The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-12

Summary of the Measures
introduced by the
Delegate.

Among the baggage that accompa-
MED the return of the DELEGATE 10
Congress from Washington is a sheaf
of bills that he introduced at the first
session of the Sixty-first Congress.
The measures cover number of sub
jects affecting the interests of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii. The bills introduced
deal with the following subjects:
To extend the provisions of the rec
iamation act to the Territory of Ha-
wall, and authorizing the appropriate
territorial officers to cooperate with
the Secretary of the Interior IN carry
ing out its provisions and securing
from the proceeds of sales of land
that may be reclaimed full repayment
TO the reclamation fund of the expen-
ditures ''therefrom on account of irri-
cation projects in said Territory
To give the Legislature of the Ter
ritory the full power to alter or amend
the land laws applicable to the Ter
ritory, on or after the passage of the
act.
Jurors
and witnesses in the United States
courts of the District of Hawaii shall
be the same as the fees in the Terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona
Under the bill the fees would be three
dollars per day and fifteen cents per
mile for journey by stage line or pri-
vate conveyance, and five cents per
mile for travel by railway.
Authorizing the Secretary of the
Interior to make a photographic sur
vey for gauging the streams and de-
termining the water supply of the Ter
ritory, and for the preparation of a
report as to the best means of utiliz-
ing the water supply-the cost not to
be in excess of $4,000.
Soil Examination.
Authorizing the Secretary of Agri-
culture to make a general examina ton
of the soils of the Territory with a
view to determining what agricultural
products are best suited to the Ter
ritory, the cost not to be in excess
of $4,000.
Directing the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor to establish biological STA.
ton on the island of Oahu, the Terri
tory to provide the necessary land. The
sum of $4,000 is mentioned in the bill
as the proper appropriation to cover the
object sought.
Directing that the Secretary of the
Treasury erect a building at Hilo fol
the use of the United States Postoffice
United States Court, Custom House
and other Federal offices, the total cost
not to be in excess of $4,000.
Directing the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor to establish lighthouse OF
the first order at Kumukahi Point, Ha
waii, the cost not to exceed $4,000.
Increased Salaries.
Amending the Organic Act and pro
viding that the Governor of the Terri
tory shall receive $4,000 year IL
place of his present salary OF $4,000 {
year; Secretary of the Territory, 5000
year; Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, $500; Associate justices, $1,000
Jdges of the Circuit Courts, $4,000; Uni
ted States District Judge, $1,000; Uni
ted States Marshal, $4,000; Unite'
States Attorney, $4,000, with the pro
-viso that the United States Attorne,
shall be prohibited from engaging II
private practise; the Governor co re
ceive $1,000 for stationery and inclden
tails, travelling expenses and the sun
of $4,000 annually for his private seere
tary.
Providing a monthly pension of So
for Samuel McKeague, ''who was PR
yate in Company E, One Hundred AM
Eighty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry during the Clvl
War and is now a helpless cripple
Providing for the discharge of al
legal and equitable claims of ex-Queel
Liliuokalani through the payment t
her by the United States of the sum
$250,000.
Amending the coastwise navigation
laws, the text of the bill being as fol
lows:
"'That for period of six years fror
the passage of this act, passengers ma,
be transported without penalty IN tol
eign vessels between ports of the TerfI
tory of Hawaii and the other ports
the United States. Provided, however
that whefever by the encouragement
of &subsidy, or otherwise, thre
additional American steamships, eac
with capacity of not less than on
hundred and fifty first-class passenger
shall have been placed in service carry
ing passengers between HaWan ana Tn
mainland of the United States, the pre-
visions of this act shall thereupon ceas
to be operative.
Authorizing the United States DIS
trict Attorney to proceed with the cor
demnation of all private fishing rlght
in the sea waters of the TERRITORY
said private fishing rights shah o
condemned to the general and eNcl'
sive use of the citizens of the Unite
States
Providing that all laborers upon &c
eral works in the Territory shalI el'h'
be citizens of the United states OF Pc
sons having declared their ntentlo
of becoming citizens OF the ChlVe
States.