The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-31

standpoint Of the planter. IL would
have prevented -any hUhTBsteader from
obtaining or Keeping a single acre OF the
i l.r.a nov leased BY the sugar Plahta.
%gTt was 3mbossible t6 properly amend
II or. 70 iHtfoduce a new BIN In the,
snort time remaininR IN the special SEES
sion and with the very limited facts
before the legislature. For that reason,
2 concurrent resolution was adopted by,
the h6use Tint q fdiSintefested commit
tee should Investigate the entire situa-
ton, Of all ,4of the government leased
land, the pfieeS paid FOR these lands
by the plantations and the income de-
rived thtFefrTn by the pIantati0ns and
the Rdhptabtlity Of these lands for
demonstrating. With this information, d.
proper bill safeguarding the interests!
both OF, the, citizens and Of the planta-,
tatton owners, could myGl been adopted
by the Legislature next spring. u,
Il was admitted by the attorney gem
Grad and incoming Governor that the
proposed senate act was a violation Of
the orgfuic Law, and would have 10 be;
approved by conEress aud rnnid not
", euf6tcfhle until 1890. Therefore.
the legislature could have had ample
time TO prepare a fair law in its ses.
sion Of 1919, For SOME reason, the
'nepbers Of the senate did not want an
investigation made and the faetS river,
TO the pnhlic az to the government
iands nov leaseIl by the Illustrations and
the income deriSea therefrom ~ thev'
defeated the resolution for an invest
cation.
20 The house handled me matter ~ ther,
believed was in the best iHte-psts of
the peoBle. Whether or no. thev were
right IN their httithdc. u viii he fo-.
'.he people TO decide ut the next cleo,
tinn.
t'In regard 10 a member Of rho sonatp,
saxinH that he hoped the next legisla,.
,tIyre would he cOmpnsed of Ihru who,
wished to win the war. we would eaI1'
attention to the fact thHt every war
measure nassed nv the house to safe.
gltRrd the Tertitbrv against Ghrman,
aliAns was defeated in the senate"
uaiied BolsheviE .r ,"
The .senate's action on Speaker Hol,,
tein y resolution Yesterday morning,
was short and snaPpy. Tn dealing with,
I, Senator A.. l.. Castle referred to
members OF the house as '"Bolshe.1
Z Xxi, He tf%eh bitterly on what had
been done in the house with the sen
tie bill which he said was designed TO,
ave from 5000 to $4,000 tons Of sugar,
pinfing out that Washington has ask.
ID That there be no Stacker land"
.ermis led, to go uncultivated in Hawaii
The arguments made in the house
rkaiIst the bin he characterized as
childish and he declared while every
newsboy in town knew Of the bill
MEMBERS of the house remained in iC /
Ioranee of it's provisions
Returning to the resolution, he as
erted that u amounted merely to so
much caThonftage under which tho mem
1ers Of the house would seek to save
heir faces at the Forthcoming elections.
1e expressed the hope that the next
legislature would be composed of per.
oDs actuated by the aim to win the
var.
\, Senator Castle 5 motion to table the
resolution was seconded by Senator
Robert Single, who referred to the
uqaiTy proposed in the resolution, say
ing it wds unnecessary. All of the data
Needed on matters concerning expiring
eases on cane lands have already been
objected by Land Commissioner B. G.
9iYenburgh, he said. The senate then
unanimously adopted the motion to
able on a show of hands.
The action of the senate on the reso
'dtion brought about the final breac
'Netween the two houses ana resulted
n having everything that came from
he house through the rest Of the day
being heaved. overheard without cere
1iohy.
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