The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-05-09
Appearing As Champion Of the
People, He Argues Against Any
Haste In Franchise Matter,
Pointing To Possible Results
HIS FIGURES PUNCTURED
BUT HE HOLDS FIRM
Chairman Of Public Utilities Com
mission Says Body Now Ready
To Make Amendments and An
xious To Have Wide Publicity

j. Alfred Magoon is to take the mat
ter Of the valuation Of the Rapid
Transit Company TO the supreme court
N Hawaii for adjudication. This was
the, statement made by the attorney
last evening at the meeting Of the
public utilities commission held for the
porp6se of going over the proposed
amendments to the railways charter
for the last time before arriving at its
conclusions. ~
Magoon who announced that he was
representing the people Of the city,
protested against the extension of the
charter of the railway ut this time and
quoted figures, the correctness of which
were not borne out by the figures re-
emily agreed upon as correct by the
attorneys for the Territory and the rail
road in the recent hearings before the
court. His figures were supplied 10
him, he explained, by the chairman of
'he commission from report made by
Cooling Field, which the Rapid Tran
sit attorneys claim are all wrong.
Quoted From the Book KS ;
The people 4 champion started his ar
snnient against the granting of the ex-
tension Of the charter by reading from
the Revised Laws of Hawaii, and stat
ing what bis opinion was of the law.
He was referred 20 decisions Of the
courts and reports of the Legislature
which did not bear him out in his con-
tentions. but that made no difference.
Several times during his argument
he was interrupted by L, Tenny Peck,
n. I'll. Il
who tried to, assist him in getting the
figures correctly correlated, but reports
and, auditors figures were so, greatly at
variance. that 4, was hard for Mr.. Ma.
goon TO reconcile what one side told
him with the figures read by the, chair.
| nan of the commission from Gooding
Fields' findings
argued For Delay, ,i., s...fa,. 4
He protested against what he termed
the undue haste of the commission in
9assing the amendments to the char
.er while there were fourteen years yet
Cor the franchise to run and was of the
opinion that the present law would give
sbs public the right 10, compel the rail-
way to make extensions necessary or
'esirp HE for it's convenience or else the
franchise could be forfeited. ~ ..,s
He claimed that the extensions need
ID would amount 10 but three 'nundred
thousand dollars and that surely the
Rapid TRANSIT company could make ar
engagements Tor the hnanelng OF TINS
amount; even n there was pul TOUT
teen years TOT the 'charter 10 run. ms
attention was cameo 70 the agreements
made between the company ana tao
territory IN the ieceni tLlal =, Lhe IN
nn Ie case against tne hapld lransi'
Company ana STATED tnst ne was not ri
ponnnle TOT INC way tne case nad peen
lanuieu IN court, Y was NOT ms case
out ne wouid pnng an aetloh on ms
'wn penail ana on tine part OF the eit.
ems OF honoiuiu. 70 get the matter
,eiore the supreme court ana get u
uhng on the constructlon OF the sec
lions OF the law winch were apparent
IN connict: 8, 40. -.
inc eity attorns5s ana tne Mto.S s
Tor the commission nave got 'ogetner
ma ma. agreed on the amendments when si
nave Deen under discussion TOT SEVERN 'n''l
nee.ihgs., III. lnls was very SATISFACTORY
% tne eommlssions -
FiLioss ruPno.y tayoea
e. ~ closIag ,ne L meee.ng oh ih,IInis
eor w sta 'te tnat ne NAG oeeh ple %
eo INV - s inscross tnHt hnu peeh
| yhkeu IN tno uhttet OF the Iruhchiss.