Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-11
committee Did
MUCH HARD WORK
Commercial Representatives
Had Great Deal to Do
With LEGISLATION.

{ Showing that the commercial bodies
Of Honolulu exercise u powerful innu-
cncc over the legislation of the Terri
tory, u report was made to the Cham
her of Commerce trustees yesterday
afternoon by Chairman H. H. Paxton
of the Joint legislative committee, who
Is also chairman of the chambers leg
islative committee. The report shows
, that tile committees Views were gem
orally accepted by the Legislature. In
the report the work of the attorney
employed 10y the commercial bodies--C.
II. llcmenway-is given high praise"
The report says in part:
Tho committee held twenty meet
ingg. mt which all of the three organ
izations were represented. One hun
drcd and twenty nine bills received the
consideration of the committee, as fol-
lows:
Drafted by the committee and in
troduced at its request. .......... 6
Amended by the committee ........ Q
opposed by the committee ........5S
Supported by the committee .......39
No action taken on ................17
THE amendments to the bills intro
duccd at the request of the committee
N'l' an u'l'Dlffs fNtfIl
Senate Bin 80 Uax bilD one per
cent. limit defeated In conference, after
having passed the House.
Senate Bill SIS. Conservation tax
extended two years instead of indcii-
nitcly.
House Bill rs. Rapid Transit bill.
Committees suggestions were substan-
TALLY adopted, except that right of pur-
chase by municipality was deferred
from 1929 To 1910.
IAN OF the foregoing bills were
enacted into law. except the Rapid
Transit bill, which was pocket vetoed
by the Governor
"Bilis Opposed.
without going into detail. II might
he said that the majority of the bills
opposed were those intended to give
the counties additional powers and re-
sponsibilitics. and which I'm the judy
mcnt of the committee should. for the
present at least, remain In the Terri
tory For instance. county bond issues
were included In number of bills;
transfer OF Honolulu water and sewer
works to county of Honolulu; control
of fuel oil and explosives: control OF
public utility corporations; creation OF
county record offices; and sundry
amendments to the municipal act
broadening the powers of the super
visors. All Of these measures were
successfully opposed by the committee.
Several drastic anti corporation
bills, such ~ the proposed employers
liability law and tho use OF the cx-
traordinary writ Of quo warranto, were
successfully resisted. ..,
"Bills Supported.
"Of the bills to which tine committee
lent It's support. the most important
wor" those Tor broadening the powers
OF the Board Of Health, tho school fund
commission. sanitary commission bill
and for revising the Territorial laws
The bills on which no action was
taken We're not considered of sufficient
Importance, or else related purely to
local interests on the different islands
In n few cases the committee declined
to take action on the question Of pol
icy. particularly In regard to the So
called Fairchild land bill.
Summary.
f the thirty bills supported by
a. committee without amendment,
only six failed ia become law. None
OF those which failed to pass were Of
special Importance.
"Of the slNty-Onc opposed as whole,
only three were ppsscd--Scnatc Bill ~,
purchase of homestead land In Kona;
Senate Concurrent Resolution ., Kona-
Kau bond guaranty proposition: and
House Bill 40. amending Sunday law
re- barber shops"