Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-15
First "Promotion" Measure
Gets to House Today; Much
Work Before Legislators

| work BEFORE Legislators
| A little bit OF promotion work was
/ injected into the business of today's
session Of the house OF representa-
! uiveS when Representative Andrews
! introduced a bill appropriating $4,000
! for the preservation of the dioramaS
/ of Hawaiian views which were pre-
| pared for exhibition during the Mid
Pacific Carnival in the Pan-Pacific
building. #,
The bill provides that ex-Gov. Wal
ter F. Frear, ]. P. Cooke, Alexander
Hume Ford, Walter F. Dillingham;, j.
! +. c. Hagens, E. A Mott-Smith and
w. r. Castle be constituted as board
of trustees TO expend the fund.
A new moving picture measure
made its appearance today, sponsored
by Representative Fernandez This
provides that educational or Biblical
pictures may be shown in Honolulu on
| Sundays after $50 in the evening,
laws in conflict with these provisions
being repealed.
immigration Beard Reports
The longexpected report from the
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house resolution inquiring why GER
tain ''Hawaiians, Filipinos and Span
iards" were fed as indigents and why
the National Guard armory was turned
into boarding house." was received
late this morning.
From January 20 to March Is, says
the letter, 83037 was spent for feed
ing the following:
Hawaiians, 496 meals, Portuguese,
259 meals; Filipinos, $3.50 meals,
Porto Ricans, Is meals; others, ~
| meals; extra meals, 120.
At the receiving station. the report
! continues, the following National
Guard members were fed:
Portuguese, meals; Filipinos, 135
meals; Portuguese, Is meals; others,
| 8 meals.
The letter adds that these men were
fed upon instructions from the COVER
nor. -: .*-.... -.
Marketing Branch for HiIo 81.
Representative Leal introduced "a
resolution providing that $4,000 be in
serted In the appropriation bill for the
establishment of a branch of the ter
ritorial marketing division in the dis
trict of South Hilo, Hawaii. This
recommendation recently was made to
the house by the Hilotb board of trade.
The resolution providing that con,
| tractors using government wharves,
especially relating to stevedoring
firms, give the preference to citizens
in the employment Of labor, has been
deferred until tomorrow morning, as
minor amendments have been pro-.
| posed F- Il e. =. ..s> 5.
Upon vote of Is to 10, the Bar
| Der Shop Bill" as amended by the ju-
dietary committee, was killed early in
the session to-day. House Bill 205,
making it a misdemeanor to be pres
ent at gambling game behind closed
doors, and repeating the present law
covering this offense, passed third
reading. The bill relating to the duties
of the inspector general OF schools and
the dismissal of teachers was tabled
upon recommendation by the educa:'
ton committee. . ~. .
Senate Bill 28, providing for me.
chanical and agricultural fairs for the
| territory, pasted second reading in the
house as amended by the COMMITTEES
on agriculture. The amendment pro-
vides that the governor shall appoint
flair commission of Hawai-" to con-
sist of two members from Honolulu,
, one from Maui, one from Kauai and
, one from Hawaii, to serve without
pay. 80.
milk Regulation Tabled ! II
The house bin providing that the
regulation of licenses to sell milk be
taken from the city and county and
placed with the board of health was
tabled on recommendation of the fl
nance committee. The committee
recommended the passage Of the bill
| providing an emergency appropriation
of $21, 900 for various territorial de-
partments for the remainder OF the
present biennial period 90
With a few minor amendments and
deletions held not to be applicable to
local conditions, the Judiciary com.
mittee reported favorably on the bill
containing the new insurance code for
the territory, complied at the instance
of Territorial Treasurer c. j. Mccarthy
and the bill passed second reading. A
bill providing an appropriation of
$500 for acquiring land for a GENE
terry at South Hilo passed second read
ing House Petition 10, urging free den
tistry for the school children Of Hama
was reported upon favorably- by the
education committee and will be re-
ferred to the board of health. The
bill providing for the acquisition of
land for the grounds of the Hilo hos
pital passed second reading. ]
Fixes Hunting License Fees
Radical provisions relating to the
issuance of permits to persons to hunt
with firearms are made in q bill spon-
scred by Representative Andrews, as
follows: - 49," -. FL. III. ...-...