The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-10

NODLe Ill Sttiu the ODletl VI llIt Otai
was to make clothes cost more.
Rep. KOahOu was sorry to hear the
remarks made by Mobiles Young and
Pua. The stores paid license yet
clothes were cheaper than in the
tailor shops. Roth and Tregloan were
the leading tailOrs but the very dear
est in town. Therefore he held that
licensing was necessary to make
things cheaper.
NobleMarsden said the question was
very weighty and he wanted to hear
more of it after the committee had re-
ported. He moved the previous ques-
ton. Carried.
The bill was referred to the Judi
ciary Committee.
Noble Neumann insisting on ris-
ing vote.
The President appointed the COM
mittee on the bill to redistrict Hama
as follows: Iosepa, Baldwin, Ed
munds, Ena and KanOa.
The President appointed the Labor
Committee as follows: Marsden,
Bush, COrnwell, Kaunamano, Macfar-
lane, Dreier, J. NJ. Homer, Peterson,
and Kanoa.
Rep. Smith moved the bills Nos.
Is, II, IS, 10, 20 be taken from the
table. Carried.
Bill No. Is to appropriate mon ey
for the expenses of the band, flags
and salutes for April, May, June,
July and August.
Minister Parker moved reference to
the Military Committee.
Minister Widemann said this was
not necessary. The object was simple
and the band needed to be paid.
Referred to the Military Commit
tee.
Second reading of the bill No. Il an
Act to grant franchise TO the Ha-
waiian Electric Light and Power Co.
Rep. Smith moved reference to the
Committee on Public Lands.
Noble Cornwell moved reference to
a special committee.
Rep. Smith said the bill came pecu-
liarly within the province of the Conn
mittee on Public Lands and Internal
Improvements. 1t was not wise to
multiply select committees. In 1890
there were ninety-ive select commit
tees some of which never reported.
Rep. Ashford moved the bill go to
the Committee on Commerce.
Noble Neumann favored reference
to q select committee. The matter
did not concern the other islands.
He did not object to any of the MEM
bers of the COMMITTEES suggested, but
the matter concerned the people of
Honolulu solely.
Rep. Kamauoha said all tax payers
were interested in this bill, not resi-
dents of Honolulu only.
Rep. Nawahi favored reference to a
select committee from the different
islands.
Noble Marsden moved it be a COM
mittee of nine. The subject was very
important.
Rep. Ashford Withdrew his motion,
and seconded the motion of Noble
Marsden. The bill looked to him
well, he would not say how it looked
to him until it came up.
Noble Thurston favored the motion
to refer to a committee of nine. Noble
Neumann had been very indignant at
the idea of having q committee from
Maui alone, but now he wants COM
mittee exclusively from Honolulu.
There was once q bill introduced in
the House (by a coincidence by the
Hon. Cecil Brown, the grantee of this
billy, called the Bank Charter bill.
This was a worthy successor of that
bill. 1t was mOnstrOus thing, and
one of the biggest pieces of gall he
had ever seen. This bill claimed an
exclusive franchise for siXty-five
years, ignoring the fact that there was
company already in the field and
furnishing power. 1t proposed to get
exclusive control of the government
electric works and water supply in
Nuuanu, which would be worth a
million dollars, as the former Super
intendent of the Electric Light Works
had told him. The bill proposed to
grant an exclusive right to everything
in sight.
Minister Widemann said the House
was not considering the merits Of the
bill at present. He hoped the motion
to refer to q committee of nine would
be passed at once.
Noble Thurston said in Massachu-
sets the question of the city furnish
ing it's own electric light had been
discussed for three years, the cities
| finally coming out on top, and many
cities had availed themselves of the
privilege at an immensely reduced
| cost.
Noble Neumann said it was due
to himself to set himself right If a
|
| have it that whenever he hit himself
he would always strike the sore spot.
He feared his friend the Noble from
Maui had struck n sore spot again
He seemed to be anticipating his (the
speaker's) actions. He did not know
how the hon. Noble knew what his
| intentions were. He claimed that the
matter affected the people IN Homo
lulu primarily, because they would
have to pay for the lights and power.
There is no fear that the members
from the other islands would not vote
conscientiously, but the matter con
cerned the people here primarily.
Noble Young said the subject was
very important. A committee of nine
had been proposed. That was just the
number of the two committees OF
Public Lands and Commerce, and he
would move the bill be referred to g
committee composed of the members
of those two.
Rep. Smith said the Hon. Cecil
Brown had done so much valuable
service in this House that he would
not let the opportunity go, by to say
that he would not ask anything wrong
or improper.
The proposed question was moved
and carried. The bill was referred tC
a select committee of nine.
Bill No. 10 ION the same topic was
taken from the table and referred tC
the same committee.
The committee is as follows: Messrs
| Cornwell, Marsden, Bush, Smith,
Cummins, Nawahi, Thurston, Wal