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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05

Motions and amendments may be
verbal.
?. No motion or resolution shall be
received or considered until same shall
have been duly seconded.
3. If the presiding officer, after be-
ing three times demanded thereto by
any member of the Board, shall refuse
or neglect to put the question on any
resolution, motion or other matter )and
to call for the votes thereon, the same
may be put and the votes called for by
any member of the Board, and there
upon the vote shall be taken in the
same manner and to the same effect as
if done by the presiding officer.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
XIV. Police Department Committee

1t shall be the duty of the Commit
tee on Police Department to consider
and examine into the efficiency and
morale of the Police Department of
the City and County. To scrutinize
the expenditures and receipts of this
department, and to report from time
to time such recommendations as may
increase the effectiveness Of the force.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05

.-......
Be 1t Ordained bv the People of the
City and County of Honolulu.
5. Each ordinance and resolution
shall be confined TO one subject.
6. No ordinance shall be passed on
the day in which it is introduced, ex-
cept in the case of public emergency.
T. Each ordinance when introduced
shall be referred to the proper commit
tee and shall be typewriter for the
use of the members.
s. All ordinances shall be given to
the public press, as provided by law.
(See See Il, Municipal Act.)
g. No ordinance or resolution shall
be valid unless signed by the Mayor,
except in the case of a veto or other
wise as by law provided.
10. When any question shall be I'M
der discussion the only motions rela-
tive thereto shall be-
G) To lay on the table;
(2) To postpone to certain time;
(3) To postpone indefinitely; and,
a. To refer to a committee;
which several motions shall have pre-
cedence in the order herein arranged.
XXI. Order of Business.
l. Calling the roll.
> Reading the minutes of the last
meeting.
3 Reports of standing committees.
t. Reports of special committees
). Reports of City and County of
fcers
! g. Reading of communications.
:. Petitions and memorials.
5. Resolutions or ordinances
Q. Unfinished business.
10. Order of the day.
! II. Miscellaneous business.
The Board may, by motion, direct
that any matter named be taken up as
the special order of business.
XIII. Amendments.
l. These rules shall rot be altered
or amended, nor any new rule adopted
without five days notice being given
| thereof.
| .. Five affirmative votes shall be re
| CURED to amend these rules.
| 3. The rules of parliamentary prac
l tice laid down by Cushing and as in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
If
YOU

were to die today, would
your property be disposed of
in just the way you now
intend?
Are you sure of it?
If not, consult US about
your WILL. We will draw
it up for you in PROPER
LEGAL FORM without
charge.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
XVI. Committee on" Sanitation and
Health.

It shall be the duty. of this commit
tee to confer from time to time with
the Territorial Board of Health in mat
tiers pertaining to health and santa
ton in the City and County of Homo
lulu, and to make such recommends
tions, through the Board, to the Terri
| torial Board of Health as may improve
the health conditions of the city and
county aforesaid.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
TX. Standing Committees.

