The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-13
WAS A ROW
IN SENATE


There was a very lively discussion i'm
the Senate saturday over an item
Of $1,000 in the Unpaid bills measure.
The Hawaii Mil co. of the Hilo district
was on the list for this amount, due
them for constructing a road The
Committee on Public Expenditures Of
which Senator Paris was chairman,
and Senator McCandless and Nakapa-
anu members, had reported adversely
on the item.
Senator Isenberg opposed this pa,t
Of the report He said fl was very pc.
culiar that the president If the HilO
road board had first signed the vouch-
rr for this claim and then had gone
back on this action and expressed him
self as opposed TO the item. The speak
er declared that the claim was fair AID
just.
Senator Paris replying for the COM
mittce said that the committee had
reported adversely on the claim. Mr..
scott of Waiakea plantation had said
that undue influence had been brought
TO force him to- sign the voucher. The
road was not a public road at all, but a
private road so it had been said to
Senator Paris. II was over the prop
crty of The plantation.
Senator IseuberE contradicted the
claim that the road was not a public
one, and stated that formerly where
there was only n trail running, there
were now about fifty settlers along the
road. His father had been in HilO at
the time that this matter was brought
up. and after ii had been agreed by the
road board that the claim should be
paid. the Hackfeld people had gone
ahead and built the road
II
Scott had appeared before the commit
tee and informed them that it was not
any public road but was for the bene-
tit of the plantation Scott had not ap-
proved it, but undue pressure had been
brought to bear by Former Superin-
tendent Boyd to have the voucher
| signed. The road was used principally
| by the plantation but the plantation
allowed people from Hilo to hold pic
mics back on the plantation ground and
those people used the road
well. why was it," demanded Sem
ator Isenberg that the committee
questioned only Mr.. Scott and did not
question Mr.. Van Gravemeyer or Mr..
Rodiek of II. Hackfeld and Company
on this matter? Those gentlemen
should have been called too, so that
both sides of the matter might have
I
two gentlemen against the word of
MIR. Scott"
1T is an astonishing thing" declared
Senator G. Brown that any president
of road board allows himself to be in
tuenced into signing a voucher of
which he does not approve. II there
is such an official. the sooner he is
kicked out of his job the better it will
be" -
Senator. j. T. Brown declared that
the road in question, was a government
road, as he had built LOO feet of it.
Senator Achi said that if the deal
was wrong Sheriff Andrews might be
put out of Office as Andrews had sign
cd the voucher. On motion of Achi.
the item was passed over the report of
the committee, by vote Of u to 2
"A fine send off YOU give your COM
mittee" observed McCandless. as the
chair was counting his vote and the
vote of Senator Paris against the mo-
ton.
The other items We're discussed. The
item of $S7J.2G for interest due the va
rious Hamakua plantations and others
on their claims for lighting the forest
fires, was stricken out.
The Senate took a recess shortly af-
| ter the noon hour, as the bill had not
been concluded