Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-26
LEGISLATIVE NOTES

LEGISLATIVE MULES
House hill -. relating Ia district
magistrates. passed second reading in
the senate today.
The senate tomorrow will consider
| House Bill 32I in committee Of the
whole. The bill relates to the rcGuIa
ton OF automobiles.
Hcuse Concurrent Resolution ~, re-
| Gently tabled. is to he taken UP for re-.
| consideration in the senate. The bill
| pertains 10 milk and dairy inspections
Upon recommendation OF the Sc
lect committee Of Kauai senators, the
senate today tabled house bill -. rec
lating to the salaries Of county Off
GERS.
Further consideration is to he Civ
en- by the senate TO house bill 26S.
relating TO the construction OF roads
to public lands opened for home
ste2ds.
Former Senator A. F. Judd and
President a. F. Griffiths Of Punah0u
Academy were visitors in the senate
this afternoon and were given seats
on the dais.
The senate this afternoon laid aside
for further consideration House Con,
current Resolution Z, a memorial to
Congress- to provide for the families
and ether dependents of the men of
the IA.
The senate today voted to recon
slider Senate Concurrent Resolution .,
relating to an amendment to the Or,
gonic Act in the matter Of land laws,
which was tabled in the upper house
Saturday.
The governor has signed house bill
329 which provides for the payment
or 1925 month to Captain Henri Der
ger, the veteran band leader, during
life
Members Of the house Of repreSen-
tatives, clerks and attaches and at
spects to former Queen Liliuokalani
at Washington Place today. Speaker
H, L. Hoistein acted in speaking for
the members of the house.
The city of Honolulu is authorized
to enter into contracts with private
corporations for the purchase of ar
tesfan water, in Senator Quinn's bill, :
which passed the house on second =,
reading today.
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The senate today concurred on
amendments made by the house to
Senate Bill 144, known as the movie |
bill" AS far as the senate is concern
ed, the bin now is ready to be sent |
to the governor.
Senator Stephen l.. Desha was taken !
iii with pleurisy at Waialua yesterday
and probably will attend no more ses.
sions Of the upper house. He went !
to Waialua to deliver a sermon in the
church.
Believing the resolution to be in
killed the Lyman memorial to con
gress to amend the Organic Act rela=l
tive to land classification, on recon-
of the public lands COM
mittee today.
BY the unanimous vote of those
senators present, one being absent,
house concurrent resolution 81, me-
Congress for statehood in 4
was passed in the upper house I
The resolution is similar |
to one drawn by Senator A. L. Castle
in 1911. g. Il
Following a lengthy debate, during
which several Of the members voiced /
their disapproval of the homestead
laws as pertain to Hawaii, senate con-
current resolution was tabled in the
senate Saturday. The resolution was
TO memorabilia Congress to amend the
Organic Act relative to the public
lands Of the territory. .-..
That there is moral obligation on
The part of someone to pay II. Kishi
about $4,000 for meals furnished ter.
ritorfal immigrants, was the consensus
1f opinion In the senate Saturday dur
ng a discussion of the bill. Attorney
general Stainback said he did not be-
ieye the territory was obliged to pay
or food consumed by immigrants for
whom the federal government was re-
sponsibie while they were in quaran.f
inc. The matter may have to be set
led In the courts, he added. T.
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