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the owners of lands assessed under Thu
act, for laying sewer pipes in thu
streets connecting the sewer pipe from
such lots with the sewers of the Ho
nolulu Sewer System"
The bill was passed to print.
Senate Bill No. $50 passed thirt
reading with full vote. 1t regulates
the requirement of property by
churches and other religious institu
tions.
House Bill No. 81, the measure al
lowing the deposit of territorial fund:
in banks, passed third reading after
the adoption of an amendment offered
by Moore, fixing the limit of deposit
to seventy-fve per cent. of the avail
able funds in the Territorial Treasury
House Bill No. 157, regulating the
licenses of public shows, was taken ul
ON third reading and passed with a
unanimous vote. The title of the meas
ure was shown to be defective and
changed to conform with the sugges-
fions of Senator Knudsen. Makekau s
amendment for the substitution of
counties for "islands'' in the language
of the bill was Endorsed by the Senate.
Pass Leprosy Bill.
House Bill No. 165, the bill to reg
ulate the treatment of leprosy was TAX
en- up on third reading. Senator Ma
kekau offered an amendment providing
for the insertion of clause providing
that treatment of lepers could be un-
dertaken by "any person claiming that
he has a remedy for. the cure of lep-
rosy Senators Fairchild and Smith
showed the fallaey of the Makekau
amendment. Senator Smith said that
such provision would complicate the
whole machinery of treatment, and
would be contrary to the undertaking
with the United States government on
the methods of treatment and policy
to be pursued under the granting of
Federal aid The amendment was lost,
those voting in favor of it being Sem
ators Makekau, Baker, Brown, Robin
son and Coelho.
Makekau had another puerile amend
ment that sought to differentiate be
tween persons afflicted with the dis
ease and those capable of spreading it.
Senator Smith showed the danger of
the idea, and the amendment was lost.
Senator Baker thought that the
clause directing the apprehension OF
suspects was open to misinterpretation
and injustice to police officers. He
maintained that people might be tenn
porarily segregated through the report
of someone who was prejudlced
against them He also insisted that
the general definition of the disease as
in the bill was too broad. Baker was
supported in his view by Senator Rob
inson. Baker moved to strike out the
entire section, but the motion was lost.
The bill passed third reading, 10 to
S, Baker, Harvey, Chillingworth, Co.
elho ard Makekau voting against it.
The Veto Measure.
The message from Governor Frear,
veteing House Bill No. 35, was re-
ceiyed and read as follows:
To the Legislature:
/ herewith return, without my ap-
proval, House Bill No. 80, entitled AN
Act to amend section i of Act SO, Ses-
sion Laws of 1907, sto designate the
pay of laborers engaged in construct
ing and repairing roads, bridges or
streets, waterworks or other works for
the Territory of Hawaii or for any po-
litical subdivision thereof.
The purpose of the bill is to pre-
scribe minimum wage of $3.50 a day
for laborers engaged on public works.
Aside from questions of constitutions
aiity. there are many reasons, both of
economic principles and special condi-
tions, why this bill should not become
IN ,,rN&
to state all of these.
The bill would Illustrate its own gem
eral object, which is that of beneiting
laborers, for it would necessitate the
dismissal or unemployment of many
laborers who would otherwise be en-
ployed. Ii the funds available for the
employment of labor on public works
were unlimited, the ease might be diff
ferent; but, with the funds very much
limited as they are, it is obvious that
if wages were increased fewer laborers
would be employed. The bill may be
prompted by worthy desire to benefit
the laboring class, but results are not
always what they are intended to be,
and in this case true friendship for the
laboring class can best be shown by
looking at the real rather than the APP
parent effect. The bill might benefit
some laborers, but it would be against
the interests of the laboring class as a
whole, for it would prevent many from
obtaining employment.
Moreover, less would be accomplish
ed in maintaining roads and other pub
lie improvements in good condition and
in constructing new ones, and that
would be to the detriment of all people
in the Territory and tend to lessen or
prevent an increase of taxable values
and therefore tend to diminish the
amount which would be obtained by
taxes in the future with which laborers
might be hired.
Further, the financial status of the
Territory and the several counties is
such that the rate of wages can not
safely be raised arbitrarily at the pres
emit time even if it would be wise to
attempt to do SO under better financial
conditions.
Action on the veto was postponed
until today.
The Loan Bill.
Senate Bill No. 1913, the loan bill
was taken up on second reading. Co
eiho offered an amendment striking out