Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-30
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I hope your think twice before you
vote against that bill"
Rice asked Shinglc II he did not und.
erstand that to get this donation from
Mr.. Carnegie the Territory would have.
to enter into a contract with him to
pay ten per cent each year Of the
amount donated, for the support of the
library.
Single admitted this, but stated
that there would be an income Of $4,000
or $1,000 year from the endowment
fund of the Honolulu Library Associa.
ton.
Then" said Rice, "if in the future
the Legislature did not appropriate
$40 900 year, we would be blackening
our name, deceiving Mr.. Carnegie.
am not trying to receive any one, the
Honorable gentleman from the Fourth
TO the contrary notwithstanding.
move the previous question"
Shingle prevailed on Rice to with
draw that motion, and took the floor
again to state that the laird of Skibo
/ is over 81 and probably knows what
he is doing. He has seen the Organic
Act, which was shown him by Govern.
or Frear.
kaniho Talks.
Kanlho had held in for long time,
but he could stand It no longer. He
wanted to ask Shingle a question, you
propose to combine the library with
the Archives building; Is that not sou
| Shingle replied that that was the
plan most favored-make the Archives
wing of the library; give the librari.
an charge of the Archives as well as
the library. Then IL the Honorable
Mr.. Kaniho wanted n book down in
Kohala, he could write down or send
wireless message and have It sent up
to him.
would these books be translated 50
we could read them?" asked the Ko.
hala statesman.
"The Legislature would have entire
Supervision over the library" replied
shingle. Then he added, but the Or
ganic Act requires that instruction In
the public schools must be in English.
Kaniho refused to be placated, and
moved to table Correa's amendment
He couldn't see where the public at
large would get any benefit from the
library. He didn't understand the Eng
fish language and all he would be abb,
to do would be to go and look at the
building. Now, II the books wero I,
be translated he could read them, 4
would be moro to the purpose. AS h,
f; could not read English, he failed tc
see where the public would be benefit
ted by library.
A Shot at Lydecker. af .a..
There was, however, one point II
favor Of the bill. BY combining thu
library with the Archives, the Terri
tory would get out of having to pay thu
salary OF Archivist Lydecker-one o
Kaniho's pet diversions.
The rest OF Kaniho's remarks wer,
as ridiculous as those already quoted
There is only one Kaniho-which 4
fortunate.
The motion to table the amendmen
was put, but failed to carry Shingl
moved tho amendment be adopted Tn,
previous question ended debate and tn
amendment was adopted The bill wa
then put on its third reading, an,
passed by a vote OF 20 to 6.
Air Brake Bill Passed.
Correa's air-brake bill was the frs
on the order of the day. As state,
yesterday, the bill in It's original form
was virtually meaningless, as its pre-
visions applied only to cars of over l
. tons and there Is none In Honolulu
weighing that much. Under susper
/. sion OF the rules Castro offered Al
amendment to change the IA tons I
nine tons, stating that most OF tn
cars now In use here weigh betwee
seven and nine tons. The amendmcn
was adopted; also another, offered b
Castro, to give the company one yea
instead of only six months, to insta
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