The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-04-16
The Taxation Question.

The Taxation Question.
House Bill No. $50, taxation bill
was deferred until this morning to b,
taken up in committee of the who'll
with four other bills dealing with tn,
question of taxation.
House Bill No. 1S4, on land registra
ton, and House Bill No 1s5, on delin
| quent children, were referred to th
Judiciary Committee.
Senate Bill No. 1879, allowing countie
| to impose special tax of not NOR
than quarter of one per cent. {,
meet the expense of internal improve
ments, was referred to the special com
mittee on taxation on the request o
| Senator Knudsen. The bill was intro
| duced as "A substitute for the loan bill
by the Ways and Means Committee ma
jority.
Since the loan bill is approved il
| amended form on second reading, in
cluding only the 100000 provision 70
the Kula pipeline, Senator Fairchil,
observed that there was no particula
object to the bill. A motion was mad
to table it, but was deferred by refer
ring it to the special committee oil
taxation.
Notification was received from tn
House, stating that it had failed to con
cur in the Senate amendments to HOus
Bill 1913, the merchandise license bill
President Smith named Senators CoelhC
Fairchild and Harvey as members o
the conference committee.
The Judiciary Committee presented
fayorable report on House Bill No. 10;
establishing educational and taxatio
districts, drawn to take the place of
similar measure vetoed by Governo
Frear. Senator Kalama offered a
amendment, substituting bitches for tn
triangulation stations used as ofiicia
boundaries for the district of Wailukt
Senator Knudsen and President Smit
showed that the bitches could not b
considered as permanent boundarie,
kalama S amendment was not seconde
and the bill passed ON second readin
as reported by the committee.
Appropriation Bill.
Robinson moved that the salary O
the president of the Board of Healt
be increased to $275, the former rat,
in preference to the $3.50 in the Hous
Bill. The motion was carried. Fai,
child explained that the salary was r,
duced SO the Secretary of the Territor
could take up the duties of presider
of the Board of Health in addition I
his other work.
The items of secretary, clerk an
stenographers We're taken up from Sci
ate Bill No. 40, the Governor S est
mate. On the question of whether I'll
Board of Health was to be turned ovt
to the county, Senator Chillingwort
moved that the sense of the Senat
be that it was opposed to the transf,
of control at this time. The motto
was carried unanimously on a stan,
ing vote.
The item Of secretary was passed
$l75; clerk at 1920; stenographer {
500; ianitor and messenger, $50; c,
penses, $4,000.
Under the heading of sanitation SCI
ator Fairchild questioned the item
Sl7,2s0 on the ground that it was di
tinetly a county affair and that IL
Territory as a whole should not bel
the expense. The item was passe
Senator Smith contending that Il
whole Territory was affected by II
health conditions of Honolulu.
A Salary Raise
On the motion of Makekau Il
salary of the sanitary inspector for Il
island of Hawaii was raised from 81
to sl65. Makekau also moved that Il
salary of the assistant be increase
from $50 to $S5. Brown said tn
the Shippers Committee now paid Il
assistant $50 month in addition
. his government salary. The amendme
!, was carried.
: Returning TO the Board of Heal
I. inspectors, Quinn suggested that Il
. office of sewer Inspector of the Depai