The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-11
JARED SMITH
ASKS MONEY
To Aid u. S. Agricultural
k---Mahoe's Tax
Bill, Etc.

| A short, eventleSs session was thai
held Saturday in the House. which ad.
| journed shortly before eleven O'CLOCK
for the day. There was one little
scrap between Kaniho and Rawlins
but even this was not up TO the marx
of past encounters between the Koha.
latte and the chairman Of the Judi.
ciary committee. Three bills received
their third reading and passed the
House, while one was deferred at the
last moment in order to allow Rice te
introduce an amendment. This was
the measure dealing with the lega
speed limit for automobiles.
EXPERIMENT STATION NEEDS
FUNDS.
A communication was read from
Jared G. Smith, superintendent of the
U. S. Experiment Station, calling the
attention of the members to the fact
that although the station was support
ed almost altogether by Congress it
was working wholly in the interest OF
the Territory. During the past two
years the Territory had given it s5470,
while Congress had appropriated s15,-
600 for it's work Between now and
June 80 money was necessary to carry
on the experiments in progress and a
request was made that the Legislature
appropriate $4,000 for this.
Of this amount $500 was needed to
carry on the experiments with rubber
at Lihue, where the station was de-
termining the amount of juice procur-
able from Hawaiian grown trees. To
carry on the rubber experiments dur
ing the next two years the station
could use $4,000 with advantage. For
the work with rice $1,000 was required
right away At present the rice grow
ing industry is in bad way, the quail
ity grown is deteriorating and the ex-
rorration to1sequently falling off. To-
bacco at Hamakua is also at a stand
still and $400 was needed to carry the
experimental planting through until
June 80.
The communication was referred to
the Committee on Agriculture.
The Superintendent Of Public Lands
submitted a list of the Unbiased public
lands, showing a total of 616,274 acres.
In Hawaii and in some portions of Ma
vi there ere a number of wild horses,
cattle and hogs at large on these lands,
but in few instances are they used as
grazing grounds by stock raisers. In
Oahu lie department had had occa-
sion to warn the o. r. & l.. Company
regarding the running loose of the
stock in Pupukea and Paumalu and
the company is now fencing to prevent
this. It was impossible for the super
intendent to give the value Of these
lands.
The clerk of the Judiciary Depart
ment submitted a list Of the civil cases
in which former County Attorney
Douthitt and County Attorney Cath
cart had appeared in Judge De Bolts
court since January 1, 1905, showing
Douthitt to have had a share in "a
and Cathcart in 8. The latter had ap-
peared only in criminal cases since his
election.
KANIHO WANTS THAT ROAD.
Kaniho is still after the road across
the lava flow on Hawaii at the ex-
pense of the Territory. On Friday his
bill to open up the old road had been
out because it fell within the
he introduced measure to appropri-
ate $4,000 to locate and construct a new
road on the same ground, the Terri
tory having the right to open such
when it could not appropriate for the
repairing of an old one. The bill was
sent to the Printing committee.
Nailima gave notice of bill to ap-
$1,000 for the building of
iaiI and jailer's room at II "a miles,
on the Volcano road, and another Ha-
waii bill was introduced authorizing
the County of Hawaii to pay its po-
icemen for 1905, the amount due be-
ing s5317.34.
Notices of amendments to the Re
vised Laws were given as follows:
the license fees for livery
stables, to be $50 per annum in Homo
ulu and $25 per annum elsewhere In
he Territory; Section 227 to be amend
ID whereby all moneys received from
he rent of public lands is to be set
aside in a special fund to pay the
bonded indebtedness of the Territory. !
% purchase other lands and to build /
lew roads opening up public lands.
All these bills were read by title and |
,rdered to be printed.
BENEFITS ORIENTALS ONLY.
Mahoe's bill raising the tax on prop
rty another one-half Of one per cent |
/! around and also raising the amount |
f exemptions from $500 to $4,000 was
dversely reported upon by the COM
aittee on Finance. The report stated
hat the additional tax would be an inn
.ositlon upon the taxpayers, who had
lready all they could carry, while the
proposed would result in a
oss to the Territory of 100000 a year.
20 table the bill was the best thing the
ommittee could think OF.
Mahoe explained that he had thought
lis bill would increase the revenue and
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