The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-09-18
THE LEGISLATURE.
EIGHTlETH DAY.
WEDNESDAY, Sept IA.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Committee of the whole resumed
at LAO, Rep. Baker taking the
chair,
Rep. Nawahi was in favor in pass
inc the item, but the amount Dor
rowed wasSlS, 900 instead of Sl3,-
600, the latter having been spent
before the investigation of the CON.
mittcc. That item should therefore
pass at SIS, 900. If the Government
would take over Peter Lees road on
the other side, one could drive in n
carriage from IIilo to Waiohinu.
This would be great public bene-
fit. He believed in pushing the
road to completion.
Rep. Lucas was not in favor Of
voting five-cent piece for finishing
the road from Hilo to the Volcano.
But he did believe in appropria-
ting sufficient to repay those firms
who had advanced money 10 the
late Minister, the big headed man,
to extend the work. He would vote
the money TO these Ministers To re-
pay that loan, because there was no
more ~ am with the present Min
istry, but it was now, 1--WE are"
Therefore he proposed to stand by
these Ministers. (Applause.) The
Volcano road was of no earthly good
to anybody but the relations of the
ex-Minister with the big head. The
road was not any more needed than
a road from heaven to--well, he
was going TO say something bad, but
he wouldn't. 1t has cost over Si0,-
900 so. far, and $4,000 more was
wanted to complete it, for which he
did not believe it could be done. He
would not vote one dollar--not one
bean--for finishing the road. This
Appropriation Bill was not got up
by the present Ministry. They took
it, not because they like it, but be-
cause it was handy. daughter. }
Every now and then the Minister of
Finance, or the Minister of the In
terror would get up and say some
thing should be changed. We are
on top now, we weren't then.
(Laughter.) Some of the members
did not like to hear these things, but
they were facts all the same.
There's Noble Cornwell going out
with his hands down. He doesn't
like it, because, l suppose, he is
another of Mr.. Thurston's pets.
He would move that $4,000 be ap-
proprated for paying those gentle
men the money advanced.
Rep. Waipuilani moved that the
item pass at sos, 900, to be divided
as follows: Completion of Volcano
road, $50, 800; Wilder Steamship
Co., $500; w. G. Irwin & Co.,
$500; Castle & Cooke, $2500 !;
Robinson & Dillingham;, $1,000.
Rep. Richard did not favor voting
any more than the amount in the
bill. The road need not be so wide
the rest of the way as the part al
ready built. 1t was not great pub
lie necessity, like road to connect
Kohala and Hamakua.
Rep. Paehaole said DO one would
deny that the road would be great
public benefit, increasing the value
of taxable property. He doubted
if the amount proposed would be
enough, and $4,000 should be
voted for the road exclusive OF the
loan.
Noble Muller said the money
would have to come out of the
Postal Savings Bank. The SIS, 200
should not be inserted IN this sec,
ton, as there was to be no return
expected from it. This Volcano
road could not be considered re
productive work like the proposed
water-works in different places, an(
its cost should therefore not COM
out of loan funds.
Noble j. NJ. Horner said thi
Legislature certainly should not b.
classed as old fogy. 1t has shown
itself to be in favor Of developin,
the country. He had rejoiced wheI
he saw the countenance of the Hous
change with regard to the railwa,
bill. They could incur this respon
sibility and take the risk of bein,
able to repay the loan some day
There were the finest coffee lands Ii
had ever seen along the line of thi
road, and in his minds eye he al
ready saw the most beautiful coffe
thriving on each side. Lots O
excellent land existed on every sid
of the Volcano, which the road woul
open up. Let them keep on deveI
opin2 the country. Vote this $50,
600 to the Government, as they sal
they could do the work cheaper tina
their predecessors. They ought t
do so, as they had Peter Lee q
their back, who had been ready t
build the whole road for $50, 900.
Rep, White did not believe j
voting an excessive appropriation
The first part of the road was O
course the most expensive, and tn
rest would not cost so much in pre-
, portion to length. If they vote
more than was needed, il would re
suit the same as when pigs wer
given too much feed-they waste,
the surplus. However large q SUI
they voted thpV might dpnpnd n