The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-14
BY CHANGED VOTE
TAX IS LIMITED
AMENDMENT, ONCE DEFEATED, is
Tackled TO BILL ON THIRD
READING.

"I'd rather be accused Of being
steam roller or Of rairoading bill
through committee than be a water buff
falo with a ring in his nose"
1t was with scorn, mingled with n
laugh, that Representative Charles A.
Rice, of Kauai, made this remark, as
he glanced around at the members of
the house who had changed their vote
on the tax bill over night, and de-
feated his report in favor of the one
brought down by Watkins.
The process of what Rice called
"ringinge the buffalos" commenced
early yesterday, when the lobby of the
house was dotted with planters and the
representatives of planters, including
b. Won Damn, Richard Ivers, ]. p.
Cooke, w. Pfotenhauer and half a
dozen other influential citizens, each
with a sad-eyed legislator in chastened
attendance. The large taxpayers
urged that a limit be put upon the pos
sible demands of the supervisors.
The minority report of the finance
committee was adopted after vote to
reconsider, thus lacking to the tax bill
an amendment limiting the tax rate
for the next two years to one and one
eighth per cent maximum.
The Watkins amendment was adopted
yesterday after defeat the day before,
on the following rollcall.
Ayes: Archer, Castle, Cockett, Cooke,
Fernandez, Kanekoa, Kawaakoa, Kelii-
moi, Mahoe, Makekau, Marcallino, Mo-
anauli, Tavares, TOwse, Waiaholo, Wat
kins, Williamson, Yates.
Corrao uo1o
Hubby, Kamanoulu, Kawewehi, Long,
Rice, Rickard, Sheldon, Mr.. Speaker.
Those who changed their votes over
night were: Archer, Fernandez, Kane.
koa, Makekau, Moanauli, Waiaholo and
Yates.
Representative Kamanoulu, who had
voted for the limit amendment the day
before, switched against the other
switches and voted yesterday against
the amendment.
Consistency.
, The sad part Of it was that the day
. before Archer made long and elo-
; quent speech against the amendment
he voted for yesterday.
And Makekaui oh Makekau! he
signed the majority report of the
: finance committee and then voted for
, the minority report. oh, Makekaul
/ The othersq Just buffaloed.
, In Force at Once.
AS soon as senate bill No. SO, entitled
an act relating to personal, income and
property taxes, and the disposition of
the proceeds thereof, amending certain
: laws and repeating others, was read by
Clerk Woodward, Representative Rice,
chairman of the finance committee,
submitted an amendment for the act
a to take effect on July 1, 1911, except
as to section FIVE, which shall take
: effect on January /, 1917. In addition
: the following amendment was sub
: mitted and carried unanimously:
"and further provided that, except
as hereinafter specified, all taxes now
: or hereafter delinquent, and collected
: after june 80, 1911, shall be disposed
of as required by the law in force at
the time they became delinquent; and
further provided that all general prop
r erty taxes collected after said June 80,
: 1911, and which, if not paid, would be-
come delinquent during the following
5 half-year, except those referred to in
J. the proviso of Section 1919 of the Re
vised Laws as amended by this act,
: shall be disposed of as follows: One
half to the respective counties and city
: and county, other than the county of
Kalawao, in which they were collected
for the purposes specified in subdivision
n of said section 1919; one-sixth to such
!. counties and city and county, for the
;. purposes specified in subdivision Of
said section 1912; such amounts to such
3 counties and city and county, for the
: purposes specified in subdivision OF
gbo1
fourth of the amounts specified for such
!. purposes for the biennial period in sec
y tion of 'An Act to Provide for the
Maintenance of the Public Schools"
: and the remainder, together with al
" school taxes collected after said june
= 80, 1911, to the Territory, for the pur
poses specified in subdivision of sait
y section 1912; and the provisions of tht
: fourth paragraph of section 1272-A o.
n the Revised Laws, shall apply as neai
y as may be in respect of tho allotment
! made in this section for the respective
u purposes specified in said subdivision
T. Q, and 5, and the Territory shall ad
vance to such counties and city anI
county monthly during the half-yeai
?. ending December 81, 1911, so much Al
n may be necessary for the purposes spe
y Gifted in said subdivision /, not exceed
ing In any one month ope-sixth of th,
n estimated amount which such genera
a property taxes viii yield during sucl
N halfyear, aud may reimburse itself 70
n the amounts SO advanced out Of th
,s half of such property taxes when col
" lected which would otherwise BIO pay
= able TO such counties and city AM
IA county as above provided"
" Limit Amendment
ie Then came the Watkins amendment
10 which was printed IN full IN The Al
70 vertiser yesterday. Riea called for III
y. ayes and noes, with the result a
~ shown above.
10 But before the vote was taken Lon
70 demanded that the majority and minol
ity members Of tho Ananee eommitte
present the house with some hnaneil
IN statistics sheldon opposed delay, %,
Of ing L was time 10 settle Il imml
~ diaiely. Then Long moved 70 defer an
le' Watkins whispered something 20 bin
THAT WOnlt deter me 3 minute,
exclaimed Lang, looking ~ WaIkln