The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-03-21


Woods Rapid Transit Investigation
resolution involved no question of pub
lie expenditure. 1t might involve a
question of violation of Territorial law,
| and If it did 1t should go to the Judi
ciary Committee. But where II proper
ly belonged was In the hands of a
special committee, with the introducer
as chairman, as the man who was
| seeking information. And this was
not because the Public Expenditures
Committee wanted to shirk any duty
| Dickey moved the appointment of a
special committee with Woods as
chairman. This carried, and President
Isenberg appointed Woods, Dickey and
Achi as such committee.
| Achi asked to be excused from duty.
as being the father of the law and an
interested party. Woods, also. wanted
to be excused. He had introduced the
resolution, but had done 1t by request
The President wanted to hold his
/ committee, but finally excused Achi
and appointed Lane.
Dickey said If interested parties were
to be debarred. he ought to be excused
too as being small stakeholder in
the Rapid Transit. He did not care,
one way or the other.
Achi thought Dickey should be ex-
cused, and he was. The committee. as
finally named, was composed of Woods,
Hayselden and Lane-although Haysel-
den did not want the job either.
THE PARK RESERVATION BILL.
The order of the day came now on
I Senate Bill 6, which is the Park reser-
walton bill. and the Senate went into
! Committee of the Whole with Achi in
| the chair. The bill was read section
by section, and McCandless moved to
strike out section one because he
claimed that the Tantalus reservation
was In the interest of a certain single
property owner whose land was not
included in the reserve, and to whom
the bill would give a monopoly in Tan
talus lots.
Woods wanted to know who was the
property owner referred to-
| Il understand" said McCandless,
that most of the property up there
peiouBS 10 w. II. Castle"
McCandless, at the suggestion of
Dickey. said that he only meant his
motion to go to the striking out of
subdivision one of section 1.
! Dickey defended the bill. and Bishop
said that he wanted to reserve all the
| public lands on Tantalus He wanted
1t to be so that when the people went
up the government road on Tantalus.
they could put their feet off that road
ana not have to put them on private
| property. He offered an amendment
to the section including In the park
reservation practically all of the public
land remaining on Tantalus.
Dowsett did not favor the Bishop
idea' II might have been fair to re-
serve all the land on Tantalus IL none
OF 1t had ever been sold. He did not
believe that 1t was fair to shut out
everybody else because Mr.. Castle and
Mr.. Schmidt and Mr.. Cooper and a
favored few had secured homes up
1 there.
Il beg the Senator's pardon" said
| Dickey. "Mr. Castle owns no land
near this park"
We'll" said Dowsett, 'leave out Mr..
Castle. Let us say Mr.. Hackfeld, DR..
Cooper and Others"
He went on to argue against the
policy of setting apart any public land
as park. There was power already
vested in the Board of Forestry to set
aside forestry reserves, and that should
cover the whole case.
Paris supported the BILL arguing that
the park reservation was in the inter-
est of establishing breathing places for
the people.
WANTS LEGAL LIGHT.
Isenberg wanted legal light on the
question of the power of the Board of
Forestry and of the Senate to set aside
forest reserves. He did not think, under
the Organic Act, that any such power
existed outside of the Land Commits
sioner, and that II there was a strict
construction, all the money appropri-
ated for forest reserves would have to
be returned to the Treasury.
Dickey said there was no question
about the power vested In the Land
Commissioner by the Organic Act The
Senate could not change that. But
1t could indicate lands to be set aside,
and the Organic Act did not disturb the
Forestry law. That was passed be-
fore the passage of the Organic Act,
and was subject to action by the Ter