The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-01-31
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vor of the Nicaragua canal.
There has been a great deal OF dis
cussion and pamphleteering on the
Chinese exclusion question. A some
what bulky pamphlet. supposed to
have been inspired and perhaps writ
ten by the Chinese Minister, has been
widely distributed this week. During
the House hearings on the sugar tariffs
this week, there was some inquiry as
to the percentage of Chinese laborers
on the Cuban plantations. and Mr.. At
kins. the rich Boston planter. said
there were about two per cent Of Chi
nese in the laborers In the cane field.
People who have been to Cuba and In
spected the cane fields are ipclil"i 20
question this statement.
HAWAIIAN LEGISLATION.
Although Delegate Wilcox Is III in
bed some petitions have been in
troduced recently In the House for
him. He has presented n petition OF the
executive committee of the II ome Rule
party of Hawaii. of Honolulu. II. l., in
favor of forest extension and agrlcul-
tural Improvement: also a petition of
Antoine Mendonca and forty-eight
other citizens of the Hawaiian Islands
against the granting of water rights to
private individuals or to corporations
and asking that they shall remain for
the common benefit of the land~wn-
ers. All these petitions went to the
Committee on Territories.
There has also been intro iuccd for
Delegate Wilcox IN the House the fol-
lowing bill affecting the Kohala Ditch
Company, in which Col Parker Is IN
terested:
Bill granting to the Kohala Ditch
Company, Limited. the right of way
over public lands In the districts OF
North and South kohala. In the Island
of Hawaii, for the purposes of con-
structing and maintaining bitches or
canals and the necessary reservoirs.
dams, and the like, for irrigation and
domestic purposes in said districts.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives OF the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the Kohala Ditch Company, Limited,
corporation duly organized under the
laws of the Territory of Hawaii, It's sue
cessors and assigns, be, and IL hereby,
granted the right of way to construct
and maintain two bitches, to be known
as the Upper Kohala Ditch and the
Lower Kohala Ditch. said Upper Kohala
Ditch to begin at or about the elevation
of four thousand five hundred feet on the
land known as Puukapu, and said Low
er Kohala Ditch to begin at or about the
elevation of two thousand feet on the
land known as Muliwai, each of said
bitches running through and over the
public lands in said Island of Hawaii,
Territory of Hawaii, within the follow
ing described area, to wit: Bounded on
the north by the sea, on the east by
Waipio valley and the summit separat-
H.. ~. IA 4.z,
hala watershed, on the south by the
summit of the Kohala mountains, and
on the west by Polulu gulch, said area
being known as the Kohala watershed.
and through, over and upon such other
public lands in the districts OF North
and South Kohala and Hamakua as may
be necessary to properly supply the con-
sumers of water. and for the conserva-
ton and utilization of waters now rum
ming waste into the sea; also the right
to construct and maintain reservoirs,
dams, impoundng embankments, tun-
nels feeders, waterways, fumes, invert-
ed siphons, pipe lines, or such other
works as may be necessary to conserve
and convey the waters of the Kohala
watershed along or across said public
lands. Said right of way shall be to the
| extent of the ground occupied by such
bitches or canals and reservoirs and
their laterals and fifty feet on each side
of the marginal limits thereof. The said
Kohala Ditch Company is also granted
the right to take from the public lands
adjacent to the bitches or canals and
reservoirs such earth and stone or other
material as may be necessary for the
construction of the same.
Sec 2.-That said Kohala Ditch Com
pany may institute in the United States
District Court for the Territory OF Ha-
wall proceedings for the condemnation
of such private land as may be necessary
to cross and use IN constructing and
maintaining the bitches or canals and
reservoirs as herein described whenever
said company and the owners OF any
such lands fail to come to an agreement
in respect thereto.
Sec. 3.-That the work of constructing
said bitches or canals and reservoirs
shall be commenced within two years
and completed within six years from the
date of the approval of this act; and in
default of either of these conditions
Congress may declare the rights herein
granted null and void.
ERNEST c. WALKER.