The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-02
THE AFTERNOON SESSIONS
THE SENATE
THIRTY SEVENTH DAY.
Afternoon Session

Afternoon session"
House Bill No 81, amending the
county act; House Bill No. 1854, safe
guarding condemnation by railroads
under the law of eminent domain;
House Bills Nos. 155 and 1856, relating
to deputy sheriffs; House Bill 100,
amending the statute relating to bur
glary; House Bill 1865, relating to the
treatment of leprosy and House Bill
No. III, amending the county act, all
passed first reading by title.
House Bill No. %, regulating vac
.cination, was received from the House
with amendments. Action on the
amendments were deferred on the sug-
gestion of President Smith.
The Ways and Means Committee rec
ommend the passage of House Bill No.
10, relating to the annual licenses OF
foreign corporations.
The special committee on election
laws presented a lengthy report on
the general election law that has been
in its hands The bill with the amend
ments suggested by the committee
was ordered printed on the motion of
Senator Chillingworth.
Inc Governors veto message on
House Bill No 20 was received and
on motion of Chillingworth action was
deferred until Saturday.
s0SosSSOSOsOsOsOsosos0s~e~
once and the present incumbent. He
SAID perhaps some Hawaiians were
AFRAID OF bacteriologist because he
cut up dead bodies, but such action
was for the benefit of all and for I'm
ture generations, in the matter of the
study OF disease. We must show to
the Federal government that we an
preclated such advantages.
Chairman Cohen himself took the
floor to show the serious necessity of
bacteriologist to guard against pla-
que and cholera. Rats were being
caught all the time; rats spread pla-
que; dead rats were constantly being
examined for possibility of plague; we
wanted no repetition of the plague cpl
demic of ten years ago.
Sheldon said we had the Federal Of
ticers here, who are more advanced
than Territorial men. If a Terrific
rial bacteriologist was necessary, why
not provide for the position out of
the lump sum, out of the item for sup
preston of contagious diseases?
Kaleoopu insisted that DR.. Macdonald
had, two years ago, before a commit
tee, admitted that he was not a bac-
teriologist. He objected TO the item
because there was no bacteriologist in
the Territory. Cohen declared that
while Macdonald did not call himself
bacteriologist, he was nevertheless
capable of performing such duties.
Kaniho objected to the chairman
talking without first resigning the
chair. Cohen ruled that if Kaniho
wanted the floor he would wait till
the chair had spoken.
The vote on show of hands to cut
out the bacteriologist, proved to be
tie. Yeas and noes were called for.
of the Speaker. The Speaker, on the
floor of the House in Committee Of the
Whole, stated the rules were that the
Speaker was not required to vote on
a tie vote on show of hands when the
House was in Committee of the Whole.
A call-by-name vote left it tie and,
on motion of Shingle, the item was
deferred
Government physicians was the
next item. Rice believed by the pro-
posed turning over to the counties of
the control of government physicians,
with the necessary money, there would
be better service than at present.
Alfonso moved the item pass as in
the bill, $4,000. 1t was deferred.
Being taken up again, the item for
bacteriologist was cut out by vote
of fourteen to twelve.
Furtado's motion that S26,100 be di-
vided as in the bill passed in 1905 for
government physicians was carried.
Before the House went into Com
mittee' of the Whole there were sew
eral matters of business.
ANOTHER VETO SUSTAINED.
There came a message from the Gov
ernor vetoing the House bill relating
to counsel fees in felony cases. The
message says: 1T does not contine to
the circuit courts or to courts of re-
cord the power to allow counsel fees;
the bill might be construed as author
izing every district magistrate to i'm
pose upon the Territory an obligation
to pay a counsel fee up to 800; and
the bill is faulty worded."
The House sustained the veto.
! DOUBLE UP FOR ECONOMY.
Public expenditures committee, re-
ported, recommending tabling Moa-
nauIli's joint resolution, such resolu-
ton to be taken up after the passage
of the appropriation bill, for it may
! be considered necessary to effect con-