The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-07
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/ 10 Observation-Disclosures. 50
Strike out importation of seeds,
leaving in the items only collec-
ton of seeas and reducing the
amount from $500 to .......... Is
Strike out stationery. etc, $780, adj
vertising and printing, SEQ; COM
| petitfve exhibition. $1,000; strike
| out the word commissioner
| from the item travelling expenses
but leave the amount 1000. LOO
II S. w. Wilcox, on behalf of the min
iority, made a report. 1t reads as fol
lows:
Hon. J. A. Akina, Speaker House or Rep
resentatives.
| Sir: The undersigned. members of the
Committee on Agriculture and Commerce
herewith presents a minority report re
Appropriation bill under the head OF
Commissioner of Agriculture and For.
estry,'' as follows:
! Salaries and pay rolls, amounting tc
36472. Also the items for the expenses
| OF the Commission, amounting to 81 $50
/ The undersigned agrees with the ma
jority of the committee in regard TO the
Importance of maintaining an expert
mental station, but does not agree with
all the recommendations for reductions in
| the appropriations made.
| 1t may be that in time the United
States experiment station may be devel.
| oped; that it will not be necessary fol-
the Territory to maintain Independent
gardens and nurseries, or to continue
making experiments in the planting OF
forests. but, as at present only the first
steps have been taken by the Federal
Government in this direction lit would
seem to be in the public interest that the
work being carried on by the Territory
should not be discontinued or hampered
Although the efforts made in the past
may not have secured the best results In
all cases, yet the work which has been
done has been of much public interest,
that the work should be continued by the
Territory until it becomes manifest that
lit is no longer necessary.
Upon comforting with Mr. Jared S.
Smith, the director of the United States
experiment station, it has been found
that he entertains the views above sx-
pressed and does not advocate the dis
continuance of the work now being car
Tried on in this line by the Territory.
The undersigned would recommend all
of the appropriations asked for under
the foregoing heads. with the exception
of the item for pay of Commissioner,
1890, which he recommend to be placed
at $1,000; the item for expert forester.
$500. which he would recommend be
omitted. and the item, fifteen laborers,
Nuuanu forest (ten more menu" S6.4S0.
and would recommend that the item be
passed at ten laborers, Nuuanu forest
five more men," 1920
In closing, / would respectfully submit
that that part of the report of the ma
jority of the committee which refers to
turneling into the mountain to procure
water is foreign to the items in the APP
preparation bill which were referred to
the committee for their consideration.
Respectfully submitted.
s. w. WILCOX
JONAH KUMALAE.
Just before the hour for the noon re-
cess, Speaker Akina had read the ar
ticle in yesterday mornings Advertiser.
which contained the report of the
Board of Health and their determine
ton to stop expectorating in the tram
cars. Akina called the attention of his
colleagues to the fact that they were
not guiltless of this offense. and asked
that they refrain from it in the future.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The payroll of the pilot boat boys
was the first item for the afternoon.
Dickey moved that the sum of $500