The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-20
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appointment of jailers, to the power:
of the Honolulu Supervisors over mat
ters of health and quietess-the Tene
ment House BiA-and the general bill
turning over waterworks, hospitals
jails, etc, to the counties.
Rice explained that these various
amendments had been put in after con
sultatioM with W. A. Kinney and A.
G. NJ. Robertson. The House agreed
that what these two said went
/ Belated Petition.
For once in the session Kauai dragged
behind the game yesterday. Sheldon
presenting a petition asking for the
passage of a House bill which had been
tabled some days before. Rice explain
| ed that there was Senate bill in the
hands of the miscellaneous committee
to which the petition might be tackled.
! 1t was.
Second Readings.
| The Printing Committee presented
| what was announced as the last bills
in its hands. These were taken I'D out
of their regular order for second read
ings in order to allow the committees
to get to work on them. These were:
An Act relating to the decision of
a court in writing in trials without jury,
Douthitt, No. 221.
An Act relating to bail, Douthitt, No.
222.
An Act to regulate the practise of
veterinary medicine, Douthitt, No 223.
An Act relating to the taxation of
insurance companies, Rice, No. 224
An Act to encourage the industrial
enterprise. exempting cement and lime
companies from taxation, Sheldon. No.
227
An Act relating to the College of
Hawaii, Single, No. 22s.
An Act relating to issuance of GER
tifcates of title, Single, No. 229.
Senate Bill rs, Coelho, relating to
witness fees and mileage.
Senate Bill 1877, Makekau, relating to
balances of road tax money in the Ter
ritorial Treasury.
Finance Committee Reports.
The Finance Committee reported on
Coelho's bill relating to hotel and res
taurant licenses, recommending its
amendment and passage. The amend
ment provides for a license fee of $50
for hotels and restaurants in Honolulu
and Hilo, and $25 elsewhere in the
Territory.
Senate Bill 125, Mccarthy, relating
to the Honolulu waterworks, was rec
commended as it stood.
Harbor Work Favored
AS an amendment to Coelhos bill
to borrow 100000 for the Kula pipe
line, the committee, after having |
given the bill a very careful consid |
Grafton, has decided to recommend
that a new item be inserted ="
viz, Honolulu Wharf and Harbor I'm |
provements, 100000
The committee recommended the bill
providing that Maui pay back to the
Territory the money to be borrowed |
for the Kula pipeline.
The bill relating to the procuring of
licenses by second hand dealers. Sem |
ate Bill 120, was also recommended.
Certificate of Purity.
Only a little lower than the angels, |
and mighty little at that, are the
members of the House, according to
the report of the special graft commit
tee, presented. Especially pure is Ka-
leiopu, whose halo had been twisted
askew by the evidence. but which has
been plumbed Alright again now. The
surprising thing about the report is
that it stops so short. After hearing
it, the surprise comes that Kaleiopu
and Kaleo We're not recommended for
canonization or at least, warned that
the good die young.
On motion of Long, who stated that
he wished to make a statement be.
fore the vote, consideration was posts
poned until the afternoon.
And I can see the headlines in the
papers, The House Gives Itself Coat
of Wnitewash.' said Rice.
What the Committee Found.
The report of the committee was a
lengthy document, which goes into de-
tails to say that the charge that mem
bers of the House were drawing money
from the Treasury for work done IN
,translatinlg bills is unfounded. Kalei-
opu, who said one thing before the com
mittee one day and a whole lot more
the next day after a certain voucher
was discovered, is said TO be fully
exonerated of any blame in the mat
ter, y although the translator for whom
kaIeiopu got the work and did it, is
recommended for dismissal for incom-
petence.
Long is blamed for accepting the I'M
substantiated word of Stenographer
LLOYD about what other members were
doing, although there was no evidence
before the committee that Long ever
talked TO Lloyd or that Lloyd ever
talked to anyone. Lloyd is stated to
have done sufficient to have justified
the course taken with him.
The report concludes as follows:
Your committee therefore reports
shat the charges made against mem
hers of this House were and are I'M
founded, that they were made on mere
rumor and without any previous IN
vestigation on the part of the member
making the same. The charges have
been provocative only of distrust in this
House and of INSTRUMENTATION concern
ing the honesty, ability and integrity
of this branch of the Legislature. The
evil accomplished by these illtimed