The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-02
HAWAN'S CONCERNS
AT WASHINGTON


of water for agricultural purposes !;
that the Nahiku Sugar Company, a
. corporation for agricultural and other
industrial pursuits is the owner If
certain lots in the said tract borderip e
on the permanent streams thereof.
And your petitioners are so informed
and believe that the said Nahik& Sugar
Company intends to apply at the con, .
ing session of Congress for a franchise
or license to divert and carry away
the public waters of this trac., ana to
dispose or sell the same to the Hawaii
an Commercial and Sugar Company, 10
be used forty or fifty years away f~oE,
be used forty or fifty miles away f. oin
Nahiku.
/ Your petitioners believe and repre-
sent that the waters of the said Nai1i-
ku tract should not be granted nor
otherwise disposed of by the United
States government nor by the govern
nlcnt fthe Territory of Hawaii, sLut
should be retained for the common
benefit of all Of the land owners in sail
tract
/ Wherefore your petitioners humbly
! pray that no franchise for the diver
sion of the said waters be granted, but
! that all the said waters be confined to
the use and enjoyment of all the land
owners in the said Nahiku coffee land
tract, and your petitioners Will ever
pray.
! Dated at Nahiku, Island of Maui, T.
H. November 81. 1901.
| There are something like fifty sign
! ers OF this petition, some of whom
make their mark only. The leaders on
Robello, Joseph Cabral, John de Chiui-
TO, n. e. Lennon, Jose Mavliner dc
Costa and Roland T. Wilder. This pc
1tition. which is said to be only a sam
pie of others on the way, was referred
to the committee on Territories, of
ict of ic
/ 1t is worth remembering that Repre-
Sentative Robinson, a Democrat, Of
Fort Wayne, md, took a lively inter-
est in this petition and became greatly
i'm pressed with it's Importance. He
has been very intimate with Mr- Wilcox
of late, and has given signs Of inten-
ton to fight some of the battles OF
Hawaii on the side of Mr.. Wilcox this
winter. Mr.. Robinson has some power
in debate, possesses a strong voice,
and is capable of making trouble when
he starts out.
Delegate Wilcox's committee assign
n.ents in this Congress are to the COM
mittee on private land claims, and to
the committee on coinage, weights and
measures. A few days ago he changed
his residence from r street, where he
lived last winter, to 1907 H street, n.
w, which is farther down town. He
has been i'll with dyspepsia during the
present week, but the illness is said to
be nothing serious.
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
Chairman Burton of the rivers and
harbors committee, is beginning work
or the river and harbor appropriation
bill, which was defeated at the close
Of the last session of Congress. Re
garding the prospects of authorization
in tn Forthcoming bill for surveys OF
the harbors of the Hawaiian Territory,
Mr.. Burton said:
"If it does not promise to involve US
in too much expense / should not op-
pose such a provision. We are now ex-
pending something like s20,000.000 an
ruany for the improvement Of rivers
and harbOrs in this country. That is
q very large sum, and we cannot afford
at this time to launch out into any
more great ventures for the insular
possessions. The Senate at the last
session put in such a provision for
Hawaii, but it was stricken out in con-
ference by the consent of the con-
ferees of both bodies.
II am aware that there is a large
commerce passing to and from the Ha-
Waiian Islands. Some years ago re-
member seeing q chart of navigable
ocean routes between different parts of