The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-03-16


he approved of the taking Of Of the
restrictions upon the Mayor 90 allow
him 20 20 back and work for the Inter.
Island company IL he wanted TO- This
was giving him power, not taking it
away.
Like Wanted Time.
Like asked to have action deferred
10 allow him to fle an amendment 10
cut out the extra Supervisors power,
the motion being lost on a party vote.
Kama's Mistake.
Kama presented an amendment, evi.
IDENTIFY the result Of Democratic job.
/ His amendment was to raise the salary
Of the Mayors secretary to $4,000 a
year.
As soon as Kama saw the Mortified
! look on Kaleiopu, he hastily withdrew
/ the amendment. "1 see i have made
a mistake he explained.
Kaniho Urges the Axe.
Kaniho also had an amendment to
offer, as follows: That appointment to
vacancies in elective offices be made
by the Mayor with the approval of the
Board Of Supervisors.
Rice asked what would happen if
| they failed to agree, Kaniho telling
! him il would be the same as the Gov
ernor and the Senate.
| The amendment was tabled on mo-
tion of Rice.
Kaniho then moved that the bill be
| indefinitely postponed. 1t was plain
to him that Honolulu was only to have
a high-salaried figurehead. He object
ed to things generally when elected
city officers fail to do as the people
want but are pulled around by politi-
clans. He wanted to compliment the
! Republican Representatives, who were
not doing politics, but working for
the country, but the Republican Su.
| pervisOrs were not worthy of any such
commendation. He appealed to the
| sense of fairness of the Republican
majority in the House to kill the bill.
''Let us not make a jumping jack
of the Mayor or something like the
Bonine poi-eater, who eats and grins
| and does no work. he said, making
special plea in closing to those
among the Republicans who were once
Home Rulers, telling them not to close
| their open hearts to what was fair and
just.
He referred to Rice's eloquent ref
erence to geese and golden eggs in an
| other debate, and asked again not to
kill the fly on a man S nose with a
club.
There were no flies on Kaniho, but
his motion was promptly dubbed to
death, nevertheless.
Kauai in Favor.
Rice said that the outside members
had nothing to do with the affairs of
! Honolulu except to settle Honolulu s
| trouble for her. He therefore favored
the bill as one way of settling the
trouble.
Sheldon urged the outside members
not to block the requests of the Oahu
members on Oahuan questions, while
Kaniho wanted to know whether he
| meant the requests of Douthitt and
! Kaleiopu or Kamahu and Like. The
| Municipal Act was a Republican meas.
ure, and he hoped that the desire to
! change it was because a Mayor of
Democratic origin had been elected.
| On the ayes and noes, the vote stood
| 10 to IL in favor of the bill. Kama,
| Like and Kamahu, from the Oahu del.
egation, voted in the minority.
Excepting Honolulu.
Moanauli presented new bill which
is to raise the pay of public laborers
! to $3.50 a day as a minimum in all
parts of the Territory "except the
| City and County of Honolulu"
Resolutions.
Cohen presented list of new
| schoolhouses necessary on Oahu and
asked for an. appropriation of $l06,S0O
to build them. The list includes:
Kahuku, Groom school and teacher s
T6ttage. $1,000; Kaaawa, teachers cot
| tage, $500; Kaiiua, l-room school and
cottage, $4,000; Waipahu, broom addi-
ton, $3500; Kauluwela, 14-room school
building, $4,000; ManOa, 1-room
school, $25O0; Moiliili, Broom school
building, $4,000; Normal School, sci
ence and laboratory departments, 49,,
900; Waialua, i.room school building,
| $6S00; Wahiawa, l.room school build
ing, $l700; Waialee, new dormitory,
| 49,, 900.
Hihio asked for $2500 to establish a
| hospital at Lahaina.
Kaniho presented a resolution to ap
| nIDIllult FGbpu ibI honpiNai iAp
| hala.
Sewer Rate Bill Debate.
House Bill 40, Coney, was debated
on third reading. This is a bill to
compel the payment of sewer rates by
shutting off the water from those prem
ises against which the sewer rates are
delinquent. The Superintendent of
Public Works is given the power to
| do the shutting off, after given ten
days notice.
elf we want the government to be
able to collect sewer rates and water
rates, let us pass this bill; if we want
II SO that people do not have to pay
their water and sewer rates, kill this
hil This is all there is to this bin. -
he said. explaining that there was out
standing now some $4,000 in uncollect-
ed sewer rates,
Long Attacks Measure.
Long was strong in objections. He
suu, in tl,a hill hardShip unon iha