The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-04-25
to be used as an executive mansion.
To Make Mills Public Utilities

place of Senator RusseIs measure on
the same subject which was tabled
last week. The new bill eliminates
the commission plan embodied in the
Russell bill. 1t provides that mills
must take the cane of planters when
as much as 200 tons is offered, and
pay a fair price for it. Mo gver, all
corporations engaged in th6sausiness
of producing and milling C.ne are
placed under the jurisdiction of the
public utilities commission and made
subject to the regulations and rates
of hat body. The measure carries
IN appropriation of $4,000 to be plac-
ed at the disposal of the utilities COM
mission to be used in carrying out the
provisions of the proposed new law.
Wants Our own Money Used Here
The house OF representatives has
adopted Speaker II. l.. Holstein's on
current resolution requesting Con
gres to set aside so percent of the
customs duties and internal revenue
funds, collected each year in the ter
ritory, for a period of 20 years, the
money to be used on public works,
including educational buildings. roads,
harbor improvements and other mat
tiers, within the territory.
College To Get Aquarium
BY a vote of 10 to s the house fin
ally passed the bill providing that the
Aquarium at Honolulu be turned over
to the College of Hawaii. This mea-
sure has been pending on the table
since the early days of the session.
1t was passed after the governor APP
peared before the solons and urged
that the provisions of the measure be
carried out. In supporting the bill,
Representative A. Lewis, Jr., said:
I'D like to see this house take one
real, constructive action this session.
| I'd like to see this house do some
| thing else than pass salaries"
| The finance committee of the house
now has under consideration a senate
bill appropriating SIS, 900 for the aid
Of a Pan-Paciflc Congress which it is
proposed to hold in Honolulu in 1920.
| Suffrage Dead For Two Years
| On Saturday the woman suffrage
| plebiscite bill reared it's battered and
bruised head in the senate, uttered a
final croak and passed away, and with
it, probably, the hopes of the women
of Hawaii for the franchise this year.
This was the house bill providing
that the suffrage question be submit
ted to the voters at the primary on
May II. 1t got through the lower
| chamber and was buffeted about in
| the senate until the last-change vote
was taken Saturday. That vote was
8 to Z. Those who voted to table the
measure were Senators Baldwin, Co.
ney, Cooke, King, C. A. Rice, H. w.
Rice, j.. w. Russell and Wise. Those
who defended the bill were Senators
Correa, Desha, Hind, Kamauoha, Pa
| checo, Single and Chillingworth.
This practically kills suffrage for
the present, deferring the question to
| the ext legislature. There is a bare
| chanCe-but a very bare one-that
\ the bill may be taken from the table
but as such a motion would have to
come from one of the majority and be
supported by a majority Of members,
that possibly is very remote.
Senator Manuel C. Pacheco took
the floor and declared he was oppos-
ed to tabling the bill. "If suffrage is
killed., he said, 81 don't see how w
could have the gall to go to Congress
and asked for statehood. Every mem
Der of this senate and the house is
pledged to suffrage-to give suffrage
to the women, not to if and and on
the proposition. This pledge was vi
olated by the house when it turned
down the senate bill.
Senator Charles A. Rice said he
was elected on a suffrage platform.
He believed in it, had fought for it in
and out of season. THE house., he
asserted, KILLED the measure and
.,I,,;+t,1 4, r1oh;,n;t, rrDnAritiAn In
stead, which was the veriest subter-
fuge to whitewash a pack of repre-
s%entatives who in their secret hearts
opposed suffrage"
To Work For Statehood
The judiciary committee of the Sc
nate has recommended the passage
of a bill providing for a commission
to go to Washington to work for
statehood, but with an amendment
that the commission be composed of
II instead of five persons, and that
the appropriation for expenses be in
creased from $4,000 to $25, 900.
In a minority reported presented in
the house Monday, Representative
William II. Rawlins, chairman of the
lands committee, went on record as
being opposed to any move on the
part of the legislature to bar main
land citizens from acquiring and hold
ing homestead lands in the territory.
His remarks were directed at a con-
current resolution which asks Con
gress to amend the Organic Act so
as to provide that no person other
than a bona fide citizen of Hawaii
can secure a homestead. Declaring,
among other things, that such a step
would be un-American, the represent
ative said:
Would Bar Americans From Land
The great effort, since the organi-
cation of the territory, has been to
Americanize these islands and build
up a homestead population along ira
ditional American lines and l fail to
see why a citizen of the United