The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-07
LEGISLATURE CONCLUDES
ITS LABORS AND STANDS
ADJOURNED WITHOUT DAY
House Passes Resolution for Better Steamship
Accommodation, Which Senate Debates
and Refuses to Concur In.

The legislature of the Territory of
Hawaii concluded it's work yesterday
and adjourned sine die about two
thirty clock, after having accomplish
ed all that it was called together for.
The administration bill for the amend
ment Of the Organic Act had been ap
proved with but slight amendment, and
the legislature as a whole had exhib-
tied the good sense not to attempt any
general legislation not directly con-
nected with the purposes for which it
was called together.
The concluding exercises in each
house were brief and of no great for
mality. President Smith of the senate
and Speaker Holstein of the house made
valedietory addresses, congratulating
the two houses on the good work they
had done and the expedition with
which the work before them had been
finished; the chaplains delivered final
prayers; in the house ''Hawaii Ponoi :"
was sung by the members with the
solemnity that attends only the CON
Guiding minutes of session of the
legislature; the gavels fell for the last
time, and the special session was
ended
The house of representatives in the
morning put itself on record as being
for the best interests of the people as
against those of the corporations, but
the senate failed to make as good a
record. The resolution introduced in
che house by Cohen. for the temporary
suspension OF the coastwise shipping
laws, and adopted by the lower body
by a strong vote, was killed in the
upper house, chiefly through the eff
forts of President Smith. acting on the
floor as the representative of the cor
porations.
A Merited' Rebuke.
A very smooth trick of the senate
was foiled in the house wheE that body
tumbled to what the senate was trying
to do-and it took only about two sec
onds for the house to get wise. Fri
day a concurrent resolution was intro
duced in the senate by the fearful Co
elho authorizing the land commissioner
and the Governor to give title to the
lands at Lahaina which have been oc-
cupied by private individuals since the
time of the Great Mahale. The reso-
luton may or may not have been all
right At any rate, the senate adopt
ed it, but, evidently fearing that the
house would kill it, held it back until
within FIVE minutes of the time set for
the house to adjourn. Then the reso-
luton came down from the senate for
the house to act upon. Speaker Hol-
stein called attention to the tricky tao
tics of the upper house, and the rep
resentatives promptly turned it down.
In the house during the morning, Co
hen delivered the strongest speech of
the session, in support of the coast
wise suspension resolution, and sue
ceeded in winning out over the rattle
Drained tactics of the representative
from Hilo. who made a few forid ad-
dresses in his usual manner.
Good Work Done.
All in all, the work of the legisla-
ture was good. and justified the conf
dence reposed in that body when 1t
was called together to act on the pro-
posed bill for the amendment of the
Organic Act The bill as proposed has
been approved with but few amend
ments The legislators, it 5 true,
changed it to recommend that they
themselves be given $1,000 session,
but that can be excused if everything
else goes through. And if they can
get the thousand, all right; they re
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