The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-23
Arternnon sesSIon.


afternoon session e NJ. Chase. phoDo'
graphic reporter. became seriously i'll and
was removed to the Receiving Hospital.
The witness Claus Spreckels resumed
the stand and testified On the arrival of
imported laborers in the Hawaiian islands
they are placed in an Enclosure two or
three acres in area. the fence OF which 10
five or six feet high. Never measured the
hight of the fenco The mtn and women
are In separate quarters and all have
rooms. When they are apportioned
among the planters they sign labor con-
Mr.. Campbell-win you just look at
that paper and see whether that is the or
binary form Of labor contract paper
shown).
Q.-You nave never seen one like that
Q.-Have you any of those labor con-
tracts in your possessionl Ave have.
you A.-No; Uish.I had brought one
along.
al would like, to see one. Ar II
viii bring it to you.
Q.-NOw. after they enter into these
labor CONTRACTS. suppose they do not fulfill
them-whAt is done with thsm then
Mr.. Taylor-Do you know anything
about labor contracts OF your own knowl-
edge except those that you yourself have
entered intol Al do not.
be confined to Mr.. Spreckels contracts. 1t
IL enough il we conhne ourselves to Mr..
Spreckels. II we enter into an investiga-
ton as to all the social relations of the
Sandwich islands We will be here long
time.
THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY.
Mr.. Campbell-We had not introduced
Il. and that is the trouble about it. They
have introduced this very thing them
selves. What want TO show is tnatwhen
. laborer docs not fulfn his contract to the
satisfaction of his employer or wnere he
10 supposed not to work enough, or whore
he ceases 70 work, that he is taken before
Q magistrate and ordered to go to work;
imprisoned with hard labor, ana mat ne u
there kept at hard labor till he IS willing
70 60 to work; and that he has 70 pay All
those expenses Afterward. SFThat Is what 1
propose TO show. ! want, in other words.
to show q system or slavery.
The Court-What Mr.. Spreckels knows
about it of his own knowledge: -,
Mr.. Taylor-As to what ne knows OF
what somebody else has donet
The Court-The answer will be limited
20 Mr.. Spreckols own personal knowledge
and observation of what he saw.
Mr.. NCampbell-How do you know
what Is done then. Mr.. Spreckelsi Al
do not know of my own knowledge.
never had Q case before Court, Mr.. Camp
bell, never.
O'-Have you ever seen lab orer brought
before . magistrate there on complains
that he did not work according 70 his con
tractl Al have never.
Of the islands upon the subject OF contract
IAborl Al do not know.
O.-Do you know whether or not the
laws Of that country provide ioE orlnging s
TO work. or failing to work for his employ
Objection to this question was made,
ritness answered, II do NOS know"
O.-Then on the subject OF peonage you
do not know whether that does exist or
Rotl A.-NO, sir.
ROYAL ORDER OF KALAKAUA.
Q.-Now. Mr.; sPreckels. viii ask you
arc you knight Commander Of the Royal
Order Of KRlRkAua2 A.-Yes, sir.
O.-That is an order of knighthood on
the Hawaiian islands. is II not! Al do
not know 30 much about it. They sent it
20 me. and that 10 all I know, and
have paid no more attention to it. have
worn Il here In public when the King was
here.
.Q.-Now, you sayyou knownothing about
have you not for q long time had . very
large and controlling-almoFt CONTROLLING
Interest In the Rovsrnmentovert there's A.
oI|Then. havs you not made very large
loans TO the Government there A:-No,
sir, what do you call large loans? have
taken Government bonds to the extent or
6ve hundred thousand.
Olive hundred thousand. Have you
supplied the King with silver coinage
there
Nj. Taylor-I do not think that man
becomes \ member OF dynasty by making
q loan to the reiRninG family.
Mr.. Highton-Tho charge in the ChTont-
Gle WAS that in connection with what was
satirically called the - KRlakaua-Spreckels
dynasty" this gentleman was going to
reyoluticnize the Government there and
put his own son upon the throna He was
asked II there was any truth in that ao-
surdity and ne said, No, and now the gen
tIemen, in the exuberAnce of their fancy.
ArnW abe witness attention TO facts NOS
even mentioned in the articles introduced
here and intsrroRate The witness In regard
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