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Automobile Tax Not License.

deaths.
Automobile Tax Not License.
The proposal of the House that auto
mobiles should take out licenses, the
fee for which was to be cent pound,
gross weight, and the money to go to
the road fund of the district in which
paid, was not approved of by the SEN
ate Instead, the Senate sent down
bill, Number 112, which leaves the rate
at cent a pound but turns the money
into the Territory as tax. The bill
passed.
Case Of Swap.
A conference committee report on
House Bill 205, fixing the salary of dis
trict magistrates, was read and adopted.
To any who still had belief that these
conferences were meetings in which the
merits of the disputed points were gone
into and judicially decided, the report
may be an awakener. The items were
fixed by the House gaining two points
and the Senate two, as reported:
1.-The items in dispute were these
says the report:
I'D District magistrate, Waikiki.
Passed in the House at 500; in the
Senate at s125.
"(2) District magistrate, Hamakua.
Passed in the House at $50; passed in
the Senate at 500.
"(3) District magistrate, Puma. Pass
ed in the House at s45; passed in the
Senate at $50.
90 Clerk and interpreter, District
Court, South Hilo, $100 Passed by
the House and stricken out by the
Senate.
difficulties as follows:
"0) Senate yield to the House and
pass the item as in the House bill.
''(2) House yield to the Senate and
the item pass as in the Senate.
"(3) House yield to the Senate and
item pass as in the Senate.
go Senate yield to the House and
the item pass as in the House BILL"
Land Law Amendments.
The concurrent resolution, present
ing the draft of the bill to amend the
Organic Act respecting public lands,
was read and adopted and is ready for
the Senate.
No Waikiki Reclamation.
The Waikiki Reclamation Commits
sion, provided by the Legislature of
1907, composed of Marston Campbell,
Edw Davis and w. w. North, pre-
scented a report to the House yester-
day. The gist of the report is that
the Territory can not undertake the
work, but that the city should, under
authority of an act to be passed allow
ing the city to undertake reclamation
work. Such an act was presented as
draft bill. The recommendations
made were that the several thousand
acres be divided into several recla-
nation districts and a complete road
system laid out; that the streams
flowing through the districts be taken
by conduits to the sea, to prevent the!
flooding of the lowlands, from which
flooding the swamps result, while it
was urged that something be done to
do away with the breeding ground of
the yellow fever mosquito before the
opening of the Panama Canal.
The bill and report went to the
Health and Police Committee.
Gas and Electric Inspector.
The Judiciary Committee reported on
Castros resolution to have a commits
sion look into the rates and service
of the gas and electric light COM
panies, tabling the resolution, but rec
ommending that an inspector Of me-
tiers be appointed by the Superintend- |
ent of Public Works. The resolution
does not provide any way in which
such an inspector may be paid, but
there is yet time to remedy this over
sight of the judiciary Committee. The
resolution as passed on first read |
ing is:
Joint Resolution.
BE it Resolved, by the Legislature
of the Territory of Hawaii, That the
superintendent Of Public Works do
appoint some fit and competent per-
son to be known as the Gas and Elec-
trical Inspector, whose duties it shall
be to examine and inspect the laying
and placing of pipes, conduits, poles
and wires, and generally to inspect
and examine all apparatus of COM
panies using or supplying gas or elec-
tricity, and that the Superintendent