Der of at least four special committees.
TX. Standing Committees.
The Standing committees shall be
elected by the Board at the first meet
ing, or as soon thereafter as possible.
They shall be as follows:
l. Committee on Ways and Means.
2 Committee on Public Expendi
lures
3. Committee on Roads, Bridges,
Parks and Public Improvements.
4. Committee on Police Department
). Committee on Fire Department
and Electric Lights.
6. Committee on Sanitation and
Health.
No member of this Board shall act
as chairman of more than one standing
committee at the same time.
X Special Committees.
l. Special committees shall be APP
pointed by the presiding officer except
ing when the motion for the appoint
ment of a special committee may call
for its election by the Board.
.. The first named member of each
committee shall be the chairman. but a
special committee may elect its own
CudlIuidH.
XII Ways and Means Committee.
1t shall be the duty of the Committee
on Ways and Means to take into con
sideration all reports of the City and
| County Treasurer and the CITY and
| County Auditor, and all propositions
| relating to revenue, and all matters re
| lating to revenue which may be refer
red to them by the Board, and they
/ shall report from time to time thereon
XII. Public Expenditures Committee.
l. 1t shall be the duty of the Com
mittee on Public Expenditures to take
into consideration and examine into the
| expenditures of the departments of the
| City and County government. and Il
report from time to time thereon. They
| shall also have charge of matters relat
ing to the band and any other munici
pal service not herein provided for.
| ,. They shall examine into the state
! Of the City and County offices and par
| ticularlv into appropriations of money
! and also to report from time to time
| such provisions and arrangements a;
may be necessary to add to the economy
| and efficiency of the offices and the ac
countability of their officers.
XIII. Roads, Bridges, Garbage, Parks
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terpreted and practiced in the Senate
of the United States, where not incon-
sistent with these rules shall govern
the Board.
XIV.
All former rules and regulations OF
the Board of Supervisors of the County
of Oahu are hereby repealed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
VIII. Control of Committees.

/. Committees shall be under the
control of, and subject to, the Board
and shall faithfully carry out all in
structions given them.
2. Any member may be excused from
serving on a committee at the time of
his appointment if he is already a MEM
Der of at least four special committees.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
RULES ADOPTED BY
SUPERVISORIAL BOARD

The following are sthe rules finally,
and possibly illegally, adopted at the
first meeting of the Supervisors yes
terdav The joker is contained in the
rules concerning road appointments
and that putting committee naming in
the hands of the Board.
Mayor Fern states that he will not
recognize the rules thus adopted, nor
the resolution abolishing his appoint
mentss
Rules of Organization
I. Meetings.
1. The Board of Supervisors shall
meet for the transaction of public bust
ness as provided by law, and at such
other times as the Board shall. by mo-
ton or resolution duly adopted and en-
tered in its journal. designate.
,. The hour of meeting, recesses
and of adiournments shall be such as
the Board shall by motion or resolution
decide from time to time, or upon the
request of three members in writing to
the Mayor and after "a hours notice.
II. Adjournments.
1. Meetings may be adjourned at
any time. Unless otherwise specified
in the motion, every adjournment shall
be considered as to the usual hour of
meeting on the next following meeting
day.
?. The Board shall not adjourn to
any other place than .its regular place
of meeting, except in case of great
necessity or emergency. The meetings
of the Board shall be public.
III. Quorum.
l. For the transaction Of business, a
majorityof all the members of the Board
shall constitute quorum for the con-
duet of ordinary business, of which
quorum majority vote shall suffice
but the final passage of any order, reso-
luton or ordinance shall require the
vote of the majority of all the members
A smaller number than a quorum may
adjourn from day to day and compel
the attendance of absent members in
such manner and under such penalties
| as the Board may prescribe.
2. For the purpose of ascertaining
whether there is a quorum present the
Chair shall count the number of mem
bers present.
" Veto of Mayor.
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VI. Committees.

There shall be two kinds of commit
tees.
l. Standing committees, to consist
of three members each, to be elected by
the Board
2. Special committees. to consist of
three members each, unless otherwise
ordered by the Board, to be appointed
from time to time as occasion may re-
duire, and to serve until finally report
ing the matter specifically referred to
them
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
XXI. Ordinances.

l. The Board shall, from time to
time. pass such ordinances as may be
deemed necessary FOR the preservation
of public order or health, life and prop
erty, to abate and remove nuisances
and enforce good government, order
and security of the people of the City
and County.
>. No ordinance shall be passed that
is in conflict with the laws of the Ter
ritory and the rules and regulations of
the Territorial Board of Health.
8. All ordinances passed by the
Board shall have the force of law, and
all infractions thereof shall constitute
misdemeanor.
4. All ordinances passed by the
Board shall bear the title:
Order No
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09

The Press Club just organized at
Des Moines has made choice of James
NJ. Pierce, publisher of the Home
stead as its first president. The honor
is a notable one and is richly deserv-
ed. Mr.. Pierce has had experience in
all lines of newspaper work and has
achieved noteworthy success. At the
present time by virtue OF ownership
he Is at the head Of the largest plant
in the world devoted exclusively to
the publication of farm papers. His
liberal views and qualities of leader
ship. in addition to his wide acquaint-
ance with newspaper men and his
thorough Identification with them,
qualify him in an eminent degree for
the responsible position for which he
has been selected Under his manage
ment the success Of the new organiza-
ton is assured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09
DECREASED EARNINGS.

