The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-27

. to tDe judiciary tUHlHilttc.
( House Bill Z, Alfonso, to encourage
the cultivation of fruit and vegetables
/ and provide for the transportation of
| the same to the mainland, was read a
i second time and referred TO the Agrl-
/ cultural Committee. This bin provides
for substituting to the maximum amount
/ of $50, 600 a year a steamship company
/ to carry fruits and vegetables al a re-
! duced price and packed in a satisfac-
tory way, provides for an agent to look
after shipments and selling agents on
| the Coast.
House Bill As, Hubby, providing for
! a permanent registration list for vosers,
was referred to the Judiciary Commit
tee. This is bill recommended by the
! Executive and drafted under supervi-
sion of the Governor.
House Bill 50, Kaleiopu, which is in
! tended to wipe out the law regarding
! certificates of vaccination, was referred
to the Police and Health Committee.
House Bill 81, Kaleiopu, forbidding
/ prison labor on public road work, went
! to the Police Committee The bill en-
| bodies the erroneous ideas entertained
! by many that prison labor on roads
and quarries comes into competition
with free citizen labor, forgetting the
! very obvious fact that every political
subdivision of the Territory spends
! every available cent and could not re-
| place the prisoners with paid laborers
: if they wanted to. The bill does, how
! ever, allow prison labor to compete
! with free labor in which the market is
limited, just the opposite to what is
done elsewhere where road laborers are
not the most important people in the
political community. The bill reads in
part:
"All prisoners sentenced to imprison-
ment at hard labor shall be employed
in agricultural, cabinet-making, shoe
| making, harness making, saddlemaking,
blacksmith and such other suitable oc
| equations as the High Sheriff may di-
rect.
"No prisoners sentenced to imprison-
ment at hard labor shall be detailed or
employed on any public roads, streets,
! public highways, public places, public
thoroughfares, lanes, sidewalks of the
Territory, municipal or county, upon
application for that purpose from any
road supervisor or board of supervisors
to the High Sheriff. under whose super
vision and control they were com
mitted.''
Other second readings were:
House Bill So, relating to issuance of
Hawaiian birth certificates; to Judic-
larry Committee.
| House Bills SO and 60, relating to
garnishments, repeating the sections in
the Revised Laws Nos. 2114, 2115, PIG,
211S, 2119, 212O, 2122, 2126, 212s, 2129,
2130, 2134, 2136, 2137, 213S, 214O, 2142,
and 2143; to Judiciary Committee
House Bill 81, relating to the granting
| of charters of incorporation; to Finance
Committee.
House Bill So, relating to trial by
| jury; to Judiciary Committee
House Bill IS, to provide for indie
| terminate sentences for certain felon-
| les; to Police and Health Committee.
House Bill SO, relating to bonds of
| public officers; to Judiciary Committee.
House Bill 20, making certificates of
Hawaiian birth issued under and by
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor of the United States of America
prima facie evidence of the facts
therein stated before Territorial courts
and registration boards
Roasted e. K. Bonine.
r. K. BONNIE came in for a roast in
a resolution presented in the House in
the afternoon by Representative Like,
of the Fifth, the resolution Directing
very strongly to the pictures of the
Hawaiians eating poi, as presented at
the exhibition given at the Young
Hotel on Thursday evening. Like did
not want such pictures to go out,
pnnuoh alraoIx- bax +ofI
corning Hawalians as naked cannibals
and untruths of various natures to al
| low further false impressions to go out
by means of moving pictures.
Rice moved the resolution carry as
concurrent resolution in order that it
be passed at once Later he stated that
he knew Mr. BONNIE to be a gentleman
having the best interests of Hawaii at
heart and a man who would withdraw
the pictures if he knew that Hawaians
regarded them as caricatures on their
/ race.
Kawewehi wanted a law passed at
once, because il BONNIE were given six
days notice, such as joint resolution
allowed, he would ''skip out to the
States to show them.
Various other members took part in
! tHo ucDdtet INtdtdNdd giving dH Illus
tration OF the proper and ethical meth
DDS of poi-eating in contradistinction
to the way in which the Bonine char
| acters performed the rite, and Coney
| explaining that he knew that Mr. Bo-
nine had no idea that the showing of
the pictures would be resented.
| The resolution passed as concurrent
resolution as follows:
Whereas, The films representing Ha-
waiians eating poi shown to invited
| guests at an exhibition by Mr. BONNIE
| in the roof garden of the Young Hotel
last evening are a caricature on man
ners and customs obtaining among the
Hawaiian people; and,
| Whereas, The public exhibition of
such films as representing the customary
methods of Hawaiians eating their ma
tional food would be gross libel on
and insult to the Hawaiian race, now
therefore
BE it resolved by the Legislature
! of the Territory of Hawaii, That we
unanimously request Mr. BONNIE to de-
! sist from further exhibition of the films
herein referred to, either here or else
| where, and that he is hereby requested
to destroy the said films forthwith y