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ii '4V U. S. WEATHER BUREAU, February 3. Last 2i flours' Rainfall, .00. Temperature, Max. 75; Min. 68. Weather, cloudy. SUGAR. 96 Degree Test Centrifugals, 3.64c Per Ton, $72.80. 88 Analysis Beets, 10s. Per Ton, $S2.20. ESTABLISHED JULY 2, 1858. 'i " a i-5 VOL. XT.TX., NO. 8265. LECISLATIVEWHOTiOli EXPENSE MONEY $20,000 on the Way No'J Extra Session Pay Any More. Twenty thousand dollars of Uncle Sam's money is now on its way to Ho liolulu to be apportioned out for the various expenses of the Legislature. This amount, the first instalment of the thirty thousand voted by Congress, will l.e in the hands of the disbursing agent, Secretary Mott-Smith, by the time the Legislature conies to order a week from next Wednesday. Along with the re quest for the money has gone the bond of the secretary for $20,000, the figure of the bond being the limit of the amount that the Secretary can have on band at one time. Just as soon as half the first amount is spent, the other ten thousand will be sent for. This session there will be no strings on this Congressional vote. As a mat ter of fact, according to the secretary's .construing of the law, there were no strings on the amount voted for 'the legislative expenses of the last session, and while it showed a good and proper spirit for the members of the last House and Senate not to draw down any pay for an extra session, this was quite unnecessary. They couldn't have drawn any pay in any event, whether they held extra sessions or not and wanted pay for it or not. According to Mr. Miott-Srnith, the proviso attach ed to the appropriation is not a proviso at all, but an amendment to the Organic Act which does away altogether with extra compensation for extra sessions. Last session the members all had a vir tuous feeling that they had saved the Territory thirty thousand dollars, while Secretary A. L. C. Atkinson worried along through the session under the ap prehension that there would be a slip up, that an extra session would be nec essary, and that there would be a de mand for sessional indemnity, which, as the law was then understood, would void the Congressional appropriation, make all the expenditures under it il legal, and leave Jack hung up to ar range with his bondsmen. (Continued on Page Four.) AUTO ORDINANCE IS The speed of autos is again becoming noticeable and there seems to be a growing disregard for all speed eau tiou signs posted in various parts of the city. Autos are driven around corners in the downtown district at a rate -which is in excess of that al lowed by law and is regardless of the safety of pedestrians. Even in crossing the street junc tions few auto drivers take the trouble to sound their horns or give warning in any way of their approach and tpeed is seldom slackened. Instead of slowing down, for in stance, at the corner of King and Ala pai streets, coming in from YVaikiki way, machines are driven at full speed from one speed limit into another. Only a week or so ago a red machine driven rapidly by a young woman down Fort street, swung around into King, going toward Alakea street, without being slowed up in the slight est degree, in spite of the fact that a big trolley car had just come to a i-top and more than a dozen passengers, mainly women and children, were leaving the car and crossing over to the mauka sidewalk. The woman in the machine had no control over the ear, lost her head entirely, and had it not been for a woman and a man drag ging two children out of the way the latter would have been run down. The young woman immediately speeded up and disappeared in a swirl of dust. On Waikiki road the autos are driv en at a reckless rate despite the many Occidents which have already occurred out there. HOUSE AND SENATE The Legislature Soon to Meet Has Many New Members. Some familiar faces will be missed when Mr. Speaker raps for order in the House on the morning of February 17 and the President of the Senate rises to receive the Governor's address. In the Senate there are, of course, the hold-overs to welcome the new Senators and instruct them in the way they should go, but in the House all will meet on terms of equality. The re elected will be prominent, picking out their seats, talking of points of order, precedence, committees and other things to impress the novices, as the old stu dents are accustomed to do when school reassembles and there are scared new arrivals bugging the corridor walls and wondering what comes next. The working rooms for the legislators are now about in shape