The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-27


| may have done some injustice To
papers published outside of Honolulu.
Senator Moore voiced an objection
to any change in the existing law re-
stricting the publishing of the Session
Laws to Honolulu papers He ridiculea
the idea that a conspiracy, existed
among the local newspapers and show
ed that it was always the custom to
publish the laws in the capitals of states
or territories.
Senator Smith also declared for the
maintenance of the present law, say
ing that there should be uniformity as
TO the place of publication. Moores
amendment to lay the bill on the table
was lost and the measure then passed
on second reading.
The Loan Bill
Senator Coelho then introduced the
loan bill, appropriating 81 ,669, 1922
out of money received by the Treasurer
out of the loan fund for the biennial
period ending June 80, 1911.
All the items in the bill are for
improvements. there being $27S, 39S. SO
for Hawaii; Maui, s342, 1867 Molo-
kai, $4,000; Kauai. $780, 972.2s; Oahu,
1919. 656.S9. The bill was passed to
print.
Then came Senator Fairehild's re-
marks about territorial finances show
ing that through the acts already pass
ed the sum of S174.314.2S has been dis
posed of by the Legislature. The finan-
cial summary of the chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee gave the
Senators something to think over and
it is believed that it will tend to make
the demands of the upper house mem
bers a trifie conservative in the future.
At the afternoon session a commune
cation was received from MarstoB
Campbell, informing the Senate that
he had received the anti-lobbying reso~
luton and had already instructed his
departmental employees to refrain from
interfering with legislation. A similar
acknowledgment was received from
Land Commissioner Pratt and Public
Surveyor Walter E. Wall.
The Maui Claims.
Senate Bill No. 104 was taken up
with the report of the committee and
passed on second reading. In its report
the committee says:
"The bin as submitted is the re-
suit of the Investigations made by
your committee pursuant to Commune
cation No. 2 from the Auditor of the
Territory submitting claims fled in
his office in accordance with the provi-
sions of Senate Resolution 45, adopted
May l., 1907.
1.-THE bill proposes to appropriate
moneys out of the funds of the County
of Maui to pay the officers who were
elected and served, and those employ
ed under and by virtue of Act 81 az
the Laws of 1903 Each of the items
in the bill. we find, was approved by
the then Board of Supervisors, and
warrants issued in favor of each claim
ant. All of the claims are correct ex-
cept those for the elected officers who
put in claims for the full month, when,
as matter of fact, they only served
ten days In the case of these claims,
we have approved the amount inserted
in the bill, and not as in the warrants
submitted by the Auditor.
I'm the matter of escla inns of the l
district magistrates, your COMMITTEES
find. there We're two sets of magistrates
in commission. The old, the Terrific
rial whose commissions had not ex-
pired, continued and were paid for the
full month of January, 1904. out of
the Territorial appropriation then in
force, while the county appointees
served and were not paid.
Your committee is of the opinion
that as the people of Maui have re-
ceived the benefit of the services of
the claimants in the bill. they should
be made to pay the same.
ba
pineapple culture are evading taxation
through subterfuge was the question
that was discussed at length when Sen
ate Bill l22. introduced by Senator
Baker, was taken up for consideration
on second reading. In explaining the
reason for introducing the bill, Sena-
tor Baker declared that the corpora
tions, owning hundreds of acres of
pineapple land, were escaping taxation
under the law eXempting pineapple
land of forty acres or less, by subiet-
ting it, and by that means evading the
provisions of the law. Senator Fair
child admitted that there might be
evasion of the law, but he added that
any change in the law of 1907 would
hardly be fair, in view of the fact
thai many people had gone into the
pineapple business at that time rely
ing upon the provisions of the tax
exemption clause in the law.
Senator Makekau Insisted that any
amendment that the Senate might
make in the existing law, whether it
was being abused or not. would be an
evidence of bad faith upon the part
Of the Legislature and would give the
public good reason to distrust its prom
ises in the future.
Senator Smith expressed the same
view, saying that the Legislature could
not consistently make any alteration
in the law until the fve-year period
from 1907 had elapsed. Senator Moore
thought that if the corporations were
violating the law they should be
brought mp with round turn, and he
did not see how the small grower was
going to suffer through an enforce
ment of the amended measure as SUBJ
mitted by Baker.
Makekau moved to table the bill, but
the amendment offered by Chilling
worth. to defer until Tuesday, was
adoDted