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

| WUIk 0elUIe IeYIStdtUtS
| A little bit of promotion work was
| injected into the business OF today's
session OF the house OF representa-
| tives when Representative Andrews
introduced a bill appropriating $4,000
| for the preservation OF the d1oramas
| OF Hawaiian views which were pre-
pared for exhibition during the Mid
Pacific Carnival in the Pan-Pacific
building.
The bill provides that ex-Goy. Wal
ter F. Frear, J. P. Cooke, Alexander
Hume Ford. Walter F. Dillingham;, J..
F. c. Hagens, Z. A. Mott-Smith AMI
w. X. Castle be constituted as board
1 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being repealed: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 Board Reports
The long-expected report from the
| immigration board, in response to a
house resolution inQuiring why GER
! tain 'HaWaiians, Fflipinos and Span
iards" were fed as indigents and why
into boarding house." was received
late this morning.
From January 90 to March Is, says
the letter, 8S0.37 was spent for feed
ing the following:
Hawaiians, 400 meals; Portuguese,
259 meals; Fflipinos, $3.50 meals,
Porto Ricans, Is meals; others, u
meals; extra meals, 120.
At the receiving station. the report
continues, the following National
Guard members were fed
Portuguese, meals; Filipinos, 135
meals; Portuguese, 16 meals; others,
9 meals.
The letter adds that these men were
fed upon instructions from the cover.
nor. @ .-~..,
Marketing Branch for Hiio
Representative Leal introduced a
resolution providing that $4,000 be in
serted in the appropriation bill for the
establishment of branch of the ter
ritoriaI marketing division in the dis.
trict of South Hilo, Hawaii. This
recommendation recently was made to
the house by the Hilo board of trade.
The resolution providing that con-
tractors using government wharYes,
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. - -. ..-s..,s
Upon a vote OF 49, to 10, the Bar.
Der Shop BilFs as amended by the jl-
dietary committee, was killed early in
the session today House Bill 205,
making it a nlisdemeanor to be pres
ent at a gambling game behind closed
doors. and rebealing the present law
covering thisl offense, passed third
reading. The bill relating to the duties
of the inspector general of schools and
the dismissal of teachers was tabled
upon recomniendation by the educa.
ton committees & ts,# ~ @#
Senate Bill %, providing for me-
chanical and agricultural fairs for the
territory, passed second reading In the
house as amended by the committee
en- agriculture. The amendment pro-
yides that the governor shall appoint
flair commission of Hawaii" to con-
sist of two members from Honolulu.
one from Maui, one from Kauai and
one from Hawaii, to serve without
pay. r.
Milk Regulation Tabled
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. ..-
With a few minor amendments and
deletions held not to be applicable to
local conditions, the Judiciary com.
mittee reported favorably on the bin
containing the new insurance code for
the territory, compiled at the instance
of Territorial Treasurer c. ]. 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 Hurting License Fees
Radical provisions relating to the
issuance of permits to persons to hunt !
with firearms are made in bill spon- |
sored by Representative Andrews, as
follows:
First. To any citizen OF the United !