The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-04-30
MONEY FOR
NUUANU DAM
HousE-FIrTY.sIxTH DAY.

hanging fire in the House, although
both branches Of the Legislature yes.
terday passed bills on third reading
carrying the amount asked for to com
plete the work, $4,000. There are
several members ready and anxious to
talk on the matter and all are to be
given a chance to air their views this
morning.
An item was inserted in a House
appropriation bill yesterday of $l40,-
600 to purchase the water rights and
springs in Pauoa valley. Kaleo has
been insisting on this item ever since
the House began its work and he has
so wearied the members that he was
allowed to have his own way about it
yesterday, few of the members taking
the trouble to even vote on the mat
ter. Those who did vote for it were
the Home Rule and Democratic wings
and those hanging on the fringes. 1t
is taken for granted that this will be
cut out in the Senate.
An item of $4,000 went in the Spe'
cial Appropriation bill for the Honolulu
High school, much to the qualification
of the Oahu members, who had lost
hope of having the appropriation made.
The department of Public Instruction
had asked for $4,000 for this work in
the first place.
The question of finances and appro-
priations has naturally the chief place
in all the doings of the two chambers
now and the Governor felt called upon
to review the situation for them yes
terday in veto sent down over the
Waimea embankment bill. He caution
ed the legislators to 60 slow and held
up before them the danger of big
deficit. His figures and reasonings fail
ed to frighten Rice, however, who
thought that the Governor was only
sore.
Morning Session.
An Executive measure, House Bill
Jag, making special appropriations of
$20S, $50, for school building purposes
and carrying an item of $4,000 for the
Honolulu High School new building,
was tabled on a report of the Finance
committee, which recommended that the
bill be SO treated "for the reason
that all the available money from cur
rent receipts has already been appro-
priated. All the items in this tabled
bill, with the exception of the High
School item and for the purchase of
additional land for the Waialee In
dustrial school, have been transferred
into the shell of House BIZ 131, after
the original meat had been picked out
of that measure.
LEPER SUSPECT BILL.
The remedied draft bill regarding
the right of those alleged to be lepers
to hearing before district magis
trate was read third time and ear
ried, after the sergeantat-arms had
rounded up Sheldon, the introducer, and
produce him in the House.
SECOND READING.
House Bill 243, confirming the reso-
luton of the Hawaii supervisors to
float a bond issue of $l50,000, passed
second reading without debate or OPP
position and House Bill 244, the last
bill to be introduced in the House this
session, also slid through. This last
bill allows the Superintendent of Pub
lie Lands to grant an additional home
stead lot to any land holding to allow
the holder to live off his agricultural
land.
HONOLULU GETS HIGH SCHOOL.
The House went into committee of
the whole on House Bill els, and
passed the item of $1,000 for landing
and wharves on Kauai, over which the
storm of the day before had ragged,
The item of $4,000 for the Nuuanu
dam was then taken up again, Long
moving that it pass as in the bill.
"The only objection to that is that
$4,000 will not be enough to com
plete the work according to the re.
port of Engineer Schuyler" said Rice.
"The amount needed ought to get IN
under the new Loan Act. According
to the report it will cost $4,000 to
finish the work"
"We don't care where the money
comes from so long as we get it," said
Long. "We want to have the dam
completed some way"
HIGH SCHOOL NEEDED.
"This money belongs to Oahu, any.
way" said Kaleiopu. "We have given
Kauai what she wanted for her land.
ings and wharves and | now move that
we use this $4,000 for new High
School for Honolulu"
"But there is not that much left in
the bill. There is only s50,6l7,90 left
after We give Maui the extra court.
house money and the leper home $4,000