The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-03-30
LIQUOR BILL KILLED BY BIG
MAJORITY IN HOUSE YESTERDAY


gave ihe sity altogether too gfca, pow.
rfs otcf matters properly coming In
ihc province of the Board ~ Health
Vd the Legislature. o. was pointed
nui ln ihis PAPER ~ The time The bni
was introduced
a bill to place this county on the
same favorable plane with the other
counties in the mannor Of the choice
of deputy shrrifs was introduced as A
Republican measure, with the assur.
ance that u will probably pass
There was an intimation from shin.
gle that the Territory stood TO come
out ahead by passing his library bill.
AN iniimntioe confirmed later in the
day by the Governor. who stated that
Andrew Carnegie was ready 10 put a
hundred thousand or more into Ii.
brary building. .
The appropriation bin was advanced.
items being added under the head Of
circuit Judges to bring the total
Of the bill some twenty-five thousand
dollars larger, while in mild way the
Judiciary Committee rebuked the Gov.
ernor.
This was by adding the Governor to
the list of those persons whom tho
House wanted to inform that this Ter.
ritory required no outside appoint
ments TO the judiciary.
Tenement Act Vetoed.
The tenement house bill introduced
by Douthitt on behalf of the Oahu
Central Improvement Committee. got
the veto axe yesterday, a message from
the Governor being received as soon
as the minutes had been read. Pri-
waite Secretary Mcbride was the mute
with the bowString.
The reading of the message was re.
ceived in dead silence, the introducer
not having at that time arrived in the
House. This fact was duly commented
upon by the Speaker, when a motion
to postpone consideration of the mes.
sage was made.
Either the hours of the session
must be changed to conform with those
of the honorable members from Oahu.
or the honorable members will have to
change their hours to conform with
those of this House, he said. "This |
rs too bad. We have now come to the
thirty day of the session. When
we reach the fiftieth we can not then
override veto on any question in !
which the people we represent may be |
interested. This matter will go over |
until this afternoon.
Veto Message in Full.
The message of the Governor, Civ
ng his reasons for vetoing the tene.
neut house bill, was:
- herewith return, without nv an
Droval, House Bill No. II, entitled can
lct to amend Section 90 of an act en-.
titled AN act incorporating the City
and County of Honolulu being Act
us of the Session Laws of 1907
g This act in my opinion attempts to
confer upon the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of Honolulu
loo extensive as well as most unusual
powers. This is due perhaps to a de.
'ire to make sure of meeting certain
reeds deemed to be important. In such
'ases, however, great care should be
aiken To avoid going so far that the
esultirg evils i'll other directions will
Ie greater than the evil intended to
pc remedied, or SO far that even the
lesired object itself will be frustrated.
Assuming for present purposes that
i
'road as to be unconstitutional, or at
east that it would be safe to enact
hem and leave their construction or
fleet to the courts, and also that there
$ no objection to Section . taken by
tself, ! think that Section 3, especially
n connection with Section ., goes al.
ogether too far.
Section 2 authorizes the Board of
to make all ordinances nee.
ssary to protect health, life and prop.
rty; in other words, to cover practi.
ally all subjects embraced within the
Territorial criminal laws as well as
many other subjects of legislation.
section 3 provides that any statute of
he Territory in conflict with any such
rdinance shall cease to be operative
within the city and county so long as
he ordinance remains in force.
81 know of no similar provision
lsewhere so broad as this, although /
m aware that in some places some
What similar powers are conferred
nder different conditions and with ref.
renee To narrower range of subjects.
apparently the purpose of Section
is to avoid the effect of the decision
tHe supreme court III the case OF |
he Territory V. McCandless, Is Haw.,
16, but in order to accomplish this it
you'd be sufficient to provide merely ;
hat city and county ordinances should
ot be imperative by reason of the
act that there is Territorial law
overing the same subject. There is no
eed of giving the city and county
nch extensive authority to annul or
epeal so faF as it is concerned the
Avs of the Territory
Speaker Is Tormented.
The Speaker passed over commu-
ication to the Education Committee
without having the same read, an.
ouncing that this was little daily
eminder concerning school ages and
eachers' salaries.
81 do not know how much longer
he House is to be tormented by these
communications arriving daily. One of
hese matters has already been settled,
mt that makes little difference, ap.
arently. to the ones sending in these
etters.
Pupule Bill Is Rushed.
The crazy bill of the Public Health
nd Police Committee was given a