The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-16

bill until legal advice could be secured
House Bill No us, also relating t
the extension of county powers ant
authority, were deferred to be takel
up with the other measures dealini
| with the same subject.
Senate Bill No. 113, Coelho bill
allowing appeals from contempt sen
fences, was indefinitely postponed OF
the adoption of the unfavorabie repor
of the Judiciary Committee.
Senate Bill 141, providing for tn
assessment of property benefited By
the Honolulu sewer system was refer
red to the Judiciary Committee.
House Concurrent Resolution No. Is
| providing the semiannual advertising
for bids for department supplies BY
| the Auditor, compromise on the pur
chasing agent, was adopted without
dissenting vote.
House Concurrent Resolution No. 10
fixing the itemized expenditures of the
Department of Agriculture and Fores-
| Hawaii, was referred to the Public
Lands Committee.
House Bill No. 20s. providing a IL
eense for wireless telegraph, was re-
ceived and passed on first reading.
House Bill No. SO, regulating mer-
chandise licenses, passed second read
ing on the adoption of the report of
the Ways and Means Committee
Chairman Fairehild of the committee
stated that the committee had been in
conference with a number of business
men and that the bill as it now stood
was satisfactory to those affected by it,
The Ways and Means Committee re-
ported on Senate Bill No. 107, and the
report was laid on the table to be
considered with the bill. When it came
up for consideration, all of the items
were stricken out except the claim of
Q. Tollefson, $3.50 and W. K. Keoho,
5000
House Bill No. 81, was reported favo-
rabiy by the Ways and Means Com
mittee and adopted, passing the bill
on second reading. 1t increases the
pay of Kauai officials.
House Bill No. 90, relating to the APP
pointment of jailers, was taken up with
report of the Judiciary Committee
and deferred until today. Senators
Smith and Coelho spoke in opposition
to the bill.
House Bill 1913, a measure adding a
new section to Chapter SO of the Re
vised Laws relating to garnishment was
passed to print.
House Bill 1913, relating to juries, was
also received and passed on first read
ing, as was House Bill No. 1856.
When the Governor s message on new
appointments came up on the order of
l. h. 1ox, 10 1afo
sideration of the message until Mon
day. Senators Fairchild, Mccarthy and
Knudsen wanted immediate action and
Coleho withdrew his motion for post
ponement.
All of the appointments were confirm
ed with the exception of that of Worth
o. Aiken, named as Educational Com
missioner for the County of Maui. Ac-
tion was deferred on the motion of Rob-
inson.
The appointments confirmed were as
follows:
Board to Allot One fourth of Special
Income Tax (Act SO, Laws of 1909).-
Joseph P Cooke, Marston Campbell, E.
V. Wilcox.
Fruit growing and Truck farming
Commission Joint Resolution No. /,
Session of 1909).-E. V. Wilcox; Alfred
w. Carter, Theodore F. Lansing.
+ Board of License Commissioners
Oahu: F. L. Waldron, Willard E. Brown.
Kauai: Edwin NJ Desha.
Department of Public Instruction.
William Hyde Rice, John 7. Moir.
Appropriation Bill
Coelho asked for the unanimous sup
port of the Senate to reinsert $500
| in the appropriation for the Department
of Public Instruction for industrial
work. Chillingworth seconded the mo-
ton. and Senators Mccarthy, Woods
, and Baker FASTENED to say that since
seeing the exhibit in the Armory they
had experienced change of heart.
Robinson and Moore voted against it.
Quinn moved FOR the insertion of
$500 for the determination of sthe
mongoose. Quinn was supported by
Moore and Coelho, but Senator Smith
maintained that the expense of the
work should GO under the special fund
created by the special income tax. The
item was inserted.
Fairchild moved for the insertion of
an item of $4,000 for a wharf and
SHtd DIT I1dudltI anu IL was CdIIIcu
Baker moved for the insertion of
$4,000 for school agents. He was sup
ported by Senator Smith who declared
that the present Superintendent of
Public Instruction was too much inclin-
ed to center the affairs of his depart
! ment IN one man.
Robinson maintained that $4,000 was
not enough for the parpose. Moore
argued that the Senate was getting
| deeper in the financial mire and that
the school department appropriations
had been thoroughly threshed out and
settled. The motion to insert the $4,000
was lost, Senators Smith and Baker
| casting the only affirmative votes.
Senator Woods moved to insert an
| item of 1920 for maintenance of the
| horse and wagon at Hilo, attached to
| the health service.
| Coelho moved for the insertion of
! $1,000 for an armory at Lahaina, but
| it was deferred "for two years - on
| the motion of Mccarthy who said that
the purpose was good, but the money
was lacking.
Bureau<of Conveyancess
| The bureau of conveyances, deferred
| item, was taken up for consideration