to receive them. The walls of the Senate chamber, for merly the offices of the Public Works Department, have been beautifully, not to say esthetically, tinted; new chairs of a revolving pattern have been bought, old desks have been scraped and varnished and the comfort of the great fifteen provided for. The House members will also have new seats and shiny desks. The chairs are pretty, the kind that you eaa swing around in and turn your back on the Speaker if anything so rude can be conceived of, but they are sadly lacking in cushions. The old chairs were straight up and down in the back, were too heavj to lug around and had arms on them that made a man sit up whether he wanted to or not, but they had cushioned seats with working springs and the bounce they gave was joyful. There are eight hold-over Senators, Brown, Makekau and Palmer Woods, from Hawaii; Coelho, from Maui; Knud sen, from Kauai, and Smith. McCarthy and Chillingworth, from Oahu. Kala ma, who was one of the shining lights of the last two sessions, will be 'back from Makawao, having been reelected. He is the only one of the old Senators back to start in a new term. There is one promotion from the lower cham ber, however. Quinn, of Sunday fame, being the exception which proved the rule that House members cannot move up without taking a vacation as a pri vate citizen. Two graduates of the Oahu Board of Supervisors will be on the roll, Moore and Harvey, both Demo crats, who will find more company in the Senate than they did on the board. David K. Baker, of Napoopoo, who stood in the shadow of a grand jury investigation while the ballots were be ing counted that elected him, is the 'only new Home Ruler, the rest of his party being made up of Makekau. Baker is a issuer of marriage licenses and is now holding down a deputy sher iff 's job. George H. Fairchild, of Kealia, Kau ai, is a baron representative, due for his first term. He is manager of the Makee Sugar company. W. T. Kobin son, of Wailuku, is said to be on his way over with a fixed idea, that being to get even with Treasurer Campbell for refusing to let him attend the Re publican National Convention last fall. Robinson had been elected a delegate from Hawaii, but, as the trip came just at the time when was required to stay at home and attend to the business of deputy tax assessor, leave of absence was denied. Politically the Senate will divide this year as follows: Republican Brown, Chillingworth, Coelho, Fairchild, Kalama, Knudsen, Quinn, Robinson and Smith. Democrats Harvey, Moore, Mc Carthy, Woods. Home Rulers Baker and Makekau. By race, the Senate is composed of four Ilawaiians, five part-IIawaiians and six whites. Changes in the House. Those who attend the sessions of the House will miss several of the old timers. Pali, who shone in borrowed plumage at the National Guard reviews, as chairman of the Committee on Mili tary Affairs, has fallen by the wayside. He was offered a nomination to the House by his Maui and Molokai con st it uentsj and was also offered a nomi nation for the Senate. He turned them both down, however, and announced that he was going to run for super visor. He did, and the count found him shy. He was the leader last ses sion of the Maui contingent. A. J. Gomes, who hustles freight at the Paia station of the Kahului system, will disturb the solemnity of the commit tees of the whole no longer with his fiery speeches; Levi Joseph failed to get a return ticket and John Kalana (Continued en Page Two.) HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, PEARL HARBOR T sr 1 ML DISAPPEARING COAST DEFENSE GUN, OF THE TYPE ON THE WAY FOR PEARL HARBOR. f r . i , "w"1"' r..- A GUN BATTERY COMPANY. Two Disappearing Defense Monsters Leave San Francisco Tomorrow Aboard the Bark Mohican. (Associated Press Cablegram.) SAN FRANCISCO, February 4. Two disappearing guns for the defense of the entrance to Pearl Harbor have been loaded on the bark Mohican, which clears from this port for Horn lulu tomorrow. GLAD ONLY IN AN UNDERSHIRT A Young Japanese Caught in Another Man's Room at Night. Clad only in a long undershirt a young Japanese named Ilioko was cap tured in a room in the second story of a building on Kekaulike street last night :by the occupant of the room and a number of his friends, and escorted to the police station. The little fellow dug his fists into his eyes and tried hard to shed tears and little could he learned from him of his reason for being in the room. Xeither did he satisfy the police as to why he should be wearing only an un dershirt when his room