The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-07

Speaker said the point was well taken.
BY consent consideration of the reso-
luton was deferred until II O'Clock.
The Harvey Resolution.
Harvey's concurrent resolution to
prevent the exchange of public lands
until the Organic Act shall have been
amended, came down from the senate
and was read by the clerk. The Speaker
promptly disposed of it by referring it
to the lands committee The house was
not in a mood to stand for any monkey
business from the senate, least of all,
an attempt to override the Organic Act.
Sheldon offered concurrent resolu-
tion that the President of the senate
and the Speaker of the house be author
lied to close the session by adjourning
their respective houses at $50 clock
today. The resolution was adopted
without debate.
Appropriation Bill Passed.
Senate Bill l, the appropriation bill
for the upper house, passed third read
ing by unanimous vote. At 1885 the
house took a recess subject to the call
of the Speaker.
Relief Resolution Adopted.
When the house came to order at IL
clock, senate concurrent resolution Z
came down from above. This is the
resolution requesting the Governor to
set aside from the $4,000 contingent
fund not more than $4,000 for the relief
of the persons released from the Leper
Settlement.
Cohen was wise enough to move the
adoption of the resolution, thus steal
ing Kaniho's thunder and nullifyine
the opposition of the Big Kahuna to
the eOastwise suspension resolution.
Kaleiopu thought the resolution too
loosely drawn. He moved to make it
read "$5000,' instead of 'tnot to ex-
ceed $4,000"
Coney disagreed with the gentleman
from the fifth. He didn't think $4,000
ought to be spent if less amount
would be sufficient.
Alfonso moved the previous question
Carried. The vote was taken and the
resolution was adopted.
Cohen's Speech.
At 11:12 consideration of the coast.
wise suspension resolution was taken
up. Cohen got the floor.
"Statisties show he said, "that
England has 11,517 passenger ships
Germany 2044 and the United States
only eleven. Every other nation sub
sidizes its shipping. The United States
doesn t. Efforts have been made il
congress from time to time to pass {
ship subsidy bill. But the congressman
/ from the interior, who are mostly farm
/ ers, and who do not realize that Their,
/ is such a place as the Pacific Ocean
/ have opposed it. 1t seems to me tina
something should be done to wake u
these congressman. The people of Ha
wall can not travel to the States Of
railroads; we must have ships.
1.-The object of this resolution is t
make the people of the United State
realize the position the people of Ha
wall are in. They should legislate t
give the people of their Dependence
means to travel. We are practically
dependency Of the United States.
"There is not man here who want
: TO travel on a foreign bottom. But "
want something that will give us shiF
g flying the American flag. The agit;
: ton of this question here by the con
d merclai bodies was the means of havin
the Wllhelmina built. And the agit;
flon OF this question now will mea
a more ships.
g This is only a Temporary pronos
ton All we want is a suspension of tt
e coastwlse shipping laws until there sha
!. be enough American vessels. 7 beliey