The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-04-30


standing amendment TO insert an itsn
of tito.ooo In the bill for the purohaa
OF the Pauoa water rights. TIL
amendment carried. seven member
voting for II. ave against and the res
OF the members not voting at all.
Coney moved the substitution o.
si37. 600 for thu Nuuanu dam In piac.
OF the 10000 provided. Coney present.
ed his reasons and concluded with the
pious hope that this amount would
prove to be enough and that the next
Legislature would not be troubled with
the dam question.
The amendment carried.
PUNCHBowL DRIVE DEFEATED
Castro had an amendment and press
ed 1t against the opposition of Rice.
This was for $4,000 for the extension
OF Prospect street around Punchbowl.
Rice said the bill for roads had passed
long ago. to which Castro retorted:
IF the item could have been put in
that bill 1t can just as well be put In
this bill. Money is just the same, 1t
comes from the same taxpayers and
out of the same treasury. 1t is unfair
to treat the item like this after the
House has passed a resolution favor
ing it."
Castro made the warmest speech he
has made during the session and was
backed up in his demands by Hughes
and Rawlins.
Pail seconded the motion to table
the amendment. Oahu could get in as
Maui was doing and borrow money for
her roads.
The amendment was declared lost
on the casting vote of the chair, the
vote having stood at thirteen to thir-
teen.
Hughes objected. Some members had
not voted and these should be counted
as against the tabling. To avoid fur
ther discussion a roll call was taken
resulting ayes 10, noes IA, thus tabling
the amendment by the same mapority
of one.
A roll call on the bill as amended
showed ages 20, noes 8.
KILLED HIS OWN BILL.
House Bill 1876, the general electrical
Rawlins.
WA1MEA EMBANKMENT VETO.
Sheldon thought the Governors eco
nomical streak over the Waimea en-
bankment bill, which was up for con-
sideration again on veto, was strange
in view of his recommendations over
the Nuuanu dam and the other ex-
travagant measures. He explained
again his motives in introducing the
special bill and the pressing need of
the repairs asked for in It.
Pali had moved to sustain the veto
but withdrew his motion after Shell
don had spoken.
Kaniho said he would help Sheldon,
even If his own pet lava flow road bill
had been vetoed and the House had
not come to his assistance at that time.
Like Sheldon, he could see little virtue
in the veto.
The veto was overridden by twenty
six to four.
NUUANU DAM.
There remained on the order of the
day the consideration of the two Nuu-
anu dam reports, the chair venturing
a suggestion that this go over until
today. Kaleiopu saw little sense in
this, especially after the House had
voted money for the dam.
Rawlins said there was one thing
in particular that he wished to look
into and that was as to where the
head of the Public Works Department
got the money to build what part of
the dam had already been built. He
had been looking into the dam matter
for months and wanted to tell what
he had found out. There was another
thing. The majority report recon-
mended canceling the contract. He
wanted the members to consider what
had been the experience of the gov
ernment over the Brewer wharf con-
tract and the Asylum contract, then
to think of the folly of canceling an
other contract off hand
Kaleiopu thought the vote of the
money had settled the matter. He saw
no sense in bowling over the affair
any more.
Sheldon broke into the debate but
was headed off by a motion to ad-
journ from Pail. Pail in turn was
headed off by the Speaker, new bill
having arrived from the Senate.
ANOTHER APPROPRIATION Bill.
This bill, Senate Bill 62, carries
s19s,50O. of which $132,OOO is for the Nu-
uanu dam. The bill passed first read
ing.
A.s.