The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-10-26
MONDAY, OCT. 26, 1891.
planters IN COUNCIL.
Opening OF the Annual Meeting Of
the PIantcrs' Labor and supply
Company.

Company.
The annual meeting of the Plan
ters' Labor and Supply Company
convened in the room of the Chamber
of Commerce at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. Mr.. John Young, President,
was in the chair. Others present
were Mr.. w. O. Smith, Secretary,
Messrs. H. p. Baldwin, H. F. Glade,
T. r. Walker, w. r. Castle, John M.
Horner, S. E. Bishop, iona. Austin,
G. N. Wilcox, H. NJ. Whitney, F.
A. Schaefer, Jos. Marsden, K. d.
Tenney, G. S. Kynnersley, j. N. 5.
Williams, H. Laws, W. j. Lowrie,
II. w. Severance, j. N. Wright and
the japanese Consul.
After the passing of last years
minutes as published in the Planters
Monthly, the Secretary read his an
nual report. 1t reported one special
meeting of members and n meetings
of the trustees the past year. Dur
ing no year since the organization OF
the company had the trustees met so
often, nor had they ever had to con-
slider questions of greater Importance
to the planting interests of the coun-
try. The abolition of the sugar tariff
by the United States had made the
necessity of producing sugar at a
less cost than in the past imperative.
Among the first considerations for
reducing cost of production was that
of labor. They had given earnest
attention to the subject of Japanese
immigration. Information was re-
ceved from Japan that new condi-
tions were proposed and that in
future the SO passage money
charged for each immigrant would
have to be paid by the employer and
not borne by the servants as for
merly. Mr.. Paul Neumann was en-
gagged to 90 TO Yokohama to nego-
tiate better terms, and went in COM
pany with Mr.. G. o. Nacayama.
The agent returned with conces-
sion obtained-.a reduction of $40 in
the passage money to be paid by the
employer. The immigration was re-
sumed and 5793 Japanese arrived
this year.
The report then details the circum-
stances of NJ. Marsden's mission to
Java and India in quest of labor.
The agents report had been pub
Iished in pamphlet form and was
presented with the secretary's re-
port. "Mr. Marsden performed his
GRAND well, and has obtained inform
alton of much value" AS to Chi
nese immigration the trustees had
not entered into any engagement or
undertaking under the recent Act of
the Hawaiian Legislature. "The
efforts of jMessrs. l.. Aseu and j. E.
Brown for private parties has been
followed with interest. The Difficult
ties snd misunderstanding that have
arisen out of this enterprise are
greatly to be regretted. Could Chi
nese be brought here under proper
restrictions and regulations the re-
suit would be beneficial to this coun-
try and to the Chinese
The employment of special Japa.
nese cor stables to detect runaway
Iaborers was discontinued in June
last. 1t appeared to be of little
value and some of the officers were
charged with melting the laborers
to leave their employment. Com
plants of desertion had been very
few until within the past two or
three months. In June circular
had been issued requesting planters
not to employ japanese seeking
work as day laborers unless they
produced either cancelled contracts
or honorable discharges.
A system of collecting labor statis-
tics monthly from plantations had been
begun, but all the planters had not
responded to the call. The trustees
had the matter of the reciprocity
treaty, in connection with changed
conditions, under consideration. In
reporting the appointment of Messrs.
| W. 0. Smith, f. M. Swauzy and j.
f. HacIifeld, to confer with the COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
on the Worlds Fair, the Secretary
says: ''It is to be hoped that a
hearty effort will be made and pro-
per steps taken, to have creditable
representation at this great fair. The
benefits that may be derived may be
very great
The question of reducing or re-
moving the duty on rice, in order to
reduce the cost of sugar production,
was submitted in the report, saying,
"lf this duty could be partially or
wholly removed without injuring the
rice industry of the islands, it would
lessen the cost Of living to laborers. "
The report closes with a strong argu-
ment of the value OF thorough Stats
tics of sugar production.
ELECTION OF TRUSTEES.
The election of trustees for the en-
! suing year by ballot resulted as fol-