was a block away on Hotel street. The owner of the room, who con duets a billiard parlor direetly beneath on the ground floor, heard his wife scream and call out for her husband. The latter, accompanied by his friends, rushed upstairs and into his room and there encountered Hiogo. The wife was still yelling. The billiard parlor keeper's wife said she was aroused by some one entering the room and then noticed that the light was blown out. When a stranger began moving around the room she screamed. However, the young fellow said he had a reason for being in the room. He had been in a tailor shop and a man had taken away a suit and the proprietor wanted the money. So Hi ogo went out in search of the man who took the clothes, but unfortunately got into the wrong room. That was all. When asked for a reason as ti his rather negligee manner in going out visiting at night, Hiogo was unable to give a clear statement and was sent to the tanks. SOME PUBLIC PARKS IDT PROPERLY KEPT Tourists passing Thomas square yes terday in a trolley car remarked that it was an ill kept park although it contained many handsome trees As a matter of fact that particular park has not been well looked after. The grass is not thoroughly watered, the trees need trimming, the palms are in need of constant irrigation and the mowing machine and shears could be used to better advantage than at present. Heaps of ashes and debris in the lower part of the park, the portion THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1909. GUNS SHIPPED subjected to the view of visitors most, does not help its appearance. The square has the appearance of a recently abandoned park. This, and other squares, including Aala park and Emma square, are looked after by county employes. Semi-public placep are kept in good trim by prison labor, including Atkinson, Bishop, PauoaJ Punahou and Manoa parks. The strips of green along Queen street waterfront have little or no attention from the county authorities. .. . EMIGRANTS FOR PERU. At the beginning of this month the Morioka Emigration Company received from Peru an order for four hundred Japanese emigrants within a month or so, and a second order for a part' of ioou more up to the end of March. Tho Tokyo Mainichi says that there are now in Peru about 40,000 emigrants, of whom only twenty per cent, are Jap anese, the majority being Chinese. It is further stated that there are signs that both the Peruvian authorities and landowners prefer Japanese laborers rather than Chinese. Japan Times. TERRORS FOR THE JIJI In face of the fact that a grand jury investigation is actually under way into the manner in which the Nippu Jiji is inciting others to violence, that journal proceeds with a fine disregard of con sequences. Jn yesterday's issue of the Jiji appears an article under the head of correspondence, wnicn states that the writers are prepared to "shed the boil ing blood in our veins" to carry their point, while those who refuse to iden tify themselves with the agitation are stated to be savage enemies, hobgoblins and malignant wretches. "Who can help hating them? " the article inquires. "Their malignant actions deserve the curse of heaven and earth, and that 13 what we hope will come. , "Help the cause and disperse the wretches," is the advise given by the correspondent, to which, as a footnote, the Jiji adds: "It is said that thev will meet their dreadful fate before long." The Hawaii Shinpo and the Japanese Chronicle, the, two papers whose editors are the "malignant wretches" referred to, are paying no attention in their col umns now to the Jiji fulminations. They are waiting for the grand jury report to be made. WALDRON NAMES COMMITTEES. President Fed. L. "Waldron of the Merchants' Association yesterday nam ed his standing committees for the en suing year. They are as follows: Committee on Public Affairs G. "W. Smith, chairman; Norman Vatkins, A. W. T. Bottomley. Committee on Publicity and Promo tion C. C. von Hamm, chairman; H. C. Pfluger, T. T. P. Waterhouse. Committee on Trade and Finance Edwin H. Pariu chairman; W. L. Lucas, Kobert Lange. OFFICIAL REPORT OF NEVADA RESOLUTION IS LIKELY TO CAUSE STIR Received in Tokio With Astonishment Hih Official Advises Caution Anti-Alien Land Bill Is Defeated. (Associated Press Cablegrams.) TOKIO, February 4. The full text of the resolution declaring the Japanese to be a menace to civilization and parasites on the world has been officially cabled to the Foreign Office here and was received with astonishment. The publication of the resolution here will undoubtedly