Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — HAWAIIAN HOUSE IS COSTLY. [ARTICLE]

HAWAIIAN HOUSE IS COSTLY.

Members Fritter Time Away in Lavish Expenditures. Despite strenuous endeavors’ of the home rulers and others in the Hawaiian Legislature, Governor Dole has refused flatly to extend tht* present session of the Legislature. He declares that the members have frittered away time on trivial matters and have acted on not a single one of the important measures. He says lie will call an extra session to consider appropriations. The first session of the Hawaiian Legislature, now drawing to a close, has been costly. At the outset $45,000 was appropriated for expenses, a much larger amount than customary, but the whole sum was exhausted by the end of the first mopth, and it is estimated $20,000 additional lias been spent. The members flung away money. They paid $2 a page for typewritten sheets and $3 per day rent for twpewriters in use, making a Cost of the use of each machine SIBO for the session. They paid 50 cents a folio for proofreading, so tlint each bill, by/ the time it reached a third reading, had cost $lO a page. A large amount of stationery, knives, pens, ink, etc., was bought, and one member actually tried to have each man provided with fountain pens. A bill has been passed in the House, giving Liliouknlani $250,000 provided she sign a release of all claims against the crown lands. The only revenue measure which has been considered is one imposing a specific tax of $lO a' ton on sugar. The House spent much time on a bill fixing the price of fish at not more than 10 cents a pound, but it was finally defeated.