According to summary OF railroad
statistics Just completed by Secretary
a. "A. Davidson Of the state executive
council. the gross earnings of steam
railroads in Iowa fell off nearly Sc, oOo,-
900 during 1908 as compared with
chose Of 1907. The total figures are
s67,744, 9O5 for last year, as compared
with s73,033,416 for the year before.
The total for operating expenses fell
from $50, 1855, 101 in 1907 to s49,s1s,-
s49.42 in 1908, so that net earnings are
only about two million less for 1908
than 1907 in spite of the six million
decrease in gross earnings. The fig
ures for net earnings are s19,276,00O
for 1907 and sl7,9s4,S77 for 1908.
Taxes paid during 1908 by all steam
roads aggregated s2.374,37.15. an in
crease of s59,122 over the s2.315,255
paid in 1907. In view of the large
losses in earnings it follows that any
change in the railroad assessment
will be in he form of decrease. In
terurban roads show gross earnings of
81 .o55, 1872. Operating expenses $780,
815.sS. net earnings 1914, 1858, and
taxes paid s22.s37.ss. There are now
ten interurban roads in operation with
total mileage for main lines of 223.S2
miles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09

The Marshalltown Times Republican
in recent number had an editorial
paragraph which should be reprinted
in every newspaper in the country. It
needs no Introduction and is its own
best comment:
1T would be well for every high
school graduate in Iowa to attempt to
realize that it took from fifteen to
twenty years of care and sacrifice to
make them what they are: it re-
quired a great school system; it took
something from every one who had
worked for a home. And they should
realize that they can ruin all t.lat eff
fort and render useless all that abne-
CATION in day The high school boy
and girl owe the public useful decent
lives It's square account and ought
to be paid
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09

The many Keokuk friends of Miss
Mary Margaret Mallery will rejoice
with her in the new honors she has
won in the State University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder in that state, in at.
tanning the degree OF Master of Arts.
Her graduation from that institution
occurs today and marks the climax of
highly successful educational career.
Three years ago Miss Mallery gradu-
ated from the Colorado State Normal
school with the degree of Bachelor of
Pedagogy. Last year she won the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts at the Colo
RADIO State University. Not satisfied
with this. she continued her studies
and is now entitled to write A. NJ.
after her name. She cares less for
this, however, than for the knowledge
she has acquired and the possibilities
1t opens up to her. The fine record
she has made is evidence that Keokuk
young ladies, no less than Keokuk
young men, are inspired with worthy
ambition and can be depended upon to
win distinction and bring credit to
| the city that sends them forth into
| the great world of human endeavor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09

At the general election last No
vember the people of Oklahoma voted
against the state liquor dispensary
system in vogue in that state and the
dispensaries were closed on Decem-
Der following Since then the SUI
preme court OF Oklahoma has held
that the question was improperly sub
mitted and that the law In conse-
quence had not been repealed. The
Legislature at its recent session failed
to repeal it and so Governor Haskell
has announced that the states estab-
lishments for dispensing liquor for
medical and scientific purposes" will
be restored Formerly the dispen-
saries were located in towns OF 1000
without petition bv the people. Here
after the governor will require petit
tions from a reasonable number OF
the population"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09
SHEEP MEN ORGANIZE.
Wool Growers 81 Taylor County Form
Strong Association.


