The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-07-14

WEDNESDAY, JULY ID, 1886.
THE LEGISLATURE.
sIXTIETH DAY. -CoNTINUBD.
TUESDAY, july 18th.

Supcllhttiiucnb VI tHe honolulu
Waterworks, and moved suspen-
sion of the rules to have the bill
read second time by title, which
carried.
Rep. Kaulukou moved to refer
the bill to select committee.
Minister Dare opposed the motion,
saying no more select committees
should be. appointed this session,
and the standing committees should
be urged to clear their tables of
work. He moved in amendment
that the bill should be referred to
the Judiciary Committee.
Rep. Dole seconded the motion.
Having been employed in connec-
ton with the case, he should not
like to be appointed on committee
to judge the case.
Rep. Kalua also objected to serve
on such a committee, owing to his
interest in the case as the intro
ducer of the bill.
Rep. Kaulukou, as chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, raised
similar objections to taking part in
an enquiry into the case, he having
heard statements that induced him
to believe that relief should be
granted.
Rep. Aholo deprecated the dis
position of members to shirk SER
vice on committees. He thought,
if select committee was appointed,
the introducer of the bill should be
one of the committee. AS it was,
however, he favored reference to
the Judiciary Committee.
Rep. Kaunamano favored select
committee.
The amendment, to refer to Judi
ciary Committee, carried.
Rep. Dole gave notice of an act
to amend sec. 4, chap. 45, laws of
1884, entitled an act to facilitate
the acquiring and settlement of
homesteads. He also read a first
time an amendment to article Is of
the Constitution, relating to the
withdrawal of money from the
treatury.
Rep. Kaunamano moved resolu-
ton, thanking Hon. S. G. Wilder
for his tender of the steamer Like
like and his invitation to the As
sembly to visit the leper settlement
on the Island of Molokai, on Friday
night next, and directing that the
Assembly notify that gentleman of
their acceptance of his kind invita-
ton. Carried.
Rep. Brown asked for a reply
from the Minister of Foreign Affairs
to the resolution enquiring for in
formation regarding the admission
of Chinese.
Minister Creighton read the fol-
lowing statement: In reply to the
question put to me by the hon.
member for Koolauloa / have to say
that all persons of Chinese nation
ality who have landed in the king
dom since May 18th, 1886, have
possessed passports regularly issued
under the regulations of LIST Sept,
1885. The passports presented by
these people were chiefly issued at
Honolulu, only women and children
being able to obtain them at Hong
kong or San Francisco. These all
bear the visas of the Consuls-G Cen
eral at Hongkong and San Fran
cisco, and those issued in Hong
kong have also the visa of the San
Francisco Consulate endorsed upon
them. There can therefore be no
doubt as to the genuineness of these
documents. One of the passports
was issued by me under Regulation
No. 4, to Mr.. Yep Foo, store
keeper of this city, well known to
many persons here, who, after the
great fire of April last, went off to
San Francisco on business. He OBJ
tanned the usual certificate from the
United States Consul General here
to enable him to enter the States
and assumed that this was all that
was necessary. On his arrival by
the Australia on Thursday last APP
plication was made to me by per-
sons of repute to grant him a pass
port, and he was not allowed to
leave the ship until permit to land
was issued to him by myself. The
house will observe that what / have
had to state is Except as to dates)
merely repetition of what my pre-
decessor in Office (Hon. Mr.. Gibson)
said in the concluding paragraphs
of the statement on Chinese Immi-
grafton, which he made to the As
sembly on the 18th May; and can
assure honorable members that the
regulations of September last are
strictly adhered to, that great pains
are taken to secure reliable evidence
that the persons receiving passports
are what they represent themselves
to be.
Rep. Kalua moved the Minister'S
reply be laid on the table. The
people were getting sick and tired
of the continued influx of Chinese,
in spite of all the regulations for
their restriction. With regard to
the first party or parties of Chinese
arriving here after the latest and
most restrictive regulation, the ex-
PLANTATION was given that they left
Hongkong before the regulation was
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