The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27

Cnlluren going 10 ana lrOn Scnooi
have to run long distance to get
out of the way of approaching cattle.
If some of those children are killed,
who would be responsible? 1t is
further stated in the petition that
there are great many children in
that valley, some of them very
young, and their parents did not
want them subjected to danger. He
believed the statement of petitioners
to be very reasonable one, and the
Assembly ought not to simply ignore
their grievance or refuse to give
them relief. The bill might be
amended so that at certain times of
the day or night cattle-driving should
be allowed or that certain days of
the week should he specified, and
then parents could keep their chill
dren at home or see that they went
along properly protected. He
moved TO refer the bill to the Judi
ciary Committee.
Minister Gibson believed that the
bill was deserving of little more
consideration and esteem than the
house seemed to bestow upon it.
He remembered, when u candidate
for Legislative honors in 1882, adj
dressing meeting at Moanalua, and
hearing q great clamor and commo-
ton he found the cause to have
been the people rushing out of the
way of drove Of cattle, and if he
had been in the throng a member of
the Legislature or Minister might
have been summarily disposed of.
On enquiring what could be done
for them, the people said that some
thing should be done to prevent
cattle injuring them, and he must
confess that he had not since suf-
ficiently considered that request of
the people of Moanalua. The hon.
member for Honolulu had referred
TO the law forbidding cattle-driving
in Honolulu. A former Minister of
the Interior was gored by an animal,
and it really required the goring Of n
Minister to have the matter attended
to. 1t was common story in Eng
land that no reformation would take
place in railway carriages till a
bishop was burned up in one of the
locked compartments. This was a
matter that he really thought could
be amended by Il regulation. The
hon. member for Honolulu had sug-
gested regulation that might be
carried out. 1t might be possible
without law, by some regulation,
unless there was legislation on the
subject. There was no question
about the remark that had been
made that there was only one road,
so that animals must have wings if
they did not go that way. 1t might
also be said that people using the
road must have wings to avoid the
cattle. He thought the whole mat
ter could be arranged so that neither
the people of Moanalua, nor stock
raisers, butchers and consumers Of
meat would be injured. Notwith-
standing that it had been said that
an interested party was on the
Judiciary Committee, yet he thought
that hon. member would be willing
| to see that something was done satis-
factory to all parties.
Rep. Brown thought that if the
Minister of Foreign Affairs could
regulate the consumption of cattle
by the people of Honolulu, some
arrangement might be made for q
time to drive cattle. A man is
always sent ahead TO give notice tc
the people of Moanalua when 1
drove was coming. If the parents
would insist on keeping their chill
dren in the streets instead of in theil
yards or their houses, they must bt
content to take the risk of danger
There was road set apart for the
cattle of the hon. Noble referred to
Rep. Aholo recommended the bill
be referred to committee, or some
thing be done with il rather than
have it indefinitely postponed jus
then. A few days ago they hearC
good deal about listening to thu
voice of the people. Here was th'
voice of the people of Moanalu'
and they ought to listen to it. Th'
bill was brought in according to al
order of the house, and now it wa
proposed to indefinitely postpone it
1t might occasion work for thei
brains, but that was what they wer,
all there for. Perhaps they coult
make provision for helping the peo
pie some If not entirely. 1t nigh
be arranged that half an hour be
fore the cattle came along maj
might be sent ahead. He heard tina
/ that such a regulation was in fore
i'm Hamakua when cattle were heins
, driven. When he was in the Unite
States people on the cars were con
, tinually giving signals. His Excel
lency had said that away back i
1882 that was a pilikia with tn
r people out there, and it was abou
time they were given relief. Th
t judiciary Committee should go dow
4 there, and if they found it wa
better to have a railroad they woul