The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-29

matters. introduced by Rep. Robert
! son and recommending adoption with
/ the following additional clause:
BE it further Resolved, That il is
/ the sense Of the Legislature of the
Republic Of Hawaii that the Executive
should forthwith take the necessary
! steps 10 condense the property design
/ I'd in the deed from Kate Lee YOUmans
! 10 the Minister Of the Interior under
the right OF Eminent Domain
| This was the signal for q discussion
that took up the rest of the time until
noon Rep. Robertson was the first
to take the floor. He recommended
the adoption Of the resolution with the
addition proposed by the committee.
Mr.. Robertson repeated the arguments
| in favor of the resolution, ordering
| the Government 10 cease the work now
going on in the vicinity o. the old
! ffshmarket wharf, and enlarged some
what upon these. He was immediate
/ ly followed by Minister Cooper who
defined the position of the Govern
ment and said that if the House passed
| the resolution il would be the first
blow to the policy instituted of gaining
| control of the wharYes. It would do
more. It would simply open the way
! for private parties to step in and gain
that control. In case the Courts found
that the Government could not use
the situations, (Which would result in
case of the passage Of the resolution,
private parties would be allowed to
step in. Minister Cooper here referred
to the o. r. & L Co. and the attempts
of that corporation to get hold Of GER
tain wharf privileges and spoke Of the
entire command at the present time of
the key to the situation, by the Gov
eminent The proposition of that cor
poration had been TO build narrow
wharves, not at all suited to general
! use
Minister Damon was the next to
take the floor and in beginning his
remarks, stated that the Railroad
Company had made $25,0 900 by the
wharf now under its control. This
corporation had made an attempt to
| fight the Government. 1t had been the
first attempt on the part of a corpora
| ton and he for his part intended to
take off his coat and fight for the
rights of the Government. That was
the position he took. Was the Gov
| eminent or a corporation at the head
of affairs in this country? The Gov
eminent surely should be. He was
perfectly cognizant of the great bene-
! fits the work of Mr.. Dillingham; had
done for the country and he was sure
| that at some future day, a tall and
handsome monument would be erected
to him Mr. Dillingham; would reap a
handsome sum from his work. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Dillingham's plan, pub
Ilished in the Advertiser in January,
ships could not get in at the Eva side
of the harbor at all. They could do
this on paper but not in the water.
To relinquish the work now was to
give Dillingham; the say.
Next came a cross fire from various
members of the House, some of whom
accused the supporters of the resolu-
tion of undue haste and insufficient
deliberation on a matter so important.
This was vigorously objected to, one
member referring to a part of the
back row of the House as the flag
end of the hind row.
Finally Rep. Robertson withdrew
his motion to adopt the resolution OF
and it was agreed that the report OF
the committee on the matter should
lbe referred to the Printing Commit
tee with instructions that the report
of the committee of the Legislature OF
1890 be printed together with the re
lport. This was through the sugges-
tion of Minister Cooper who said that
the policy of the Government in re
gard to the matter OF wharves at the
EVA side of the harbOr was based on
, this report.
Rep. Pogue reported for the special
committee to whom had been referred
1.-The matter of an electric street rail-
wav in Hilo The committee had care
fully considered this along with the
petitions from Hawaii against the pas
sage of the bill and had found that
the names of the name signed to these
, netitions were of great weight. They
were the representative men OF the
pIace. to a great extent. The commit
tee recommended that the bill be laid
unon thetable This was objected to by
certain of the Representatives who
-, suggested that it might be well TO give
= 1.-The promoters of the proposed scheme
a chance to express their ideas on the
subject. The majority Of the House
was not in favor of this and the re-
mort of the committee was adopted.
Recess until 1 80 p. m.
a AFTERNOON SESSION.
At the opening of the House in the