Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-03-14
Night and Day Work Ia
Hall Of Representatives
bridges appropriation,

The clerk was asked for the min
utes Of the previous day and It was
found that there was no record of the
adoption of the report Of the committee
of the whole by the House. Mr.. Harris
said that would suit his purposes Just
as well and the House went into COM
mittee of the whole. II lay with Mr..
Knudsen to make the motion that the
members be allowed to remove their
coats and smoke. This has been Mr..
Kaniho's special graft since the open
ing Of the Legislature but yesterday
Mr. Knudsen got ahead of him.
Money for Maui.
The first thing taken up was the
amendment OF Mr.. KeliinOi, providing
$4,000 for roads and bridges on the
Island OF Maui. II was found that the
amendment had become lost in some
way or other and It was necessary for
Mr.. KeliinOi to again write out the
proposed item.
Mr.. Aylctt cautioned care in the mat
ter of putting in amendments to tho
bill. The first the members knew, the
other Islands would be coming in and
asking that appropriations be put in
the Emergency Bill for them.
Brush Both Sides.
In answer to Mr.. Aylett, Mr.. Pail of
Maui said he admired very much the
way the Honolulu members were
brushing off the front part of their
clothes and leaving the back Maui
was as badly in need OF an emergency
appropriation as Oahu. In fact, the
superintendent Of Public Works had
gone to Maui at the urgent request OF
the people of that island. They wanted
him to look into their needs and make
recommendations and now the Legis-
lature was crying for him to come
back. Mr.. Pail playfully remarked
that II the members were stubborn
about passing the appropriation for
Maui, word would be sent to Sheriff
Baldwin to keep the Superintendent OF
Public Works on Maui until they
should repent of their action and pass
the amount asked for In closing his
very eloquent appeal, Mr.. Pail warned
the members from Oahu to brush OF
their backs as well as the front part.
The item finally went through. In It.
is included the item of $500 which has
been asked for by Speaker Beckley on
the previous day for the purpose OF.
putting wharf at Pukoo. an appro-
priatiOn after which the representa-
tives from the Island of Molokai have
been striving Tor about twenty years.
Dredging Honolulu Harbor.
Dredging in Honolulu harbor at
wharyes under the control Of the Ter
ritorial Superintendent of Public
Works, $4,000.
Mr.. Vida moved that this item be set
aside for a while He wanted more
light on the subject. He for one saw
| the necessity for dredging in the har-
| Dor but he wanted TO know something
more about the money already spent
by the government. Since January of
last year, something like $4,000 had
been spent in dredging operations and
there was absolutely nothing to show
! for II outside of the filling in of Aala
park and the swamp lands of the o.
Il. & l.. Co. If all this was true there
was something radically wrong some.
where.
| HarriC Explains.
! Mr. Harris answered that the amount
being asked for was not for the pur-
pose of dredging the entrance to the
harbor or anything like that. 1t was
simply to dredge the access to the
wharves. At the present time, 1t was
! impossible for such big steamers as tho
Korea to get alongside the wharves OF
| the government and they were forced
to 20 to the wharves OF the United
! States government. These steamers
were in the habit of paying $3.50 a day
! for wharfage and the government was
now losing all this revenue. The har-
bormaster had informed him that even
AT the Oceanic wharf ii was getting 50
/ that such steamers as the Alameda
could not get alongside without a great
deal Of trouble.
| Mr.. Vida said he believed that dredg-
/ ing was necessary but as he had ais
ready stated. he wanted some more in