Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-04-27
SENATE e.
Flfty-eishth Day.
Afternoon Session.

Honolulu Municipal bill from further
consideration on third reading until
Monday morning. Senator McCandless
moved to amend to $3.50 this after.
noon. Carried.
st. Louis Exposition.
I President Crabbe reminded Chair
man Baldwin of the Ways and Means
Committee that the House Joint Reso-
luton providing for the appointment
of a Commission to the st. Louis Ex-
position was awaited for report from
that committee.
Senator Baldwin was not aware of II,
but search of his desk caused him
to acknowledge the fact
Wireless Telegraph Subsidy.
Senator Paris moved to take up the
bill providing a subsidy for the Inter-
Island Telegraph Co. Carried
Clerk Savidge read memorials in fav
or Of the bill from all over the islands.
There were petition from 81 citizens
OF Hilo. a resolution of Wailuku
meeting attended by nearly 200 peo-
pie and petition Of IS business men
Of Honolulu. Another paper was a
wireless dispatch from L. Il. Richards.
the leading telephone man OF Hawaii
island, to Senator Woods urging his
support Of the bill and saying every
body on that island was in favor of st.
Two other petitions from Honolulu
were signed by 20 and by IL persons
respectively.
The bill was read third time It
requires communication to be opened
up with Kauai within four months in
addition to Maui and Hawaii already
existing The rates for messages are
limited to 10 cents a word and min
imum OF 81 a message. Government
messages are to be free. The subsidy
Is $4,000 year.
Senator Baldwin said: 81 move the
passage OF the Act. The wireless tel
egraph has got to be necessity. When
this company started It lost money and
the service was discontinued for a
time owing to lack Of funds, and the
business men of the Islands got togeth-
er and said II ought to be continued.
my buuoNl lDtu III Nba' PhA
pose. The rates are the same as those
charged from east to west across the
continent. II the Government have
their messages free we can pass this
bill. ] understand that improvements
the company purpose to make will cost
as much as this subsidy. Better ser
vice Is also to be given"
Senator Kalauokalani said the bin
would be precedent for other COM
panies to be asking for subsidies. This
company had started independently
and not having succeeded they now
appealed to the Government for n sub
sidy. They might next have the Rapid
Transit Co. asking for money. lie had
no objection to the company. II open
ed up communication between the
islands and was important. While the
outer districts were asking for moro
schools, he did not think IL was right
to grant this subsidy to private COM
pany.
Senator Dickey was opposed to sub
sides as a general thing, but In this
case he believed IL was necessary. lie
thought the Government ought to own
the wireless telegraph, but Il was too
late in the session now TO provide for
its purchase. 1t was of great import
ance to the country that they should
have this Geographic system, and he
saw no way to have II but by passing
this bill
The bill passed on the following
vote:
Ayes-Achi, Baldwin, Brown J. T.,
Dickey, Kaiue, McCandless. Nakapaa-
hu, Paris, WilcOX-9
Noos-Brown C., Kalauokalaui.
Woods-3.
Eighteen Months Salaries.
The bill appropriating salaries and
payrolls for the eighteen months end
ing June 80, 1905, came up for third
reading. 1t had passed second read
ing by title.
When the reading had progressed but
q little way an error In figuring out
the necessary three-fourths OF the
amounts in the original bin, owing to
the abstraction of separate bill pro-
viding for the six months prior to the
Inauguration of county government, oc-
Casioned general uproar.
President Crabbe and others meta
phorically jumped on Senators Dickey
and Achi for having brought in a new
bill without notice and all that sort OF
thing.
Senator Dickey after a while was al
lowed to explain that the committee
had struck out or reduced, as might
have seemed better, items for services
TO the Territory taken away or dimin-
ished by the County Act, and for tho
rest reduced the original appropria.
lions for the biennial period to three.
fourths. The Senate had accepted
their bill without referring It to any
committee for review, and with the
exception OF few errors in computa-
ton the bill was in shape for consid-
grafton.
Lighthouses, Etc.
The reading then progressed rapid
ly. Senator McCandless moved To
strike out the pay of lighthouse keep