The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-09

country made a proper use of its OPP
portunities the depression in the
sugar industry would eventually
prove a great blessing. He could not
commend too highly the activity
shown by Noble Horner, though he
did not approve ali his measures.
The great task at present was To i'm
prove the means of transportation
and communication. The resources of
the country were not one quarter
developed yet. If they were we would
have period OF sound prosperity
which with only one industry, we
never had had, and never would have,
it we did not do more than we were
doing now.
Noble Young did not like to throw
cold water, but there were some
things which must be found out. The
Hilo and Waiakea plantations would
not use the road as they shipped their
sugar direct. The best way was to
refer to a commission. lie believed
the day would soon come when rail
ways would be run by electricity, and
we would be in better position to de-
eide on that eighteen months hence.
He did not oppose the bill, bug thanked
the Noble from Hamakua for intro
ducing it.
Minister Jones did not wish to
throw cold water on this scheme of
Noble Horner's, but he thought the
idea of postponing it until the next
period was good one. He thought
it would be better for the Government
to assist in building the road. Let
the Government take this 5000, 900,
and pay it in q subsidy at $4,000 a
mile for forty miles. He believed
private parties could be found who
would be willing to build the road on
those terms, and the Government
could receive stock for its subsidy.
The question of electricity was being
studied in the United States and one
Eastern road was putting in electri-
city. He believed the road would be
surer to be built on this plan than if
the Government took it up. If cleo
tricity were adopted, it would all be
generated by water power in the Hilo
districts at very small cost.
Noble Horner said the electricity
matter had been looked into. AS for
waiting, they had waited ten years
and nobody had touched it. The
spirit growing up in the United States
was that the people should build their
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through the crust of tradition.
Attorney General Brown asked if
the Government had not disposed of
the franchise to the estate of S. G..
Wilder?
Noble Horner was aware of that;
but it would not do to be a dog in the
manger. These individuals did not
eat the oats, and, from the remarks of
the Acknowledgement, did not intend
to let anyone else eat them. The
wharf must be built any way, and it
would only require about $4,000 more
to build the warehouse and mile of
road. Let that be done, and in the
meantime the water power question
could be looked into.
Attorney-G General Brown wished we
had a railroad now from one end of
Hawaii to the other; but he thought
it much better to wait till the next
session, because if the Oahu railway
succeeded, the same syndicate would
probably be only too glad to build one
on Hawaii and that would be better
than for the Government to build it.
In 1887 we came very near getting a
railroad around the island of Hawaii.
If it had not been for the revolution,
the road would have been built. 1t
was better to wait eighteen months
and see whether the road could not
be put up by private parties.
Rep. Smith said Section of this
bill would accomplish all that would
be done by the Commission, and they
would have the additional advantage
of being able to do more, il advisable.
The motion to refer to q committee
was carried on the following division:
Ayes Ministers Wilcox, Robinson
Jones and Brown; Mobiles Berger, Ena,
Williams, Male, Kauhane, Hind, Young,
Cornwell. Walbridge, Anderson, Kanoa
and Dreier: Reps. Wilder, Kauhi, Ka-
mauoha and A. S. Wilcox-19.
Noes-Nobies Hopkins. Pua, J NJ.
Horner, Hoapili, Marsden, and w. Y.
Homer; Reps. Bipikane, Ashford, Pua,
A. Horner, Kaunamano, Waipuilani,
Kapahu, Nahinu, White, Kanealii, Ed
monds, Kaluna, Iosepa and Smith-20
Ahsent-Nobles Peterson, Cummins,
Baldwin aud Thurston; Reps. Aki, r. w.
Wilcox, Bush, Koahou and Akina.
Rep. Smith questioned the right oil
Rep. Wilder to vote.
The President ruled that he had the
right, and the vote being a tie, he
cast the deciding vote in favor of the
motion, and appointed the following
Commission Mobiles Horner, Thurs.
ton, Berger, Hind, and Rep. Smith.
Under suspension of rules, the At
torney-General presented a report on
Bill POI, to increase the duty on GER
tain liquors. The Attorney General
recommends the bill to passage
Tabled for consideration with the bill
Rep. Ashford presented report Of
the Opium Committee on the bill tC
license the importation and sale o.
opium
Honorable JOHN S. WALKER, President
of the Legislature.
SIR: Your select committee known al
the Opium Committee No l, to whom
Rep. Kaunamano, No. 122. introduced by
Rep. White, and No. 147, introduced by
Rep. Ashford, all proposing the issue o
licenses to sell opium, beg leave to repor
as follows.
braced in said bills, and have been me-
by the fundamental question OF whether
| the sale of opium shall under any condi
| tltlOGS NC liSCHocu III tilio Il iuSuOAh w
| are not unmindful of the many and pc
| tent arguments which may be brought Il
sustain the negative of this proposition
1t is beyond question that the use o
opium, as generally in vogue among the
Chinese residents of this and other coun.
tries is harmful to the physical ant
moral condition of its votaries. 1t is
| likewise clear that If the effect of ar
opium license law was likely to result il
the introduction of that destructive prac'
] tice among classes hitherto unaccustomeC