The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-06-24
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On Waikiki and Kings road ~". $500. ST. so
On Lliha street .""" "..." 1915 IS
A total 81 172 SIS
Your Committee are Of opinion that there is sufficient
ground for the complaints made from the outer Districts that
their roads and bridges do not receive a fair share of assist
ance. IEThe City Of Honolulu being the most %lopulous as well
as mbst wealthy part of the country, should keep its own
Your :" Committee find upon examination of account of
" Encouragement of Agriculture and immigration" that but
a small part of the appropriation has been used for the
objects contemplated in the grant; while a large balance has
ment gsul n1edg 8 "@ on eev asd0u e9ntr sng l', With d PERSONS en- eow
abroad engaging immigrants to come here. Your Committee
the Government to keep in good faith its present engage
ments. AS regards the future bringing in of laborers, your
Committee deem it to be the duty Ct the Government, to
place the burden of it, as far as possible upon the employers
of such laborers: The authority given the Board of Immi-
Board to require from the employers of immigrant labor,
such contributions as will relieve the Treasury of any con
siderable outlay under this head. Your Committee would
say again, in reviewing this appropriation, that the trans
fers'' made from it for other and quiet alien purposes is
Your Committee in examining the accounts of the Clerk
of the Supreme Court found that the sums paid for costs in
the Court during the two years past, amount to only S4,44992,
which is not sufficient to pay even the clerks. The report
of the Judiciary Department, we find, recommends that the
Courts shall be made to contribute more towards their own
maintenance, by costs derived from parties having suits
before them. In view of the above stated receipts, your
Committee are OF opinion, that the statutes OF costs should
Courts, and your Committee will confer with the Judiciary
Committee, with the view of amending the statutes in this
respect.
Your Committee fully recognize the necessity of steam
communication between the islands, and they further think
that if it cannot be maintained by private enterprise, it
should be maintained at the public expense. They also are
of opinion, after giving this subject considerable reflection
and after examining the accounts of the Kilaueas inteTisland
service, that by loaning for a time, the public credit to
private parties, this service can be organized III such a
manner rs to relieve the public purse, IN a great measure, of
the expense. They therefore have concluded to report a bill
for the consideration of the Assembly, which they believe
will secure the best of inerisland steam service, without
any ultimate expenditure fora new steamer, to the Public
Treasury.
In looking over the estimates for the present biennial
period your Committee find an item of $4,000 for expenses OF
8 Bureau of Water Works. and. another of $4,000 for
q Water Supply for Honolulu; This item appeared for the
first time in the Appropriation Bill of 1874. The vouchers
for water pipes and material, an amount to be added to the
over-drawn item for Bureau of Water Works, making an
appropriated, while the whole balance for water supply,
S18, 721 20, has been transferred to other objects. Your
lions for the Water Works of Honolulu, or for making
provisions for contingencies that are not likely to arise, or
that can not be specified.
In this conneXion, your Committee would say, that when
money is lavishly provided by the Assembly, for repairs and
improvements, these are likely to become considered as nee
essarv. and it becomes almost impossible for Ministers to
accept the responsibility of refusing repairs OF iancied i'm
provements which may be pressed upon their attention. This
remark is applicable to the demand made for repairs Of
the appropriation of $4,000 by S2,454 p, and is placed in
the present Budget at $4,000, beside $4,000 tor this building
in which we are assembled.
Your Committee would press upon the attentions OF the
Assembly that with so lavish appropriations, the Ministers
will be impelled to make repairs and alterations, which
Driyate persons would not make upon their own property,
it opens them to solicitation from every quarter by those
seeking profitable employment. Your Committee cannot
900 mn rood reason for any considerable appropriation for
reuairs or improvements on this building, nor for the apprO-
priation of $4,000 for dredging Honolulu Harbor, which by
the Ministerial Report is confessedly unnecessary. So also
view of the expenditure upon the Wharves during the
last two years of S11,615 IL, an appropriation of $4,000 for
the present period does appear to your Committee unneces-U
and excessive. The total receipts from wharfage for the&E
last period was S16,03o "a, the larger part OF which was con- +
sumed in repairs. Your Committee do not desire to discuss
the items of the estimates as contained in the Budget, and
therefore dismiss this branch of their Report, by remarking.
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