The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-04-30

'""S"'t anu u'i"N ~ Nht VoElplttiOn
of the dam.
The recommendation of any cancel.
lation Of contract should make every
member of the House sit up in his chair
and think twice, concluded Rawlins.
MAY TAKE TWO YEARS.
Rice defended the report. He had
consulted with Schuyler and had been
told that if the work dragged along
as now the dam would not be complet.
ed within two years. The time for
the completion of the contract had been
October !, 1906. The Superintendent of
Public Works could, SO soon as the
balance of $31, 1000 on the present con.
tract was spent, call for new bids.
"The committee recommends that
the contract be Cancelled, if not now,
as soon as the available money is spent.
That is why we put the appropriation
in new loan bill, for it we reappro-
priated another dollar out of the money
now in the treasury it would be tied up
under this contract.
"We want the work to stop dragging
on as it is now. Better stop the work
altogether than let it go dragging on
through the years. We are going on
now frittering away time and money
and it does not pay. 1 was ready to
introduce resolution, had there been
time, saying that we voted the 1885,, 1000 |
to go on a new contract to complete
the dam, not to let it go for so much
a yard for this and SO much for that,
but to complete the work. Every
month we hurry it up means saving
to u.s."
LIKE BLIND MONKEYS.
Pail said that the House had been
led like blind monkeys and pulled
around by the ears over the dam re-
port and the dam appropriations. Ev-
erybody in the House, everybody in
the Territory knew the particulars
about the dam, yet the House had
stared the facts in the face and gone
ahead and ignored them.
He demanded the reason why the
egal members of the House had not
ZONE forward sooner with all their in
about the contract.
"The only way we can deal properly
With this question now is to recall the
bill back from the Sen
tie and reconsider the Nuuanu dam
TEN. / ask the House to carefully
consider this.'
CENSURE HOLLOWAY.
Kaleo thought the committees re-
,ort should stand. If the contract was
. defective one and not drawn to prop
,rly guard the public interest, the
proper thing for the House to do would
De to censure the Superintendent of
public Works and pass vote of want
# confidence in him. /,
KALEIOPU'S CHANGE OF MIND.
Kaleiopu moved the tabling of both c
he majority and minority reports.
Rawlins said he would support the
eport if the words "if possible" be :
Inserted in the recommendation to can s
eel the contract
eff the House will pass this report
am ready to introduce resolution j.,
addressed to the Superintendent of /
public Works stating that we have
,oted this $4,000 on the condition
hat it be expended only on new
ontract. That expresses the feeling I
# the committee and the House," said
iice, who called upon Rawlins to help
i'm in drafting the resolution. a
Kaleiopu still urged the tabling of
IL the reports and the recall of the
ill carrying the $4,000 item.
This speaker swung right around in
lis position and began a fierce attack /
n the dam, which had cost $l50,000 al q
eady, was not one-fourth completed
nd would probably not be safe when
was finished. He wanted to draw \
ack the appropriation and refuse to
pend another dollar on the dam.
On behalf of the public safety and
+ the duty the House owed the people J
n the care of the public funds he
ppealed to the House to table the !
ill.
INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS.
Hughes said he had not heard one
rgument why the report should not /
e adopted. Rawlins' legal eye had I
elected flaw, but it did not amount
o anything in the broad matter at
ssue. q
The report was bald statement of $
act supported by the Governor, the
superintendent of Public Works and =,
is assistant, and by numerous com /
etent witnesses, and in all its vital h
eatures it was correct.
els there man in the Territory !.
tho does not know the intolerabe con d