The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-04-20
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forming osrf Watffanfks. husuiais
iHiis. efc, 90 he counties
Rice explained that those vaHous
amendments hnd been rui boz after con.
suitatiou with W. A. Kinney aud 4.
~. a. Robertson. The House agreed
that What these two said went
Related Petition.
For once In the session Kauai dragged
behind the game yesterday. sheldon
presenting a petition asking for lhe
passage Of d House hin which bad been
tabled some days before. Rice explain.
ed that there was y Senate bill Ia the
hands Of the miscellaneous committee
TO which the petition might be tackled.
II was.
Second Readings.
The Printing Committee presented
what was announced as the last bills
in its hands These were taken up out
of their regular order for second read
ings in order to allow the committees
to get TO work on them. These were:
An Act relating to the decision of
court in writing In trials without jury,
Douihitt. No POI.
An Act relating to bail, Douthitt, No.
222.
An Act to regulate the practise of
veterinary medicine, Douthitt, No. 223.
An Act relating to the taxation of
insurance companies, Rice. No. 22i.
An Act N ananuraUa thu ip1uetria1
enterprise. exempting cement and lime
companies from taxation, Sheldon, No.
227.
An Act relating to the College of
Hawaii. Single. No. POS.
An Act relating to issuance of Ger.
tificates of title. Shingle. No. 229
Senate Bill 20, Coelho. relating to
witness fees and mileage
Senate Bill 1877. Makekau, relating to
balances of road tax money in the Ter
ritorial Treasury.
Finance Committee Reports.
The Finance Committee reported on
Coelho's bill relating to hotel and res
taurant licenses, recommending its
amendment and passage Tho amend
ment provides for a license fee of $50
for hotels and restaurants in Honolulu
and Hllo, and $25 elsewhere in the
Territory.
Senate Bill 1885, Mccarthy. relating
to the Honolulu waterworks, was rec
commended as II stood.
Harbor Work Favored.
AS an amendment to Coelho's bin
to borrow 100000 for the Kula pipe
line, the committee. after having
given the bill very careful consid-
Grafton, has decided to recommend
that a new item be inserted ."
viz. Honolulu Wharf and Harbor I'm.
provements, 100000"
The committee recommended the bill
providing that Maui pay back to the
Territory the money to be borrowed
for the Kula pipeline.
The bill relating to the procuring of
licenses by secondhand dealers. SAn
ate Bill 12O was also recommended.
Certificate of Purity.
Only a little lower than the angels,
and mighty little at that. are the
members of the House. according to
the report of the special graft commit
tee. presented. Especially pure is Ka
leiopu, whose halo had been twisted |
askew by the evidence, but which has
been plumbed Alright again now. The
surprising thing about the report is |
that it stops so short. After hearing |
1t, the surprise comes that Kaleiopu |
and Kaleo We're not recommended for
or, at least, warned that |
the good die young.
On motion of Long, who stated that
he wished to make a statement be |
fore the vote, consideration was post
poned until the afternoon.
And / can see the headlines in the
papers, The House Gives Itself Coat |
Of Whitewash,' said Rice.
What the Committee Found.
The report of the committee was a
lengthy document, which goes into de-
tails to say that the charge that mem
beers of the House were drawing money
from the Treasury for work done in
bills is unfounded. Kalei-
opu, who said one thing before the com
mittee one day and whole lot more
the next day after certain voucher
was discovered, is said to be "fully
exonerated of any blame in the mat
teri although the translator for whom
Kaleiopu got the work and did it, is
for dismissal for incOm-
petence.
Long is blamed for accepting the I'M
word of Stenographer
Lloyd about what other members were
doing, although there was no evidence
before the committee that Long ever
talked to Lloyd or that Lloyd ever
talked to anyone. Lloyd is stated to
have done sufficient to have justified
the course taken with him.
The report concludes as follows:
"Your committee therefore reports
that the charges made against mem
bers of this House were and are nm
that they were made on mere
rumor and without any previous in
on the part of the member
making the same. The charges have
been provocative only of distrust in this
House and of misinformation concern
ing the honesty, ability and integrity
Of this branch of the Legislature. The
evil accomplished by these ill-timed
,harges this House is in large measure
powerless to undo, your committee rec
)mmends that in addition TO spreading
This report in full upon the Journal of
this House. the Clerk be directed to
transmit a certified copy hereof to the
Governor of the Territory, the Federal