The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-20


tries. F." The report was laid on the
table to be considered with the bill.
A Bond Measure,
Senator McCarthy's measure to IA
cilitate the giving of bonds required
or permitted by law was reported on
favorably by the Judiciary Committee.
It is as follows:
''Be it Enacted by the Legislature of
the Territory OF Hawaii.
!F'Seetion l. That any receiver. as
signee, guardian, trustee, committee.
executor, administrator, commissioner
or other fiduciary required by law or
the order of any court or Judge to give
bond or other obligation as such NAV
include as a part Of the lawful and
chargeable expense of executing his
trust such reasonable sum, paid a com
panv authorized under the laws of this
Territory to become surety on such
bond or obligation for becoming his
surety thereon, as may be allowed by
the court i'll which, or a Judge before
whom, he is required to account not
exceeding one-half of one per cent. per
annum on the amount of such bond. -
The resolution of Coelho, directed at
the Organic Act amendments, and
which was referred to the Committee
on Printing. was as follows:
Whereas, There is now pending in
and before the House of Representa-
tives of the United States, in the ex-
pectation of it being enacted into law
by the Federal Congress, a bill to
amend, in many important particulars,
the Organic Act, creating and provid-
ing a government for the Territory:
and
Whereas, Said bill as so prepared and
introduced in said House Of Represen-
tatives proposes many changes in our
scheme of Territorial government that
would be, if enacted into law, dis
tasteful to the people of this Territory
and subversive of the principle of pop
ular government and detrimental to the
best interests of the Territory, espe-
cially as regards the administration and
disposition of the public lands thereof,
in regard to which, in particular, the
amendment proposed by said bill are
designed to withdraw from the courts
their present salutary jurisdictions over
controversies pertaining to said pub
lie lands and to vest an unusual and
arbitrary power respecting the same in
the Governor of this Territory and the
Commissioner of Public Lands, neither
of which are responsible to, or subject
to control by, the people or the Legisla.
ture of the Territory of Hawaii.
Whereas, It is desirable that any
change in the public land laws should
involve the principle of a greater de-
gree of control thereof by the people
through the Legislature of this Terri
tory;
Therefore. Be it Resolved by the
Senate of the Territory of Hawaii (the
House of Representatives concurring),
That the clerk of the Senate and the
clerk of the House of Representatives
of the Territory be and are hereby in
structed to Immediately telegraph to
the President of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives and to the Delegate of this Ter
ritory in Congress a request that said
bill be not acted upon further until
certified copies of this resolution can
be delivered to them in Washington. -
Senator Mccarthy made a motion
that the resolution be laid on the table
until printed copies of the bills now
pending in Congress had been prepared,
as was ordered by the Senate at Thurs
days session.