| ing to present a substitute later on, pro-
viding for all resolutions concerning
.public Improvements being submitted to
committee of the whole.
Kinney presented a request that the
Revised Laws of 1907 be furnished the
members. also a resolution calling for
| $11, 500 for a courthouse, Jail and jail
er s house at Paalaa, Oahu.
Kaleiopu gave motive of two bills, one
to provide for the opening of roads, the
other being an amendment to the NUM-
cipal Act.
Alfonso presented a resolution calling
for new school buildings and additions
for Hawaii. the appropriation asked for
being $4,000.
Sheldon said this was one of the
resolutions to be referred to committee
of the whole. Long moved the adop-
ton of the resolution, which led the
! Speaker to announce that such an
| adoption would carry the appropriation
without further action. It was then
suggested that it lay on the table until
the appropriation bills came in. Cor.
rea wanted it referred to the Education
| Committee with instructions for that
committee to report to committee of the
| whole.
The Speaker took advantage of this
parliamentary maze to give few sim.
pie instructions in procedure and parlia.
mentary usages.
| A suggestion that the Education Com
mittee should know what is wanted
aroused Kaleiopu, who objected to be-
ing left in the dark The matter finally
went to the Education Committee.
Another resolution from Alfonso, call
ing for 1886, went the same way. Then
still another school requirement bill
came from Alfonso. this time $40, 125
being wanted. Education seems to
come high on Hawaii. A fourth Alton
SO resolution called for $4,000 for a
| Hilo courthouse, $4,000 for a Honokaa
courthouse. while the fifth was a modest
$4,000 resolution for repairs to the Hilo
armorv Altogether Alfonso asked for
| $203.970 in twelve minutes.
Cohen presented resolution asking
that the secretary begin printing bills
as soon as they become law. This led
to a long harangue from Kaniho on
the necessity of having the laws trans
lated into Hawaiian.
Information Wanted.
A number of resolutions calling for
information were presented. One call
ed upon the heads of all departments
to send in full payrolls for use of
members in preparing the salary bill.
Another resolution called upon Public
Expenditure and Accounts Committee to
make an investigation into the systems
of accounting in different departments
The Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton was called upon to report on ques-
tions submitted, these being: care all
the books used in the Public Schools
kept by the Department of Public In
struction?' and els the Department
selling them at cost?''
School for Kewa1o.
Castro presented resolution asking
for $4,000 for the erection of a rein
| forced concrete school building in Ke-
| walo.
Administration Bills.
Two administration bills were pre-
scented. One appropriates 1920 to pay
for buildings condemned on the land
needed for the Kewalo leprosarium, the
other defining the judicial circuits of
the Territory. In regard to the first
measure, the message from the Gov
ernor said:
"Although technically the property
did not belong to the persons to be
compensated. because it was on gov,
eminent land, yet this case differs from
others. in that the claimants were re,
quired by the government to reside at
the settlement and upon land belonging
to the Territory. 1t seems only just
that they should be compensated. The
amounts recommended are the appraise
ments made at the time and agreed tc
by the claimants -
New Judicial Boundaries.
) The bill establishing new boundaries
for the Judicial District, provides that:
"The first judicial circuit includes
the Island Of Oahu and that portion
of the Island of Molokai known as Ka
laupapa, Kalawao and Waikolu. com
monty known or designated as the Lepe1
. Settlement and all other islands belong
, ing to the Territory of Hawaii not here