The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-08-10

In regard to the Chinese, your
committee find the following facts:
Chinese labor in company with other
labor is needed for field work on
rice and sugar plantations in this
Kingdom, it not being safe to rely
exclusively on Japanese labor, the
same being liable to recall by the
japanese Government, and Portu-
guese with large families needing
wages that can only be permanently
assured to them in the higher class
of labor on plantations and in the
minor or middle industries of the
Kingdom.
The Committee on the other hand
find that competition of other races
with Chinese is impossible, and that
whenever other races are forced into
such competition the result is not
competition but substitution of the
Chinese for their competitors.
That the Chinese are absorbing
the different minor industries, me-
chanical, agricultural and CONNER
cialin this X ngdom; and your
Committee see nothing to prevent
them ultimately reducing the King
dom practically to Chinese colony
with scattering people of other ma
tionalities here and there among
them, and this even though no more
Chinese are introduced for the pres
ent, because, outside of the sugar
and rice industries, very few COM
paratively find employment serves
to retain in the country the higher
class of artlzans and middle men
upon whom the Government must
rely to preserve constitutional repre-
sentative Government in average
purity, and there are enough Chinese
now in the country to swallow up
such employments unless checked
by law.
How to remedy the evil is a most
serious question, and one that has
been very fully discussed by the
Committee.
After mature deliberation the
Committee believe the Government
should adopt the following policy in
regard to Chinese.
1st. That no Chinese shall here
after be allowed to immigrate to this
Kingdom except such as are needed
to supply labor for the rice and
sugar industries, and all who are al
lowed to enter for that purpose shall
be prohibited by law from engaging
in any other occupation whatsoever,
and shall stay for term of years
only, to return home thereafter I'M
less an extension of time is granted
upon like conditions.
2nd. AS to Chinese already in
the Kingdom. That. the Government
shall by law prevent those now en-
ployed as dav laborers from engag-
ing in any other occupation. And
as to those who are already engaged
in other occupations, that the power
be given to the Legislature of abb
ridging from time to time their right
TO continue in the same, MORE parti-
cularly the trades, whenever oppor-
tunity offers of so doing without un-
due injustice or infringement of
of vested rights, and the exigencies
and needs of people of other nation
allies demand it.
To carry out such policy the
Constitution needs to be amended,
and the Committee, therefore, re-
commend that the proposed consti-
tutional amendment, numbered bill
number 81, and referred to this
Committee with certain amendments,
do pass, and be submitted TO the
elections in 1890. a copy of such
constitutional amendment as modified
by the Committee is hereto attached
and made part hereof. The House
is already acquainted with its mair
points. 1t has been modified in some
respects and widened in others, by
the Committee, but as it now stand;
will, it is believed, if ultimately
adopted, give the Legislature power
to deal with the Chinese question
along the line of the policy above
outlined.
The only other legislation thai
your Committee can recommend is {
bill hereto attached requiring labor
ers to take out license before
authorized to do common labor il
this Kingdom, such license to b.
good only for two years and only TO
the District in which it is granted
This bill, it is believed, is constitu
tional, and necessary as police
regulation, serving to identify, indi
vidualize and locate laborers, thu
doing much to prevent evasion o
taxation, vagrancy and other law
and to eliminate that class of semi
idle perambulatory labor that is nov
floating around the country and con
gregating in the towns.
In conclusion, your Committe
consider that in recommending tn
passage of the constitutional amend
T ment and bill in question, they hav
granted the main relief asked for il
petition number 50, popularity know
as the Anti-Chinese petition, an
therefore recommend that the sam
be laid upon the table to be cor
/ sidered with this report and the bi