The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-08-18

that there was no intention on the
part Of the applicant to sell the fran
chise for 100000 Gas insinuated by
Mr Nawahi) or other amount. He
named several substantial citizens
who took sincere interest in the
project, and if the estimated cost Of
s204 900 could not be provided here
it was forthcoming from abroad. In
advocating the necessity of street
cars here, the Minister incidentally
remarked that during the first month
of his residence here it had cost him
$50 month to send his children to
school. He concluded his speech by
saying that if the franc hise were ex-
posed upon the auction block, there
would be no street railway here for
twenty years.
Mr.. Smith moved the previous
question, reniarking that he thought
the first section had been fully dis
cussed.
The question being put upon in
definite postponement, the motion
carried, whereupon the point was
raised by Mr.. Aholo that the motions
to substitute sections fell with the
indefinite postponement of the sec.
tion. The discussion of this point
ended in motion being carried to
submit the said motions to the
House.
Mr.. Dole wishing to speak upon
his amendment, the chair ruled that
he must have special leave of the
House. That was asked and granted,
when
Mr.. Bishop appealed from the
decision of the chair, claiming that
all the members had right to speak,
as the motions to substitute sections
were new questions.
A discussion of this appeal was
cut short by a successful motion to
adjourn at 1880 till 1 80 z. NJ.
After recess consideration of the
street railway bill was resumed.
Mr.. j. Mott Smith said he did not
know the respective merits of the
Austin and Wilson bills, but decided
to support the former. (Our reporter
was absent during the first part of
his speech. }
Mr.. Dole moved that the first Sec
ton of the Wilson bill pass. 1t
authorized the Minister of the In
terror to issue the charter, but was
not burdened with minor details,
leaving them largely to the discre-
ton of the Minister and Privy
Council. 1t asked the franchise
only for Nuuanu, King and Queen
streets, leaving a large part of the
town to the competition of other
companies. The other bill takes up
nearly all the streets. This one did
not propose to do more than can be
reasonably supposed would be carried
out. Those three streets furnished
with railway would yield the
greatest accommodation to the pub
lie, especially the vast number of
people who lived in the suburbs.
The objection urged by the Hon.
noble (Smith) to the Austin bill,
that it compelled the laying q double
tracks, was valid one. There was
no single street named in it wide
enough for double track. A street
covered with tracks was not fit for
carriage driving. Another great
objection to that bill was that it
provided that the track should be
laid in the middle of the street. The
only way in which track could be
laid on any Honolulu street was to
lay it on one side. 1t was left en-
tirely with the Minister of the Inte-
rior in the Wilson bill to say where
the track should be laid, and the
Minister may compel the company to
widen the streets where they are too
narrow, so that the public interests
are carefully watched. Moreover,
the Austin bill had the same fatal
defect as the Isenberg bill, in autho-
rizing the Minister to introduce new
and unknown provisions. If they
passed bill with section in it like
that, no one would ever be found to
build the railway. AS for the At