The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-10
CARTER AND COOPER
DIFFER SHARPLY
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under consideration long before any,
thing was known of the coming change
of administration.
A running debate ensued. the Gov
ernor denying that he had not thor
ough knowledge of the Territory 5
finances, including public obligations,
in reply to statements by Mr.. Carter.
Mr.. Carter brought up the Kahikinul,
the Nakuina and the Lualualei trans
actions. With regard to the last, he ac-
cused Mr. Cooper of having been ready
to let the land go for between $4,000
and 1900 and had been surprised to
receive a bid of $4,000 for it at private
auction. Mr. Carriers final complaint
was that he had been led to infer that
ali of the land transactions on the pro-
gram were to have been put through
at that meeting.
The matter was ultimately referred
back to Superintendent Cooper, on mo-
ton of Secretary Carter, for a more
explicit statement of Aiea land value.
BRIEF CALM.
Considerable time was taken up over
maps with a discussion of leaseholds
on Hawaii proposed to be given in fee
simple to the Irwin interest in exchange
for town property. There seemed to be
such a dovetailing of old and new
leases, at least in the minds of the par
ties to the discussion, as would take
considerable investigation of the docu-
ments in question fully to explain.
The proceedings became so tame and
were so unreportable without maps and
diagrams that the representatives OF
the press one after another withdrew.
It proved to be only a calm before
greater storm than the former one.
WARM TIME.
Mr.. Atkinson broke into the dry
delving in the Parker ranch and irwin
sugar border lands with a motion to
refer all of the land deals to a COM
mittee consisting of Secretary Carter
and Commissioners Boyd. DR.. Cooper,
another tired councillor, seconded the
motion.
Superintendent Cooper protested
against the proposal as shutting him
out Secretary Carter supported the
motion on the ground that it was mex
pedient to require the participation OF
unconcerned heads of departments in
the discussion of such matters.
Then the storm broke. A member of
the council says it was the warmest
time he had ever witnessed in the coun-
ell chamber. "It was not the Legis-
lature,' this informant says, "or there
would have been names called"
Mr. Cooper said he had several mat
tiers to be concluded which had been
approved at previous meetings. Among
these matters he mentioned that he
signed the contract on Saturday for
completing the Diamond Head reser-
voir.
Mr. Carter was up in a moment, pro-
testing vigorously against the act of
the Superintendent of Public Works.
The reservoir was one of the loan fund
matters that he had expressly desired
should be left to the new administra-
ton. He complained that MT. Cooper
had not complied with his request made
last week for a complete statement of
outstanding contracts.
Mr.. Cooper argued in reply that the
reservoir would be a revenue-producing
addition to the water works.
Mr.. Carter held it was purely a mat
ter of the county, with which the Ter-
ritory had nothing to do. When the
item was before the Legislature he dis
cussed it with the Governor, and his
recollection was of an understanding
that it would be vetoed because the
Territory should not pay for county
Improvement.
Governor Dole did not recall any
statements of the kind, and Mr.. Carter
said he could produce the copy of a
letter he wrote to the President the fol-
lowing day, giving his view of the mat
ter as now represented.
The upshot of the meeting was the
deferring of all of the land exchange
proposals. Unless a special meeting be
called in the meantime, the probability
Is that the matters will become a
legacy to the new administration.
EXCHANGE OF VIEWS.
Late yesterday afternoon Secretary
Carter wrote a note to Superintendent