The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-02-28

the house on the first day of the ses.
sion a concurrent resolution request.
ing Congress to amend the Organic
Act in conformity with a bill accom-.
panying the resolution. Both mea-
sures relate to pastoral lands. The
bill provides that pastoral lands be
divided into two classes, the first suit.
able for grazing, and the second un-
suited for grazing purposes. Lands
of the first class, it is provided, shall
be subject to homesteading in areas
OF from 200 to 500 acres, and the
lands of the second class in areas of
from 500 to 1000 acres. 1t is provid-
ed further hat an agreement may be
entered into whereby lessees shall re-
tain the use of the land until such a
time as it Is ready for homesteading.
The Reapportionment Bill
Speaker Holstein's %reapportion-
ment bill, now in the hands of the
house judiciary committee, makes the
following redistribution of legislators:
Senatorial districts: First. (Hawaii)
4 senator's; second, (Maui) 2 senat-
ors; third, (Oahu) seven senator's;
fourth, (Kauai) two senators.
Representative districts: First,
east HawaiD 5 representatives;
second, (West Hawaii) 8 representa-
lives; third, (Maui) 5 representatives;
fourth, (Oahu) 7 representatives;
fifth, (Oahu) Z representatives; sixth,
(kauai) 3 representatives.
1t was expected that the judiciary
committee would report out today on
the measure, recommending that it
pass, and throw the main fight onto
the floor of the house. There is much
opposition to the bill both in the
house and in the senete.
Supervisors To Name Magistrates?
On Thursday Representative Tavar-
es introduced a bill providing that
the district magistrates be appointed
by the several boards of supervisors
instead of by the governor.
Don't Favor MAIZENA,
The harbor board on Thursday sub
mitted to both houses of the legisla-
ture information concerning the old
Makena landing on Maui, and the de-
STABILITY, or otherwise, of reopening
it for traffic. The harbor board did
not feel that improvements to MAIZENA,
landing would be justified by the
amount of business now there.
More Pay For Magistrates
And Clerks
The following new salaries OF Maui
officials are provided for in a bill in
troduced in the house on Friday by
Representative James X. Jarrett Of
Oahu:
District magistrate, Lahaina, $3.50;
district magistrate, Waikiki, 1925;
clerk and stenographer, Waikiki dis
trict court, 800; second district ma
gistrate, Makawao, at Honualua, $50;
district magistrate, Makawao, $3.50;
district magistrate, Hama, 1925; dis
trict magistrate, Kipahulu, $50; dis
trict magistrate, Molokai, 800; dis
trict magistrate, Lanai, $40.
Asks Citizenship Schools
A bill introduced in the senate ap-
propriates $4,000 for the establish
struction for citizenship schools for
aliens.
Rice Wants Bigger Fair Fund
Senator Harold Rice introduced
yesterday a bill to amend act 20 of
the session laws of 1915, relating to
the Territorial Fair. The measure
provides that $4,000 be appropriated
for ~defraying the expenses of mechan-
ical, livestock, agricultural and horti-
cultural fairs, to be held in the city
and county of Honolulu, and that the
sum be set aside in the treasury as
a special fund for such purposes.
Quick Pay And Bath House
Representative Joseph introduced
two bills yesterday. One provides
that laborers on public works, employ
ed in the district in which the county
seat is located, be paid once a week,
and that laborers employed in other
districts be paid twice a week. The
other measure instructs the land com
missioner to secure, by condemnation
or otherwise, land for a site for a pub
lie bath house at Kahului.
Sometime today it is expected that
there will be introduced in the legis-
lature a bill providing a substantial
increase in the salaries of all circuit
court clerks and interpreters.