The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-26
Governor Makes Bill
Yesterday Much
Dispute Over Court
Items.

would be the program, the House and
Senate yesterday morning concurred in
the report of the conference committee
on the Enabling Bill, passed the amend
ments and sent the bill to the Governor.
Yesterday afternoon the bill was signed
and became Act Al and under that Act,
the road laborers are drawing their
long deferred pay this morning.
Yesterdays session was a lengthy
and busy one. After long debate in
the morning, the House killed the bill
to shorten the compulsory school period
some of the speeches on the bill, in
opposition to it, being strong ones.
Alfonso made a particularly good ad-
dress.
In the afternoon, in committee of
the whole, there was a spirited debate
between Douthitt and Rice, with Dou-
thitt strongly on the aggressive. In
the course of the speaking, Douthitt
told the members very plainly that they
were undertaking to deal with matters
that they knew nothing about what
they were talking. Rice was not insis-
tent in his points but had good deal
of the sympathy of the House in the
stand he took against furnishing an
unlimited number of bailiffs for the
Circuit Courts, taking the position
that the bafliffs were more ornamental
than useful.
Kaniho was in the various debates
very much and had a great deal to say
al -
stenographers.
Tardy Members Rebuked.
Members from the Fourth District
came in for severe call-down-in
their absenee-from the Speaker when
the House was called to order yester-
day morning. The chaplain had earn
ed his three dollars and thirty-three
cents, and the clerk had begun to read
his minutes to the fifteen members
present, when Rice interrupted:
"Mr. Speaker, might I ask that the
sergeant at arms be instructed to Sc
cure the attendance of at least one
member from the Fourth District while
the minutes are being read2'
cit is indeed regrettable that when
the House comes to order there are
seldom any members from the Fourth
District in their Places said the
Speaker. cit is a shame that while
he country members are always here
on time to attend to the business of
the country, the, members from the
city neglect the business for which
they were elected. 1t is not right that
they should do so.
Castro wandered in just too late to
catch the Speakers last words.
Second Half of Session.
Yesterday was the first day of the
second half of the session and a COM
par;son of the work of this and the
last session, for the first thirty days
of each, shows that the good record
of 1907 for work seems in fair way
to be beaten The 1907 House beat
the present House in the number of
bills introduced by four, the figures
being: 1907, 173; 1909, 1863. The SEN
ate is laps ahead, however, this year,
121 bills being in as compared with
eiphtv-fve last session. the total IN
both houses to date being 300 bills.
thirtv-two more than in last session.
So far there have been thirtysix
fiIS signed. three ItWCi imam III AoVf !.
while altogether Governor Frear has
had fifty bills sent to him, four more
than Governor Carter had to do with.
while this session there have been
three vetoes. all sustained. compared
with eight last session, four OF which
had been overridden.
School Age Remains Untouched.
The EDUCATION Committee reported
adversely on Moanauli's bill raising
the compulsory school age from six to
eight years and lowering it from fif-
teen to fourteen years, the report rec
ommending the tabling of the bill, in
asmueh as it would prevent 4604 chill
dren at the present time from attend
ing school,
Moanauli defended his bill, stating
that he feared the committee had not
gone as carefully into the matter as
i should have. For one thing he did
not believe that the committee had
gone into the question of the children s
health and the physical possibility of
children under eight walking several
miles to school. hurrying their meals
for fear of being late. He thought all
the members agreed on the advisable
itv of educating all children on the
l1ae& roop+a1fy- and nhySipally