The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-09-26
Afternoon Session.

Afternoon Session.
The House re-assembled at 40.
Rep. Nawahi continued, answering the
arguments of Rep. Lucas. The more
steamers We have the better off we are.
Steamers make business. Ii this bill
passes we shall have large towns where
we now have small ones. A great deal
of land will be planted in bananas and
other fruit which is now not planted at
all. l therefore ask the members of this
House to be fair If $4s, 900 is too much,
give us something. / therefore move the
bill pass.
Rep. Lucas saw no need of having this
bill engrossed. A year ago, San Diego
was expected to be the New York of the
Pacific. Now it was little better than
Hilo itself. You might as we'll subsidize
a line from San Francisco to Waialua.
You can almost throw stone from San
Francisco to San Diego. This line will
not encourage tourists any. They would
Just as lief come from San Francisco.
This steamer will bring down cargo of
hay and sell it at auction ON the wharf.
This hurts our own dealers who pay a
license besides. rep. Nawahi asked if
the auctioneers did not have to pay for a
license.) The people of Hilo if they get
their hands on anything they want it ALL
Noble Widemann-The member from
Hilo wants us to help Hilo. We have
given them a road and wharf. That
ought to satisfy Hilo for one time. l
would like to ask whether if when it
rains in Hilo it does not rain only water
1 have never heard that it rains gold
pieces. We have loaded the people with
appropriations pretty heavily already. l
am afraid they can't stand any more.
It's the last straw that breaks the
camels back. will not speak of the
whole vessel isn't worth the subsidy
they ask for. She is like the Ark of
Noah-it takes her six months to make
the trip. Hilo hasn't the business for
the line. She lands hundred bales at
Hilo, and then comes and dumps the
rest of her cargo on the wharf here.
What is done with it don't know. /
am told the hay wasn't good. The
whole cargo was worth $4,000. Surely
that wasn't worth $1,000 to bring down.
Noble j M. Horner was surprised at
the feeling of some members when any
thing was asked for outside of Honolulu
There is no need of being jealous OF
Hilo. No matter how many big towns
are built up, they will all pay tribute to
Honolulu. Help along, gentleman.
Don't stand in the way. l pity an indi.
vidual who has a mind which can see
nothing which doesn't relate to himself
Noble Mechanically, bully.) This
particular wording is intended for the
representative over there, but if il
touches the noble, all right. l am quite
convinced Showing the diagram on
Whitney's GUIDE Book that some now
living will see steamers running on all
those lines. To-day We are asked to
establish another permanent line. Shan't
we do something? Shan't we 90 ahead
This line will reach a new port, and they
ask little subsidy to start it. When a
line is profitable, they shouldn't ask our
assistance any longer. We still keep up
our subsidy to the Oceanic S. S. Co.,
although it pays, and they haven't asked
any. 1t is said this will make hay
cheaper. That's what 1 want. want
the hay and bricks and lime and lumber
cheaper. We are already shaking in our
boots, some of us, for fear the tariff will
be taken off OF sugar. We will have to
come down to cheap things then, make
cents where we make dollars now. This
steamer will not benefit Hilo only. The
steamer comes here too. Everything
paws tribute to Honolulu. San Diego is
a growing place. There are, under.
stand, 10000 people there who want to
get their fruits and other products down
here. Hilo is the grand center Of fruit
in these islands. A dozen punches o
bananas rot there for one that is eaten
Ii natives could use their kuleanas te
raise bananas and sell them, as people
can in Honolulu, it would be great boon
to them. They will be put ON the steamer
and supply the 10000 people whose
business centers in San Diego. Noble
Widemann--Ten minutes, Mr.. Presi
dent) | won't bother much longer
They raise at San Diego what we want
barley and hay That comes around by
San Francisco now, and pays toll all the
way. This line will open market fol
our tropical fruits, which now 60 to
waste or aren't raised at all. The Volcano
Road of which the gentlemen has spoken
is as much for the benefit of Honolulu as
Hilo.
Minister Brown-It is admitted thai
the establishment of steamer lines is g
benefit, but it is possible to pay too much
for good thing. This subsidy with the
others will make about a twentieth o
our entire income. | maintain we cannot
possibly afford that. We must cut oul
coat according to our cloth. | have beer
in San Diego good many times, but i
it is at all like what these gentleman de
scribe, l should not know it again
Noble J. NJ. Horner-When were yor
there last?) Well, its six years ago
| Noble Horner-That's what thought.
| Noble Widemann-When was the hon
noble there?) Minister Brown-Las
century.
Minister Brown, continuing, did no
understand how the gentlemen who
| strained at the gnat OF the steamship
subsidy could swallow this camel. Thi;
bill would merely subsidize an opposition
line to the o. S. S. Co. As representa-!
| the treasury, he could say it was not in
| condition to stand 1t.
Noble Baldwin wished to thank Noble
Homer for explaining the diagram OF
| the cover of the GUIDE Book. They art
| for steam lines, it appears, and there arr
no less than twenty-five OF them. If WI
are to have all these steam lines, we haa
better all go out and buy corner lots. III,
came from an island which according t.
the prospectus was to be benefited b,
| this line This company propose to rul
a steamer around Maui to take produc