The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-28
Afternoon Session.
The House reassembled at As.
UNFINISHED RIrSIN ESS

The House reasSembled at :45.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
Mr.. Richardson moved the House take
up unfinished business. Agreed to-
Consideration of an Act to continue the
subsidy heretofore granted for mail COM
munication between the Hawaiian Islands
and the United States.
Mr.. Kaulukou thought there had been
plenty of discussion on the matter and
hoped the House would now come to a
vote. With regard to the freight on ba-
nanas, he thought they had better leave it
alone.
Hon. Mr.. Cleghorn said that at the last
session he was not in the House at the
time the vote on the subsidy was taken or
he should have voted in favor of 81, 900
He fully realized the Importance of a line
running regularly between the two ports.
1t was very important that they should
have an independent line. Under the
present bill the rates of freight are ar
ranged for. He was in favor of 81 800 if
the freight on bananas was reduced to 80
cents bunch.
Mr.. Keau said it was the poor people
be done for them. He moved the previous
question, which was carried.
The motion to pass the subsidy at 81 900
was lost.
Mr.. Aholo moved the section pass as in
the bill
Mr.. Thurston moved to insert after the
word respectively" the words, said mail
service to be bi-mOnthlv''
His Excellency Mr.. Gibson said he
thought Mr.. Thurston must mean semi
monthly" not "bi-monthly."
Mr.. Thurston accepted the amendment,
and the section passed as amended.
Section ,. Said subsidy is granted upon
condition:
l. That no increase shall be made in the
rates charged for freight and passengers
during the last two years.
IL That the rate of freight on specie
shall not exceed one-half of one per cent
UNI.
III. That said mail shall be carried on
first-claSs steam vessels, not less than
eighteen hundred tons register.
" That said subsidy shall not be paid
for more than two round trips each
month.
Mr.. Keau moved to insert: ". That
the freight on each bunch OF bananas shall
not exceed fifty cents"
Mr.. Hayselden was not in favor OF the
latter motion. According to the Collector
General report over sc, 900 punches were
exported during the last biennial period
About $4,000 were carried by the Oceanic
Company II the freight was reduced it
would be 4 loss of $25,O9O to the company
during the next period. He did not think
the company would accept the reduced
rate The steamers do not pay. For the
next three or four months they will have
very little freight TO carry. He moved the
matter be referred back to the committee.
Mr.. ThurStOn was not in favor of refer
ring the matter back. The company could
make good profit at fifty cents bunch.
They are piled all around on the steamer in
places where nothing else could be put.
When the Oceanic Company and the Pa
ciic Mail Company were running in oppO-
sition, bananas were carried at fifty cents
bunch When the Mail Company with
drew the freight was put up to seventy-tive
cents a bunch. The banana trade was
third in the list of exports, but the high
freight was killing it out. He thought the
company would make more at fifty than
seventy-fve cents. A great deal of banana
culture had been given up on this account.
Hon. Mr.. Cleghorn said he could not