The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-09-16

read.
| Noble Widemann moved the item IS,
be inserted. Carried.
Rep. kapaehaole moved insertion o
5000 to dig artesian we'll in Molokai.
| Noble j. Nj. Horner favored well
He did not know what was the righ
place.
Rep. Kapaehaole said there were about
thirty acres at Kamalo where natives
were planting cane. They had decided q
piece of land to the Government there
and on this land they wanted the Gov.
eminent to dig well. There was good
deal OF land at kamalo which would be
cultivated if there were water.
Rep. Brown did not approve OF the
government doing this. The parties
who would get the benefit of the water
ought to sink the we'll themselves. All
the wells on Oahu were dug by private
persons. There was plenty OF water
there for washing and drinking purposes.
Ii there is any large landowner there
who wants water on his land, let him
dig we'll himself. Water has been OBJ
tanned on Maui. and at Mahukona, Ha-
| wall, but the wells were sunk by private
individuals.
Rep. Kapaehaole said the rule laid
/ down by the hon. member was very well
if it were consistently applied. $4,000
had Just been passed for immigration /;
who would get the benefit of that? The
planters. If it was wrong to help the
planters to water, it was to help them to
immigrants. Why did the hon. member
vote large subsidy to the Oahu r. r.
Il l.. Co.? The speaker saw himself no
harm in the government sinking well.
Ii 1t was success, private parties would
dig others. and the government would
reap large return in increased taxes.
Noble Widemann would like to ask the
member from Molokai question or two.
Where was the well to be dug? rep.
Kapaehaole-On piece of land at Ka-
malo.) The same place as the former
we'll? That was something for the Min
lister to decide.l There was no reason
why work on the old we'll should have
been dropped merely because there was
stone in the way. Under the circum-
stances, the people themselves ought to
do something. At Kahuku and Honou-
iii they always get flowing water. He
had bored a dozen wells himself, and
never got any flowing water yet. He
was willing to vote for small appropri-
alton to help them go down moderate
distance.
Noble Pua said Rep. Brown did not
believe in helping these people to dig
well. Yet few days ago the House
passed $4,000 to help coffee growing.
He would favor paying for the well if
water was struck, otherwise nothing.
Noble Cornwell would favor the well
If there was any government land there
to be benefited by the we'll, otherwise
not.
Noble Isenberg moved it be $500,
with which an experiment could be
made.
The motion to pass at s, 900 was lost.
Rep kapaehaole moved $1,000.
Noble Isenberg withdrew his motion.
Passed at 5000.
Noble Pua moved to insert $S4S.25,
claim OF Wong Chong Sam for road work.
The committee report was read, recon-
mending that part OF the claim should
be read.
Minister Brown moved the item be
struck out. The road had been built by
a Chinaman to his rice mill, where it
stopped Next year he would want the
government to build him a new mill.
He thought it was an outrage.
Noble Pua said the idea was to extend
it to the road leading to tine Insane
Asylum.
Rep. r. W Wilcox favored the item,
and Numbered little against the Min
listers.
Noble Widemann asked over whose
land the road was built
Rep. Brown said there was formerly a
path there. This Chinaman got some
land up there, and in order to be able to
cart his rice down, purely for his own
convenience and profit, he built this
road. He did not take his neighbors into
consideration. Ii anyone who builds
road for his own convenience can come
into the House and get paid for it, We
shall have everybody in the country
building roads and coming here to get
paid. If it were proposed to deed all the
land over which this read runs to the
government, and put the road under con-
troll of the Minister, it would be differ
ent thing. The report OF the committee
tells US to guess at the amount to be
given. favor giving nothing at all.
Noble Widemann said twenty-eight
years ago he lived at Kalaepahaku, where
the Insane Asylum Is. L used to come
to the town through the taro patches.
did not like the road, and sold out and
came to town. l didn't go again until
went for the Legislature, think, and l
went in a carriage.
Rep. Cummings was acquainted with
Achi's land He built the road over his
own land, at his own expense. The
Chinaman has merely added to this road.
If we pay the Chinaman We shall have
claim from Charlie Achi. This is merely
a resolution OF Noble Pua's. There is no
petition. 1t does not look right.
Noble Pua was stirred to great elo-
quence by the false notions OF Rep. Cum
mings, but his remarks were not trans
lated.
Noble J. II. Homer began to be ex-
cited. He saw money in it. He had
had built a long piece OF road on the
plantation. 1t cost 5000. There were
three or four miles Of it, and everybody
travelled over it because it was better
than the Government He should put
this at 600 and get the Government
to buy it. Just the thought OF it made
his pocket feel heavy. He had built
about twenty miles in California long
time ago. Would that come in? 1t
b;n, that elaine ltya fb.c