The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-04

cannot be found within the Territory.
| No provision is made for service bv
| mail when the address of the person to
| be served is known.
| Congratulations to Taft,
A communication from the Senate in
troduced Senate Concurrent Resolution
| 7, being one to authorize the congratu-
| lations of the Legislature by cable to
| President William H. Taft on his inau-
guratiOn.
Cohen, who eulogized the new Presi-
dent, moved the adoption of the resolu-
| ton, Like seconding the motion. Shell
| don endorsed the President on behalf
| of Kauai.
The resolution was unanimously
| adopted:
Second Reading.
House Bills SO, 50, and 80. all intro
| duced by Rice, are intended 10 put the
county jails, hospitals, district courts
and courthouses under control of the
various counties, placing the Sheriff in
| charge of county prisoners, leaving the
High Sheriff with only the penitentiary
and the prisoners convicted of felonies
on his hands. The three bills, in their
! main sections, are:
Each county shall establish, main
tain and regulate district courthouses.
district and county jails and houses of
detention, punishment, confinement and
reformation, hospitals and almshouses,
and shall maintain and support, from
and after July /, 1909, the present dis
trict courthouses, district and county
jails and hospitals within its bounda-
ries until such time as it shall provide
other suitable jai1s. couithouses and
hospitals
at shall be the duty of the Board
[of the City and County of Honolulu
to provide for the maintenance and
support, from and after July /, 1909,
of the present district courthouses, dis
triet and county jails and hospitals
within the boundaries of the city and
county until such time as it shall pro.
vide other suitable courthouses, jails
and hospitals
"The High Sheriff of the Territory
is responsible, and with the approval
of the Attorney General shall appoint
the necessary jailors and other officers
for the safe keeping of all prisoners,
except those held in custody by the
Sheriffs of the several counties and the
Sheriff of the City and County of Ho-
rolulu, and those confined in county
ails or jaiis under the care and control
of the counties or the City and County
of Honolulu
Third Readings.
Thirteen bills came up for third read.
ings, nine of which were passed, one
was tabled, and three were reeommitted
or deferred
The Honolulu Tenement House Bill
carried, with some opposition, and Kale
iopu IS Prison Labor Bill got it in the
neck.
Prison Labor Bill Beaten.
House Bill 81, Kaleiopu, the bill in
tended to prevent prison labor OF the
| public roads, met with strong opposia
| ton.
Long called for the report of the com
| mittee on the bill, the report stating
that the measure was to make the
prisons selfsupporting in many ways.
Rice said he failed to see the benefit
| of the bill. The object was,.he thought,
to cut out prison labor in the quarries,
| but he held that each of the counties
are spending all they can now on roads
and the effect of the bill would be that
| less work would be done. Oahu now
! benefited most from prison labor, but at
| the Volcano the County of Hawaii was
! being benefited. He moved the indef-
| mite postponement of the BILL
Kaleiopu was very much surprised
at the position of Mr.. Rice, he said.
| The question was one of finance, and
while the counties were benefiting the
Territory was spending $4,000 a year
| on them. "The prisoners are now in
| direct competition with the laborers,
the very men who are paying for their
support, said the speaker, who stated
that he wanted prison labor to do work
for the other public institutions, in the
| same way that the Industrial School
was now self-supporting.
"Why. can not the men confined in
prison walls, physically and mentally
| strong, do the same work as the in
mates of the asyluma' he asked.
Rice replied that Kaleiopu was mis-
| taken about the Industrial School being
self-supporting. He did not object to
the prisoners doing some trade work,
| but he did object to forbidding them to
| do all school work, while whatever
trade work they did was in competition
| with tradesmen. He thought the bill
had some good features and could be
amended into a good measure. He
| withdrew the motion to indefinitely
| postpone and moved to table the bill.
The motion carried and the bill was
| tabled.
House Bill 5, Alfonso, to provide for
| the punishment of anyone selling real
estate, the title to which is defective,
without informing the purchaser of the
defect, was read a third time. No OPP
position developed and the bill passed
House Bill Is, Castro, providing for
the maintenance of the family of a de.
ceased person, pending the administra-
ton of the estate, carried through third
reading unanimously.
House Bill II, the Tenement House
BILL introduced by Douthitt on be-
half of the Central Improvement Club
of Honolulu, came up for final reading
The bill gives the Supervisors extended
powers to regulate noisome trades, tene.
ments, hotels, theaters and places of
public resort. The introducer being ex.
cused for the morning, the bill went
| over until the afternoon INIT his an.