Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-10
HONORABLE LIKE
is NOT irish, But
He Would Have March
II Made A Legal
Holiday
HOUSE
Seventeenth Day-Afternoon Session
HOUSE


Representative Like il not Irish.
and so IL IL not from great love and
ELECTION for the patron saint of the
Emerald Isle that he wants the Leg
islaturc of the Territory to set aside
the seventeenth day of March MS le-
sal holiday. But It took the House
some time yesterday afternoon to
realize. when Like offered an amend
ment to Kealawaa's Lincoln Day hill.
to include March IA in the list of
holidays along with February ~. that
IL was not St. Patrick that he wanted
to honor, but Kaulkeaouli, Kameha-
meha III.
Like was quite serious about the
matter, and probably the House
would have voted to add two more
holidays to the already long list of
icte-days observed In Hawaii had not
! Rice. us usual. saved the day by
pointing cut technical flaw in the
bill and its amendment and getting
It referred back to the Military COM
mittee.
The Representatives spent most of
the afternoon squabbling in Commit
tee of the Whole over RiCe's three
bills the intent of which is to turn
over the district courts, jails, hOspi-
! tails, etc, to the Counties. Every
body, or almost everybody, talked,
and nobody said much. Rice, Nawa-
hine. Douthitt, Kaleiopu, Arsnso,
Kaniho, and Cohen all spilled over
their excess orator.. Fortunately,
when they had got IL out of their
systems. they felt better aud came TO
IA vote ON the question. when the
committee rose u recommended TO
the House that the ,thrcc bills be
! passed.
To Amend Municinal Act
A bill To amend the Municipal Act,
designed to define strictly the respcc-
tive powers of the Mayor and the SUI
peryisors so NJ to prevent any mix
ups such as have kept the municipal
pot seething for The past two months,
was introduced by Douthitt. This
bill WIS drafted in accordance with
the instructions of the Republican
Central Committee ut a recent meet
Ing. The bill. Mr.. Douthitt says, is
not intended to strip the Mayor of
any of his Othority. but definitely
to define the authority of the Mayor
and of the Supervisors.
The bill still leaves with the Mayor
the power to appoint heads of depart
ments, but subordinates may be APP
pointed by the Supervisors.
| In addition TO this, DOuthitt's bill
knocks out that clause of the Munich
pal Act that requires that every bill
or resolution providing for the appro-
priation of public money must be pub
lished for FIVE weeks in newspapers,
with the ayes and noes, before final
action on the same. This clause
stands as regards sums in excess of
$500. but is not effective in regard
to smaller amounts.
Douthitt introduced his expected
bill In regard to the voting powers of
common and preferred stock, the bill
providing that the voting powers of
the various classes of stock in cor
porations shall be fixed in the articles
of incorporation or in amendments
thereto.
Furtado introduced resolution to
appropriate $50 Il month for u Gov
eminent physician at Hamakua and
500 month for Government ply
stefan at South Kohala.
A bill was introduced by Castro to
repeal Section Hasa of Chapter 1O2
X. l.. relating to licenses.