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

was Jne DeSJ, j nc OJ0o1 man was
not on the ground, while Wilson
was well and favorably known to
everybody. If Mr.. Flowerdew was
q man of his word, he would never
undertake the work while the present
Minister of Foreign Affairs was in
Office. minister Gibson smiled. }
He supposed the Minister of Foreign
Affairs would remain in Office
another two years, so that they
would be without q railway for that
period. They were not there to look
Mt the matter in the interests of Mr..
Flowerdew, Mr.. Austin or Mr..
Wilson. He thought the bill intro
duced by the Committee would
require too many amendments for
them to attempt to doctor it up. He
did not approve of that provision
for selling the right at auction.
Mr.. Bishop thought there was
little use in discussing the section in
the old bill which had been disposed
of. He was certainly not opposed
to railway in streets suitable for it
and where it would be for the adj
vantage of the public to have one.
They ought not to consider the
names of the gentlemen in those
bills. Certainly he had nothing
against Mr.. Flowerdew. investing his
money in the railway, but he would
not vote specially to accommodate
him. Mr.. Flowerdew may not have
been well treated here, but yet he
did not know that the community
owed him anything. One thing in
favor of giving him the right was
that he had means to build the road.
There was no guarantee that Mr..
Austin and his associates or Mr..
Wilson and his associates would
build it-they might sell out. And
as railway was necessarily a
monopoly so far as it extends on the
streets, they might say it was
monopoly, but that was no particular
objection. They might claim that
the Austin bill was not n monopoly
because it allowed cars to run upon
it for certain distance, but it
cover so much ground that there
would be no chance for another
company. The Austin bill allows
the company to build double track
on great many of our narrow streets,
and that was very Objectionable
feature. 1t mentions a number of
streets on which it would not be
convenient to have even q single
track. For his part, he should be
very sorry to see a single track on
Fort street. Even the necessary
traffic on that street now was hardly
safe. Neither of those bills should
be passed without suitable amend
ments. That idea of selling at
auction having been disposed of, it
seemed to him that if those two bills
could be referred to committee
new and really good bill could
be made up from them. Then
the only remaining question would
be whether it should be Austin or
Wilson and their respective asso-
ciates. He moved that the bills be
referred to special committee.
Minister Neumann did not think
his friends could accuse him of not
being persistent when he thought he
was in the right. An objection to
recommitting. those bill was that the
time was short. There had been an
utterance from the Hon. member for
Lihue (Mr. Dole) that the Austin
bill should not be passed because
he (Atty's-Genl.) had stated to
the House that a stranger and a
foreigner would be interested in it.
If such sentiment prevailed in that
House, he was much mistaken in it.
1t made no difference whether the
man who wants to put his money
into those improvements was
foreigner or citizen. He had
mentioned the names of sufficient
gentlemen right from this town,
known to the members of that
Assembly, who had as much to do
with the enterprise as Mr.. Flower
dew, except, perhaps, as to the