The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-06
STANDING COMMITTEES.

The House opened as usual at 10
A. IL
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Minister Spencer reported Bill l59,
concerning police justices, signed by
Her Majesty.
Noble Cornwell, for the Military
Committee, reported as follows:
Your Military Committee having
considered Bill 80, respectfully submit
that the amendment proposedis TO re-
duce the standing army OF the King
dom to number not less than six
teen nor more than twenty-four. The
committee consider that if there is
any good reason existing for royal
guard at all there can be no reason for
reducing it as proposed. The amend
ment to Section proposes TO prohibit
the drilling, arming and equipping OF
the police, which your committee
consider to be very unique and orig
inal proposition to say the least. The
fate recommended by the committee
is that Bill 80 be laid on the table.
Signed by all the members of the
committee.
Rep. Kanealii moved the report be
adopted.
Noble Marsden moved the report be
laid on the table for consideration
with the bill. Carried.
SELECT COMMITTEES.
Noble Homer, for the Ways and
Means Committee, reported as fol-
lows:
Your Committee on Ways and
Means having visited the Electric
Light Station, and, after a careful in
vestigation as to the amount required
TO carry on the present system of cleo
trio lighting for the coming period,
beg to report as follows:
Your committee does not deem it
advisable to extend at present the sys-
tenn which, with some necessary re-
pairs, we find in very efficient state,
and recommend that the amount of
$27, $40 be placed in the Appropriation
bill. We further add herewith an
itemized statement showing how the
above amount is to be expended and
recommend that the same be adopted.
Your committee further find that
the actual running expenses to carry
on the present system amount to
about $50, 800 for the biennial period,
which, less the amount of about $4,000
revenue derived from incandescent
lights, makes the actual expense of
lighting the city of Honolulu with
say 100 arc lights about $11, 500, or
$3.50 per annum.
Rep. Kamauoha moved that the re-
port be laid on the table for consider
alton with bill on electric lights.
Ill r. Il "A l.: Il
the table for consideration with the
propriety whatever in any other
course. The committee would never
recommend selling the plant.
Noble Baldwin also held that the
only proper course was to consider
with the Appropriation bill.
Rep. Kamauoha supported the mo-
ton to lay on the table with the bill
on electric lights.
Rep. Kamauoha withdrew his mo-
ton and the report was laid on the
table with the Appropriation bill.
Under suspension of rules Noble
Baldwin, for the Finance Committee,
reported on the petition that 500 be
appropriated for n mail carrier
from Hama to Kipahulu. The COM
mittee recommend the matter to the
attention of the Postmaster General,
as they find that the mail is carried
on the up trip of the Claudine from
Hama to Kipahulu, but that on the
down trip the mail carrier is hired by
privete parties.
Noble Williams reported for the
Special Committee on the Dredger as
follows:
Your special committee appointed
RI into tho 10 a
and the work now being done on the
bar at the entrance to Honolulu har-
Dor, report: Yonr committee corrob-
crate the statements contained in q
preliminary report presented q few
days ago by minority of the commit
tee on the work being accomplished
in deepening the entrance to the har-
Dor, and congratulate the Government
upon the good and effectual work
being done and upon the prospect of 6
completion of this important under
taking at an early date. The com.
mittee has examined the contract fol
the dredger, which has been carefully
drawn, and the dredging machine it,
self while at work, and find that
First-The dredging machine wa!
not delivered as per stipulation on the
18th day of November, 1891, but as nC
harm or loss has ensued therefrom IL
the Government, the committee re
commend that any forfeiture O.
penalty that may be due from tn,
contractors on this account be no
claimed.
Second-Your committee find tina
respecting the rotary excavator sup
piled by the contractors, and guaran
teed to do its work without Ieceivin,
injury from the motion of the hull O
the dredger due TO wave action, tn
contract is vague. In smooth waite
the rotary eXcavator does good AM
efficient work, and it would appear tina
in water moderately rough it will still
continue to work; but in the swell OIL
the bar, due to southerly winds, tn
said eXcavator is utterly useless TO
the purpose intended and its use ha
been abandoned, and in its place al
open suction pipe which simply hang
in the water, attached at its upper
end TO the pumping apparatus OIL
board the dredger, has been substitu
ted. This arrangement works well
1t is the opinion of the committe
that the rotary excavator will be re
quired in cleaning out the harbor AM
removing sand banks, the soft mater
ial immediately underlying the stra
tum of coral and other compacte,
material, not rock; the committee re
commend that before the final nav
ment for the dredging plant is mad
the contractors should be required t,
make test of the capacity of the 70
tary eXcavator to remove hard CLAW O
similar material, and to satisfy tn
Government that 10000 cubic ward
per month of soft mud can be exca