The communication was ordered received and placed on file. A confmunication (No. 39) from the House of Representatives, returning Senate Bill No. 3, was read by the Clerk as follows: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Honolulu, T. H., March 8th, 1907. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. I have the honor to return herewith Senate Bill No. 3 which this day passed Third Reading in the House of Representatives of the Territory of Hawaii. Respectfully, JOHN H. WISE, Clerk, House of Representatives. The communication was ordered received and placed on file. A communication (No. 40) from the House of Representatives, transmitting House Bill No. 40, was read by the Clerk as follows: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Honolulu, T. H., March 8th, 1907. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. I have the honor to transmit herewith House Bill No. 40 which this day passed Third Reading in the House of Representatives of the Territory of Hawaii. Respectfully, JOHN H. WISE, Clerk, House of Representatives. The communication was ordered received and placed on file. First Reading of House Bill No. 40 entitled "An Act Authorizing Railroad Companies to Operate their Railroads by Motive Power other than Steam." Senator Lane moved that the Bill pass First Reading. Seconded by Senator Brown and carried. A communication (No. 41) from the House of Representatives, transmitting House Bill No. 34, was read by the Clerk as follows: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Honolulu, T. H., March 8th, 1907. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. I have the honor to transmit herewith House Bill No. 34 which this day passed Third Reading in the House of Representatives of the Territory of Hawaii. Respectfully, JOHN H. WISE, Clerk, House of Representatives. The communication was ordered received and placed on file. First Reading of House Bill No. 34 entitled "An Act Amending Sections 1122, 1123 and 1126, Chapter 94 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii, relating to Leper Settlement and Hospitals, and adding a new Section thereto." Senator Lane moved that the Bill pass First Reading. Seconded by Senator Brown and carried. A communication (No. 42) from the House of Representatives, transmitting House Bill No. 97, was read by the Clerk as follows: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Honolulu, T. H., March 8th, 1907. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. I have the honor to transmit herewith House Bill No. 97, which this day passed Third Reading in the House of Rep resentatives of the Territory of Hawaii. Respectfully, JOHN H. WISE, Clerk, House of Representatives. The communication was ordered received and placed on file. First Reading of House Bill No. 97 entitled "An Act to Amending Section 1352 of the Revised Laws, relating to Fees for Banking Licenses.' Senator Knudsen moved that the Bill pass First Reading. Seconded by Senator Brown and carried. A communication (No. 43) from the House of Representatives, notifying the Senate of its concurrence in the amendments made to House Bill No. 7, was read by the Clerk as fo!lows: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Honolulu, T. H., March 9th, 1907. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. I have the honor to notify you that the House of Representatives of the Territory of Hawaii has this day concurred in the amendments made by your Honorable Body to House Bill No. 7. Respectfully, JOHN H. WISE, The communication was ordered received and placed on file. A communication (No. 44) from the House of Representatives, notifying the Senate of its concurrence in the amendments made to House Bill No. 15, was read by the Clerk as fol lows: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Honolulu, T. H., March 8th, 1907. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. I have the honor to notify you that the House of Represen- No. 15. Respectfully, JOHN H. WISE, Clerk, House of Representatives. The communication was ordered received and placed on file. Senator Brown presented a Petition (No. 10) from Dickey and Newcombe, praying that an item of $288.72, be inserted in the Appropriation Bill for architectural work done on the Roval School. The Petition was ordered referred to the Committee on Public Expenditures. A communication (No. 11) from Jared G. Smith, asking Territorial aid for the Federa! Experimental Station, was read by the Clerk as follows: HAWAII AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 7, 1907. The Senate, Territorial Legislature, Honolulu, T. H. Sirs: I respectfully request the consideration by the Leg islature of the Territory of Hawaii, of some of the needs of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station. If your Honorable Body consider it desirable, I should be pleased to appear before any Committee and give informa tion in regard to what has been done with the appropriations previously made by the Legislature for assistance to this Station, and it is needless to say that our trial grounds, offices and laboratories, are open at all times to your inspection. The Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, while largely supported by appropriations set apart especially for its use by Congress, is carried on wholly in the interests of Hawaiian Agriculture in the broadest sense. For the expenditure of the $415,000 appropriated by Congress, I am responsible to the Secretary of Agriculture, but the work itself, the investigations and experiments undertaken, are entirely for the benefit of the people of this Territory. I submit herewith some information relative to that portion of the work most in need of assistance. I would beg to call your attention to the fact that while the Territorial appropriation for assistance to this Station for the last two years has amounted to $5,470.00, a sum much in excess of this, has been contributed voluntarily to the Station to use in carrying on our various projects, by private individuals and corporations. As the work is for the benefit of the public as a whole, I believe that the Territorial Government should bear the whole expense. While it is gratifying to know that public spirited citizens are appreciative of our work, the work itself is of sufficient importance to warrant larger appropriations for its maintenance. Respectfully, JARED G. SMITH, Special Agent in Charge. I would respectfully request of the Legislature, that an emergency appropriation of $2,000.00 be set apart for continuing the work of the Station during the period from March 1st to June 30th, 1907. Experiments are under way with rice, rub ber and tobacco. RUBBER. A rubber tapping experiment was inaugurated January 1st, 1907, at Lihue, Kauai, where there is a grove of eighty-five trees of the Ceara variety. These trees are about seven years old and vary in diameter from two inches to twelve inches. The Lihue Plantation Company, Limited, has erected a small building for our use just at the edge of the rubber grove and we have been experimenting for four weeks with chemical methods of extracting rubber from the latex. We have succeeded in working out what I believe will become a successful commercial method of extracting crude rubber in an approximately pure condition. The points to be determined during the coming four months are the amount of rubber which can be obtained from healthy trees of a given diameter; the best method of tapping; the best time of the day to tap rubber trees; the amount of tapping that rubber trees of this variety will stand and the effect of various fertilizers upon the growth and rubber producing capacity of the trees. The continuation of this experiment for four months will cost $600.00. The total expense of the experiment as thus far conducted has been borne by funds contributed for this purpose by private individuals but it is my feeling as well as that of those who had previously agreed to contribute for the support of this work that the Legislature ought to supply the funds. A determination of the points above outlined by actual experiments will undoubtedly be |