The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-19
STANDS BY
NUUANU DAM
Chillingworth and His
Array of Favored
Causes.
sENATE-TwENTY-sEcoND DAY.

SENATE-TWENTY SECOND DAY.
Senator Chillingworth may be reck-
oned as the next friend of the Public
Works Department in so far as it is
related to the faulty construction of
the Nuuanu dam. This fact was en-
phasized yesterday when the nomina-
tion of J. II. Rowland, as commissioner
of street grades and sidewalk lines was
called for confirmation by the Senate.
Senator Lane questioned the pro-
priety of action at this time while
Rowland, as Assistant Superintendent
of Public Works in charge of the con-
struetlon of Nuuanu dam is under fire.
The Senator said he cast no reflections
upon Howland but as a matter of de-
cency action should be postponed until
the committee reported.
Senator Chillingworth said it was
ready to report now and there is not
thing against Howland adding that
it was not likely that Mr.. Schuyler
would be able to report at this session
of the Legislature.
The attitude of Senator Chilling
worth on the dam investigation sug
gests concurrence in the opinion of
the officials of the department and
with this in sight it would seem that
he &ox Lo Iar nv
calling off the investigation, wiring the
expert to defer his visit, putting an
other coat of whitewash on the core
wall and pipe and allow it to stand
of some person or persons unknown to
the committee.
Senator Chillingworth has been re-
ferred to as the champion of the Stand
ard Oil Co., also, and the statement will
not be denied The first bill introduced
by him, and reported upon adversely
by the committee on account of the
many defects in it's construction, has
point as bad as any in the first. 1t pro-
vides for the storage of various oils
and other ''iquid explosives So far
as can be learned there is but one
4sliquid' explosive and that one nitro
glycerine, a fit thing to be packed in
a store house filed with gasoline,
naphtha and kerosene oils. People with
in fifteen hundred feet of a building
so occupied would no doubt sleep sound
ly after the explosion.
The railway bill came up yesterday
in the form of report from Senator
Dowsett of the Ways and Means COM
mittee endorsing the measure.
Senator Chillingworth opposed on the
ground that it was class legislation In
that it did for one island what was
not done for another. Senator Coelho
disagreed with him and Senator Dow
sett came to the rescue by a motion to
lay the report on the table to be con-
sidered with the bill.
A suggestion was made that the bill
read Territory instead of g Hawaii
so that discrimination would not be
thought of and Senator Woods gave
out the information that a bill is IN
preparation granting similar exception
to railroads on Kauai.
To sum it up the days business was
conducted expeditiously and was prolific
of results. President Bishop feltdengue
coming along and, early in the morning,
retired in favor of Senator Knudsen
an oversight that was taken as slight
by Vice President Kalama.
Before meeting in the afternoon it
was explained to him that the Presi-
dent was too i'll on leaving the chair
to realize what he was doing.
In the afternoon session Senator
Lane surprised his colleagues during
the consideration of Governors Mes
sage No 4, by moving the confirmation
of the appointment of l.. G. Kellogg as
a member of the Board of Agriculture
and Forestry The Senator has moved
to defer this every time 1t has been
called because he had a preferenc Tor
d. P. r. Isenberg.
In the second batch of appointments
sent in yesterday appeared the name |
of that gentleman who is to be made
a commissioner for the unexpired term
of L. A. Thurston, resigned. This |
proved Lanes statement which was, In |
substance. that he did not love Kel- |
iogg less but Isenberg more.
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