The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-04


OF increased foreign trade and increase in the number OF
foreign steamers making Honolulu way port still Honolulu
already feels the drain caused by this the other
Honolulu has rival still fifteen miles
from its doors which asleep but which and will be
reused into life within very years a
Both Representative Cannon and Senator Pettgrew said
emphaca that Pearl Harbor going control the for
en uaue ana commerce OF the Ha"aan Islands ana the
opinion of Representative Cannon is worth good deal He
stands at the head of committee that controls appropr
tons covering annually millions dollars and is
thoroughly experienced of
those propositions that go to build or pull down cities
The Railroad Company that it would pay the people
to give the Railroad wharf frontage Honolulu Harbor
even II conceded that it has absolutely ground for claim
takes into consieation in addition 70 t The xnrcfc hedges
of wharf frontage soemny voluntarily this
Company by Contract Charter and Law, it certainly seems
both profitable and right to make the concession.
There this further consideration The deed of this entire
Republic and all its public lands has duly executed
and lies in Washington awaiting merely
by the United States Government eliminate for good
and all any power within Hawaii Instead of
Minister of Finance will have City and County Treas
Governor appointed from Washington instead of
President and the absolute control and dispos
will rest in the hands of the National Congress They
sweep aside at their will the proposition that the people
shoulu own the WharYes VINO VIII cOnrol inns C! ana us
wharves do know Congress make direct
Ons of wharf privileges private individuals if it chooses
ana quie as key TO outside companies as TO haI'lhas
1T would be rather odd the Railway Company, owned
and controlled within Hawaii ne should be shut out of the
ownership OF any wharfage frontage by It's own rends ana
after had accomplished this and annexation had
should find Congress either directly indirectly dposng of
the harbOr front Tom Dick Harry suit pUr
poses We might wish heartily again
citizens who it the wharf privilege that Ooishy shut
them Of But whatever may be the result
alton prOphey that when the wharf front and tide lands
of this country shall out of hands to distant Con
gress much of the enthusiasm for the ownership of
all the wharves by the people will when the people
to besides ourselves, sxtyfve of seventy mil
lions the water.
In the United States any who land bordering
the navigabe lake thereby and without
asking leave of anybody the right build and make
wharves and other structures for loading and unloading
freight The Courts of the United States early decided that
Riparian proprietors have the right erect bridges
and landing places the shores of navgab rivers lakes
bays the if they conform the regulations of
the State and do not obruct navgaton the right to make
erection terminates the point of navigability
Again the law this point the United States is thus
stated
"By the law the riparian has the right to-
establish wharf his soil This being lawful of
the land the right udcay recognized in this country and
riparian prOpretOr lake navigabe river have
virtue of their without
ative authority the right to wharves piers and
landing places the shore if these conform the regua
the State OF the puDc
become nuisance by ObsrUcng navigation This right has
exercised by the of adjacent land from the
settlement of the country The right terminates at the point
of navgaby unless special authority be conferred because
at this point the necessity for such erectons ordinarily
ceases"
If Pearl HarbOr is be developed under American law
then land having frontage that lagoon will
the right build his wharves
wharves loading unloading all
descriptions his pleasure
age will certainly be discount and what such
valuable gift the Railroad Company look very differ
emily within short time Meanwhile is it the part
bind this Railroad and all it's interests rrevocaby
the development of this City? such
ton that it will spend much the development
it's Honolulu that will not for the Company
elsewhere to consider such propositions
will continue haul all the freight gathers
around this Island Pearl Harbor into Honolulu City
the benefit of and child who has dollar
the of the commercial
this City?