The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-03-12

Inc Stanie ADJOURNED yesterday al
ternoon well pleased with its labors
for 1t accomplished more than the or.
binary amount Of foutinc work; passed
the amended ''enablingf act for the
benefit of the Board Of Supervisors;
received the report of the Ways and
Means Committee, favoring the Moore
liquor law amendments with some
changes. and adopted resolution offer.
ed by Senator Fairchild, instructing
each departmental head to furnish the
chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mttee with n list of the clerks employ
ed and the number of hours of labor
in each case.
The majority report of the Ways
and Means Committee on the Moore
liquor bill, was signed by Senators
Coelho, Moore, Brown and Quinn, the
chairman. Senator Fairchild, dissenting,
stating that heNwas pledged against
any change in the existing liquor law.
The Judiciary Committee presented
= number of reports, indorsng bills
that were submitted to it for consider
ston. The measure to establish n
Juvenile court in conformity with the
practise in nearly all the States of the
MON, received the emphatic approval
of the committee The bill passed its
= cond reading.
The bill introduced by Senator Me
earthly to extend the law providing
penalties for violation of the right of
sculpture passed third reading. As
:lopted by the Senate. the right of
sculpture is extended to include lands
outside of cemeteries and is designed
an an effort to prevent the violation
of old Hawaiian graves by persons
oil a II m
imous vote on final passage.
The provisions of the liquor law as
amended in the Ways and Means Com
mittee and the majority report were
y ordered to be printed yesterday. The
bill embodying the amendment Will
come up for passage on second reading
today and the attitude of the Senate
then revealed in connection with the
effort to abolish the summary features
of the existing law. controlling the liz
nor traffic of the Territory.
Senate Routine.
sheaf of committee reports were
presepted to the consideration of the
Senate yesterday morning. The first
report read was that of the Health
Committee on House Bill No. H. the
passage of which was recommended
The bill proposes to add additional
powers and duties to the Board of Su-
pervisors by vesting in the board the
power to prescribe and regulate the
method and style OF construction of
workshops, factories. laundres and
other buildings that can be included
under that general heading.
The committee report states that the
'object of the bill is 10 provide means
by which nuisances arising from the
construction of such structures may be
prevented. The public safety demands
the summary abatement of any evil
which might be considered a menace
to public health, life and property
The Health Committee amended ma
terribly the bill intended to provide n
hospital for the district of Lahaina.
The report on the measure states that
- the object sought by the bill would
not be accomplished by the provisions
now embodied in the proposed act, be-
cause of the lack of funds with which
1T is necessary to establish same.
Power to Supervisors.
''The committee feels that the sew
eral subdivisions of the Territory, the
counties, would be greatly benefited by
the passage of an act which would au-
thorize the Board Of Supervisors to
establish and maintain hospitals, and
to provide for the free treatment and
dispensing of medicines to all INDECENT
persons
The first section of the amended bill
as prepared by the committee reads as
follows:
''The Board of Supervisors of each
county is hereby authorized and EN-.
poweredNto establish and maintain hos
pitfalls, more especially for the benefit
of INDECENT persons, but moderate and
reasonable payments may be required
of patients who are able to pay tho
same. Provided, however, that where
there is already established and main
tanned hospital by private parties,
corporation or by the Territory of Ha-
wal, the said Board of Supervisors is
hereby authorized and empowered to
contract or make agreement or other
wise provide for the treatment and
dispensing of medicines to ali such in
digeut persons at such hospitals
Coelho moved that consideration of
the amendment and report be deferred
until each member of the Senate was
furnished with typewriter copy of
the amendment. This action was
taken.
Chairman Robinson of the Education
Committee submitted report on Sen
ate Resolution No. 81, asking that an
appropriation be made to provide for
the building of number of additional
schoolhouses on the Island of Hawaii
The report stated that while the mem
bers of the committee were decidedly
in favor of providing increased school
facilities, they did not quite see where
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