The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-03-10
SENATORS FUSSING
OVER THE Pay BILL
SUPERVISORS GET TANGLED UP
IN DISCUSSION OF TErR
MEASURE.
CFrom wednesday's Advertisor.)

(From Wednesdays Advertiser)
The almost beautiful unaminity with
which the house passed the two dollars
a day for public laborors bill in spite
Of minority protests was not duplicated
in the senate when the upper chamber
measure dealing with the same subject
came up to be passed on third reading,
There have been three and possibly
four (it has been impossible to keep
track of them all) of these same bills
introduced into the legislature since the
session began seventeen days ago. It
is one of this years. grand political
stunts. Everyone wants to wander be-
fore the electorate next year, or that
portion of it which laibors on the roads,
and the road department comes close to
being the government in campaign
times, and say, while striking heroic
pose, 81 did it,"
No one hopes that the bills win go
through. Thev sre universally aCknowl.
edged TO be grandstand bills and most
of their begetters hope to see them
killed before they get far,
Chillingworth was the Boreas who
raised the storm in the senate over the
bill yesterday. He has announced sew
eral times since the session began that
for form s sake there ought to be more
ginger in the sessions of the upper
house. He has repeatedly tried to in
| iect some of this necessary adjunct to
/ lively legislation before. This time he
succeeded.
He demanded the production of the
letters written to the committee re-
porting on the bill, which, as the COM
mittee mentioned in its report, all
agreed in knocking the measure. The
committee found a champion in Cecil
Brown who declared that the committee
communications were not part of the
senate records and did not have to be
produced.
Chillingworth then announced that
the supervisors had been loud in their
praises of the measure in the grill side
! walk discussions. He said he was tax
| ing a neutral stand ON the matter but
wanted to know where the supervisors
were getting off at. He accused them
of playing politics and was himself ac-
cused of playing politics by Brown.
Finally Makekau, who never did but
two things in his life did one of them
at this critical juncture. He moved
that the bill be tabled until April l6.
Chillingworth, who was getting deeper
and deeper in his element glared at
Makekau in rank disgust and President
Knudsen put the motion.
The Waikiki side Of the senate, which
is earning reputation for always vot.
ing in one way, voted aye. The motion
lost, Notwithstanding.
Just as Chillingworth was returning
to che arena with a. scientific vivisection
of the political motives of naughty SUI
lpervisors Fairehild arose and moved the
bill back into the ways and means COM
mittee which had got hold of another
bill just like it and wanted to report
on them, like twins.
All around and on both sides, every
one in getting a good store of political
capital out of the bill for the next
campaign and are not hurting anybody
except the feelings of the road laborers
who are suffering from suspense.
i For the use Of banks there has been
invented an automatic camera which
photographs checks in miniature on a
roll of films at rate of about 1000 an