The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-07-23
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
Forty fifth Day.
SATURDAY, July 81.

sent: Ministers Green and Austin, Mobiles
Wilder, Dowsett, Young, Jaeger, Town
send, Campbell, Widemann and Wilcox,
Reps. Hustace, Kauhi, c. Brown, Horner,
Wilcox and Nakaleka Minutes read and
confirmed.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Rep F Brown reported four bills
printed.
Noble Robinson read a majority report
of the Committee on Commerce on the
bill relating to the cultivation of coffee.
Committee do not approve of the Gov
eminent entering into the arrangement
proposed in the bill. They think that the
encouragement and revival of this slumber-
ing industry will be best achieved by the
Government giving liberal bounty on
every pound of coffee raised for export.
The bounty system has worked we'll in
France and Germany, and was the means
of keeping alive the beet sugar industry,
so that it has become one of the greatest
industries of those countries.
The report is signed NJ. z. Robinson, ].
Wight, f. Gay, A. 2. Kalaukoa.
Laid on the table to be considered with
the minority report.
Noble Hitchcock read the report of the
committee on the bill to better prevent the
illicit traffic in spirituous liquors, recon-
mending that the bill pass. Laid on the
table to be considered with the bill.
The same Noble read a report of the
same committee on the bill to amend Sec
ton II, chapter Xiv. of the Laws of 1882,
relating to the sale of ales, wines, spirits
and cOrdialS. Committee submit a new
bill embodying the provisions of the one
reported on, and also extending the same.
Noble Smith presented the report of the
special committee appointed July ID, on
the item in the Civil List, Household Ex-
penses, $4,000. After consulting with the
Cham berlaIn, committee recommend the
item be inserted. Adopted
NEW BILL.
Minister Green read, a first time, bill
relating to Tax Assessors and Collectors,
and the assessment and collection of taxes.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
A special committee, consisting of the
Minister of Interior, Noble Dole, Reps.
Paris, PaehaOle and Helekunihi, was APP
pointed on Sections 12and Ii of the Pounds
and EStrays bill.
RESOLUTION.
Noble Hitchcock read the following:
Whereas, There is at the present time a
large amount of business in the hands of
special committees, and it is necessary for
the despatch of business, that such COM
mittees should have time for making their
reports on the business committed to them
Therefore, be it
Resolved That during the next week,
commencing with Monday, the 23d, and
ending with Saturday, the 28th, the House
shall meet for business at L p. m. each day.
And that every special committee be di-
reCted to report to this House on the busl-
ness committed to them during the coming
week. Adopted.
MINISTER'S ANSWERS
Minister ThurstOn answered the uues-
tiOns of Rep. f. Brown, relating to Road
Boards:
The various Road Boards have not as
yet got fairly into the traces and in
number of districts there has been little or
no available money, so that it is too soon
to give a final opinion on the working of
the new law.
Numerous errors have occurred in the
details OF making accounts and reports,
but in almost every instance they are
caused by want of experience in those
who have accepted this labor tor the pub
lie good, and are of nature that will soon
correct themselves.
Instructions have been issued to the
various Boards which, it is expected, will
systematic the returns from all the dis
tricts. So far, complaints have been re-
Ceived by the Department against the
Boards of but two districts, and these COM
plants are being properly investigated.
and Hanalei, Kauai, have had no money to
work with the funds having been previ Ius- |
ly exhausted. number of the other dis |
tricts have had but small amounts to do |
with, coming into operation, as |
they did, near the end of the biennial |
period.
The great majority of the Boards have |
taken hold Of the work with genuine en- |
thusiasm. During the brief period of five |
months since the appointment OF the |
Dr. {Lor r1,i
have been placed in far better order than
hey ever were in the years of work done
before.
The trail running through the district
has also been converted into road over
which a carriage can be driven from H1lo
inued through the district. A stone
,rusher and road roller are following along |
he road, macadamizlng the surface, so
hat a macadamiZed road through Hilo is
lot only a possibility but IS in actual pro-
ess Of realization.
The new order of things has, however,
accomplished as much, if not more, IN |
North HilO, which has for years borne the
equation OF possessing the worst road in
he Kingdom.
A large number of stone crossings.
ridges and culverts have been put in, and
he grades of crossings at the steep gulches |
hanged to an angle that will allow of travel
nd care OF the road.
North hOhala has also greatly benefited |
Y the change. A road has been con-
truCted beyond Multi, over which brake
an be driven, where nothing but dilapi-
ated trail existed before.
The districts in which plantations are
tuated are better and more economically
arved than others, as the planters are
filing to allow the use of their laborers at
Ost price, while in the sparsely settled
istricts it is more difficult to get suitable
len to serve on the Boards and labor is
;arce and high.
1t is impossible to inaugurate a new sys-
I'm, acting through a large number of
len, without there being some bitches and
avs at the outset But the beginning is
Ill of encouragement. BY the next meet
lg of the Legislature the system will have
far developed its good and bad points
lat the changes, if any, which are neces-