Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-04-27
The HOUSE This MORNING
The Bulletin War Extra Occasions a
Hurried Recess.
Council Of State Members Elected Questions
on Town LOtS-MOre Petitions
Presented Audit Act.

Mr.Cooper,as acting Minister of
Interior, was granted until Friday
to answer questions propounded
by Mr.. Robertson respecting har-
bors.
Mr.. Pogue, for the Finance
Committee, recommended tabliDg
of House bill II, relieving Sailors
Home from taxation; and the pas.
sage of House bill "a, notice of
increase of az sessments.
Mr.. Gear asked the following
ques ions of the Minister of In
terror:
LIST. Whether certain street
adjoining lots sold at Government
land sale by auction, on Punch
bowl slopes and intersecting
Spencer & Thurston Avenues, or
in or about that vicinity, has been
closed against traffic and perma
nent improvement
End. Whether such street or
any other In the neigbborhood 30
closed was or was not marked in
the plan, map or digram of lots to
be- sold in connection with the
notice of sale and as part of the
information under which the
public was invited to bid for the
purchase of such lots ?
Bird. 1t such street or streets,
SO set down in the scheme of sale
has or have been thus closed, by
whose authority has such been
doue?
4th. If by order of the Minis
ter of Interior ta) will he please
state under what statute he took
action, and (b) was or was not
such action taken at the request
OF a private owner, being the
purchaser from the Govern
ment of any of the lands
in the vicinity mentioned ?
9th. Was or was il not the orr
gipal intention appearing on any
diagram or plotting of streets or
otherwise to continue Green street
through to Puuahoup
9Th. Did or did not the Gov
erment accept in view of such in
tended continuation of Green
street any lands from f. b. Nc
Stock-r, r. 1. Lille or others as
free gifts or for nominal consid
erstions ?
7th. Does the Government
know or is it with its consent that
a building or buildings is or are
being, has or have been erected on
the ine of Green street if so con
tinued ?
9Th. If such line is being or
has been so barred against the
contin uation of said street, what
authority or reason has the Gov
eminent for permitting the OBJ
struction ?
9th. Has the Government been
made aware of the wishes of tue
residents of Pu' ahou, Makiki and
the Puuchbowl SLOPES, whose con
venirnce and property inter, SITS
are connected with Green street
or it's continuation, with regard to
the obstruction meniionedp
Mr. McCandless read a petition
from 3S residents of Waialua
praying an appropriation of $1,000
for repairing the road from Waia-
lua to Waimea.
Mr.. Paris presented a petition
for $74.80 to pay John Hoopii for
coffee trees destroyed by cutting
a Government road in Kona.
House bill 60, opium, passed
final vote.
Following nominations for seats
in the Council of State were made:
By Mr. Kahaulelio A G M RIB
errsou, W G Achi, A V Gear, p r
Iseu berg aud j l. Kaulukou. BY
Mr.. Pogue G-orge r Carter, W
j Lowlie, A V Gear, j l. Kau u
kou and L f Lansing. BY M.
Robertson = + 9 Winston. By
Minister Damon-S X Kaue. By
Mr. McCandless = + @ Winston,
w j Lowrie, A G M Robertson,
George r Carter and j l. Kaulu-
kou.
The vote resulted as follow:
Gear 10, Robertson 8, Kaulukou
8, Isenberg 7, Achi 6, Carter 6,
Kane 5, Lowrie 8, Winston 3,
Lansing 3.
Messrs. Gear, Robertson, Kau
lukou and Isenberg were declared