The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-16
SUBMIT REPORT
ON LEGISLATION
JOINT COMMITTEE. OF CHAMBER
OF COMMITTEE, ETC, TBLLs
OF IT'S WORK.

The report Of the joint Legislative
COMMITTEES Of the chamber Of com.
merce, merchants association and Ha
waiian Sugar Planters Association,
which clearly and concisely covers the
labors Of the committee in connection
with the recent session Of the logisla.
ture, has been presented to the cham.
Der Of commerce.
The committee, under the chairman.
ship of L. Z. Paxton, with the coopera.
tiOn of its members and the legal as
sistance Of G. r. Hemenway, carefully
considered the various items Of legis.
lation introduced and, the committee
believes, used its influence effectively
for the best interests of the Territory.
The committee held twenty meetings
and 129 bills received the consideration
of the committee. The committee
drafted and introduced six bills;
amended nine, opposed ifty.eight, sup
ported -thirty-nine, and took no action
on seventeen bills, after they had been
duly considered.
Work Accomplished.
The committee was specially inter
ested in introducing bills which pro-
hibited the transportation of infected
or diseased plants, sugar cane, etc, be-
tween the islands; prohibiting gift en-
terprises; repeating the publication. of
foreclosure notices in the Hawaiian
language; creating harbor and wharf
commission; regulating the storage and
use of fuel oil and explosives; regu-
latiOn of billboard advertising.
All of the above became law, ex-
-cept the gift enterprise bill, which
failed in the senate. The billboard law
was greatly modified and finally passed
as Act 116.
The majority of the bills opposed, ac-
cording TO the committee s. report,
were those intended to give the eoun-
ties additional powers and responsible
ties, and which, in the Judgment Of
the committee, should, for the present
at least, remain in the Territory. For
instance, county bond issues were in
cluded in a number of bills; transfer of
Honolulu water and sewer works to
County of Honolulu; control of fuel oil
and explosives; control of public 1til-
ity corporations; creation of county
record offices, and sundry amendments
W bhc uuuulCIpdl- .dCly DIOdueHlHH C0e
powers of the supervisors. All of these
measures were successfully opposed by
the committee. Several drastic anti
corporation bills, such as the proposed
employers liability law and the use of
the extraordinary writ of quo warranto,
were successfully resisted.
Important Bills.
OF the bills supported by the com
mittee, the most important in the epin-
ion of the committee, were those for
broadening of the powers of the board
of health, the school fund commission
/ bill, sanitary commission bill and for
revising the territorial laws.
Bills ON which no action was taken
were not considered of sufficient inn
portance. In some cases, particularly
in regard to the so-called Fairchild
land bill, no action was taken on the
question of policy.
The committee sums up its work as
follows:
"It is, of course, impossible to say
to what extent the Legislature was in
| auenced by the deliberations of this
committee, but it must be conceded
that the credit for whatever was ac-
eomplished is largely due to the efforts
Of @. r.. Hemenway, who faithfully
and ably represented the committee at
public hearings, committee hearings
and by personal solicitation whenever
and wherever the opportunity was
Afforded -