The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-18
THE SENATE.

The bill now goes to the House for a
demonstration of how much truth there
is in the stories that an agreement has
been reached between leaders in the
two Houses to make the County Act
meet the views of the Governor.
Senate Bill 1913, which is the Dickey
bill providing money for the counties,
was given to the Ways and Means
Committee on third reading, being de-
fective at some points, and will come
up in the Senate perhaps today. And
then it, too, will be put up to the
House. And after that both measures
must go against the pocket veto.
THE TELEPHONE BILL.
From the special committee on the
application of the Standard Telephone
Company for franchise on Oahu,
Bishop yesterday presented a long re-
port designed to protect the interests
of the public in the future. In its
essential points, it is as follows:
Your special committee on House
Bill No. 50, entitled AN Act to au-
thorize and provide for the construc
ton, maintenance and operation OF
telephone system on the Island of
Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, by the
Standard Telephone Company, Limit
ed, beg leave to report:
I "Section 5. This section provides
that the Superintendent of Public
Works shall furnish to said company
within thirty days CATER applied for)
the grade and profile of any street I'M
der which the company desires to lay
its conduifs. The section also pro-
vides that the company shall not there
after be required to alter the same.
The committee believes that the COM
pany should change it's conduits as
may be required for the public neces-
stiles, and therefore recommends that
by striking out the entire section and
inserting the following, which is the
law governing the Rapid Transit Com
pany in the matter of street grades
viz:
"Section 5. The said Standard
Telephone Company before laying its
conduits or otherwise disturbing any
of the streets or roads of the island
of Oahu, shall ascertain the lawful
grade of such streets or roads from the
shall furnish the required information
within a reasonable time.
1.-The conduits or other equipment
of the SAID company which affect the
surface of the public streets or roads
shall conform to the grades of said
streets or roads on which they are laid
down, as furnished by the Superin-
tendent of Public Works or other of
fcer duly appointed by him, and the
said Standard Telephone Company
shall not in any way change or alter
the same without the written consent
of the superintendent of Public
Works. And the Territory of Hawaii
reserves further the right to change
and alter the line and grades of its
streets at any time and the said
Standard Telephone Company shall at
their own cost within sixty DAYS con
form to such new lines and grades in
reeonstructing its surface equipment or
condults upon receiving notice in writ
ing from the Superintendent of Public
Works, and such changes shall be
made subject TO the approval of the
Superintendent of Public Works. And
in all eases of street improvements by
the Territory (or county, the said
Standard Telephone Company shall
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directed by the Superintendent Of
Public Works. In case of neglect by
said Standard Telephone Company to
make such repairs, changes or I'M
provements REQUIRED of it by this sec
tion, they shall be made by the Ter
ritory, and the cost of such repairs,
changes and improvements shall be re-
covered by the said Territory from
the said Standard Telephone Company.
DOUBTFUL PROVISION.
''Sections 10 and II. These sec
hons clearly give the company the
right of eminent domain; the right to
go over. across and under the prop
erty of private individuals As to
whether 1t would be possible for tele
phone company to equip and operate
without this right is question. and
1t may be that to eliminate this right
would make the plans of the company