The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-11

Treasurer of the City and County of
Honolulu for the time being
Second Readings.
Six bills were up on second reading
and went to committee
House Bill ll9, Carley, defining the
term garage.
House Bill 100, Alfonso, setting aside
certain property in Waiakea, Rilo, as.
public park.
House Bill 121, Furtado, regulating
the compensation of jurors in courts of
record.
House Bill 122, Kinney, boosting of
fetal salaries in the City of Honolulu.
House Bill 123, Kawewehi, putting
fifty cent reward on all cattle i'm
pounded.
House Bill 125, Douthitt, the Republic
can bill to settle the kinks in the Ho-
nolulu charter.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Without murmur of dissent, the
amendments of the Senate to the Homo
lulu Enabling Act, whereby everybody
who did anything and good many who.
did nothing are to be paid for what they
did and what they did not do, was con-
Cured in in the House. Kaleiopu moved
the concurrence.
Second Readings.
The following bills were up for Sec
ond reading:
House Bill 116, Makekau, to protect
any beneficial and perching bird from
being killed or despoiled of eggs or nest.
House Bill III, Coney, relating to.
stamp duties.
Senate Bill 81, Fairchild, repeating
Section 301S R. l..
Senate Bill 65, Makekau, revising
boundaries of the judicial circuits.
Silly Blocking Beaten.
Kaleiopu, who has made various kinds
of a fool of himself several times so far
during the session, made another kind
yesterday afternoon to aid to his score.
threatening in paby MANNER to help
kill House Bill los, the administration
immigration tax bill, unless he were Civ
en- his own way, have business on all
appropriation and tax bills postponed,
and keep the House tied up for another
day until he could have a report of the
Agricultural Committee translated and
printed and put in his hands.
Single pointed out clearly how Ka-
leiopu was holding up the business OF
the House through his real or apparent
stupidity; Rice objected to the delay
and pointed out how Kaleiopu and
others would have plenty of time to
learn everything they wanted before the
third reading of the bill, and Cohen,
VINO opposed the bill itself asked that
the matter be taken up and disposed of
one way or the other.
None of the reasoning affected Ka-
ieiopu, who failed to see, declined to-
allow and would not permit of anything
being done unless he wanted it done.
He detained against those who OPP
posed his silly insistence to block bust
| ness and insinuated that there must be
something underhand in the report when
| there was such a demand that it be
| passed now.
| He wilted considerably in his obsti-
| macy, however, when Single told him
j very plainly that if he didn It know
what House Bill los was he ought to-
know because it had been in the House
| a week, had been discussed at a public
| meeting at which Kaleiopu himself had
] been present, and that unless there was.
| more business sense shown in the House
an extra session without pay (Kaleiopu
| wlnced) was certainty.
! The report was adopted and third
reading win come up today.
Question of Peddlers' Licenses.
Castro opposed the acceptane of the
/ report of the Finance Committee, the
/, report favoring the indefinite postpone
ment of bill to cut down the license
fee to peddlers of $50 in each county.
| Castro pointed out the injustice of
charging persons who, for instance, sold
lace made by themselves throughout the
| Territory 5000 a year. The reasons
given in the report were that most Of
| the licenses would be taken out in Ho-
| nolulu, to the loss of the other coun-
ties, while lowering the license fees
would be unjust to the merchants.
Rice had the clerk read the list of
| those at present holding licenses, this
sounding like a plantation payroll Cas-
tro declined to retreat from his stand
that the present law was unjust. The
report was adopted.
Castro s Joint Resolution. to author
ize the appointment of a commission
to inquire into the questions of stamp
duties and licenses and to report by
July l, next year, passed secord reading.
A Real Anti Gambling Bill.
Sheldon presented an amendment to
the present laws dealing with gambling,
an amendment which will allow the po-
lice, If they want to, to stamp out gamb-
ling joints in short order. The amend
ment makes it misdemeanor TO have
IN any place barricaded or so construct
ed as to make the ingress of police
officers difficult, any cards. dice or
gambling apparatus of any kind and
makes guilty of a misdemeanor any one
found in such barricaded room where
any gambling apparatus is found.
The amendments strike straight at
the heart of the gambling evil and make
the stamping ont of Oriental gambling
easy and possible.
Get your Haleiwa tickets early.