The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-07-22

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/ members must he aware that in ali par
e liamentary laws motion 10 lay upon tn
[ table IS not debatable
Mr.. AuoIo agreed with the Presiien
that the motion ought not 70 be discussed
But the trouble is the President will ALLOW
the discussion 10 90 on.
The President admitted he was 10 blame
Mr.. Aholo said that as the President haC
allowed Others 10 speak on this motion
he hoped he might be allowed 70 say few
words. With regard 10 DR.. kuehn o.
Lahaina, short time ago i boy fell from
q tree and the natives pronounced him
dead. DR.. kuehn told them he was al
right and would come to in 4 few minutes
and would not give him any medicine
This caused Il great deal OF Indignation.
The boy was carried home and put on 4
bed and kahuna sent for. but before he
arrived the boy got up. After that the
natives looked upon DR.. Kuehn As very
skillful doctor and one that could cure
without medicine He thought the re
marks made by Mr.. KauIukou against this
/ doctor were uncalled for.
The motion to lay the report upon the
/ table was carried.
THAT SALE OF LEASE OF LAND AGAIN.
Mr. Thurston presented Il resolution
/ that the Minister of the Interior be re
/ quested to discontinue the sale of a lease
/ Of land district of Hilo Hawaii, adver-
tised to take place on Thursday AT noon,
in front of Aliolani Hale.
The honorable member, in support of the
resolution, said his reason for it was that
he wanted to put a stop to the practice OF
letting out Government lands on long
lease. The land ought To be retained for
the purposes of the Homestead Act. From
the answer made by the Minister of the
Interior the other day, and outside infor-
nation, he judged that TheO. II. Davies Il
Co. considered they had an equitable
claim on the land, and should be allowed
to bid it in, but, as he regarded it, that
firm had taken an ordinary business risk |
with its mortgage, and the Government
should not lock up valuable land suitable /
for settlement under twenty years lease.
Mr. Kaulukou thought the resolution |
was not presented i'll proper form, as it |
said nothing about the land in question |
being divided up for settlers.
Mr.. Kauhane said he objected TO the |
resolution, as he did not think there were
any Hawaiians who wanted to settle on
this land.
Mr.. Castle thought Mr.. Kauhane was at
sea. as the Homestead Law was not in
tended for owners of land who merely
wished 20 change their homes. Several
petitions had come in from people asking
that Government lands adjoining their
lots he sold them. Then there were large
numbers of Portuguese with money ready
to buy land. There could be no doubt that
it would be better for the country 10 have
the public land taken up by settlers, than by
those who wanted them for large cattle
runs and plantations. He knew, more
over, that many native Hawaiians desired
to secure OF suitable land on which to set
tie. If the Minister of the Interior an
nOunced that the land would be portiOned
out for settlement, there would undOubt
eddy be applications for it. The Govern
ment would benefit greatly from having
available lands settled, in the additional
taxes that would be received from settlers.
He held that it was competent for the
Government under the law to stop the sale
of this lease, as the Homestead Act re
pealed all previous laws that might con
flct with it.
Mr.. Kaulukou moved As an amendment
to the resolution, that the said land be
divided up into homesteads according to
the provisions OF an Act passed in 1884
His Excellency Mr.. Dare said he in
dorsed the highly sounding sentiments
uttered by Mr.. Thurston and the sup
porters of the resolution. He would sup
port it himself if there was any law on the
statute books that public lands should, on
the expiration of leases, revert to the Gov
eminent. But there was no such measure
in existence, and this resolution referred
to only one particular piece of land. That
had been under lease from the
but owing to a breach of the
the Attorney General and the
Minister of Interior had decided to re-enter
On the land, and, so as to settle rights
grown up with the lease, offer the latter
or sale at public auction al a certain time
and Il certain upset price.
Mr.. Dickey asked if there would be a
lew lease.
His Excellency Mr.. Dare said Yes,
here would be a new lease. \ protest
against the sale was filed by a lawyer,
member of this House. Finding he had
10 legal grounds, and the Minister of the
Interior and the Attorney General were
light, he waited until the eleventh hour
md then brought in this resolution to ask
he House to stop this sale. This Assem-
,ly may enact law so that hereafter land
nay be saved for settlers but in the alb
ence of that law, nothing could be done.
t must be clear to the members of this
Assembly that the wants of the actual set .
Ter had not 50 rested on the minds of ;
hese gentlemen to prevent their not get
ing any sleep. The Minister of the Int
Tor having proceeded according to law and
dvertised the sale of the leases it ought to
o on. If the Assembly adopts the resoIu-
ion, it will simply be an expression of
pinion that this land should be reserved r
or settlers. These gentlemen ought to
ave attended to this tract of land at an i
arlier date. {
Mr.. Thurston said he was certainly sur
rised at the action of the Attorney Gen
raj. The latter had insinuated that he t
the speaker, rs an attorney, had brought t
4 this resolution for Mr.. Dole. Y
His Excellency Mr. Dare said that Mr.. \
)ole entered the protest, and Mr., Thurs
on brought in the resolution for him.