The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-10-31

year
The Observation-Disclosures company
bad placed within the NINTH contracts
for four le.0U0ton steamers costing M.
rroximatelv ilucc and half millions
Of dollars thus showing The campanva
confidence IN the future ~ the Islands
Tie hoped tho Territory would 40 its
part liy supplying certain tcrths for the
company'a steamers
For and Against.
T. II. Pctrio for Castle & Cooke. on.
posed the agreement lie had written
20 Captain Matson for his views and
hoped the commission would not take
final action until he had been heard
from.
A. w T. Bottomley, for Bishop & Co..
on behalf of the Oiaa Sugar COMPANY
did not believe that economy and IN
cility in handling cargoes Of sugar, etc,
could be maintained unless tho railroad
company was given every reasonable
aid. lie believed the agreement should
be entered into
II. NJ. Hatch supported the agree
ment He said that years ago there
was something sacredNab public
cv'' crship Of wharves in Honolulu and
the Oahu railroad company here final.
" fredged upon its own dat lands and
built wharves. There was mudbank
IN front and there was opposition on
the part of the government. However. r
the company has its own wbarves.
Preference Right Proper.
Mr.. Thurston S final argument was
that this preference right was no more
and no less than what exists for ey-
cry railroad, the right to do business.
including the right of eminent domain.
whereby it can take away private prop
erty for station house sites and public
property and public roads over which
t. run its lines, even though this proc
ess appears to the derogatory to in
dtvidual rights; that the principle in
yOlved in this is that the railroad is
recognized in this capacity ss common
/ carrier, simply as an agent of the ship
per, and it was necessary that this
should be so in order to be able to
carry on business on the vast scale
/ tlat modern commercial conditions re-
quire; that the extension of these ex-
elusive rights is granted railroads ev-
1 erywhere without question, up to the
point where the freight should be lie
livered to the ships.
On the contrary, II would be entir ly
against principle to INIT tn, railroads
to have preference rights ali along the
route until it came TO sne wharf and
there be held up and prevented from
ldeliveripg the freight which it lad ac-
formulated along it's right of way.
/ A letter from Manager Wright of
H. Nn1. -
ing certaia privileges he believed
should be open to company such as
his, which would probably make liberal
use of motor trucks, was read There
] was nothing in it which was not agreed
to by MIR. Thurston as reasonable.
Mccarthy's Poor Memory.
! Colonel Mccarthy stated has position
again ald steted he may have express
ed himself strongly in interviews, but
he believed what he had said and he
was unalterably opposed to the form
of agreement. He charged Mr.. Thurs
ton with having done something TWEEN
ty years ago which caused him to feel
so strongly on this occasion. He charged
Mr.. Thurston, while minister of the in
terror under the monarchy. with having
sold valuable waterfront rights for one
dollar, ON behalf of the government, to
Is. f. Dillingham; for the oahu rail
road company.
Mr.. fhurston arose to question of
privilege and declared the entire state
ment as false. He detailed the mat
ter, the story of which is common prop
erty. The Dillinghams wanted area for
their railroad station. This was grant
ed them under the law requirements
Afterward they wanted more. Mr..
Thurston refused and 1T made Mr.. Dill
ingbam rather bitter with him for
while
The Dillingham; interests finally
bought fiat lands from Mrs. Youmans
and the Sumner and DoYsett estates.
A mudbank formedin front of this land
and the government claimed that and
blocked the Dillingham; interests from
gaining an entrance to the liarbor Final
ly, after Mr. Thurston had left the
! government service, the Dillnghams
l,dredged out their lands, and the mud.
bank disappeared. Mr.. Thurston stated
there was absolutely no foundation for
Mr. MeCarthy's statement.
Only on Saturday, after the first ses-
sion, Mr. Dillingham; related to mum
her of people how he had offered the
1 government $4,000 in gold for the lald
/ wanted and it had been refused and
they went to the courts to secure the
right to the use of their wharf sites
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