The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-16

| time under the provisions OF this Act
shall constitute and be held Ev tae
Treasurer of the Territory as a special
| fund, to be used and applied for the
! purposes specified by this Act and not
| otherwise, that is to saw: for the pur-
pose Of educating the youths in the
government schools which are or may
hereafter be situated in or near the
| sugar plantations or mills from which
said taxes are collected
Freaks Come Regularly.
Kaleiopu was the introducer of the
following freak resolution:
Be it Resolved by the House of
Representatives of the Territory of
Hawaii;
That all lobbyists be and they are
hereby excluded from and are request
|. ed to retire from the floor of the House
and that the Sergeant-at- Arms be in
strueted to carry out all instructions
relative to this resolution from the
Speaker
This was gravely passed.
Money Resolutions.
Sheldon by resolution asked for
$4,000 to extend the water pipe system
for the Waimea waterworks.
Hihio asked for $500 to construct a
seawall near Lac Kaia, Kahana, Ka-
anapali, Maui.
| Business to Date.
The Speaker gave the following sum-
mary of the work of the House to date:
Bills introduced, 1856; tabled, Il: in
definitely postponed, 6; third readings,
| in House 8; sent to Senate; 20; sent to
| Governor, Is; signed by Governor, IA;
vetoed by Governor. l.
In Committee-Printing, 4; Judi
ciary. II; Health. Z; Lands, Z; Finance,
20; Education, 3; Promotion, 8; Mis-
cellany, 5.
The House has nine Senate Bills in
committee and has passed Senate
Bills.
| Street Extension.
Correa presented petition asking
for $4,000 to be appropriated to ex-
tend Pua lane through to School street
and to macadamize it.
Second Readings.
! Cohen s Income Tax amendment bill,
| Castro s bill to compensate public en-
ployes for injuries received in the per-
| Torrance of their duty, and Moanauli IS
bill to pay all road laborers in out
side cities a minimum of $50 a day,
were up on second reading and went
| to committee.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Secretary Mott-Smith and Attorney
General Hemenway faced the House
yesterday afternoon when the session
was resumed, the two being on the
| carpet in regard to the items in the
| Appropriation Bill for their depart
ment.
| Pending the time when the House
should go into Committee of the Whole,
number of Senate communications
were read
House Bill II and House Bill Is came
back, the second altered somewhat
Consideration of the amendments went
over until Wednesday.
Senate Bills So, SO, IS and SO were
| received and read and passed by title.
Democratic Wage Bill.
Like presented another minimum la.
| borers wage bill. Democracy having
evidently tired of its efforts to hitch
| on to the two or three similar Repub-
lican bills in the House.
Like bill deals with the employees
of the City and County of Honolulu
only and is generous one, raising the
daily allowance to $500 day.
Resolutions.
Kealawaa asked for $500 to repair
eight miles of road between Keauhou
and Hilo and talked volubIy on the
II,
of order was raised. The Speaker ruled
the resolution out of order.
Questions for Campbell.
Makekau present resolution in
which he displayed large amount of
curiosity regarding the Mckinley High
School. The gist of the several ques,
tions he wants the Department of Pub
lie Works to answer is: Why was the
building accepted and paid for when
| it was incomplete, leaky, the job be.
ing unfinished in several particularsa
He had also a resolution asking the
Education Committee to find out the
| method and manner of permitting or
refusing students to enter the Normal
and High Schools, and under what con.
ditions, certificates and diplomas are
given to those graduating from these
schools.
Committee of the Whole.
With Like in the chair, the House
resolved itself into committee of the
whole. Secretary Mott-Smith was in
vited to step up and be questioned.
The first item inquired about was
| that of 1925 month for the Adju
tant General. The Secretary referred
the House to Colonel Jones, but was
asked to tell what he knew, anyhow.
The Secretary accordingly outlined the
| duties of the Adjutant General as the
mouthpieee of the Governor so far as
National Guard matters were concern
ed. Up to this time Colonel Jones had
worked for nothing, but as the Guard
was being increased on request of
Federal authorities, the work was get
ting too much for pro bono publico
man.
The Secretary urged the item, point
ing out how the Federal government
had spent $41 900 in the. Territory on
the Guard during the past two years,
$25, 900 in cash and $4,000 in equip
ment.