The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-13
AFTERNOON SESSION.


Rent Custom House lot, Kahului,
| $500. Passed.
Debt, $500. Passed.
Post Office, Hilo, $1,000. Passed.
Aid to encourage transmission of
messages by means of homing pigeons,
$500.
Noble Pua moved to indefinitely
postpone the item. He did not be-
lieve a pigeon would carry a letter.
The item passed as in the bill.
Judgment, favor Of j. Kahahawai,
$4,000. Passed.
Attorney General Brown moved to
insert an item to pay any judgments
| which may be recovered against the
Government by Peter High and Geo.
Dillingham;, $1,000. Passed.
Deputy Auditor General, includ-
ing services during last period, $4,000.
Minister Brown moved the item
pass: Extra services during last term,
1915.
The item passed at $3175.
Minister Brown moved to insert:
Aid to Hilo Fire Department, $1,000.
Passed.
Rep. White, under suspension of
rules, presented q resolution providing
that F. J. Tesla be paid 800 for GER
tain services to the Board of Educa-
| ton, performed during last session,
if the Committee on Accounts approve
the claim.
Referred to Committee on Accounts
Noble Cornwell moved to insert
under line 365 an item of $500, for re-
pairs of road to Kula. Maui. Passed.
Attorney General Brown moved
| that the House, under suspension of
rules, take up the bill to amend the
Audit Act. The Minister wished the
bill to be taken up in order that the
salary of the Auditor might be re
duced to $4,000, the same as the Minis
tiers.
Rep. Wilder moved the report of
the Commerce Committee on the Ia
coma subsidy be taken up.
Acknowledgement Brown withdrew
his motion.
The report of the Commerce Com
mittee was adopted.
Noble Homer moved that if the
steamer go and come via Hilo an adj
tional subsidy of $3.50 per round tril
be paid.
Rep. Smith feared that it would be
q mistake to attach that condition.
we tried to force both lines TO go t,
!
Different members wanted tn,
steamer to stop at all the differen
ports of entry.
Rep. Iosepa stipulated for Kahulu
and Rep. White for Lahaina.
Minister Jones favored inserting TIN
item in Section of the bill, as tn
current receipts of the Government
had been greatly overrun.
Noble Baldwin was of the same
opinion. He did not favor giving al
extra subsidy for going to Hilo, be
cause otherwise he feared neithe
would go.
All the motions providing that th
steamer go to Hama, Kahului, La
haina, etc., were laid on the table.
The item for the Palace Furnitur,
was taken up. The committee repor
was read. It recommends an appro
priation for new furniture and to pa,
old bills, $4,000.
J Rep. r. w. Wilcox moved it pas
at $4,000.
The item passed at 5000.
Rep. Pua moved: Subsidy for pro
duction of marketable ramie fibre
$4,000.
: Acknowledgement Brown wanted t
know whether the production of
j.. quarter of q pound of ramie would b
1 sufficient.
Noble Williams opposed the item
The machine cost only about S40t
7 would clean 1000 lbs. daily and tn
fibre would bring eight cents a pound
There was fortune in the thing as
t was, and to vote this was simply pre-
posterous. The Government cow wa
f being milked by all the calves in til
t district. He moved the item be il
: definitely postponed.
e Noble Marsden was in favor of ell
g couraging new industries coming int
5 the land. He could not encourage i
this manner. He reminded member
d of the conduct of the person to whol
was granted subsidy for raising eli
Q chona at Hamakua. It was wron
to do it.
Attorney General Brown freely syn
pathized with Noble Marsden. II
- believed that the Indian Governme1
= had a standing offer of 100000 to an
> person who could perfect a machir
: for cleaning of ramie. The Frenc
:, Government had also large standir
Il offer for the same kind of a machin
l. If there is any person who thinks
!. has got a machine that could do it, |,
a. him show it to the Indian or Frenc
Governments. a person at Hilo +
J. ceived subsidy of $500 for rami
: but as soon as he got the money,
stopped.
The item was indefinitely pos
poned.
Noble Pua moved to insert, after Il