draw excited comment from the Japanese jingo press and jingo politicians. CONFIDENT IN AMERICAN FAIRNESS. A high official stated, yesterday in regard to the Nevada reso lution: " The State of Nevada is not America. I have confidence in the fairness and the justice of the real Americans. I am unshaken in my belief that the sentiments of the American people are those voiced by President Roosevelt. The danger of such utterances as the Nevada resolution lies in the effect it may have upon the ignorant people in both Japan and America. In both countries the intelligent people should exert themselves to muzzle the ignorant, vicious press and those individuals who will try to create trouble. CALIFORNIANS VOTE DOWN ANTI-ALIEN LAND BILL. SACRAMENTO, February 4. Assemblyman Drew's anti-alien land bill was defeated in the Legislature yesterday by a vote of forty-eight to twenty-eight. NEVADA PASSES RESOLUTION. CARSON CITY, Nevada, February 4. The Nevada Assembly yesterday passed the anti-Japanese resolution, omitting all refer ences to President Roosevelt. Another resolution asking that the battleship fleet be kept on the Pacific was passed. NIXON ADVISED AGAINST RESOLUTION. CARSON CITY, Nevada, February 3. After a talk with Presi dent Roosevelt, United States Senator Nixon has wired the Nevada Assembly that it is unwise to press the resolution directed against the Japanese, being considered by the Assembly. ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR SQUARE DEAL. WASHINGTON, January 19. President Eoosevelt, in an address last night at the African diamond jubilee mass meeting in the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Episcopal church, said in relation to the Japanese question: "In addition to the square deal in our own country, I want the Methodists and others to help me give the square deal to Japan. I will see to it that in doing thi3 our own citizenship is protected. "You know I am not a mere sentimentalist. I am not in the least afraid of invoking the 'big stick' if it is necessary, but I should be ashamed to in voke it unless it was necessary. And I want to see the United States, while insisting on justice being done us, equally careful to do justice to others. The national government by agreement with the Japanese government and througu the hearty and spontaneous initiative . of the Japanese government, has been I'ble to achieve a completely satisfactory solution of all possible difficulties, of all questions that could be at issue between our people and the Japanese people. "It is only the Federal government that can, with wisdom and propriety, deal with those questions, and I ask all good Americans to see to if that un wise men, foolish men, do not jeopardize to their own harm and to the harm of the locality the arrangement that is now working out so satisfactorily to the government of the United States and Japan." GOVERNOR HASKELL INDICTED MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma, February 4. Governor Haskell and seven others have been indicted for alleged fraud in connection with town lots here. The charges against Governor Haskell were made prior to his resignation as treasurer of the Democratic National Campaign Committee, arising out of the series of charges made by W. R. Hearst and President Roosevelt. QUALTROUGH COURT MARTIAL ON GIBRALTAR, February 4. The court martial of Captain Qual trough, of the U. S. S. Georgia, on a charge of having been intoxi cated, was proceeded with yesterday. RECEPTION AT TANGIERS. A reception to the officers of the battleships visiting at Tan- giers was given ashore yesterday. , VETOES TENNESSEE PROHIBITORY BILL NASHVILLE, Tennessee, February 4. The Governor has vetoed the bill passed in the legislature prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicating liquors in the State. LUCKY BALDWIN NEARS END. LOS ANGELES, California, February 4. "Lucky" Baldwin is dying. AFTERNOON CABLE REPORT. PANAMA, Isthmus uf Panama, February 3. President-elect Taft and hla party today inspected the famous Culebra cut. Mr. Taft made the prediction that the Panama canal will be completed in less than three years. OLTMPIA, Washington, February 3. The bill putting an end to racetrack gambling has passed both houses of the Legislature. SACRAMENTO, February 3. Assemblyman Drew spoke today on his reso lution prohibiting aliens from owning land in California, He was followed by Mansfield in opposition. SAN DIEGO, February 3. The torpedo destroyer fleet received suddea orders today to proceed to Mare Island. They have sailed. , f ir i