The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-04-11
SENATE PASSES
FINANCIAL BILLS
LOANS AND APPROPRIATIONS
CARRYnSc ALL THEY
CAN STAND. G.

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!, With one final display of fireworks
the two bills moulding the financial
policy Of the Territory for the next
two years We're passed on third reading
in the senate yesterday ana turned over
to the tender mercies of the house. Al
most the parting words that were fred
at it as 1t finally went into the other
house were to the effect that something
would have to be trimmed No secret
is being made over the fact that the
bills carry more appropriations than
the revenue. can stand The senate has
not made any bones over the fact that
it has piled in everything that it could,
and carried ont as many personal prom
Uses as the members therein could
safely do, with the full intention OF
letting the house beat it into shape.
The appropriation bill was the first
to pass yesterday. The debate that was
halted IN the middle Saturday in ref
erence to the surveyors and public
lands was again resumed. Marston
Campbell, superintendent of public
works, was on the floor to answer the
objections which Fairchild had to
make, concerning chiefly the water and
land policies.
This the superintendent did emphati-
cally, declaring that instead of cutting
the appropriation for the public lands
it should be raised; that mp to few
years ago the department was unable
to do thing to back up all the home
stead promises which the campaigners
saw fit to indulge in. The federal
amendments to the Organic Act gave
the department 100000 to use in open
ing homesteads which permitted it to
at least do the homesteader justice,
added the superintendent.
By the time Campbell had finished
there did not seem to be much favor
left for the motion. Falrchild main
tanned his hostility to- the last and
called attention to the numerous home
steads that were now lying idle. He
also remarked rather holly on the
water question, stating that the govern
ment had just awakened to something
which the plantations were alive to
long years ago. The surveyor IS depart
ment wass raised $4,000, however, with
no "water measuring' rider.
Everybody Boosting,
Cecil Brown then made motion that
the bin pass on third reading. Quinn
arose, however, and remarked that he
thought it was a, shame, He then ex-
planned that the senate had refused to
consider his suggestion that when the
commissioner of. public lands was set
down at 400 month and the surveyor
at $3.50 something was wrong. He hotly
stated that everybody boosted for the
commissioner and there WASH It anybody
to, foot the surveyor 3 horn, SO he was
| going to boost for him.
:" Let 3 all boost, said Chilling
worth, happily. Fairchild groaned in
There was tie vote On the question,
but the president voted in the afirma-
! tive, and the surveyor gets his 'iue.
Cecil Brown then moved again that
the bill pass third reading. ,.t2t..F
| At this critical juncture Chilling
worth started into boost He looked
sadly around The senate for moment
and with dramatic pauses stated that
Colonel Jones, the acknowledgement OF
the national guard of Hawaii, took care
of all the federal property which tbs
guard nsed, and ought to have more
than 5000. He moved the poor tehaI
| get S250,a -
The senate Imply passed the amend.
The loan bill, carrying a couple OF
/ more millions, was then taken up, and
! with very little debate was passed on
third reading and sent after its com
panion.
banking Bin Lost
w3very bitter indeed was the debate
i pro and con on Cecil Browns banking
i bin in the afternoon. All the tTusi
companies and banks in the city, witt
] the exception of the bank in which
Brown is interested, signed protest
to the legislature yesterday morning
which was read previous to taking VI
the bill.
The protest minced no words, bu
| jumped numerically on the measure
saying that 1t was all for the beneh
of the banking interests which Mr.
Brown represented. They added tina
there was no desire for the measure OF
the part Of any other bank IN the city
but while they expressed themselves b,
inference as being satisfied with tn
present banking laws, the protest mad
no attempt to apologize for the made
, anaeies which previous debates havi
apparently shown TO be existent.
Brown answered them IN the sam
strain In which they spoke in the af
!. tefnoon. He referred 10 them as pe0pl,
pfo were nightly afraid TO lose tween
. ty.hvo cents under the proposed law
OF any other eAaagea and IN an mad
one Of the most bitter speeches ye
heard on the 1oor of the senate,
The vote on the measure WIS q typi
cal one, a clean break between the pro
} grassiye element n tige senate and -
legislators Who 80 far have voted 81
? the theoTg that 4 blll which didnil CIV
them end their particular patty 3 gfea