Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-13
BUSINESSPOINTS
AREDEBATED
LOCAL CHAMBER
Resale Price Maintenance, Fed
eraI Appropriations and Ma
val Academy Are Topics

Should there or shJuid there Eot be
federal legislation perJnitti.G tie
maintenance OF resale prices on Ger
tain manufactured articles? This Il
question that has bothered business
men ever since the advent of big
Business" In the manufacturing and
mercantile fields of trade, and which
the Stevens bin now before Congress
seeks to settle in the affirmative. The
National Chamber of Commerce in its
efforts to advise the president OF the
United States on the composite opin-
ions OF business men throughout the
country on all questions of national
: Importance to business men, has is
sued referendum to its member
chamber bodies, its thirteenth refer.
endum since the national body MAS
organized. There was a diversity Of
opinion among the directors of the
Honolulu chamber who held their reg
ular monthly meeting yesterday, and
the matter will be thoroughly dis
cussed at the meeting of The cham
Der as body next Wednesday,.
To have Hawaii included in the pro
visions of bill before Congress, pro-
viding federal assistance to land grant
colleges, so that the College of Ha-
wall can have funds with which to
carry on certain desired experimental
ton, was thoroughly discussed at the
meeting. Under the present dispen-
sation all federal funds received by
the college must go for instruction.
Further steps we're taken in the
matter OF seriously going after the
Pacific Naval Academy Of the United
States in Honolulu.
More commercial attaches and more
trade commissioners, a larger staff in
the bureau Of foreign and domestic
commerce, and an appropriation of
100000 for the investigation of for.
eign markets, are some Of the pro
visions asked for by the National
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, all of which are recommended
by the trade. Industrial and CONNER
cial committee of the local chamber
for Endorsement by the Honolulu
body, in order to promote more SEN
sible trade conditions between the
United States and Latin America and
between the United States and the
rest OF the world.
The maritime affairs committee re-
ported to the directors in favor OF the
contention Of the local harbor Off
Gals opposing the diversion of S10G.-
900 from the Honolulu harbor funds
towards similar work on the Kalihi
harbor, and recommending that Dele
gate Kuhio be asked to work for an
amendment to the federal appropria-
ton bin so as to include an item for
the. .Kalihi project
J.K. Kalanianaole. G. r. Carter, F.
L. Waldron. S. NJ. Ballou and A.. L.
Castle were appointed to represent
the local chan Der In the Woyld's
Court Congref to be held in Chicago
IN June.
An annual sum aggregating some.
thing like Sic. 900 will come to Ho-
nolulu IL the amended public utili-
ties bills now before Congress pass.
When the provisions Of the public
utilities bill were not fully under.
stood at Washington. Superintendent
G. r. Forbes, then in Washington,
recommended that congressional ac-
ton be delayed until the next session
but the local city government wanted
early action on this matter Of getting
two and one-half per cent on the
gross earnings of the Honolulu Gas
Company and the Hawaiian Electric
Company from their sales Of light and
power, as intended by the passage in
the last territorial legislature OF