The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-20
The Cleansing Report Is
Adopted - Primary
Bill Passed on Third
Reading.

With great chorus of approval yes
terday the House signed its own GER
tiicate of good character, proclaimed
itself free from graft and suspicion of
graft and, through two of its great
statesmen - Kaniho and Kealawaa =
threatened to exclude the reporters for
the daily papers from it's sacred portals
| To hear the speeches made after the
graft committee presented its report,
one would think that it. had been the
reporters who had insisted on incompe-
tent translatofs being employed to
draw the pay for work that members
did; that the reporters had been the
ones who rushed on the third reading
of the Liquor bill because they had
reason to fear that if the vote was de-
layed some Of the Honorable members
would find golden reasons to change
their minds; that it was the reporters
who had gone three blocks at twenty
public dollars block in shiny buzz
wagons, and that it had been the re-
porters who were drawing down pay
from Federal fund for doing one
thing and actually doing another which
should not have been paid for in that
| way.
| But, whatever faults the reporters in
the House of Representatives NAV
have, the members certainly have none.
The report says so and the report was
carried by majority of twenty eight
to two.
There were several explanations given
during the debate on the report, as to
why the reports of graft in the House
| should have been published in the pa
| pers. One explanation was that the
press was scheming to besmirch The Ha-
| Wallan members of the Legislature in
order to bring about government by
| commission; another explanation was
that the reporters would be censured if
they d1d not bring in something SEN
| satlonai and consequently untrue while
th1rd reason was that the press rep
resentatLves We're just naturally vicious
ana one had to expect such things
from them. Strangely enough no one
| suggested that the reports were pub
hshed because there were circumstances
enough proven before the committee to
+; justify their publication.
In spite of having to assert their
own purity, the members did a great
deal of work yesterday. among other
things passing the Primary Election
| bill on third reading and fulfilling the
| party pledges in that regard. Now
| the bill goes before the Senate to see
+, if that body will go on record second
time as opposed to something which all
the members were pledged to bring
! about.
Work and Expenses.
The Speaker summing up of the
work OF the House for the session to
date, shows that 229 bills had been
presented, of which "a had been vari-
ously killed, 80 had become law and
l4s We're still on their way to receiving
| the Governor S signature. Of these A
are in the hands of the Senators. two
IN the hands of the Governor and the
rest are slumbering somewhere
The expenses of the House, including
the pay of the members to the end of
the session. have been $25, 127.S5. of
which sl4,795.40 have come out of the
territorial funds. OF the $40, 1000 avail
| able for the expenses of the session
there is unexpended $14,S72.15.
Appropriations in Conference.
The Appropriation Bill, swollen ND
regardless from its associations with
| the Senate boosters, came back for at
tentlon. The clerk read off the long
list of amendments, the bulged out
totals and the items reinserted or new.
The members listened patiently. but
there was only expression of ideas con-
cernlng the alterations in the measure.
Rice, chairman of the Finance Com
mittee, made the motion to not coneur.
'1nstead of the Senate irving to
look after the interest of this country
to the best of their knowledge. thew
have boosted our appropriation bill
1878 000.' he said f'This. Mr.. Sneak
er, IS $3.50, 900 more than the estimated
revenues, as they can be figured out.
| move that we do not concur in the
Senate amendments and that a confer
ence committee of FIVE be appointed. -
This carried and the Speaker named:
Rice. Cohen, Single, Nakaleka and
Furtado.
Some Agreements
The House agreed to the Senate
amendments to the bill relating to the
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