The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-12-09
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company, instead of supplying it, told
them to come after 1t. AS | under
stand it, McCrosson proposes to sup
ply the camps know nothing of his
arrangements"
The delegate was told that there
were reports that McCrosson planned
a big Oahu ditch, similar in many
! respects to the Kau ditch, to divert
the water which now goes to the Wa.
hiawa dam and sell it elsewhere. 81
know nothing about that" said the
delegate.
Mr. Goodale said that his under
standing was that it was planned to
carry the water in bitches to this
part of the island, and sell it. 1T
would be as much of a diversion of
the water from it's natural direction
of flow" he said, "as if the Missouri
river should be diverted to the Pacific
ocean,"
Though the bill was apparently in
troduced in Washington yesterday, in
the name of Delegate Kuhio the lat
ter is here. He signed the bill, how
ever, at the request of the. McCrosson,
just before the latter left for Wash
ington That however, does not mean
that he supports it.
81 haven't read the bill" said Ku-
hio. "The introduction of it is merely
a matter of form. McCrosson showed
it to me and asked me to read it,
and l told him l hadn't time, but
would introduce any bill he might
want. Introducing 1t doesn't amount
to anything. If l didn't someone else
would. l signed it, and I suppose he
took it to Washington and filed it in
the House, which introduces it. AS
have said, l am not familiar with its
terms yet"
Kuhio said further that he was of
the opinion that such measures should
be considered here first. He referred
to the Kau ditch, and said that if the
! terms of the bill were such as the
, Hilo citizens who objected to it de-
, scribed. their objections were good
"The ditch project, however is very
good one, and I think the bill might
be amended so that the plans could
be carried out. But the place to dc
amending is here, and not in Wash
, ington."
The Wahiawa Water company i:
now onerating under an Act of Con.
gress approved February 6, 1909,
which defines it's rights and duties
= considerable length. The statemen
= that McCrosson has military supper
= because the Wahiawa company di'
n not deliver" water might indicat
that he had promised the War depart
" ment. if allowed to cancel the Wahi
:, ava Companys franchise and take It
y water away, to deliver water all owe
the reservation. The following is
i copy of the act under which the pre-
# sent company is operating.
BE It Enacted BY The Senate An
J. House OF Representatives OF TIL
United States OF America In Con
. gress Assembled,
ST "Sec. SO. That the Wahiawa Waite
II Company Oimited), corporation oil
1t ganized under the laws of the Terri
rt tory of Hawaii for the purpose of IL
rigation, be, and is hereby, granite
tie right of way through the lands G
the United States to the extent of tn
ground occupied by the water of tn
reservoirs and canals Of said sompan
and their lateraIs, and fifty feet o
each side of the marginal limits there
- of, including the portion of said Com
- pany's irrigation works located With
the limits of the military reservatio
lie made by the order of the Presiden
ct July twentieth, eighteen hundre
is and ninety nine, setting aside poT
re ton # Waianae Uka, in the Island {
it Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, and as pub
q lished in the General Orders of tn
"a War Department Numbered One hun
NJ dred and forty-seven, and dated Au
! gust tenth, eighteen hundred an
, ninety nine, and including also tn
right to take from the lands of tn
~ United States adjacent to the line c
l. the canals earth and stone necessar