The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-03-16
THE SENATE.
TWENTY-SECOND DAY.

TIE OENA
TWENTY SECOND DAY.
An invitation was received from the
Honolulu Park Commission for the
members of the Senate to visit ka-
it,, the president to make arrange
ments for the visit.
REPORTS.
Fairchild presented a report of the
ways and means committee on SEN
ate bill to regulate the expenditure of
public money. With amendments sub
nitted, including one to leave con-
tract road work optional with boards
of supervisors, it was recommended
that the bill pass.
Knudsen presented a report from
the judiciary committee, recommend
ing passage of the bill relating to
filing of plans and surveys.
The same committee recommended
passage of Senate bill relating to lien
of district court judgments.
The same committee reported favor
ably on Senate bill relating to terms
Of circuit courts.
The same committee reported fav-
orably on House bill relating to pro-
curers.
Coelho was granted further time
for the Maui delegation as a commit
tee ON the resolution on Waikiki wa
ter works.
OPIUM PROHIBITION.
Coelho introduced bill to prohibit
the sale and use of opium or prepare
tions thereof.
VETO SUSTAINED.
Governor Frear's veto of House bill
to authorize the Board of Supervisors
of Honolulu to pay employees who per-
formed actual services from January
to March IS, as amended by the
Senate to include payment of appoin-
tees of the Mayor and all persons who
We're promised employment. by him,
came up for action.
Quinn said the House had sustain
ed the veto, therefore there was no
other way out of it for the Senate. He
moved that the veto be sustained.
Makekau, seconded by Mccarthy,
moved that the bill pass notwith-
standing the veto. This motion was
put and lost on the following vote:
Ayes-Coelho, Harvey, Makekau,
Mccarthy, Moore, Woods-G.
Noes-Baker, Brown, Chillingworth,
Fairchild, Kalama, Knudsen, Quinn,
Robinson, Smith,.
President Smith declared the veto
sustained.
FURTHER ORDER OF THE DAY.
Senate bill to validate the incor-
poration of certain railway and trans
portation companies passed third
reading 40.
Senate bill making the bonds of
surety companies on liquor dealers
license sufficient without other sure
ties passed third reading liza, those
voting against it being Fairchild, Ka-
lama, Knudsen and Smith.
Coelhos medicine and surgery bill
was after debate postponed until Sat
urday next.
The author moved its passage.
Fairchild asked if there was any
law at the present time which pre-
vented giving the treatment provided
for in this bill.
Yes" Coelho answered. Under
the present law mother cannot give
her child a dose of castor OIL"
Tut" the president calculated.
Fairchild-'What has become of
the House bill on this subject?"
Coelho-"Make dead"
Fairchild-"A good thing" The
speaker said if it was anything to
give ease and comfort to a sufferer in
the last stages of life he would not
be against it.
President Smith showed that 1t was
absurd to say that the existing law
prohibited a parent from giving
dose of castor oil to a child.
Mccarthy said If there had been
such a law as that proposed the com
munity would not have been subject
cd to the Wallach squabble.
Fairchild remarked that the bill de-
fined certain ailments for which a pa
ticnt might be treated non-profes-