The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-08-06
The LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,
Forty-seventh Day.


by the Chaplain. Minutes read and
approved.
Rep. Kalua for the Judiciary Com
mittee reported that the bill introduced
by Rep. Lucas raising the legal rate of
boat hire will not result in any hard
ship to the public and recommend its
passage.
The report was adopted and Friday
was fixed for the third reading.
Noble j. NJ. Homer reported for COM
mittee appointed on resolution inquiring
into the use of public revenue in Homo
lulu for the protection of private prop
erty in which the public has no interest.
The report OF the committee is prelimin-
airy merely and deals only with the
market, water works and electric light.
The committee find that these three par
ticular branches of expenditure are more
or less remunerative, and promise to
yield the Government an income which
will furnish the Government a good re-
turn on its capital, over and above the
annual expenditure and recommend that
the appropriation asked for be made.
Noble Baldwin-The report was pre-
sented to me yesterday. agreed with
all the recommendations except that
with regard to the electric lights. l
think the committee ought not to make
any recommendation in regard to that
without looking into it more carefully.
The committee ought to 60 up Nuuanu
Valley and look into the question of
water supply. was going to propose
going up there this afternoon, That is
the only reason why have not signed
| the report. The Government is asking
| for 1921 900 for water works and 81, 600
for the electric lights. The amounts are
certainly large and this is something
| which requires careful investigation.
Noble j. NJ Horner stated that if the
committee got any further light, it could
report again on these same points
| There was really no great difference Of
opinion between the hon. Noble and the
rest of the committee.
| The report was laid on the table to be
considered with the Appropriation Bill
| Minister Brown for Minister Spencer
answers the question of Rep. Kahookanc
as follows: The Government have nc
records showing any Indebtedness OF
any road board to any parties whatever
Rep. Richard for the Special Commit
tee on the bill extending the time fol
the completion of the inter-island cable
presented the following report:
To the Hon. J. s. Walker, President o
the Legislative Assembly, 1890.
SIR :-Your committee to whom was
referred Bill No 3S, to extend the time
for the completion and equipment of thu
Inter-Island Submarine Telegraph Gable
to July 81, 1892, beg to report that it ha
taken the subject of this bill into careful
consideration, and has held several in
vestigating meetings, at some of which
meetings, Mr.. J. Sherman Bartholomew
fthe gentleman named in the aforesai,
billy was present by request of your com
mittee
Your committee have examined sun
dry charts showing ocean soundings
nature and character of sea beds, etc
in the proposed line of cable to be lai'
between, and connecting the islands G
Molokai, Maui, Hawaii and Kauai witt
Oahu.
Your committee have examined sam
pies of cables and telegraph instrument
such as are used in other importan
business parts of the world and which
have been in active and continual US
for great number of years doing com
plete service and giving thorough salts
faction.
Your committee are informed that tn
said j. Sherman Bartholomew has a
ready spent a sum approximating $50, 90
in cables, and sundry material, labor
ETC., etc., in laying the same. The sal
J. Sherman Bartholomew acknowledge
that the cable, etc., now laid by him
not what is really required for thes
waters, that he has found by expensiv
experience the natural resistances {
currents, ETC., greater than he at frs
anticipated. He now states that if a
extension of time is granted him, he
prepared to and will provide, lay an
construct an Inter-Island Submarin
Electric Telegraph Gable with instru
ments complete, such as are being use
in other business parts of the world
which he is positive will answer ii
requirements. stand the wear and strain
of the seas, and give full satisfaction
the Hawaiian government.
He is prepared to supply simila
cable to that now in use between Hal
fax and Trinity Bay, Ireland, a distanc
of about eleven hundred miles, or
similar steel wire cable to that known a
the Shore-end Torpedo Cable used in tn
! New York Bay and on the United State
coast defenses, the latter, if preferred,
be served with a proper protective ser'
ing before laying in place, and sha
possess copper conductor OF the siz'
, quality and strength contained in til
; first cable herein above named, sample
,. of both of which cables accompany tn
report. He is also prepared to suppl
; instruments known as the Morse tell
: graph instruments, adopted by the II
ternational Congress at Paris in 1877, IAN
have been in use ever since.
: He further agrees to complete what
] known as " Section LIST, - " that is frol
I Oahu to Waikiki, Maui" within eigl
months, and " Section g." that is frol
] Oahu, via Molokai and Maui, to Hawai-
/. within twelve months from and after tt
G passage of the aforesaid bill, grantir
6 him the desired extension OF time, an
further agrees to have the esd Section
8 which is from Oahu to Kauai, complete
, | within the time specified in the said bil
He further agrees that in case of fai
\ ure on his part to complete "Se
= tons one and two," that is to say, col
!. Meeting Hawaii with Oahu, via Maui ar
. Molokai, within the time above pr
scribed, that this agreement shall b
E come null and void; and, further, tn
J the Hawaiian Government shall becon
possessed of all cables, instruments ar
; telegraph material that the said j. She
D man Bartholomew shall have in,
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