The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-17

haD1no wanted to Know II what * G.
alawaa wanted was just place for the
people Of Hilo to hang around in, and
Waiwaiole asked him if Hilo had the
money to fix up the place deeently as
a park
The bill finally passed.
House Bill III, Conev, doubling the
stamp tax on instruments not present.
ed for record within three months of
execution, passed without debate.
House Bill 123, Kawewehi, to dis
courage the habit of pasturing stock
on the public highway by allowing
four bits head for all impounded to
the one impounding, was passed.
House Bill 90, Rice, giving over the
custody of all county prisoners to the
county sheriffs and making the High
Sheriff responsible for the rest, was
amended by Douthitt to make all the
jailers appointed by county sheriffs
subject to approval of the county su-
pervisors. The amendment puts Oahu
prison specifically under the High
Sheriff.
The amendment carried, and the bill
as amended was passed on vote of
% to s.
House Bill SO, Rice, was up for third
reading and tabled on motion of the
introducer, who stated that the matter
was covered in Douthitt s bill to fix
the Municipal Act.
The House rose at 1870 for recess
after House Bill 139 had been received
on second reading and referred to the
Education Committee. This bill is:
"a tax of twenty-five cents on each
and every ton of sugar manufactured
in this Territory shall be collected by
the assessors and their deputies from
any individual, copartnership or cor
poration manufacturing sugar in any
part of this Territory; said tax to be
collected at the end of every three
months beginning from and including
the first day of July, A. D. 1909.
" All amounts collected from time to
time under the provisions of sthis act
shall constitute and be held by the
Treasurer of the Territory as a spe-
cial fund, to be used and applied for
the purpose specified by this act and
not otherwise, that is to say: for the
purpose of educating the youths in the
government schools which are or may
hereafter be situated in or near the
sugar plantations or mills from which
said taxes are collected.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
A communication from the Senate
brought back the House Claims Bill,
the upper honse having knocked out
an item for the Rapid Transit for $40
and inserted one for $467 for P. L.
Weaver, expenses in establishing the
Court Of Land Registration. The con-
sideration of the amendments was de-
ferred until today.
Senate Bill SO, Mccarthy, providing
for bonds for licensed dealers in in
toxieating liquors, passed first reading.
Senate Bill 81, Knudsen, paralleling
a House bill to validate the charters
of corporations affected by the SUI
preme Court decision in the Pearl
Harbor Traction case, passed first read
ing.
There was reconsideration of House
Bill .123, which passed third reading
in the morning, and the bill was
killed.
Cohen Bill Dead.
Cohen s original bill knocking out
all income taxation was reported upon
by the Finance Committee, the report
recommending the tabling of the bill
with the consent of the introdueer. The
report was adopted and the bill tabled.
To atone for this, the committee rec
Cohen s compromise income
tax bill. which raises the exemption
from $1,000 to $500.
Affonso's IDEAS about incomes were
also turned down by the committee,
with Alfonso S consent, the report rec
the table for them. They
went there.
Anticipating Kuhio's Success.
Douthitt presented a resolution to
provide for naming a special Land Bill
Committee, which carried, the Speaker
naming Douthitt, Castro and Kaleiopu
for the important duty.
Castro S hurry-up invitation for Ku-
hio to come home and talk about land
laws was introduced and passed.
Plea for Coffee Tariff.
The Agricultural Committee present
Hu d ICpblt Ol LII HlSl 0OhSuit CIV AAS'
olution asking Congress to impose
duty upon coffee, substituting another
concurrent resolution in its place. The
new resolution asks for a tarff of six
cents a pound, which would bring an
income of between fifty and sixty mil
lion dollars a year to the country,
which would build up the industry here
and encourage small farmingq.
The resolution passed on the adoption
of the report.
Committee of the Whole.
Before the House went into commit
tee of the whole on the Appropriation
Bill, Like formally resigned as chair
man and Cohen was named in his stead.
Cohen started off briskly and the first
thing done was to eliminate the second
deputy of the Attorney General, knock
out one stenographer and then attack
the item for expenses in the Attorney
Generals department. This was down
in the bill at 81, 400.
Rice stated that with one deputy less
and one stenographer gone there would
be less expense. He moved to cut the
item to $4,000. Kaleiopu went one bet
ter and moved to cut to $4,000. Alton
so wanted to put the figure at $500.
The item was deferred after Chairman
Cohen had called the committee to or