The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-03-24
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The Judiciary committee Of tho
house yesterday slapped Representative
rowse, BY inference. on the wrist. bul
In doing 90 hecontuated tho wide unlii
On ihe Oahu delegation, which has fail
"a to combine on any one moasuse
advocated in behalf Of Honolulu, over
which there has been any controversy.
IL was In Zee report on II. b. No.
1S3 providing for a public service com.
mission, similar in many respects 20
those In New York and other mainlsnd
cities, that the obnoxious clause occur.
red. At the recent hearing on the bill,
Towso, who introduced Il, acknowledged
that Il might be premature for Homo
lulu and that Il might be best to
"chloroform Il OF put Il on cold stor.
age for four or six years.
The committee did not like this fail.
ure 70 back his own bill and submitted
the following report;
Unusual Report.
"Your Judiciary committee, TO which
was referred house bill No. 1874, intro.
duced by Hon. Edward Towsc, begs
leave to report as follows;
Your committee believes that IL any
body is to fix rates for public service
corporations that IL should be a com.
mission of experts properly qualified for
the purpose. Your committee, there.
fore, recommends that this bill be
tabled. Your committee also does not
approve Of the practice of introducing
bills into this house, unless the intro.
Queer has a bona iide intention of urg.
ing the passage Of such bill"
The construction of which sentence
might itself be criticized.
Defends Action.
Representative Towse took the floor
on question of personal privilege and
defended his act, calling attention to
the fact that the Delegate to congress
had done the same thing in regard to
the Kau ditch bill, which he introduced,
yet disclaimed knowledge Of. He added
that he had not been behind this bill,
but introduced 1t because he thought
II was a. poor representative who re-
fuses TO act for constituent. He ask.
ed that the report be recommitted to
the committee and the criticism be
stricken out.
inns started discussion winch tasted
for an hour, during which Delegate Ku-
hio came in and was escorted to a seat
beside the Speaker, and was evidently
interested, especially when Representa-.
tiv Watkins, in support of the motion
to recommit, stated that Towse had only
followed a precedent set "by the gen
tleman on your right, Mr.. Speaker, F"
and which was often followed in the
legislatures of the mainland. He added
that the clause was unnecessary and a
"slam" at the gentleman from the
fourth district.
Favor Criticism.
COney held that to recommit the re.
port would be "slam" at the judi
ciary committee. Correa explained that
it cost about $35 to print and translate
the bill. Rice thought all introducers
of bills should 90 on record in their
favor. Many others also spoke. The
motion to recommit was lost.
The motion to adopt the bill called
forth a point of order from Towse
that the committee had gone outside
its prerogatives in making the stric.
lures it did, but the Speaker overruled
the point. In the end the report was
adupted and the bill was tabled.