Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-06

hards. having good diet and steady. not
severe. labor. None of the whites lately
sentenced has yet appeared on the streets
as a convict. Gulick and Ashford are
nearly Sd. Bowler and Walker are labor
ing on mason work upon the prison prem
ises of which there is much to be done,
and they a.e experts at it.
The cost of suppressng the insurrection
is likely to foot up over 100000. Fortu-
rately the treasury is in fine condition, IN
der Mr.. Damon's admirable management,
and the public credit never was so good
The sale of six per cent bonds is steady,
and all the money wanted for special pub
lie works Is thus obtained readily from
ing on quite a line of important public
works, both by borrowed money, according
to special provision. and also from the
regular revenue. OF the former class. is
dock is about to be excavated by suction
dredge, of capacity to hold our largest
ocean steamers. A thin layer of coral has
to be peeled off the surface. Below that is
only mud. Considerable extension of our
harbor room is practicable by this process
1t will not, however, be able ever to meet
the rapid demand for space which will
follow the opening of the Nicaragua canal
soon to cross the Pacific must do their
coalng at Pearl harbor, ten miles west of
the city. But Honolulu will need to make
all possible room for other shipping. Our
OF the latter class of public works paid
for from regular revenue, and now in
progress. Is the enlargement of the city
Haterworks. Two ten-inch artesian wells
have just been sunk nearly 600 feet, yield
ing flow of over 100000 gallons a day.
A good Blake pump is being erected to
force this. with $50 feet pressure. into the
mains. Some three miles of new mains are
being laid to receive the new supply. These
are twelve, ten and eight inch pipes. The
new wells and pumps will end the water
famines Fostering the city every summer.
We obtain an exhaustless reservoir under
our feet in exchange for the uncertain sup
ply in our mountain valleys. The latter will
continue to supply the higher levels of the
city.
COunciI-Made Law.
The councils, which continue to exercise
legislative powers until the special session
of the legislature, which will soon be called
have been engaged for ten days past upon
a series of enactments made necessary by
the various proceedings under martial law
and by the exigencies of the late rebellion.
The present circumstances verify the wis
dom of that provision of the new constitu-
ton of the republic, by which the advisory
council was continued in existence until it
she uld give place to a similar council to be
chosen partly by the legislature, and by
which also the combined executive and
advisory councils are continued In the
legislative powers which they exercised
under the provisional government, which
preceded the republic. But for that pro-
vision the government would have been
most seriously embarrassed about secur-
ing some Indispensable legislation necessi-
tated by the circumstances following the
late Instruction.
Protecting Government officials.
One of the most important enactments
was one of indemnity, securing officers and
supporters of the government against vex-
atious prosecutions for acts of a possibly
irregular character performed by them in
the defense of the government during the
continuance of martial law.
The act declares that ''Al proclamations
and orders published or made and all acts.
matters and things commanded directed
done by the president, or by any officer of
the government. or other person acting
under the authority of the president, for
the purposes and during the time herein
declared, that Is to say, en-, from and since
January 6, 1895, until martial law shall be
declared to be no longer in force, whether
done in a district in which martial law
was proclaimed or was in force, or done in
1; district in which martial law was not in
force. in the proclamation or furtherance
of martial law, or in the suppression of in
surrection, or in the establishment of a
military tribunal, or in the arrest, i'm
prisonment, deportation, trial, conviction
or sentence of any person charged with
treason. misprison of treason, conspiracy
to incite or commit treason, or with any
dsloyal or seditious practice, or with any
act or conspiracy dangerous to the peace
or to the safety of life or property or In