The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-06
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qnested for physician s residence
$4,000 for the building of retreat TO
patients whom a physician 's~certifcat
declares are free from all the symptom
of the disease, and a general appro
priation of $4,000 for the care ant
maintenance of the hospital. The pc
tition was turned over to the Commit
tee on Public Health.
The other two petitions presented
by Senator Baker bear the signature:
of 81 and So voters asking that the
present county of Hawaii be divided
into two counties. The petitions were
committee composed of the delegation
from Hawaii.
Senator Robinson stated that the
Education Committee had completed
arrangements for visit of the Sena.
tors to the College of Hawaii at 2:3C
in the afternoon, President Gilmore
having sent an invitation to the upper
house last week.
Favor Water Meters.
Chairman Fairehild of the Ways and
Means Committee submitted report
on Senate Bill l25, the bin providing
for water meters TO determine the rate
TO be paid by those using water in 8he
City and County of Honolulu. In the
course of it's report the Ways and
Means Committee says:
9'The water problem within the City
and County of Honolulu is a serious
ka1to + hot
the amendment sought by this bill will
result in higher rates being charged
against those who waste water and
lower rates charged against those who
use water economically.
Senator Baker introduced resolu-
ton that the Commissioner of Public
Lands furnish the Senate with full in
formation concerning the assignment,
and applications for assignment, of
homesteads upon the land of Kauna-
mano, in the district of Kau, other
than the lots assigned as homesteads to
members of the Thompson Settlement
Association, together with the names
of applicants since January 1, 1908, ac-
eompanied by the correspondence and
reasons for refusals. The resolution
was ADOPTED.
Consider Election Bill.
On the order of the day Senate Bill
No. 121 was taken up in the commit
tee of the whole, Senator Knudsen be-
ing called to the chair
The second reading of the volumi
nous bill had progressed to section rs
Saturday. Section a. repealing all see
fions of the Revised Laws in conflict
with the intent of the new bill, was
approved yesterday without comment.
Senator Mccarthy, chairman of the Sc
leet committee on election laws, stated
that the repeating section of the mea
sure had received the careful attention
of Secretary Mott-Smith and Attorney
General Hemenway and was in full con-
fornIty with other provisions of the
bill.
Mccarthy explained that section rs
of the bill was simply intended to
amend the Municipal Act by dropping
the deputy sheriffs from the ranks of
elective officers, the Legislature already
having passed bin which specifies that
deputy sheriffs shall be appointed by
the sheriff.
Section 90, providing for a general
county register, was amended to read
that g the clerk shall, before the first
day of July. 1910, and every two years
thereafter, visit all the principal towns
and. places in has county or city and
county for the purpose of registering
voters.
He shall make as many visits as
may be necessary to enable him to
register fhe persons entitled to vote !
and shall publish notices in English |
and Hawaiian of all visits, in news |
papers of general circulation in the |
county, and by posting notices In at |
least three public places in such dis |
trict. The first publication shall be |
not less than four weeks before such i
visits, and the notices shall appear |
weekly for at least three weeks. The
DAYS and hours at which his visits will /
be made shall be stated in such notices
and his necessary expenses therefor
to be paid by the Territory
Expense Is Covered.
All of the amendment except the
last sentence was submitted by Senator
Smith, who took the stand that the
essential subject of registration could
well bear all the safeguards and rel
strictions that could be placed about it.
s. Be10fe the dmeuuHeHt Was SuUHtlL-
led Senator Makekau raised the point
that there was no provision made for
the travelling expenses of the County
Clerk in the performance of his duties.
Senator Fairchild was responsible
for the sentence in the amendment linn
ting the county clerk to his necessary
expenses. The Senator from Kauai OBJ
served that there would be nothing to
prevent the official taking several
clerks along with him to do nothing in
particular. Baker thought the county
clerk would be entitled to some assist
ance in the course of peripatetie reg
but Fairchild replied that it
would be open TO abuse and give loaf
ers chance to get Government money.
Commenting upon the provision in
The bill as to the time of registration,
Senator Fairchild said that care should
be taken to prevent county clerk
from interpreting the section as amend.
I'd to give him chance for an oeea-
sional ''week end at Government ex-
Dense.
Senator Smith declared that while
was needed in the admins
ration of the Government, yet it
would be essentially false economy to