The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-08-28
THE LEGISLATURB.
SIXTY SIXTH DAY.
THURSDAY, Aug. 2S.
The House met at 10 O'Clock.

Rep. Kalua promised the report !
of the select committee on Sister |
Rose Gcrtrudc's charges TO morrow |
or next day.
REsOLUTToNS.
Rep. Richard read a first time by
titles three bills, to relieve certain
articles from customs duties, to
amend the tax law, and to amend
the compulsory school age lNw.
Rep. Kaiua read first Liinc by
title bill 10 settle titles of The Mrs.
Bishop estate.
Rep. Paehaole read FIRST time
by title a bill TO amend the tax law.
Read q second time ny title and le-
ferrcd to comlaittee un that subject.
Noble Muller, ON suspension of
the rules, presented petition from
Robert Nlole x CO., for S403.36 for
work done on the Palace walls.
Referred to select committee on
Bowler claims.
Rep. Waipuilani read a first time
by title his bill to encourage the
cultivation OF coffee.
Minister Peterson read first
time his bitl to amend the law reiat
ing to pounds and estrays.
Minister Peterson also read a first
time by title his bill to amend the
Act 10 mitigate, etc.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Consideration of the Oahu Rail
way Bill on second reading.
The President stated the motions
pending.
Noble Muller questioned the At
torney-Gcneral relative to the sub
sidy, and, on receiving his reply,
said that if the bill provided for two
! subsidies il was outrageous to bring
such bill before the House, and
he would support the motion to in
definitely postpone it.
Noble Burchardt moved TO amend
the third section by making the
subsidy "four" hundred dollars n
mile year instead Of ''fve" for
the term of five years.
Rep. Kalua asked leave 10 with
draw his motion to indefinitely post
ponc the bill.
Rep. Brown held that the pay
-ment of the subsidy under the old
law was matter of discretion with
the Minister of the Interior, but TO
remove all doubt section I could be
amended to exclude that subsidy.
Noble Macfarlane objected to the
hon. member discussing another
section than that before the House.
Rep. Brown claimed he had {
right to answer an argument used
by Noble Muller for the indefinite
postponement of the bill.
Noble Macfarlane, on getting
Rep. Browns opinion further
moved an amendment, making tn
subsidy of four hundred dollars, az
proposed by Noble Burchardt, pay
able for track thereafter" con
structed under "this Act" instead
of under ''its charter
Noble Phillips moved to amen'
the sections by inserting the word
"two thousand dollars for each mil
completed and accepted by tn
Minister of the Interior, and there
, after" between the words, "sha'
: pay subsidy" and the words, 60
: five hundred dollars each year,
etc. He could not understand til
+ attitude of some members, VIII
were heaping fractional amendment
! on the bill. (After an interruptio
from Noble Hind the speaker cor
/. tinued.) A great deal had bee
said by members who knew little {
the subject about the building {
Z Pacific railway lines in America an
!, the jobbery, etc., Herewith cor
a nccted. Those railways were helI
ed not out of favor to their promo
ters but as matters of great nations
policy. The Dominion of Canad
had pledged its credits to tt
amount of two hundred millions fC
the construction of it's transcontiI
entail line. And what did they Sc
all through the States? Cities on
l. towns paying heavy subsidies in
j. to get railways to pass through then
n There were members from the 9th
: islands assuring the House that IL
/ Oahu railway would never pay, b'
the hon. member for the first di
i tricts feels positive that it woul
:. pay from the very inception. Who
= were they to believe, those outside
3. who know nothing about the ma
J. ter, or the hon. member who know
s. every foot of the island? 1t hi
l. been urged that they should wa
for the result of United Stat
tariff legislation, but that was Il
very reason why the railway shou
be pushed forward. 1t was the We
" thing to save the country from b
he ing put into hole.
s. Noble Hind-Not at the dictate
ID of three men.
~ Noble Phillips did not care he
ST. few the promoters were, so long
IS they presented facts and figures til
c. could not be gainsaid. Returni
y to the tariff matter, he believed til
ST the day the United States took I
duty off sugar, that very day won
a. be-the dawn of an era of the gre
70 est prosperity ever known in
Oh Hawaiian Islands. The pcol
70 would begin looking about them a
ne for the first time realize the extt