Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-27

the appointment by the governor OF a
! tax commission OF five persons. yes
| terday passed third reading in the
| senate.
AS predicted earlier in the day. the
house judiciary committee yesterday
reported against the Williamson bill
to create a court OF domestic reIa
tons in Honolulu.
House bill 343, which provides for
the construction o: a $1,000 irrigation
ditch in the AnahOla homestead dis
trict. Kauai, yesterday passed third
reading in the senate.
! The senate yesterday passed on
third reading house bill 309. relating
to revolving fund of $500 for the
maintenance Of the territorial market
ing division.
There will be discussion in the sell
ate today on house bill 1923. relating
to the manufacture and furnishing Of
electric light in the Makawao district,
Maui
Senator Iaukea's bill to make it man
datory for district magistrates to act
as prosecutors Of claims Of less than
$25 for poor plaintiffs is scheduled
TO come up for third reading in the
lower body today.
The annual meeting of the Mid-Pa-
cific Carnival Association will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the Honolulu chamber OF commerce
rooms. Directors will be elected for
the coming year.
The senate yesterday tabled Senate
Bill II, introduced by Senator Rice,
relating TO a 3 per cent income tax
proposition. This bill is survived by
Senate Bill 1873, which provides for a
tax of l per cent on all corporations
and on all incomes exceeding $4,000.
The senate conference committee
of the whole yesterday recommended
that senate bill %, relating to vaca-
tons for public employees, be passed
with an amendment stating that the
provisions in the bill be not applied
to principals or teachers in public
school.
The senate's substitute for Fernan-
dez's bill to allow motion picture thea
tiers to run on Sunday after $50 a.
m! 'passed the house yesterday. and
will be sent to the governor late TO-
day for signature. The substitute puts
the matter up to the various county
boards Of supervisors.
- Several resolutions and bills in the
hands of the senate are causing mem
bers of the house, authors of the meas.
ures, to watch the closing days of the
senate sessions closely II. any. of
these are amended late today or to-
morrow, the house, for lack of time,
may have to accept the senate's
amendments without conference.
Holstein's. resolution to place Ha-
waiian stone in the George Washing.
ton monument at the national capital
was tabled in the house yesterday on
recommendation of the education
which expressed its re-,
grets that the resolution was intro
duced too late in the session for II,
thorough investigation.
As the official stenographer had
not completed transcribing his notes
Of the hearings of the house commit /
Tee on agriculture, action on the COM
mittee's report to table the Holstein !,
lpetitioning congress to in
vestigate contractual relations be- >,
tween small planters and sugar mill =,
was deferred until to-
day.
fEt..t '.,.,
Willie Crawford's birthday is a last. |
ing one. He is a member of the house |
Of representatives and his natal day |
was yesterday, but the floral presents |
coming TO the represen-
tatiVe chamber several days ago and |
have continued to today when a bas-
ket of pansies and vase of other |
flowers were placed on his desk in the |
legislative halls.
Tic ways vi oOLl6
bers of the house of representatives.
says one house leader. The senate !
bill providing for appointment of dis
trict magistrates by me governor in
stead of by election, passed the house
Yesterday by a vote of 10 to 9 on! re.
The measure lost by !
a vote of 16 against and IA in favor
last week and on unanimous consent !
vas placed on the calendar for yester-
lay.
RIlX I'M