The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-03-07
THE SENATE.
ELK REENTH cay

From the Special Railway Committee,
Dickey hit the McCandess railway bin
between wind and water yesterday, but
neither the bill nor the intro
Queer was knocked out by the blow,
although both were considerably Jared.
The McCandless Belt Line measure,
which is known as Senate Bill No. II,
came up on the report of special COM
mittees and Dickey submitted the re-
port of the Special Railway Committee,
as follows:
THE bill is for the purpose of grant
the right to build belt railroad around
the southeastern end of oahu and IA
cross line from Kahuku through Kalihi
valley to point near Kamehameha
School. The road may use any power
except that 1t may not use steam In
the Districts of Waialua and Eva. 1t
passes through Honolulu on the line
of Queen street, the Beach road ana
Kapiolani Park There is no restriction
on the size of rail, gauge of track or
grade of road. The maximum rate of
speed on streets or roads Is eight miles
and the maximum rate of fare is six
cents n mile.
Your committee feels that II would
incommode the public very much to
allow another railroad to pass through
the congested part of Queen street from
the river to Fort street, where the r.
T. & l.. Company now have n track
and where large part of the heavy
dr6yage of the city is carried OIL. 1t
would be sorry to see Kapiolani Park
defaced by running a railroad through
it.
1.-THE r. II. & l.. Co. has given the
| city one of the best services In the
world, and 1t would be very unfair to
allow another company to parallel its
| tracks from Kalihi to Waikiki just
| when It has got its system into work.
ing order, begun to get out of debt and
in condition to repay its stockholders
for their long wait for dividends.
PIONEER RAILWAY.
THE Oahu Railway and Land Com
pany was the pioneer in railroad build
| Ing on oahu, and In the face of proph-
ecy on all sides that IL would never
pay, built its road under the greatest
financial difficulties. raised the receipts
of the government from $4,000 to $17, 900
per annum in the District of Eva and
has given the public a first-class SER
vice. Would 1t be fair now that 1t is
at last on a paying basis, to allow a
rival company to put in parallel line
from Kahuku to Waialua and from EVA
! to Honolulu, thus making their road
profitless? That road plans whenever
1t can see its way to do il without Sc
rious loss, to extend it's line from Ka-
huku for several miles through Koolau-
loa and to build branch road through
| Leilehua. survey for the last named
line has been made. 1t seems to your
committee that the o. r. & L. Co. is
entitled to protection, even though tech
nichally another franchise can be Ie-
gally granted.
1T would, doubtlessly, be to the adj
vantage of the people of Waialae Koo-
lauioa and Koolaupoko IL railroad
were built connecting them with Homo
lulu, but such a road could not probably
be made to pay unless the company
could have the local traffic of Honolulu
There is no doubt that If such a road
were built the taxes of the Territory
would be greatly increased in few
years, but of course not to the extent
that the taxes in Eva end Waialua
Districts have BEEN as the available
land is much less.
1T is true that the r. II. &. L. Co.
was allowed to parallel the tracks of
the Tramways Co., but there was good
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