The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-16

con investigation $50 nnd that ihs
/ law Bias netrt been enforced hocluw
nf ihr unjust pfOy siuns made therein.
! ~ prohibits fhe admission io school uf
any healthy child of scho0l ngc io huv
school whctr no proper facutips af,
made for The vaccination of children.
] Temporary admission to school be- not
/ allowable by the Jaw. were DO Go bc
Interpreted strictly u accordance with
SIS provisions
Coelho Is curious.
senator toclho wants to know some.
/ thing more about the business of the
Hawaiian Fisheries, Ltd. done under
aHd by virtue of "a merchandise brok-
er's license
/ tie introduced a resolution. which
was adopted by the senate. yesterday,
directing that Treasurer Campbell De
! requested to "fortlSyith send to the
Senate a copy of the letter of protest
received 10y him from James +. Nor.
| gan dated last November. concerning
the abuse of the privilege of mer.
chandise brokers' license which was
issued to the Hawaiian Fisheries, Ltd.
a company of japanese subjects. "
The resolution goes ON to instruct
| the Treasurer to furnish the Senate
with statement of his action in the
matter, the correspondence between
him ms Treasurer and A. l.. c. Akin.
son, the attorney for the Hawaiian
! Fisheries. Ltd.
Coelho declared that the introduction
of the resolution was necessary to dis
cover why Orientals were transacting
an auction business that required a Ii.
cense of 5000 year on the authority
of a merchandise broker license, the
fee for which is 800 per annum.
Another resolution was introduced by
Coelho and adopted by the Senate, di.
recting the Commissioner of Public
Lands to reply to questions as to what
was done with 1000 acres of the Maka.
wac school lands, known as the Piiholo
lands and a query as to the Commits
sioner's future course in view of the
applications for homesteads that have
been filed
On the order of the day Senate Bill
No. IS, including the estate of w. c.
Lunalilo in the tax exemption list, was
taken up for the second reading in
conjunction with the favorable report
of the Ways and Means Committee and
| passed.
House Bill No. 5, turning over the
work of private fishery condemnation
from the Territory to the Federal gov
eminent, "for the benefit of the people
at large" was postponed to March
II. 1t was stated that Senator Rob
inson was anxious to register his opin-
ion in connection with the bill, and
that he would not be back from his
trip to Maui until next week.
Tax Measure Referred.
| House Bill los, the special revenue
and taxation measure, was referred to
the special Senate Committee on taxa.
ton upon the motion of Senator Me
Carthy.
| Coelho s bill to increase mere handise
brokers' licenses from 800 to 5000 per
| year was referred to the Ways and
Means Committee. The bill to create
the office of public administrator and
the act amending the existing law re-
lating to conveyances and survey rec.
ords, were referred to the Judiciary
| Committee.
Senate Bill No. 10 passed second
reading, Coelho explaining the amend.
ing report of the Public Health Com.
mittee.
Senate Bill No. 80, relating to fines
and costs, passed second reading. The
/ bill will be taken up for third read
ing at the pleasure of the Ways and
Means committee.
Senator Baker declared that Senate
Bill No, 9 was the same as Senate Bill
No 80 and his motion that the former
measure be laid on the table was car
RED both the bills dealing with the
question of county realizations.
The Veto Message.
The announcement was then made
that Secretary Claudius Mcbride was
awaiting the pleasure of the Senate
with message from Governor Frear.
The message was read and the Senate
enlightened as to why the Governor
did not see fit to append his signature
to House Bill No. 9S, as amended by
the Senate.
"To the Legislature:
81 herewith return House Bill Mum.
Der SO entitled AN Act Authorizing
the Payment of Certain Persons En-.
ployed by the City and County of Ho,
nolulu,' which i am unable to approve.
cit seems that two sets of persons
were appointed or employed to per
form certain services for the City and
County of Honolulu, but that at least
some of such persons were so appoint
ed or employed without authority of
law and that only a portion of them
performed services. The object of the
bill appears to be to authorize the pay.
ment of wages and salaries to all such
persons whether they performed the
services or not
"While / should like to approve this
bill for some reasons, find that / can.
not do so conscientiously. The Legis
lature and the Governor are in posi-,
tions of public trust. The money, the
expenditure of which may be authoriz-
ed by legislation, is not their money
but the peoples. 1t would be entirely
justifable to authorize payment for
services actually rendered and the
benefit of which the City and County
has received, even though the persons
who performed the services had not
been legally appointed, but to pay
Others who neither were legally ap.
pointed nor performed the services
would in my opinion be an unjustihable
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