The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-07-20

Ill WIFI lHe
regulations at the time in force.
4th, Two dollars ($2) is charged
TO each person receiving passport.
5th, The fees, less the expenses
of the passports, are turned into
the treasury as Government realiza-
tions.
ROBERT j. CREIGHTON,
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Aliiolaui Hale, 10Th July, 1886.
Rep. Dole thought one point was
not yet clear. Cinnamon got pass
ports without intending themselves
to 90 to China at all. The Govern
ment should give the passports to
the captain of the vessel OH which
the applicants are to sail. 1t was a
profitable business for Cinnamon to
buy passports and send them to
China, where they brought prices as
high as SIS each.
Minister Creighton said no such
thing occurred at all. The greatest
possible care was taken at the For
eign Office, and passports were re-
fused except to those who produced
tax receipts, showing them to be
residents. Very few passports had
been issued for the outgoing
steamers on that account. That
was the rule now; he was ouly
speaking of what came under his
own observation.
Rep. Dole asked the Minister how
he would know the Chinaman was
not lying, and that he did not want
the passport to mail it 10 China.
Minister Creighton replied they had
the certificate of the resident Chi
nese Commissioners, that the men
applying are properly identified and
are going to China themselves. Of
course it was possible that the pass
ports could be sent away, but the
Government proposed to establish a
new regulation, requiring that per-
sons applying for passports must
furnish their photographs.
Rep. Dole remarked that China
men looked so much alike there
would be difficulty in identifying
them by their pictures. Still, he
thought that was in the right direc-
ton. 1t would be better TO issue
the passports to captains or to the
Custom House.
Minister Gibson referred to the
earnest attention given the matter
by the late Minister of Foreign
Affairs, which he was sure continued
with the present incumbent. This
land had been made such n pleasant
one that the Chinese were eager to
come to it. In consequence, the
Hawaiian Consul at Hongkong in
formed them, even $40, $50, or $40,
was offered for passports there. If
they only brought their wives, the
Chinese would be welcome here,
but they did not want any national
ity to swarm here without families.
Minister Creighton, in reply to
Rep. Brown, said number of those
who left the kingdom had no pass
ports, having failed TO produce tax
receipts, The figures of those arriv-
ing and departing were from the
Custom House, those relating to
passports from the Foreign Office.
Rep. Castle wanted to know what
the ''expenses' of passports were.
Minister Gibson said n portion of
the receipts for passports were paid
into the treasury after the close of
the period, and did not appear In
the report. The cost of passports
was tritiing, but portion of the re-
ceipts from that source were applied
by the Secretary to office expenses.
He had forbidden this when he
found it out. Again, the Secretary
was working after hours in connec-
ton with the issuing of passports,
and it was only right he should have
been paid extra for that. Then
there was the cost of printing the
blanks, which was trilling.
Rep. Castle concluded that the
whole amount of that was that about
81 900 had been received for pass,
ports, but it did not all go into tho
treasury.
Rep. Hayselden thought the fig
nres had been explained by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs. The
difference was owing TO tAosS' whS
went away without passports. Tbs
bark Hydra had 200 passengers
and only about 40 had passports.
The reply WAS laid on the table.