The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-17
HOUSE PLAYS WITH
APPROPRIATION BILL
WITH INTENT To KILL
Senate Committee to.
Decide on Claims of
Appointees to City
Positions.

The Ways and Means Committee of
the Senate is going to sit in Judgment
on the monetary claims of those who
received appointments to municipal Of
fees at the hands of the Mayor and
of those who secured their credentials
from the Supervisors. Hearings will
be held, and the Ways and Means Com
ntttee will attempt to solve the ques-
ton in Judicial and impartial
spirit with the intention to stretch
action the Legislature and Governor
may take upon its recommendations
viii be final and conclusive.
The decision to turn the investiga-
ton into the merits of the municipal
squabble over to the Ways and Means
Committee Of the Senate was reached
at conference that was held yester-
day afternoon between fourteen Sena-
tors and Governor Frear in the Chief
Executive S office in the Capitol.
Upon the conclusion of the confer
ence, the committee commenced its
work and began gathering the data
that win be used in the solving Of
the perplexing problems as to who is
entitled to the money and who is not,
who worked and who did not, and who
should have worked and did not.
Senator Fairchild OF Kauai, the
strenuous chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, plans to conclude
the work of investigation as soon as
possible. The members of the commit
tee will first discover the exact amount
of money involved in the claims, and
the next step will be the considering
of the case of each individual claim
ant. According to the estimate OF
Chairman Fairchild, the sum of $4,000
win be sufficient to settle the CLAIMS
with even handed justice and consld-
Grafton of the Legislature approval
of the Municipal Act with the lndefl-
mite provisions that made the present
dispute possible.
With unanimous report, the ways
and Means Committee yesterday rec
commended the passage of the House
bill providing for the stimulation OF
immigration and the conservation OF
island resources. Senator Coelho sign
ed the report and seconded Fairchild s
motion for it's adoption decided sur
prise to the Senate, in view OF tbs
policy adopted by the legislator from
Maui in the past.
The veto of Governor Frear OF the
enabling act introduced in the House
of REPRESENTATIVES. was sustained by
the Senate yesterday on a vote of nlnt
to six. conforming to the action taken
by the lower house in its consfdera
tion of the veto message.
The bill amending the law govern
ang the practise of medicine and sur
gerry was taken up for third reading
in the Senate yesterday, but furthel
consideration of the measure was de
ferred to Saturday after Senator Chll
linoworth exposed the object OF tn
hin being to practically nulllfy II
Hbeir entirety all existing laws plaelns
safeguards about the treatment OF ths
sick, The bin came very near snip
ming through the Senate without III
intent being discovered. Now, now
ever. there is practically no possibli
itv of it being passed IN ITS existins
form. -,
Final Endorsement was given by th'
MINER house Yesterday to the valldat
mo act made necessary by the Su
irene Court decision in the Pearl mar
nor Traction Company case, holding
that railroads should be incorporated
through articles of association, not o.
charters
Senate Routine.
All the members of the upper nous
were in their seats when the senat
was called to order yesterday morn
ing.
a letter was read from Seeretaf:
Cooper of the Honolulu Park assoc
alton. inviting the members OF tn
Legislature to visit Kapioiani Park an
see the Improvements that have bee
carried to completion during the eui
rent biennial period. The letter state
that Superintendent of Public Work
Campbell would make the arrange
ments for the visit of the legislator
to Kapiolani Park. The invitation wa
accepted.
The Ways and Means Committee sui
mitted report on Senate Bill NJ
80, the measure introduced by Senate
Fairchild of the committee and intend
ed to regulate the expenditure OF pull
lie money.
The following amendment to the bi
xEas recommended by the committee:
provided, however, that any eouf
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