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Two County Bill Report.

LHO-Abu4Ahy Dill
The Judiciary Committee reported
adversely on Kawewehi' s bill 10 cut
Hawaii into two counties. saying that
it would duplicate offices and make I'M
necessary expense. 1t recommended
that the bill be tabled.
Kawewehi moved the tabling of the
report and asked that the bill be re-
ferred to special committee of the
members from Hawaii. He said he
had asked permission to appear before
the committee on the bill and further
stated that he had not introduced the
bill as joke. He had figures, he said,
showing that there was money enough
to run two governments, and when
money was available, he might have
said, why not jobs enough to use 1t
up2 He said West Hawaii would have
$685. 900 to spend, while fines and costs
would add another $4,000 to this total.
The county officials would only require
some $4,000 a year in salaries, while
clerks and deputies would only take
some $1,000 a year more and police
salary about $4,000. This would only
take about half the revenue, quite
| modest enough when compared with
the boon of running a new govern
ment.
Road expenses, he had figured, would
be per month, 5000, divided as fol-
| lows: Kau, $500; South Kona, $500;
North Kona, $500; South Kohala, $500,
and North Kohala, 5000. Thus would
the laborers benefit, while there would
| be an available balance of $4,000 in
| the new treasury. This money could
be wisely used, said Kawewehi. He
also pointed with pride to the fine con-
dition of the Kona roads.
He renewed his motion to table the
report and pass the bill over to the
Hawaii members.
The Speaker stated that this was
| most unusual motion, but that the Chair
heard unusual motions at times.
Kaleiopu poured some vials of scorn
| upon the bill, to which AKaniho respond
ed. He secuted the idea of any inan-
eial stress in the proposed county, as
the Legislature was providing the coun-
ties literally with tax money, licenses
and fines He quoted H. P. Baldwin s
remark on the original county bill, to
provide the counties and raise the
money afterwards. "There is plenty
of money!" urged Kaniho who also ex-
patiated on the amount of brains IN
West Hawaii and the knowledge of how
to make a little money pay many sal
aries, which could be put to work.
Rice read from the report of the
County Auditor of Hawaii to show that
in 1907 there had been $42, 900 spent
in West Hawaii on the roads. which
showed that they could not be kept up
ON the amount claimed by Kawewehi.
'tThe bill will make one rich county
and one very poor county. 1t would
be black eye to county government
if we established county and let it
go bankrupt. That is why we in Kauai
are interested in this bill. We do not
want the county system to be set back.
We in Kauai are satisfied with the
county SYSTEM
He advised the Hawaii members to
allow the bill to be tabled and to make
the matter an issue on the Big Island
at the next election. He moved the
previous question.
kawewehi insisted on talking again,
but was squelehed and Rice refused to
withdraw his motion to let Alfonso talk.
The previous question carried and the
vote TO adopt the report was called.
The vote was against the report and
the bill passed second reading. Kinney,
Kama, Correa and Like were the Oahu
members to vote in favor of the foolish
bill.
Good Bill Tabled.
The report of the Judiciary Commit
tee on Alfonso S bill to prevent prose
cutting attorneys from using their of
fetal positions for private gains and
restricting their practice to public bust
ness only, was adverse to the bill. The
report was one Of specious pleadings
and long drawn out arguments, in part
as follows:
''The amendment, if adopted, will
prohibit attorneys at law who only are
qualified under the provisions of law,
to hold the positions covered by the
proposed amendment, from pursuing
the business of their profession, and
viii operate to prevent the holders of
such positions from engaging in any
business outside of the duties of their
office. This results in an invidious Sc
lection of certain officials from the
large number of Territorial and county
officers, and prohibits them from add
ing TO their salaries the income de-
rived from any outside business. lie
the object of the bill is to compel the
holder of any Territorial or county Of
flee from engaging in any business out
side of the duties of his office, then
it would be only proper to include in
the operation of the act the holder Of
every government Office. 1t is not |
right to select only the attorneys at
law, whose sole opportunities for add
ing to their official salaries is to be |
found in the line of their profession, |
and to prohibit them from practise, |
while other officials are permitted to |
engage in business. If the law pre- |
scribed as a qualification for the Of |
fee of Treasurer of the Territory or |
of the county that he should be a |
banker or a stakeholder or officer in |
banking corporation or in trust COM
panv. and then law was proposed, |
prohibiting such Treasurer from engag- |
ing in the banking business, or being |
an officer or stakeholder in a banking |
corporation or a trust company, the
inequity of the latter law would be so
evident as to appeal to every fair
minded man hut II is equally unjust |