The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-05

| The various reports were laid on the
| table TO be considered with the respec-
| tive bills.
/ House Bill No. !, providing for ses-
! sional expenses Of that body, passed
/ fist reading.
Lahaina Lands.
| Coelho, with speech, presented q
/ concurrent resolution, which was re-
ferred to the committee on public lands.
This asked that title be granted on
certain public lands at Labaina which
have been occupied by private persons
since the time Of the grand mahele of
lands.
Pay of officers.
Brown presented resolution appor-
tioning the pay of officers OF the senate
as follows: Clerk, $l2 day; assistant
clerk. 50 a day; ergeant-at-arms, So a
day; messenger, So day; janitor, So
day; chaplain, $25 the session.
President Smith called attention to
the fact that the pay proposed for the
assistant clerk was one dollar more
than that paid at the regular session.
Quinn moved to amend the resolution
to make the pay of the assistant cleciE
Makekau moved that the seasonal
pay of the chaplain be $50 instead Of
$25.
Quinn regarded it an outrage to have
raised the pay of the assistant clerk.
The session might only last few days,
but the people looked to them to be
economical.
Makekau contended that the propos
ed raise of the chaplain s pay was net
out of proportion to the 5000 allowed
to senators.
The amendment carried, TO 3, on
show of hands.
Land for Persons Released From the
Settlement.
Harvey presented the following reso-
luton:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
legislature in special session assembled
that the Governor of the Territory set
aside suitable public lands for the pur-
pose of placing such of the persons who
were segregated at the leper settleme ~
at Molokai and who were examined
since April /, 1909, and found free of
the disease of leprosy and ordered to
leave the settlement, as may apply to
locate thereon, upon such terms and
conditions as the Governor may pre-
scribe.
Referred to the committee on public
lands.
General Legislation.
House joint resolution for the reliat
of homesteaders passed first reading N
motion of Mccarthy.
Chillingworth, referring to the action
just taken, suggested that the question
should be determined now whether
other matters other than the proposed
bill to amend the Organic Act could
legally be taken up at this special SEES
sion.
President Smith did not regard it
proper to take up general legislation
except in eases Of emergency, but this
house resolution was not foreign to the
special business of the session. 1t might
| help in the problem of amending the
| Organic Act.
Chi1Iingworth accepted the ruling.
Order of the Day.
Senate bill No. l, appropriating $4,000
for the seasonal expenses of this branch
passed third reading.
l
| of certain officers of the county of
Maui came up under the report of the
special committee recommending its
passage.
A motion by Coelhd to adopt the re
| port of the committee. which would
pass the bin on second reading, was
! lost on a show of hands.
| This was the first setback to general
legislation at this special session, but
the battle royal was yet to come.
The Fight On.
Coelho scored the next point in the
game when his motion to take up re
/ ports of the committee on ways anC
means upon certain bills carried.
Then he moved the adoption of the
majority report recommending the pas
sage of senate bill No. 3, relating tt
license fees for the sale of fish, etc.
| President Smith called attention t.
the fact that the bill was foreign t.
the purpose for which this session o.
the legislature was called
Quinn called for ruling of the chat
on The question of general legislation
/ Coelho argued at length for the legal
ity of the procedure in question. TIL,
constitution of the State of New YorE
: specifically prohibited legislation at
, special session foreign to the purpos,
for which the legislature was called
, Our Organic Act did not prohibit it
/ which the speaker regarded as a sig
nifeant fact. In 1904 the attorney
, general filed an opinion on the question
and at the special session of that yea
Mr.. Knudsen, then member of tn
house, voted in favor of bill not re
lated to the special business which new
ertheless became law.
From this Coelho argued rapidly i
, favor of his various bills, contendin
| that some of them came under the cate
CORY of emergency. Young men wer
deprived of their constitutional right O
voting by one law he sought to hav
, amended. Small dealers in fish an
even the women selling flowers on tn
street corner in Honolulu were liabl
, to arrest today under the mercapdis
license law. In loud and impassione
, tones. proclaiming himself a RepubIi
can, he appealed to his colleagues an
to the president by name not to oh
+ struet the measures of needed relief fO
various classes of the people.
Quinn again asked for a ruling befor
going ahead.