The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-30
HAWAII AND THE RIVER
AND HARDOR MEASURE
Continued from Page y

and by the high price of articles Xix
grain and hay. which are needed to rul
the sugar plantations. If these prod
ucts were home grown it would resul
in an enormous saving of money. TIL
freight charges upon every bale of ha.
brought in are from 50 cents to SIPS
and 1 know of one estate that pays on
$1,000 every month for feedstuffs. Their
is much good land on our island tina
could be made to produce these crops
but until we can construct a railroad
from the interior to the coast there i!
no use trying to cultivate them. There
is now a proposition to build such 6
line, but unless foreign capital can be
| got TO take an interest the success Of
the project is doubtful
| Mr.. Peck tarried here only briefly be-
fore going on to New York, where he
has important business of a financial
| nature to attend to. He stated that his
stop here was largely for pleasure. AS
is well understood in Honolulu, Mr..
Peck is Interested in the construction
of railroad around the Island of Ha-
wall.
PUBLIC BUILDING LEGISLATION.
Mr.. Young and Mr.. J. G. Pratt have
been busy looking the ground over with
reference TO public building legislation,
and especially with reference to legis-
Iation for the purchase of Mr.. Young's
building Their efforts in this direc-
ton first took formal shape in Con-
gress Thursday (day before yesterday,
when q bill was introduced IN Senate
and House. providing an appropriation
of 81. 400, COG and authorizing and direct
ing the Secretary of the Treasury ito
acquire by purchase, condemnation, or
otherwise, a suitable building with site,
or a site, and cause to be erected there
on a suitable building. including fire
proof vaults, heating and ventilating
apparatus, and approaches" for the use
of the postoffice, land office, Federal
courts, custom house, surveyor general
and other Federal offices in Honolulu.
The interesting paragraph in the bill
is the one quoted the language of
which, it will be noted, is so flexible
as to permit of the purchase of the
Young building, without specifically
stating so. The bill in other particu-
lars, save the total of the appropria-
ton, follows the lines of Delegate Kala-
nianaole's bill, mentioned in my pre-
vious letter.
The bill was Introduces in the House
by Representative Cushman of Wash
ngton State, and in the Senate by Sen
ator Perkins of California Delegate
Kalanianaole did not wish to intro
duce the bill for Mr.. Young, because
it would seem to be in conflict with
the public building bill he had orevi-
ously offered. None the less ne is
j -
Pratt are by no means discouraged with
the progress made. They have talked
with Chairman Gillet of the House
Committee on Public Buildings and
1t is growing more and more
apparent that there will be no public
building legislation at this session, but
hat does not mean that the work Mr..
Young is now doing viii be lost. I
THE HOTEL MEASURE.
Following is a copy of the bill for
he appropriation:
A BILL to provide for the purchase
of site and the erection of pub
lie building thereon, or for the pur-
chase of a suitable building with site
at Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Terri
tory OF Hawaii.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
states of America in Congress assem- i
)led, that the Secretary of the Treas |
Try be and he is hereby authorized and |
directed to acquire by purchase, con-
or otherwise, a. suitable
building with site, or a site, and cause
o be erected thereon a suitable build
ng, including fireproof vaults. heating
md yentilating apparatus, and APP
breaches, for the use and occupation
II the United States Postofice, the
United States Land Office, the United
States Courts, the United States Gus
.om House, the United States Surveyor
and other Federal offices in
the city of Honolulu, Island of Oahu,
Territory of Hawaii, the cost of said
site with building, including said vaults,
heating and ventilating apparatus and
approaches, not to exceed the sum of
one million four hundred thousand dol
lars; Provided, that such building shall
be erected on any public site in said
city, providing there is in said city such
suitable public grounds for said pub
lie building. In Tie event of no such
public grounds being available, then
for the sale of land for said
site, or a building with site. shall be
invited by public advertisement in one
or more of the newspapers of said city,
of largest circulation for at least twenty
days prior to the date specified in said
for the opening of said
Proposals made in response to said
shall be addressed and
mailed to the Secretary OF the Treas
ury, who shall then cause the said pro-
posed sites. or buildings with sites. and
such others as he may think proper to
designate, to be examined in person by
an agent of the Treasury Department,
who shall make written report to said
secretary of the results of said exami-
nation and of his recommendation
thereon. and the results therefor, which
shall be accompanied by the original
proposals and all maps, plats, drawings,
plans, specifications ana statements
which shall have come into his possess
sion relating to the said proposed sites.