The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-05
SENATE SANCT|Ty
D|SREGARDED BY
.. d. HIGH OFFICIAL
Upper Houses Police officer
Enters Secretary's Office
To Recover Book
BILL TO BOND AUTO
DRIVERS FOR HIRE
Are NeWspapermen Included in
Category Of Distinguished
Persons Invited?
(From Thursday Advertiser

(From Thursday Advcrtiser.)
Secretary of the Territory Wade War.
rem Thayer yesterday deliberately broke
the law in order to keep the laws. He
walked into the senate chamber whel.
the senate was not IN session. AMI TOOK
from the desk OF Senator Castle. who
was not present, n copy OF the 1915 re,
vised laws
| When the senate met in the Afternoon
Senator Castle reported the matter. IA,
stated that the judiciary committee, OF
which he IL chairman, had been unable
20 do any work that morning on account
OF the disappearance of its copy of the
revised laws. He had been Informed
10y the officers of the senate that no Iess
q man than Secretary Thayer had taken
the book. He moved that the president
instruct the sergeant at arms to 20 and
recover the volume and bring it back
to the senate. Only three volumes of
the revised laws had so far been deliv-
cred to the senate the president had
one in his desk, Chairman Rice of the
ways and means committee had one, and
the other, which had been unceremon
iously annexed by Thayer, belonged to
the judiciary committee.
No Joking Matter
Senator Coke arose to add his opinion
to the motion of Castle. He said this
was no joking matter. The book had
been taken by Thayer and when Thayer
had been politely asked to return it he
had refused to do so. There would be
no use in sending the sergeant at arms
to request the return of the volume. The
sergeant at arms should be instructed to
60 and get it.
Senator Mctzger observed that the
three copies of the revised laws were the
property of the senate and copy had
been taken without permit and without
excuse.
Noble Brings Home the Bacon
President Chillingworth gave the ser
geant his orders, but the latter soon re
turned 10 say that he guessed Secre-
tary Thayer was out at lunch. During
recess Senate Messenger Noble follow.
ed bunch and went to the secretary =
Office and took the desired volume of
laws from the secretarial desk. Mr.
Thayer happened to be at his desk at
the time I.
Would Bond Chaufteurs ~
Senator Makekau introduced bill
Is. B. 81, providing that drivers of auto
mobiles for hire whether carrying pas
sengers or freight, be required to fur
nish bonds in the sum of $4,000 to the
county treasurer as security for damage
inflicted on pedestrians or Others This
would give a person injured by reck
, less driver in the rent service something
to recover on.
Makekau introduced another bill Che
is introducing them in pairs), providing
fifteen DAYS vacation a year for govern.
ment employees. This maybe cumulative
up to ninety days, so that a government
cmpoyc may go without his holiday for
six years and then enjoy a three
months vacation on full pay.
Bills Received Prom the House
Half dozen bills, having passed
third reading below, were received from
the house. They were numbers 7, II,
Is, SO, ~ and 100. They passed first
reading by title, Rice in one case, re,
marking as he moved for such action,
that his motion to pass on first reading
did not signify, necessarily, that he
favored the bill. He was merely help,
ing along the routine business:
Senate Bill is, providing for an ap.
preparation for the benefit of Mrs. NJ.
ID. Ahrew, widow of a policeman killed
on duty, was tabled on recommendation
of the ways 4 means committee. TIL
ways and mel Is committee recommend
ed the reference of S. b. 5, Desha S
measure relating to the expenditure of
public moneys, to the judiciary com
mittee. Carried.
The printing committee reported the
printing Of s. b. 20, extension of the
territory of the Honolulu Gas Co. s
license to include the island of Oahu.
On Rice : motion the bill was referred
to a selection committee consist lag of
Oahu members.
Enacting Revised Statutes
| S. b. II, Castle 4 bill to enact the
revised statutes, passed Sthird reading
this being the same measure as IL, b.
100, the house bill having passed final
reading in the house i'll the morning
The enabling act will probably be sign
ed by the governor before the legisla
ture gets its full share of copies OF the
revised laws. However, the senate will
be able to get along for IA while on its
three copies, providing, Of course, that
the territorial secretary does not &C
hunting again.
Coke announced just before adjourn
ment. that there was about to be d
meeting of the military committee for
consideration of two ills, =. b 10 and
II. b ~, the former hcing MAJ ekau ;,
prOhilitiun against the use of FIR arm,
in cities, aud the Iattrr the regulation
of aerial craft in these islands.
Rice, on moving for al ,ourrment, re
marked that the ways and means com
mitlrr h'd nothing on hand and ha,
rather expected that the senate wuull