Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-03
HOUSE DECLINES,
Take SIDES
ON FEDERAL SITE
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/ knowing what the forces working bacl
/ OF this cablegram are, we are yotinl
in the dark and would like TO have
this matter deferred until we find ou
what these forces are"
As soon as Rawfins had concluded
Representative Crockett of Maui de
manded to be heard and In a five
minute speech he branded the efforts
| to have the matter deferred as againsj
the progress of the city Of Honolulu
and the territory. He declared thai
the matter has been deferred for SC
long that if continued further the city
may lose the building entirely He
urged that the house take the bull by
the horns and thresh the whole bust,
ness out at once" When Crockett
finished members of the house and
spectators applauded vigorously.
Representative Lyman arose and
said that his views were the same as
Rawlins, to which Speaker Holstein
replied: -. -#t. -. -
Object to Delay. b. r. .,9
+ I'VE have been deferring this mat
ter for six or seven years. and we.
have elected delegate to Congress
whom we are bound to rely upon. He
knows what is needed at Washington
more than any Of us and urge that
this resolution be adopted at once
Holstein called for the question and
Temporary Speaker Coney. Holstein
having relinquished the chair previous
to the debating, put the resolution to
a vote. Watkins cast the only mega.
tive vote. Rawlins did not vote.
Holstein then moved that the gov
errors message be placed on file and
Temporary Speaker Coney so ordered.
II is believed that the memorial reso-
luton will go through the senate with
out debate, as leaders of the upper
body have expressed themselves as OPP
posed to any legislative interference
In the selection or recommendation of
d site for the federal building.
The resolution introduced by Hol-
stein is as follows:
The Resolution. 49,. ..4,,.
Whereas. The government of the
United States has for a number of |
Years by legislative action recognized |
he need Of a federal public building
ocated at Honolulu in the territory |
If Hawaii; and
Whereas. delay In the erection Of |
iuch public building, has largely /
'een occasioned by the local differ
noes of opinion as 20 the site for the
ocation of the building; and
Whereas, the people of the terri
DRY Of Hawaii believe that the plain
ntent of any act of Congress- of the /
United States providing for the erec-
ion of such q building should not be Il
Iefeated or delayed BY any further To-
al contentious as to the location of Il
he site therefor; and
Whereas, under. recent legislat ton
assed by Congress, the secretary of
he treasury of the United States has
Ill and ample authority to purchase |
ne site for and begin the copstrpc-
lon Of q public building In Honolulu; /
nd
Whereas, the secretary of the treas
ny of the United States has been |
lily advised as to the various sites
roposed and is in possession of all
ecesary facts to enable him to arrive
proper determination and II
Whereas, the members of the legis-
lture of the territory of Hawaii haYet
onfidence that the secretary Of the |
,easurY of the United States will /,
roperly decide as to the best ayail-i
BILE site upon which the said public |
uildiug shall be erected; now there
re be IL b
Resolved by the house of represent
Ltiyes of the territory of Hawaii, the
mate concurring, that the secretary /
the treasury of the United States I 1
} and is hereby memerialized to de- {
,rmine as soon as possible upon t
hich available site a public building
Honolulu shall be erected; to there
BON purchase such site; and to insti- y
tie for the acquisition Of such a site t
,oceedings necessary to have the t
instruction of such. building begun I
Id completed; and be it further III
Resolved, That certified copy of Ih
is resolution be forwarded to the "a
'cretary of the treasury
The cable from the delegate is as
flows III
speaker HeIstein. Honolulu; .ksl I
Secure resolution whereby choice d
federal building, site q at the dis. b
elton OF the secretary Of the treas | q
y. This will expedite the selection. 4
therWise another delay ~, IS
~ .si<ALANiANAOLE."
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