The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-03-16
EVICTION WINS
FIGHT IN HOUSE
Lyman's Bill For New Site For
Hilo High School Passes
Third Reading
Attempt To Restore Diaries To
Board Of Health Control
Is Defeated

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There were two stiff fights in the.
house yesterday, with Bernard II. Kele-
kolio and Norman X. Lyman in the.
role of chief orators in one, aud the
iame sBoy Orator" and Will +. Miles
as the main fingers of words in the Sec
md. Lyman ard Miles were the victors,
but the end il not yet, for there are
-nmors that motions for reconsidera-
ion win be made today in an effort to.
revive the fight.
The big scrap of the day came on the
,assage Of Lyman H. b. S., when
Lyman and Kelekolio FLASHED hard and
some rather uncomplimentary parlia-'
nentnry language was INDUCED in. The
ill passed third redding by vote Of
seventeen ayes 10 eleven noes Strange
" enough Lyman three eolleagues--
Silva, Leal and Kelekolio-were OPP
losed 70 the measure and all three took
he floor to defeat it, but did so with
out avail. ...., u.
THE bill provides for the setting aside
Il about forty acres of government
land Mt the head of Waianuenue Street,
'nauka Of the Hilo Hospital, for new
lite for the Hilo High School. included
in which are to be agricultural and
botanical gardens. 20
Eviction Claimed Keleko,io "a
1t happens, however, and Kelekolio
lrove the fact home strong. that a
number Of people have been living on
this land, first as tenants of a former
lessee and later of the Territory, for
.hirty years or more and, under exist
ing land laws have acquired preference
rights. Tiki
In an impassioned speech, Kelekolio
'ried to show the house the injustice
of eyicting khc, old people from this
land. Lyman claimed there was no such
Intention; that these people would be
| Iiven preference rights across the way
from the land in question. The two
poke for upward of an hour. Just
4 IS Kelekolio concluded, his third or
| fourth speech on the subject he receiv,
ed from some unknown admirer a
basket of sweet pease, with a card
inscribed, s"To the patriot Of the
house" This, however, had no refer
ence to his fight on the land bill, but
% his unccasing effort to rid the WATER,
front of the German refugee ships
which are, it has been openly commended
a menace to Honolulu. t., p. ..... ..
/ Kalana went to the kokua of the
| "Boy Orator. He said letters had
come to him to help defeat the nefar
ous Lyman bill and he would vote
raole.'' '... -.
Holstein Expresses Surprise
/ L II
Speaker Holstein, chow a member OF
I committee signs a report favorinl
the passage of a bill and then turn
around and announces that he will votC
against the passage of the measure"
Through Interpreter Hakuole, Kalani
explained that he had been blind wheI
he signed the lands committee report
but that he had seen the light since
and was ready to act accordingly.
Lyman and Kelekolio were not a
I'll complimentary and at times thei
language was rather plain and such a
s seldom heard in the super gentee
Hawaiian legislature. . Kelekolio In
simatcd more than once that there wa
"nigger in the woodpile," and HI
seemed almost inclined to name Lyman
rs the dark gentleman. ne
| The second fight of the day came oil
during the protracted and tedious after
noon session, the first double duty tn,
house has done this session, 1t cam
up on consideration of the majorit,
and minority reports of the health com
nittee on keleiolio Is II. b. l44, relat
ing to the production and sale OF milk
The bill would restore absolutely TO tn
Territory the supervision and eontrc
Of dairies in Honolulu as part OF tn
boards general campaign agains
tuberculosis. t.
One Man Beats Majority
The majority Of the committee favor
: I'd the passage of the measure, Will
!. Miles by himself presented a stron
political argument in his adverse mir
ority report recommending that the bi
re tabled. The majority fell down, q
he vote on its report was eleven.al
$ and Miles triumphed a moment late
Y when his report was adopted by aIvot
5 'ightecn ayes TO eleven noes, tablin
4 the bill. n't .,.
Miles oontended that the board q
Y health already had the power the bi
] sought TO confer on it. Why, then, til
. use of this particular measured A'
Twenty new bills we're introduce
= in the house yesterday, bringing til
7 total for the seventeen days of the Sc
= ZION up to 267. For the same nun
Der of days two years ago the tOti
!, was only l4S. A senate bin also, can
across and passed first reading yeste
p day. /. r TT
There was great mass of routir
:. handled yesterday in the lower .hous
/, In addition to the above, four houl
n and one house joint resolution wei
offered and two petitions presente
Two bills passed third reading and OF
! was indefinitely postponed, while G
reports of committees eight house bill
were tabled, some of these much
the relief of even their introducer
Fifteen bills passed second readir
ire on the calendar for third readir
| today. Ten house aud three senat
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