The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-02-19

securing competent man. The provisu
was included that the clerk q appoint.
ment should be made subject to the
APPROVAL of the presiding officer but this
was stricken out on motion of Senator
Harvey. AS matters now stand Sayidge
is vested with the authority to appoint
his assistant, but there are several riffs
in the lutte. The Democrats would be
dee-lighted to see George Low slip into
the place, but unless he has the good
luck of Janitor Keohokalole. who got
the job yesterday because the Repub.
licans forgot the name of the man they
had agreed on in caucus, there is not
much chance for him.
The act for nomination by direct vote
made its appearance at the afternoon
session of the Senate, Senator Chilling
worth standing sponsor for it. Senator
Baker had several acts ready, the first
providing for the dividing of Hawaii
into two counties; an amendment to
the Revised Laws regulating licenses
for merchandise sale, and an act provid-
ing for the retention by the counties
of fees collected through the district
courts.
The Senate decided by resolution be-
fore adjournment yesterday afternoon
that 10 clock in the morning will be
the regular daily hour for converting
unless other provision is made in that
connection.
Twenty-eight bills were presented in
the House and passed on first reading;
ten resolutions were received and pass
ed into committee; six concurrent reso.
lutions were read by the clerk and one
joint resolution was presented, in adj
dition to which came enough communi-
cations to swell the pile of documents
on the Clerk $ desk to well over fifty.
There were few debates. Kaniho
objected volubly to resolution pre-
sented by Castro, which stated that
there would be no extra pay for an eX-
ira session. Rice. Shingle, Sheldon,
Donthitt and others INDUCED in an ar
gument regarding the hour for meeting,
the Oahu speakers favoring ten o'cloc;
in the morning and the out-of town
speakers the earlier hour of nine. The
early birds got the worm. Kaniho also
objected very strongly to a privileged
resolution presented by Rice, which
named most of the House officials and
prevented the Home Rule member and
he Democrats from even getting their
FHUuIudltS BDNlUilPu. ItlOTe IUe SEES
sion. each of the desks ON the opposi-
ton side had been supplied with lists
of candidates for jobs, the Rev. J. Ke-
kipi. candidate as Chaplain. having
gone to the trouble of having cards
printed for himself, in which he was
STYLED Chaplain of the House of Rep
resentatives. ]. X. Polou was to be
nominated as ianitor. also Kalilikane.
OF the twenty-eight bills introduced,
the majority We're of importance. Some
of them were administration measures,
asking for appropriations for unpaid
bills, for claims against the Territory
and for emergencies. The Tenement
Bill was presented by Douthitt; Alton
50 presented bill to redistribute the
Senatorial districts, the bill cutting
Hawaii in two and giving each new
district two Senators. The Hilo repre-
sentative also introduced an important
and timely measure to prevent elected
or appointed officials for the enforce
ment of criminal law from taking civil
cases during their terms of Office.
Cohen presented his tax bills; Castro
has an important amendment to the
divorce laws to work for; an antirace-
suicide measure, giving tax exemption
privileges to .he fathers of families of
six, was also presented by the Punch
bowl member; a measure which might
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