DES MONIES, June s.wool grow
ers of Taylor county have perfected
a wool growers association for the
purpose of securing better prices.
They have elected officers and the
first advantage was getting an in
crease from buyers from twenty-three
to thirty cents per pound.
This is the first wool growers as
ISOLATION organized in Iowa during
recent years It was not generally
supposed that there were enough
wool growers in any one county to
perfect an association. That there
should be is evident by the home de-
mand for wool. At the Amana COM
munity are large wooden mills with a
capacity for making thousands Of
yards of wooden cloth every week. It
has been impossible to get enough
wool in Iowa to supply these mills.
Wool is brought from Colorado and
other states. It is even imported
from Australia. Inasmuch as there
is home demand for wool the ques-
ton is being asked why should the
state not supply its own demands.
Iowa has had its seed corn move
ment. its oats special and is now in
dulging in a COW culture crusade to
improve the efficiency of the milch
COW. It will probably he next in
line for the department of animal hus-
bandry at the state agricultural col
lege extension department to encour-
age the home production of wool.
Throughout Iowa are numerous
wooden mills which have to resort to
the same means as the Amana COM
munity to get wool import It from
other states and other countries.
This is an industry which may soon
be developed in the state. In former
years it is understood more sheep
were raised than now. This Is prob
ably due to the fact that sheep have
been dispensed with, as grazing land
has been converted into cultivated
fields. But drainage and irrigation IS
now opening up new grazing fields
throughout Iowa. There are thous-
ands OF additional available acres be-
cause Of these two advanced steps.
Iowa is paying money into the Golfers
Of foreign states for raw wool. The
old economic problem OF keeping both
the money at home and having the
wool too arises. Taylor county has
enough sheep raisers to perfect an
organization. They intend to make
the business profitable. Other coun-
ties NAV fall in line with farmers
who appreciate the home field for
wool production and sale.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09
Back to the Earnn.n

washington Post: The problem of |
keeping foodstuffs within speaking
distance Of the pocketbooks of Amer !
leans Of moderate means grows in
creasingly difficult, and apparently it
cannot be solved until that stern old
economic law OF supply and demand
Is made to reduce the present dis
parity between the producers of food
stuffs and the consumers. The eyo.
luton of industrial and municipal life
In the United States. as in Europe.
mas been a steady and constant drain
upon the rural districts. The growth
OF American cities has been one of
the maryels of the age, and to a large
extent it has been growth at the ex-
pense of the farms. The lure of the
city has taken the sturdiest and most
ambitions of the country lads, and
there has been no reverse tide of i'm
migration to keep up the normal pro.
portion of foodstuff producers to CON
sumers.
In addition to this, of the millions
OF aliens who have come to the Unit
ed States during the last twenty-five
years surprisingly small percentage
have become farmers or farm labor
ers. They also have felt and been
unable to resist the lure of the city
with the higher wages of industrial
life. and when they have drifted from
the congested centers of population it
has been mainly in railroad construc-
ton and mining. immigration has
contributed an immense demand for
/ the products of the farm and the
range without adding perceptibIy to
the supply
To Offset these two distinctively
urban movements of population. both
| OF them abnormal, there has been
only the less than normal increase of
/ the agricultural population, aided by
improved methods of cultivation and
4 the general use of labor-saying ma
/ chinery, none OF which has kept pace
/ with the increase of the food consum-
ing urban population.
Back to the farm" gets new
meaning in the light of the continued
i increase in the price of foodstuffs
The whole trend OF affairs points to
a higher standard of living, higher
economic and intellectual standard
for the farmer, with rewards for labor
that will rival the wages and salaries
of industrial life in the cities. When
that time comes, and it is on the way
the "call of the country" will answer
the lure of the city and other things
being equal, supply will tread closer
upon the heels of demand. and the
problem of the appetite will not be sc
difficult of satisfactory solution BY
persons of moderate means.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09

