The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-03-31

club had voted In favor of one hundred
per cent. The Manoa club, he said.
asks the support of the central com,
mittee Ia passing the matter in to the
supervisors for final action.
Says Supervisors Are Timid.
G. w. Ashford reported as chairman
Of the subcommittee which took The
frontage tax question up with the SUI
THE supervisors are too timid to
take the initiative. They would likc
70 see It tried, hut they lack the nerve.
10 promises have been made by any
supervisor. y
1T is the duty of the citizens of this
city, Ashford said, to insist that the
elected servants Of the people enforce
the laws. As to the question of taxing
property one hundred per cent OF lthe
cost of street Improvement, he cited a
recent decision of the supreme eourt of
Hawaii to the effect that taxation for
improvements could not be levied be-
You'd the betterment that would accrue.
he thought the one hundred per cant
basic principle wrong, as il might in
some instances amount to confscation.
a. ~. Clark said that Kaimuki dis.
approves the one hundred per cent
basic principle. 2 Main arteries, should
not pay over sixty per cent, whereas
side streets might pay more.
u. ~. Church said that the govern.
ment must maintain the streets after
they are built, and he was not prepared
10 say what per cent should be charged
against abutting property. - (
The supervisors are lodging the
issue, he said cit is tommy rot
for them to talk as they do. Honolulu
would have money today to build All
the streets that aSe needed If the en- !,
pervisOrs had started in when the
frontage tax law was passed, and put
1t into operation s.et
Instead, he said, they paid the en-.
tire cost Of long stretch of road in
Nuuanu for the pull it gave them
and lot more in Kalihi to catch
voters. .S r.
Supervisors Not Big Enough.
The supervisors are not big enough
men to grasp the situation, " Church
said "They are not the men we
want at the head Of affairs, Thoy are
not big enough. W
hOipLoIh hcleHueu Ile supervisors
and said he Thought that it was unfair
to ask them to speak first. He thought
Lester ,Petrie was in sympathy on the
Manoa proposition although he made
no promises. ~ II.
A. f.. Clark said, it is the business
of the superN isofs aud asked that n
probe committee be appointed to find
ont where the money has gone that has
been spent.
I'D Towse said that THE supervisors
promised to announce q policy Hast
January but have not done 80. He
said that big private interests had in
terfereil to thwart tho will of the PEG
pie and that the supervisors have done
nothing but dillytdally and raise a
dust to blind the eyes of the voters.
They must stop construction and pro,
coed within the law, he said.
All this talk about the expense OF
city map, is poppyeoek, and there
must be . committee appointed to look
into things. The supervisors are
either afraid or too small, y he said.
Church Expresses Himself. -.
r. M. Church said that he was pau
on political rule nslrelating to local af
fairs and that from this day he is 20,
ing to vote for the best man no mat,
ter what party he belongs to. He
said that NJ. c. Pacheeo told him re,
Gently that as an individual he was in
favor of frontage tax but as public
oilicial representing the voters he op,
posed it. Church reiterated the un,
fairness of allowing some owners ia
pay the whole cost OF, building streets
and then having the supervisors pay
for other streets out of the Treasury
He said that the citizens must KEEP
on ,hammering them aud tie theil
hands if necessary so that they could
not break the law. ...
Marston Campbell agreed with
| Church. rr,-. ~ =. .
James T. Taylor described the antics
Of the supervisors and City Attorney
II. l.. Weaver in regard to streets II
upner Nuuanu and told about the dust