The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-02-21

wage bill in regard to laborers m pub
lie works. Kawewohi introduced an
other of the species yesterday. Lota
introduced one the day before; Kupi-
hea, on the opening day, also made
bid for future electoral preference and
introduced II. b. 13 and IA, the first
making twenty-five cents per hour the
minimum wage to be paid laborers on
public works.
House bills SO, 81, So and Sc, the
first three by Watkins and the last by
@. II. Cooke, cover approximations for
public improvements as outlined in the
Governor special message sent to both
houses yesterday.
II. S. Cunha will have relief to the
extent of $4,000 if Kupihea has his way
about the matter. His bill, No. 81, au-
thorizes the payment of the neat sum to
one of Hawaii's Oldest and most honor
ed citizens. In the 1900 fire. which de-
vastotad Chinatown, one of Guuha 8
buildings went up in smoke. Tho fire
had been started by orders of the bUnrd
of health, which was making an 7Hort
20 stamp out an epidemic of plague.
The big FIRE cost Uncle Sam, who came
to Hawaii Is aid, n pretty sum, but
Cunha g claim, although proven, was
rot paid, as it was misplaced or lost
by the FIRE claims commission winch
passed on the question. Kupihea now
wants the territorial treasury TO make
Kalakiela and Wilcox do not like the
good.
way deputy sheriffs are elected in Oahu
and selected in the outside counties
Hence their bills 50 and 60 respective
4 Nv. Outside county sheriffs now APP
I 4 t,,,t a
residents of the districts wherein they
/ arc to serve 1t is said Wilcox's bill is
not his own, after ALL but emanates
from Hawaii. Some West Hawaii po-
litician was defeated in November in
his race for supervisor, He must be
provided for, however, but as he lives
in n different district from that to
which the sheriff wants to appoint him,
in place of one who is persona non
| erata to the big chief, the law must be
changed.
KalakieIa is opposed to the raising
of fish and ducks in the same pond.
This he wants to prohibit. His reasons
NAV be given when IL. b. SO comes up
for third reading provided it runs the
gauntlet safely and is not looked upoa
adversely by the proper committee.
1 Poepoe has brilliant idea and his
; mission is to make people happy. This
he proposed to do if his bill GO becomes
the law of the land. He wants the
legislature to order the secretary of
the Territory to mail to each indivl-
dual voter, at least two days prior to
an election, a specimen or sample bal
lot with a card of Instructions. One
thing sure, if this is done, will be the
providing of SO many more mailing
clerks, and a run on the postofiice for
stamps, at the expense of the Terri
tory, every time an election is due. A
Maui member may offer an amend
ment, he announces, providing that
each voter be given tree automobile
, rides to campaign meetings of all par
/, ties and to the polls on election day
both ways Of course, at the expense
= : also of the Territory.
= Poepoe also wants the citizens to
have the free use of all public school
. buildings after "learningp hours and
II. b. 81 is to sanction this, even
though this be already permissible.
Elections at the tail-end of autumn
do not suit George p. Cooke of Maui
Molokai and Lanai. He wants them
held in the spring when the flowers are
IN bloom and the sugarcane is waving
with beautiful lacy tasses. His bill Ga
provides that, in the counties outside
Of Honolulu and Oahu, county officials
shall be elected on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in May, the
I first spring elect on to be held in May
1913. This will give most voters a
chance to visit the San Francisco fair
and be back with the spring to vote.