The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-04-21

Co., that company made little use Of
Queen street
On motion by Bishop at 3;45 TO
adjourn, Vice President Paris decided
by the casting vote "to go on with
the work.
The hill passed second reading, 9
to 4, 70 be read third time today.
Senate Bill ~. relating TO lands held
bv the Department Of Public Instruc-
ton, was laid on the table.
Senate Bill 1919, an electric railroad
| franchise for the Island of Kauai, pass
ed second rea ling, to to read third
time today.
RAPID TRANSIT SPEED.
Senate Bill 81, to amend Section
$40, Revised Laws of Hawaii, was call
ed up for second reading. 1t proposed
TO change the speed limit of the Rapid
Transit Co. IS ears from eight to twelve
miles an hour within certain bounda-
ries and outside thereof to leave the
speed limit for arrangement with the
Governor. Also it would alter the
boundaries by substituting Beretania
street, for Judd street and Pauoa
road" The section as proposed to be
amended was the following:
"The rate of speed of the cars of
the said association and others shall
not exceed twelve miles per hour with
in the following limits in the district
of Kona, Island of Oahu, viz.
"From the line of South street and
Alapai street on the south and east to
Liliha street on the north, and from
the harbor front to Beretania street.
"Outside the limits mentioned in the
preceding paragraph the maximum
rate of speed on the lines of said as
ISOLATION and others shall be such as
shall be fixed, from time to time by
the said association and others, subject
to the approval of the Governor.
McCandless moved the bill to be in
definitely postponed.
Bishop referred to bills of Senator
McCandless as having been passed by
title while the Senator attacked all
other railway bills. IL that was a
square deal, he would like to know it.
McCandless replied thai the Supreme
Court decided the Rapid Transit fran
chise could not be changed. Twenty
persons had been killed owing to the
speed of the cars. The company had
paid stock dividend of 100000. OF
this $4,000 should have been divided
with the Territory and if the Attorney
General had done his duty the Terri
tory would own 100000 of Rapid
Transit stock. The company had is
sued $4,000 more stock than it was
entitled to. If they passed that blu
giving unlimited speed before they
got the money due the Territory,
they were doing wrong thing. The
company wanted to change the law so
that we could not have transfer sys-
TEN. He considered if he was lame
and, standing on King street, wanted
to go to the Hawaiian Eoiel, he had
a right to ride down to Aala Park and
get transfer to take him to the Ha-
waiian Hotel. When you go into a
court of equity you must have clean
hands, but this Rapid Transit Co. came
into the Legislature with the dirtiest
of hands. They might kill one of the
children of Senator. They might kill
one of the Senators. He did not want
to allow the company to kill people
promiscuously.
Achi remarked that Senator McCand-
less said all of the bad but nothing of
the good about the company. He was
in favor of amending the franchise so
that people could get to and from their
business without delay. The company
paid a tax of $40 for every car. 1t
was paying $4,000 year in taxes. In
the past three years it had paid the
government $4,000. The speaker 3
own father was killed by getting I'M
der car of the Hawaiian Tramways
Co., but the ear was going slow and
it was his fathers own fault. Some
times n man was killed riding horse.
Thousands We're killed in railroad ac-
cidents every year. That was no ar
gument, because a railroad killed peo-
pie.
Bishop stated he had no interest in
the Rapid Transit Co. With refer
ence to the transfer question, he or
fered substitute bill to Senator Nc
Candless the previous day with the
transfer question eliminated, but the
Senator told him he would return the
bill next day without n report on ac-
count of what President Isenberg had
said. If the Territory had been rob-
bed to the extent of all the thousands
of dollars the Senator had stated, then
it was time the Attorney General got
to work. In conclusion he offered an
amendment combining the bill to the
matter OF speed within the given
boundaries, saving there was no more
| danger in twelve miles than in eight
miles an hour. The law of general av-
erage worked.
McCandless asked, if they could
amend the franchise in speed, what
was to prevent their requiring the
company to pay per cent of its re-
ceipts to the government, or to make
fare of % cents or 2 1-2 cents from
Kalihi to Waikiki. He would guaran-
tee to find the money within AS hours
to pay the Rapid Transit Co. the
money it had actually invested and
give the people 10 cent fare.
Bishop amendment was lost on the
following vote:
Ayes-Achi, Bishop, Gandall, Paris
"A.
Noes Brown, Dowsett, Hayselden,
Hewitt, Kalama, Lane, McCandless,
Wilcox, Woods-9.
Achi moved an amendment to the