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Show HAWAII LEGISLATURE! OPENS IIS SESSION! i Has Flood of Bills, Somej , Initiated by Labor I HON'OU'Lir. T. H.. March ft. Ha-wuii's Ha-wuii's eleventh territorial legislature opened hr today with a flood of forty-aeven forty-aeven bills Introduced In the house of representative, many of them initiated by the Honolulu labor council. They ra n g In I m port a nee from n measu re deigned to prevent employer putting political propaganda Into pay envelopes to one to erent a commission to control con-trol working hours and conditions. ) The big fight of the Reunion, which som aay will end In forty days and other df-rlar will run the full slty day, is exacted on the Hawaiian rehabilitation re-habilitation bill. This measure. Indorsed In-dorsed at the speciHl session of the legislature last year and sent to congress, con-gress, where It passed th house and lfs In the enat territories committee, commit-tee, was designed to give ritisens of Hawaiian blood land and financial support sup-port to make them Independent. Advices from Washington state the hill will not get throuxh the senate this session, owing to pressure of other hufllne, and it has been stated that It might be withdrawn by .Delegate J. K. Kalanlanaole and sent back to ; the territorial legislature for amend-; ment. ( Ielegat Kalanianaole and other pro- ponentri nf the bill assert that it will accomplish Mil that la expected of it If put in force. Ita enemies call It, class legislation, since It is made to apply only to citixens nf Hawaiian j blood, and say fhe land It proposes to rive the Hawaiian la worth lens as j agricultural land and declare there ls not enoiiRh land of the second claps j to go around, no matter how It U divided. |