The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-16
HOUSE

Continued from Page Two.)
Like thought it would be showing more
love for the people if they passed the
bill over the veto instead of voting
$4,000 for the entertainment of Con-
gressmen.
Roll call showed-to sustain the veto
p, to override 7. Those in the minor
ity were Furtado, Kamahu, Kaniho,
Kealawaa, Like, Nawahine and Hihio.
Third Readings.
House Bill 35, Nakaleka. fixing a
minimum wage of $3.50 a day for all
public laborers, came up again for the
third time for third reading and for
the fourth time was deferred. this time
until Saturday.
Nakaleka explained after the House
went into recess that his bill was
inferior to one presented later, which
exempts Honolulu from the minimum
scale and for that reason he moved de.
| ferring in order that the later bill may
! pass and his be tabled.
House Bill 102, Single, amends Sec
ton 1928 of the Revised Laws. and
provides for service by publication OF
the summons in eases where by afida-
| Wit ii is shown that cause of action
| exists and the defendant to be served
| cannot be found.
The bill passed third reading.
House Bill 119, Carley, gives the
legal meaning of the word s.Garage,
as used in the territorial statutes. There
was no opposition on the final reading.
House Bill 1875, Douthitt, provides
for power for any corporation of the
Territory to issue two classes of stock,
common and preferred. and by vote
of two-thirds of the shareholders to fix
rules governing the preference, voting
power, restrictions and qualifications Of
such stock Roll call found the House
Unanimous.
House Bill 65, Moanauli, allows the
passing of indeterminate sentences up
on those convicted of all but the grav-
est offenses. This bill passed on third
reading.
/ Senate Bills Voted On.
+ Senate Bill 4, Coelho, requiring a
statistical biennial report from each
county, was presented for final read
ing. There was big wing of the
House opposed TO this measure, which
passed with a majority of ten, the vote
being: Ayes 10, noes 8.
Senate Bill Z, Coelho, repeats the ex-
isting law making it imperative that
all court interpreters be citizens and
allows an alien TO be employed where
it is not reasonably possible to secure
competent citizen. The bill was de-
ferred, pending the return of Carley,
chairman of the Miscellany Committee.
Senate Bill 50, Judiciary Committee,
makes a number of important amend.
ments in the existing divorce laws.
The most important change is that re-
curing lapse of thirty days between
the service of libel and the hearing
of the case. The bill passed on a vote
of twenty four to four.
Recommend Retrenchment.
Il The Finance Committee presented the
following important report:
z. Your Committee on Finance to
whom was referred Governor S Message
No. /, pages 5 TO IA inclusive, begs
leave to file a report ON same.
q Your committee has checked up the
estimated receipts and find that the re-
eeipts as estimated in the message cor
respond closely to those arrived at by
your committee.
"By the passage of House Bill No.
los items amounting to $11S,00e may
be cut out of the Current Appropria-
ton Bill and placed in a special bill
to be drawn from the fund for the Con-
servation of our Natural Resources.
Also by combining several of the
departments, and turning over to the
counties such obligations as they can
and should assume without mourning an
additional expense in their various ex-
eeutive forces, would greatly reduce the
| Current Appropriations Bill.
q Your committee therefore recon-
mends that the Current Appropriation
Bill, House Bill No "A, be taken up and
the above suggestions be followed SO
that balance will be left of the esti-
mated receipts for necessary Public I'M
provements These items to be intro
dueed in a separate appropriation bill
after final action upon the Current APP
| preparation Bill so as to bring the total
amount within the available balance.
| Cohen's Minority Report.
! Cohen, member of the committee,
coneurred partially>in the report, as fol-
| lows:
81 concur in the above report except
sary for public improvements can be
realized by the consolidation of depart
| ments and the reduction of appropria-
tions for them without first investiga-
ting whether or not the efficiency of
said departments may be impaired. -
That Shadow of Arrest.
The resolution introduced on Satur-
day by Rice. that members absent with
out leave from the Speaker be arrested
by the sergeant-at-arms, came up for
| vote and the little discussion had a
tinge of acrimony throughout. The
mover, stating that he had been in
| formed that the matter was dealt with
fully in the rules, moved the tabling
of the resolution.
| Single moved in amendment that the
resolution be Indefinitely postponed
s.to give a decent burial, with the Hon
orable Charles A. Rice as chief pail
bearer
1 The motion to table was lost and
omanJ,,.ant aarria1