The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-04-20

beyond It's authority. senator kaiama
thought that the Senate should have
further time io consider the quest ION.
and as President smith did not feel
ready TO rule on the problem, the ac.
tion on the report was deferred until
today.
The Veto Message.
Tho veto message was received in
which Governor Frear declared that
he could not approve Senate Bill No.
81, fixing "A closed season of five months
on deer.
The message read as follows:
TO the Legislature:
herewith return, without my ap.
proval, Senate Bill No 81, entitled
IAN Act to amend Chapter 81 OF the
Revised Laws of Hawaii, relating to
game, by adding thereto new section
to be known as section 459A."
The object of the bill is to make n
close season for wild deer for i've
months each year. II would operate at
present only on the Island of Molokai,
on which island alone such deer exist.
have carefully considered this bill
and have heard much for and against
it by those who desire a close season
for the huntsman s sport and those who
either as owners of forest lands or
otherwise interested in the preserva-
tion of forests desire protection from
the depredations of the deer.
No doubt it can be said with much
plausibility that the bill, while pre-
serving deer for the sake of the hunts
man, would prove comparatively harm
less because the deer on the Island of
Molokai are at present so few in num-
ber as to do little damage, and yet it
seems to me that this argument is un-
sound
The preservation of forests on that
island is matter of the greatest i'm
portance to agricultural and grazing
interests, both large and small. The
evidence is overwhelming that the deer
have destroyed much of those forests
Owners and lessees of various tracts of
land have gone to the expense of kill
ing eff most of the deer and construct
ing fences to protect the forests. Hunts
men for sport did not keep the deer
from multiplying in ruinous numbers.
II does not seem right that deer
DdIl VI AnC
year for the benefit of sportsmen to the
detriment of others who would have to
destroy them during the rest of the
year in order to protect their property
interests.
If the argument were sound that the
deer should be protected for the bene-
fit of sportsmen on the ground that
there are now too few to do much dam
age, il would seem equally sound to in
troduce few deer and protect them in
the same way on each of the other
islands, on the ground that few could
not do much damage.
Senator Quinn said that he did not
expect any opposition to the measure
when he introduced it. He stated that
similar laws were upon the statute
books of all the States, and that the ar
gument used by the Chief Executive
was unsound.
81 have always supported the Gov
ernor's views heretofore said Quinn,
"but in this case i feel that he has
been persuaded by personal motives,
and i move that this bill become law
Notwithstanding the veto of the Gov
ernOr.'
uC DtHdJc lnSH IdsStu lut blll ONti
the veto by vote of IA to /, President
Smith casting the only dissenting vote
Notification was received from the
House, stating that it ha6 failed to
concur in the Senate amendments tC
House Bill No. 81, authorizing the de
post of Territorial funds in private
banks.
Chairman Knudsen of the committee
of the whole on the appropriation bill
submitted the report, amending House
Bill No. "a, and it was adopted, pass
ing the bill on second reading. Senate
Bill 40, the Governor estimate, anC
Senate Bill 1872, were laid on the table
The bill will be typewriter in it,
amended form for consideration OF
third reading
Senator Fairchild introduced bill
appropriating $3.50 for the current ex
pense of the Department of Publ,
Lands. 1t was passed to print
Chairman Knudsen of the .ludiciar,
Committee reported on House Bill No
1872, providing "A penalty for FISHING
with net with smaller mesh thai
one inch square and providing a pen
atty for officers who do not enforce th
law, was tabled on the motion of Chill
lingworth.
House Bill 1sS, providing for the pay
ment of counsel assigned to defend i'm
pecunious criminals and taking tn
place of House Bill 20, vetoed by tn
Governor passed second reading on tn
} adoption of the favorable report of tn
J Judiciary Committee.
Senate Bill No. l07, paying claim
against the Territory, passed thir
reading with full vote.
House Bill No. IS, relating to licenses
1 came up for consideration and was d,
] ferred after Makekau had offered a
amendment striking out the section III
e posing license upon fish peddlers.
| House Bill No. 81, raising the salar
. of the County Clerk of Kauai to $3.50
passed third reading.
e House Bill No. 167, prohibiting n,
c fishing in the Bay of Hilo, passed thir
5 reading.
l House Bin l25, amending the Munic
!, pal Act and enlarging upon the powe
/ of the Boards of Supervisors, was d
$ ferred to be taken up with the 9th,
d bills affecting county powers
I The following bills were signed |