The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-10
new HARBOR PLAN
NlIalu Stream to Be Diverted
From Present Course.
CABLE BILL COMES UP AGAIN
Railroad Company Loses Its Bill.
Lively Scene In House of
representatives
CABLE BILL COMES UP AGAIN
SENATE.
Seventy-first Day, May 8.

When the appropriation bill for con-
tingencies was taken up Minister
Cooper moved that the item of sos, 900
for harbOr improvements be increased
to $215,000 Plans of the proposed
improvements were shown by the
Minister. The principal change advo-
Gated is an abandonment of the You
mans estate proposition and the build
ing of retaining wall at the upper end
of the harbor to divert Nuuanu stream
The stream is to be carried between
retaining walls 200 feet apart along
the front of the Prison to the sea.
This will necessitate cutting through
the embankment of the Railway near
the present location of its scales, the
stream to run at right angles to the
upper end of the harbor. By diverting
the fresh water from the present
stream to the artificial course, Minister
Cooper argued that the vast deposits
of mud and debris, now emptied into
the harbor and dredged out at great
expense, would be sent along the new
course into the sea below Kalihi.
Cooper were for the dredging out of
a slip $50 feet wide and 800 feet long
through a portion of the YOumans' es-
tate to the proposed embankment. On
each side of the slip it is proposed
building a wharf 60 feet wide with
driveway running along the entire
length. The harbor end OF the slip IS
to be on the present harbor edge and
will not interfere with the harbor
traffic On the exhibited plans were
outlined slips which could, as neces-
sity warranted, be made on the makai
side of the proposed slip. The increase
asked in the appropriation includes es-
Inmates for condemnation of the land,
dredging, building the slip and the re-
tanning walls of the proposed embank-
ment and building the wharves and
roadway.
Senator Brown said he was opposed
to such a plan. He had lived in Homo
lulu many years and remembered no
such bed of the stream except during
freshets when there was an overflow.
He had been told that the reason the
harbor entrance was clear of coral was
because of the fresh water from the
stream.
He said he had no confidence in the
ability of the superintendent OF Pubic
Works to execute economically such
plan and he thought it outrageous for
the Executive to bring in, when there
were but 19 days more of the present
session. a proposition calling for the
of over 100000 on an es-
innate totally different from the one
at the opening of the session.
He was not opposed to harbor i'm
but he would refuse to vote
in favor of such measure on such slight
Minister Cooper said the plan as
presented had been formulated by the
in an attempt to meet the
wishes of the people. Many ideas IN
the proposed plan were incorporated.
The Executive would control the eX-
penditure.
Senator McCandless believed that the
subject should be considered with Ihe
greatest care. He too had no connd-
ence in the ability of the Commissioner
of Public Works and it was altogether
too large a sum Of money to be placed
in his charge to spend.
Senator Warehouses; motion that
the item be inserted IN the Dill anu
referred to the special committee hav-
ing harbor matters in charge with in
structions to report on Friday was
passed The remaining items in the
bill were read and the whole bill was
deferred to Friday.
Minister Cooper offered an amend
ment to the cable bill vesting the pow
er of granting a franchise, exclusive
or otherwise, in the President and
Cabinet. The words Pacific Cable
Company are stricken out and the
word company inserted. In explana-
tion the Minister said this proposition
was favored by the Cabinet who de-
sired the right to make the contract.
exclusive if the occasion demanded.
The amendments and the bill were re-
ferred to the special committee having
the cable bill in charge.
In the discussion on the bill to pro-