The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-30
SENATE
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ing the Napoopoo school, for new
four-room schoolhouse. Another petl
4ion asks for an appropriation to com
pIete the last link of the belt roads Ii
the Island of Hawaii, between Keamu
KIN and the Volcano House in kau,
distance of about five miles The
fourth petition asks for an appropria
ton to build a new courthouse and jai
at Waiehenu, Kau.
Senator Fairchild observed that pro
vision for jail at Waiehenu had al
ready been made in Senate Bill No. 1913
and said that it was making more work
to receive petitions for appropriations
already included in Bill 123.
Petition From Women.
Senator Coelho submitted a petition
from twenty-five women, residents Of
Kaunakakai, Molokai, asking for va
rious legislation, including prohibit
ton against the intermarriage of Ha-
waiian women with men not of their
own race.
Consideration of the Governor s veto
message, No. II, on House Bill No. IL,
came up on the order of the day. Sen
ator Mccarthy said that he had been
informed by Representative Douthitt
that the House had deferred considera-
tion of the veto message until today
and the same postponement was made
by the Senate on motion of Senator
Mccarthy.
Senate Bill No. SO, Senator Chilling
worth's measure, relating to the ac-
acknowledgement and execution of writ
ten instruments, passed third reading
after an amendment to the title. Pres
ident Smith, following the reading of
the bill, called attention to the Ian
gnage of the title, which stated that
tire purpose of the bill was "tto pro-
vide law uniform with the laws of
the other States and Territories. -
President Smith said that this would
be open to misconstruction, granting
that the law was not uniform with the
laws of all other States and Terrific
ries. Senator Knudsen said that the
law was the same as the laws of about
ten States. He agreed with President
Smith that the clause "uniform with
the laws of other States and Terrific
ries should be stricken from the title
and his motion to that effect was car
riea. The bill passed third reading
without dissenting vote.
Regrets Veto Necessary.
President Smith took occasion to ex-
press his regret that the Governor had
found it necessary to veto a bill solely
because of technical defect due to an
oversight upon the part of both houses
of the Legislature.
Bills should be vetoed because of
a difference of opinion said Presi-
Gent Smith, "and / am mortified that
House Bill No. 1856 was vetoed be-
cause of an oversight on our part. We
should be more careful in considering
bills in the future.
Senator Chillingworth Is Home Rule
resolution came up on the order of the
day, but because of the absence of its
sponsor, Senator Robinson moved to
defer action on the resolution until
Senator ChilIingworth was present.
House Bill No. SO, the threadbare
publication bill, was considered on
third reading. The absence of Senator
and his note caused the
ensuing parliamentary muddle, and al
though Cushing Manual proved
a stout supporter of the attitude taken
by the President of the Senate, it did
not agree with the opinion of the Sen
ate majority.
When the bill came up, Senator Ma
kekau moved an amendment so as to
state specifically that the session laws
mnst be published in newspapers pub
lished in the Territory of Hawaii. -
This wise provision was inserted and
will prevent the session laws being pub
lished in New York or Chicago papers.
then moved to pass the bill
on third reading, seconded by Senator
Woods. Senator Robinson offered an
to lay the bill on the table,
seconded by Senator Fairchild, but the
motion was lost The vote on the mo-
ton to pass on third reading produced
"A tie. seven to seven, Senators Fair
child, Harvey, Moore. Mccarthy,
Quinn, Robinson and Smith casting
their vote against the passage of the
measure. The Senators thinking. that
the Secretary of the Territory should
have a wider latitude in the publish
ing of the session laws We're Baker,
Brown, Coelho, Kalama, Knudsen, Ma
kekau and Woods.
A Parliamentary Puzzle.
ssThe bill is dead said President
Smith. Immediately exception to this
ruling was taken by Senator Knudsen.
The former Speaker of the House of
Representatives is familiar with the
eonvolutions of parliamentary law, and
he declined to admit that the tie vote
had given final and fatal thrust to
the bedraggled bin that has been in
definitely postponed. deferred, recon
sidered and, in short, gone through a
sort of parliamentary Marathon.
President of the Senate Smith took
the stand that on a tie vote the mo-
ton is lost or 60 falls to the ground, -
as one authority on parliamentary prac-
tise expresses it. But Senator Knud-
sen refuses to fall PROSTATE before the