The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-07-24
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
FOrty.hnh Day.
SATURDAY, July 81.

| send, Camp0eu, WluemAnn ana WILCOX
Reps. Hustace. Kauhi, c. Brown, Homer
Wilcox and Nakaleks. Minutes read snd
confirmed.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Rep. F. Brown reported four bills
printed
Noble Robinson read 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 q liberal bounty on
every pound of coffee raised for export.
The bounty system has worked well 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. 2. Robinson, ].
| Wight, +. Gay, A. p. 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 report of the
same committee on the bill to amend Sec
.tion y, 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 I'd, on
the item in the Civil List, Household Ex-
penses, $4,000. After consulting with the
| Chamberlain, committee recommend the
item be inserted. Adopted.
NEW BILL.
Minister Green read, a first time, a 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 u and Is 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 conf
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 2Sth, the House
shall meet for business at 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 ques-
tons of Rep. F. Brown, relating to Road
Boards:
The various Road Boards have not as
yet got fairly into the traces, and in a
number OF districts there has been little or
no available money, so that it is too soon
to give 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 a 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.
Two OF the Boards, VIZ: for HAWAIIAN
and Hanalei Kauai, have had no money TO
work with, the funds having been previ lus-
ly exhausted. A number of the other dis
tricts have had but small amounts to do
anything 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
Boards, the roads in Hilo and North Hilo
have been placed in far better order than
they ever were in the years OF work done
before
The trail running through the district
has also been converted into a road over
which carriage can be driven from HIlo
to Papaikou, and the work is being con-
tinued through the district. A stone
crusher and road roller are following along
the road, macadamizIng the surface, so
that macadamized road through Hilo is
not only possibility but Is in actual pro-
cess Of realization.
The new order of things has, however,
accomplished as much, if not more, In
North Hilo, which has for years borne the
reputation OF possessing the worst road in
the Kingdom.
A large number of stone crossings,
bridges and culYerts have been put in. and
the grades of crossings at the steep gulches
changed to an angle that will allow of travel
and care of the road.
North Kohala has also greatly benefited
by the change. A road has been con-
struGted beyond Multi. over which a brake
can be driven, where nothing but dilapi-
dated trail existed before.
The districts in which plantations are
situated are better and more economically
served than others, as the planters are
willing to allow the use of their laborers at
cost price, while in the sparsely settled
districts it is more difficult to get suitable
men to serve on the Boards and labor is
scarce and high
1t is impossible to inaugurate new sys-
TEN, acting through large number OF
men, without there being some bitches and
flaws at the outset. But the beginning is
full of encouragement. By the next meet
ing of the Legislature the system will have
so far developed its good and bad points
that the changes, if any, which are neces-
sary, can Their be made with better effect
than can now be done
The same Minister also answered the
question Of Rep. F. Brown, 18th inst, re-
lative to amounts, estimates and appro-
priations of road moneys The statement
was ordered to be printed.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The following bills were read, a second
time, by title, and referred to the commit. |
tees named and otherwise disposed of:
Internal taXes-Finance Committee