The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-09-17

agree with Rep. kanealil that the
work need not he completed within
the period. AS unCompleted it
would not serve the purposes for
which it was designed. he thought
that the work should be pushed 10
completion as rapidly as possible
The present Minister of the interior
did not purpose continuing the work
On the costly lines pursued ny his
predecessor md therefore he was
willing TO vote for the SOC, ISLES
estimated to complete the road.
With regard TO the motion of the
hon. member from Hamakua, there
was no question that the pictures
queness of the route was one of its
chief advantages. by all means let
the item 90 10 select committee If
that was the best way to arrive at
measures for preventing the destruc-
ton of forests along the route. The
speaker referred to the Sl3, 900 debt
and the prison labor, and said that
the road could not have been so
magnilicGntly built, as was claimed
in defense of the great expenditure,
when persons were in danger OF los
ing their lives on it by drowning.
The msn lately reported to have met
with a miaadyenture there had vol
unteered the statement to him that
he was plunged into water fourteen
feet deep.
Rep. Brown explained the terms
of the appropriation of 1888. There
was no use in referring the items to
another committee. If he owned
property along the road they could
not stop him cutting down the Tor
est, as there was no forestry law in
this kingdom. After leaving the
present end Of the road, anyway,
there was no forest until you got
within few miles of the Volcano.
Those who advanced the Sl3, 200
were not entitled to interest accord
ing to the agreement. That tran
saction had been condemned and
the late Ministry ccnsured for
it, which should be enough, and
these people ought to be paid. He
moved the item pass at $50, 900 as
in the bill, which he believed was
enough to finish the road.
Noble Burchardt thought some
thing could be done to prevent the
destruction of the forests. If the
landowner was destroying the trees
along the road, it was against The
sentiment of the people of HiIo.
Minister Spencer supported the
item as in the bill, but would move
that the Minister of the Interior be
instructed to take steps to prevent
the destruction of trees along the
route. This he believed could be
effected, as the land was Crown
land.
Noble Baldwin discussed the
different estimates of the cost
of completing the road. AS L
the floods reported, it must be re
membered that the season had beer
extraordinary. Floods were report
ed all over the country, and it wa
not surprising that they should have
seriously effected new road. HI
would not have borrowed that money
when the appropriation became ex
hausted, but the committee useC
language too strong when they call
ed it pledging of the country
credit. The speaker offered an ex
PLANTATION of the expensiveness o
the road in the difficulties encoun
tered in the matter of crushing thu
stone. He would be glad if it conlc
, be completed more economically
although he did not know whethe
, that was to be done by making
poorer class of road or by the con
tract system.
Noble Muller said great deal o
money had been spent on this road
of which the only benefit so far wa
to open uplands of Mr.. Thurston'
brother-in-law, Mr.. Shipman, and
, tract of Crown land.
A three cornered conversation a
to the ownership of the land was in
, terrupted by a motion for recess.
! Recess from II to 80.
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HOUSE AND LOBBY.