The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-09-26
THE LEGISLATURE.
EIGHTY-SIXTH DAY.
THURSDAY, Sept. 25.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
, House resumed at lao.


The House resumed at $40.
Rep. Nawahi continued his re-
marks on the San Diego-Hilo steam
ship subsidy. One Of the strongest
arguments OF the hon. member for
Honolulu was that the new line
would make horse feed cheap. This
he regarded as rather an argument
in favor of the subsidy. The steam
ship business here began on a small
scale some years ago, and its growth
has been marked by large increase
in general business. The hon. men,
Der was afraid the line would have
no freight. The railroads and new
enterprises going on would make
abundance of freight. A while ago
people here considered they were in
full dress with the malo, but with
the march Of progress natives were
now going about in plug hats and
broadcloth suits. There are large
areas of land on Hawaii suitable for
bananas, but it was no use raising
the fruit while there were only sail
ing vessels to carry 1t to market.
He asked the members to give the
country districts q show. Ii S4S,-
! 900 was too much vote $50, 900,
which would be $1,000 month for
the rest of the period. 1t was not
the intention to continue the small
steamer Farallon, for the bill said it
was to he steamers of 1900 tons.
The better climate of San Diego as
compared with San Francisco would
| he an incentive 10 tourist travel
Rep. Cummings interrupted the
! speaker to ask for leave Of absence,
as he had trouble in his family.
Granted.
Rep. Lucas said that year ago
San Diego was expected to be the
New York of the Pacific Coast, but
day it was very little better than
Iiilo. The idea Of substituting such
place was ridiculous, you might as
well talk of running a line from
Waialua to San Francisco. You
could almost throw stone from
San Francisco to San Diego. There
was a big tourists hotel at San
Diego, but people would think moth
ing of going to San Francisco to
take passage from the islands. 1t
was not to cheap hay he objected
but the way that it was sold, making
unfair competition with the dealers
who maid for licenses.
| Rep. Nawahi asked If those who
sold hay at auction did not have to
pay for licenses.
Rep. Lucas could not answer,
perhaps the President would. Hilo
got $4,000 for road, although
Hawaii did not pay as much taxes
as Oahu.
| Noble Widemann thought Hilo
had been very we'll treated. 1t had
| got $4,000 for the volcano road,
and 500, 900 for q wharf. Did it
ever rain anything but water in Hilo.
Didn't it sometimes rain 500 gold
pieces? This was the last straw
that broke the camel's back. And
the steamer that they ask this sub
sidy fora miserable, broken-down,
old tub. 1t took her about six
months TO go to San Francisco and
back. Hilo had the business to
warrant steamer line. The steam
er brought her cargo here and dump.
ed 1t on the wharf. When she went
away last trip the wharf was cover
ed with hay that she couldn't sell.
A steamer worth $4,000 was not
worth a subsidy of $4,000 month.
Noble j. M. Horner was sorry to
see the spirit manifested whenever
it was proposed to do anything fol-
any place outside of Honolulu. In
California they tried to transfer
business to Sancelito, because they
would not have to build such long
wharves there. They gave priv
liges to other towns all round, but
San Francisco went right ahead
Honolulu would not be hurt by thu
building up of other towns. HI
would like to see members take
broader, more statesman-likc view
of things.
Noble Widemann Qaughing)-
Bully! (Laughter.)
Noble Horner-The remark wa
intended for the Honolulu repre-
sentative, not for the Noble, but i
it suited the Noble he could take it
Here is little book (holding VI
Whitney's Guide) and here Homo
lulu is shown as the hub of the Paci
fic. In q few years he believed
every one of those lines would b.
running, and there would be vol
ume of travel such as the world ha,
never seen. The Oceanic steamer
had been started some years ag
when they needed a subsidy, an,
now that profitable company wa
gwen another subsidy, although i
had not asked for anything. Now,
little was asked to start new lin
TO new port, and the hon. membe
over there objected that il woul,
make hay cheaper! That was jus
what the speaker wanted, to max
the hay cheaper, make the lin
cheaper, make the cement cheaper
We were now shiyering IN our shoe
on account of the change in the Am
erican tariff, that would make II
earn only cents where we now earn
ed dollars. In that case VIC shoul'
| have IN oat fhinoa chaanar Ru