The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-20
Senate Tables KapiOlali Beach
Lot Bathing Plan.
OWNERS MAY NOT BUY YET EITHER
House Discussed Audit Provision.
Special Committee Recon-
ends Railway Bill.
SENATE,

F'ifty-fourth Day, April 10.
In their report to the Senate, a spe-
ciaI committee expressed their disap-
| proval of the plan to enact a law COM
pelIing the revertion to the Govern
ment of the Kapiolani park beach lots
on the expiration of the present leases.
Another plan to sell to the owners of
the leases, the lots they now occupy,
was also discouraged and on the re-
commendation of the committee, both
bills were laid on the table. The
committee made uhe following report:
your committee fully appreciate
the desirability of a sea beach adjoin-
ing the park, where the general pub
lie can enjoy the sea air and sea bath
ing. On the other hand we endorse
and heartily approve of the policy of
The present Government to encourage
people to build up attractive homes,
and it seems a little hard to say to
those who have lived on these lots for
years, and who expect to make them
homes for twenty-five years to come,
that they cannot have the privilege of
acquiring a fee simple title to them.
'"TYhe sea beach in front of the lots
is very much broken up with lodges
of coral that run out into the water,
and this portion of the Waikiki beach
is, for that reason, poor for bathing
purposes.
'"The other portions of the beach at
Waikiki, however, which we believe
might be obtained by the park COM
mission, that are mparatiVely free
from coral, furnish good bathing and
would be much more valuable addi-
tions to the park than the beach in
front of the lots in question.
Your committee feel that an effort
should be made at once to secure for
the park these more desirable portions
of the beach, and that an opportunity
be given the park commissioners to
do so. If this can be accomplished the
Iessees of the park house lots might bd
allowed TO obtain a fee simple title to
their houses.
For reasons given above your COM
mittee would advise that no action be
taken on either bill this session, but
that both bills be laid on the table
In considering the current account |
bill, the item of $4,000 |
to defray the expenses of a coffee com !
abroad, a measure which |
was proposed by Minister Damon in |
the interests of the rising Island in |
dustry, was stricken from the bill |
President Wilder expressed opposition |
He said that the major part of the
coffee producers in the Islands were |
opposed as we'll as he. The coffee men |
believe in encouraging the industry, |
but many of them wish the encourage |
ment to come in the shape of expert /
instruction in cultivation, believing |
that the coffee is bound to sell if it is |
always superior to other coffees.
THE Senate referred to the Finance |
Committee the item Of So, 500, inserted /
at the request of Minister Cooper, for |
an exhibit at the Trans Mississippi |
Exposition at Omaha. The insertion |
is in response to a petition from X.
w. Shingle in which he gave the prin- |
cipal features of a proposed exhibit IN
which he is represented.
Minister Smith urged the passage OF
the item, arguing that 1t would be !
good thing for the Islands should
there be d creditable exhibit at the
exposition. Such an exhibit should
include all the Government depart
ments and the progress made in them.
Senator Baldwin were in favor Of an
exhibit but emphasized the statement
that it should be in the hands Of
someone who is thoroughly acquaint-
ed with the conditions obtaining here
and who would devote his whole time
to it.
Senator Brown took the same views
also.
Senator McCandless wished a rider
on the appropriation for subsidy to
ports on the Islands not now touched,
to the effect that the boat must be
of at least $50 tons burden and have
an eight-knot speed.
iourned to 1:30 o'clock.
In the afternoon session the
House amendment to the Senate bill
relating to the submission of differ
ences to the Supreme Court was con-