Fort Dodge Messenger: B. E.
Keith, of the Keith theater circuit in.
Boston, has issued orders that in the
future no motherinlaw jokes shall be
tolerated on the stage which he con-
trolls. This is certainly a move in the
right direction and it is to be hoped
that other time honored offenses
against decency and fairness masking
under the guise of stupid joke may
also be abolished in time
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09
EDUCATION FUNDS CRITICISED.
The work of the General Education

The work of the General Education
Board and of the Carnegie Pension
Fund Is condemned in part by the
Manufacturers Record. the leading
trade journal of the south. on the
ground that their efforts Jointly inn
peril the vigor of denominational
schools. The board contracts that no
part of the income from the fund con-
tributed to school shall be used for
specifically theological instruction.
The Carnegie organization bars insti-
tIItions under denominational control
firm receiving the benefits Of It's
money.
The Record argues that the condi.
tions under which this money, aggre-
eating nearly s60.000,000 in capital, is
employed, tends to harm all American
education. 1t holds that denomina.
tional schools are essential to be
maintained for the best development
of the educational interests of the
country and should be supported by
members of the several religious
bodies to which they are attached Or
which they represent. Such schools
should be supported by voluntary
action of citizens who belong tc the
different churches and ought to be
sustained as witness to the convic-
ton of such persons that education is
incomplete without religion as part of
1t. The Record recognizes that the
state in free country like ours can
not undertake to teach religion as A
part Of the general education, for it
includes conflicting interests in re-
ligion. 1t taxes all alike for the sup
port Of public schools and 1t must
maintain unsectarian schools in con
sequence Hence there is value in
he unconditional school which is in
LANCER of wing lost where such
schools depeil upon such gifts as
hose of the Ovation Board or the
carnegie Fund heir support.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09

According to figures set forth in the
annual report Of the New York cham
Der of commerce, during the last fifty
years the population of the country has
increased 1913 per cent, the wealth
of the country 563 per cent the public
debt 2,375 per cent. the per capita
debt from s151 to $15.76 bank deposits
3;460 per cent, receipts of the gov
eminent 1,1s6 per cent, war expendi-
lures 329 per cent, navy expenditures
745 per cent, imports per capita from
ss.35 to 1870, exports per capita
from 1914 to s21.O4, and the consump-
ton OF wines and liquors 266 per cent
, from 6.43 to 1888 per capita gallons
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09

scientists In tie department of ag-
riculture who have been conducting
experiments in papermaking for a
long time believe they have proved
that cornstalks make a better paper
than is made from any sort of wood,
and that the business Of papermaking
will within few years be revolution
lied. AS this will save the forests
it may be hoped that the scientists
fIe right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-09
FIaa Day June ia.


Hannibal Courier-Post: Next Mon
day, June IA, is Flag day. On that
day the people of the United States
will celebrate the one hundred thirty
second anniversary of the adoption Of
the flag that is recognized everywhere
as the emblem of liberty and justice.
The stars and stripes are older than
the constitution which went into eff
feet in 1888. "Old Glory then is real
ly twelve years older than the govern
ment it represents. AT the time it
was decided upon, the advent of the
government was very far from being
certainty. The first place where the
flag made its appearance in battle was
at Brandywine, where the Americans
under the greatest OF all their sons
were beaten by the British. In a large
proportion of the battles of the next
few years in which 1t figured 1t was
defeated. But Yorktown, in 1881. pre-
pared the way for the peace treaty OF
1888, by which England renowned all
sovereignty over her old colonies. and
then the flag obtained standing
among the emblems of the nations. 1t
has held that standing through the
years and today the great pride that
America feels in her flag is entirely
justified. To the oppressed 1t has
always afforded an inspiration of hope.
To each OF our citizens it guarantees
individual liberty and protection to
personal and property rights. It is
therefore eminently proper that we
commemorate the birthday of me flag
on the date of its adoption BY con.
gress.