The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-03-11
SENATE ACCEPTS
HILO INVITATION
HOUSE ALSO WILLING AND TRIT
MAY BE MADE SATURDAY
PROHIBITION.
(From sunday AdvertI.erl

Members Of the senate are a unit on
the question Of accepting the generous
invitation Of the people of lilo to visit
that thriving town. Though the regular
morning work Of that body had been
completed when the invitation came
from Hilo yesterday President Knud-
sen reassembled the lawmakers, took a
vote and declared that the kind prof
fer had been accepted
Saturday March Is next. was tenta.
lively selected as the date of leaving
Honolulu for the Big Island, though
this will not be definitely decided until
after a conference with committe from
the lower house.
This committee was appointed by
Speaker Holstein in the house yester-
day morning following acceptance of
the invitation by the members. The
committee consists of Representatives
Watkins; Waiaholo and Irwin.
A special messenger brought the in
vitations to the legislature yesterday
morning. The offer came through Il.
B. Elliott, president of the Hilo board
of trade.
Anti Prohibition Resolution.
Those who had expected fight over
the adoption of the concurrent resolu-
tion asking congress not to interfere
with prohibition legislation on the Ii
quor question in Hawaii were disap-
pointed. Senator Metzger (not Wirtz)
who introduced the resolution in the
senate, asked that it be placed on the
table to give the upper house an op.
portunity to pass on a similar measure
passed by the house. This latter reso-
luton was adopted without any oratory
and without a single vote in opposition.
1t will now be forwarded to Washing.
| ton.
This was followed by adopting Metz
gers concurrent resolution asking CON
gress for wharf on the south and
west side of the Island of Hawaii.
These problems, which threatened
trouble the previous day, had scarcely
been settled when Senator Judd, of the
holdover ways and means committee,
sent in his reports. The bulky document
showing the tremendous work the COM
mittee had done in investigating the
| financial affairs of the different coun-
tries in the Territory during the past
two years were scarcely considered In
comparison with the supplemental re-
port containing the sensational dis
closures of the affairs of Auditor Ma
guire of Hilo. These reports were unani-
mously adopted.
Maud Dawson, on behalf of herself
and sister, Eva Dawson, filed petit
ton through Senator Coke asking for
an investigation of the conditions un-
der which they were not reemployed
! as teachers and seeking compensation
for being prevented from securing EN-
ployment at their profession this year.
The petition charges Principal Edgar
Wood with displaying grent rudeness
toward Maud Dawson during the spring
term of 1912 and states that he mani.
| Tested a desire to make her position in
the school unpleasant and unbearable
and to minimize the practical results of
her teaching. She asks the senate to
arrange for an inquiry at which she
can place the facts before that body
for final action on her petition for re-
compense.
The petition will probably be taken
up tomorrow.
! Three house bills we're brought up for
second reading and reference, two house
bills went through third reading and
final action was also taken on S. b. 90
providing for the printing of diet ION.
airy of the Hawaiian language. This
measure now goes to the house. Short.
iv after eleven clock yesterday morn.
ing adjournm mt was taken until ten
o clock tomorrow morning.