The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-02-24

safely permitted The Bureau fayors
sending one Of It's own skilled forest
ers rs soon Is one can be spared The
territory WILL kowsves. be required TO
par his expenses and reasonable sal
ary- An item has been placed N the
estimates ar this purpose
The plan of the Department az 40
ric1itare az Washington 20 establish
an agricultural experiment station
here Is o ne OF great importance
10 the territory Such station. con
dccted BIZ trained uen. viii be OK in
estimate value to our agricultural
population IN testing the capabilities
of various plants producing sOod. fhre
and other valuable products in our
climate and soils and IN introducing
scientific methods of cultivation The
small farmer viii be especially bens-
fitted By such experiments. and Il IS to
the prosperity Of the small farmer
that much OF our social and political
advancement win depend. Our own
Department of Agriculture and Forest
- will work with such a station in
promoting the development of our az
ricEltural resources.
A considerable appropriation is rec
commended for roads ard harbor i'm
provements. Roads are necessary
condition Of commercial and agrieul-
tural growth Much progress. has been
made in this direction during the past
four years 4 highway for wheeled
vehicles has been nearly completed
around the Island of hawaii II should
be finished in the coming period The
--a IN, he. fas,r nj hr.-1 go IA
settlements requires many new roads:
the growth of Honolulu and Hilo de-
mands new streets of the best quality.
The increase of our commerce calls
for more wharves and some harbor en-
largement The territory must carry
| on this. work until such time as it may
be taken up by the federal govern
ment.
The Territorial Act requires the Leg
islature at its first regular session af-
ter the census enumeration shall be
ascertained, to reapportion the MEM
| bership of the Senate and House OF
Representatives among the senatorial
and representative districts on the
basis of the population of citizens of
| the territory in each of said districts.
| The executive is in correspondence
with the director of the census in the
| matter of such Information and is as
| sured that it will be furnished as soon
as it is ascertained. Upon the receipt
of such information by the execu-
| tive it will be promptly sent to the
Legislature.
Previous to the going into effect
| of the Territorial Act the postoffice in
spector in charge at Honolulu directed
| the country postmasIers of these Is
lands to forward the Hawaiian postage
| stamps in their possession on the 14th
| day of June to the Postofice Depart
ment in Washington. which direction
! was generally followed. These stamps
| in every case were owned by such
postmasters, it having been the prac-
| tice in the postal bureau under the
| Republic of Hawaii to require the
| postmasters outside of Honolulu to
| purchase the stamps required by them
| for the business of their respective
postoffices, and to sell them to custom
| ers on their own account. A number
| of these postmasters requested the
| Washington department to return
either the stamps or their value in
money or American stamps. Such re-
quests were refused and the applicants
were referred to the territorial govern
ment. As but two or three of these
claims have been sent to me, | would
recommend the Legislature to notify
such postmasters to send in sworn
statements of the amount of their
| losses in this matter, and thereupon
| to place an item in the appropriation
bill for their payment.
Under the appropriation of the
| Council of State for the expenses of
Hawaiian exhibit at the Paris Elk
position, Mr.. William G. Irwin of Ho-
nolulu was appointed Commissioner
to take charge of the enterprise, and
later Mr. Alfred Houie, formerly Ha-
waiian Consul-General at Paris, was
appointed Assistant Commissioner.
Phe prevalence of the bubonic plague
in Honolulu last winter seriously in
terfered with the preparation of arti-
cles for exhibition and through the
quarantine regulations, delayed and
well nigh defeated the undertaking
From these causes the installation OF
the exhibit was barely in time to re-
ceiye the inspection of the jury on
awards. In spite of these drawbacks
the articles displayed, especially those
illustrative of educational work in the
public ana Kamehameha school, at
tracted interest. The Department of
Public Instruction received a grand
prize for primary instruction; the Ka-
mehameha schools received a gold
medal for manual training work. and
the Hawaiian Planters Association
was awarded gold medal for exhibit
of Hawaiian sugars. Commissioner L.
win was rendered the decoration of
Cheyalier of the Legion of Honor. in
recognition of the participation of the
Territory of Hawaii in the Exposition
| have recommended an increase in
the appropriation for Kapiolani Park
This pleasure ground has become es-
sentiai to the Honolulu community
Much has been done with small ap-
preparations for carrying it on in past
years. but there is much more that is
necessary to be DONE The race course
cannot be permitted to absorb a large
part of the par. area indefinitely The
release OF such area will make an Inn
portant addition to the park proper.
which win require skill and money
for its arrangement in conformity with
the surrounding grounds 4 greater
attention to landscape effects than
heretofore is desirable This means
more skill at greater cost.
The report of the Commissioners
shows forcibly the need OF an increas-
ed outlay for watering facilities
among other things.
The Legislature of 1898 made prov
ision for the appointment of Com
mission of three persons to investi-
gate the subject of taxation and re-
port at the succeeding session Mr.