The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-08-23

tested.
Mr.. c. Brown argued that the
conditions attached to the item were
elastic enough to give the Minister
the amplest discretion consonant
with the we'll understood wishes of
the House and country.
Mr.. Isenberg said Portuguese
were too expensive for the country,
and so were the japanese. If he
had been in the House when the
item passed he would have voted
against so large an appropriation.
The Chinese we're the best suited to
the country and they came here
without cost to the country. Let us
open the door for the Cinnamon and
we would have all the labor we
want. Go round Honolulu any
where you like and you will see how
the country has been improved by
the Chinese. And if you go to
Kauai you will find the same thing.
Tracts that had lain in rushes were
now bristling with rice plantations.
The item having passed, however,
he would like to see it remain in the
bill.
Minister Gibson was in favor of
the item being udisturbed. Although
conditions to appropriations were
dstasteful to the Ministerial mind,
yet japanese immigration had been
made the policy of the Government
as well as of the Assembly. He
agreed with the view that the ar
rangement with Japan amounted
virtually to contract--one, more
over, entered into more cordially by
Japan than could have been if it had
been treaty. That country had
readily agreed to assist little Hawaii,
although she refused overtures from
Spain, France and other European
countries for supplies of labor.
Minister Neumann did not con-
slider there was need for so much
beating about the bush. He resented
the language of the member for IIilo
in saying all who voted for this sup
ported job. 1t was not repopula-
ton these Islands wanted; but it
was cheap labor, and the cheapest
they could get was the best. AL
though he disliked the Chinese, yet
! he held his seat in that House in the
interests of the Islands, and would
do nothing to hurt butevery thing to
help the planters. Therefore, seeing
that the Wdnter'S Monthly had con-
tanned circular asking that large
number of Chinese might be per-
mitted to come, he was prepared to
admit that the planters knew their
wants better than he could guess
them. 1t had been outlined by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs that the
Government was in favor of japanese
immigration, first as trial, and, il
that succeeded, then altogether.
Yet, when these words were put in
he looked at them as concealed slap
at the Minister of the Interior. He
believed that he had often been in
discreet and too candid in his Ian
guage, but he would say that when q
proposition came from the member
for Wailuku or the member for Hilo
he would vote to blot it out. The
words he had spoken were not spoken
to influence single member of the
House, but to state the reasons for
his vote, and to show that he did
not vote under the influence of the
honorable members who stigmatized
all who should vote contrary as vot-
ing for job.
The motion was lost upon Il call OF
the ayes and noes, and the item
passed as in the bill.
Mr.. Dole, upon suspension of the
rules, presented the report of the
judiciary Committee upon the reso-
luton to appropriate $4,000 for re.
painting the Hawaiian Hotel, ere
commencing that it be indefinitely
postponed, as the lease bound the
lessee to keep the property in good
repair. Mr.. Aholo dissented from
the rest of the Committee so far as
to recommend that the resolution be
laid on the table, and his report was
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