The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-22


rate resolution should be brought.
The resolution a. amended by y oble
Peterson was adopted.
AttOrney-G General Brown read by
title an Act to repeal Section OF the
law passed in 1890 in regard To the
treaty with Japan.
The secretary read an invitation to
the members Of the House TO attend
a lecture by Mrs. Leayitt on the
present issue.
Noble Marsden moved it be accept
ed with thanks with the proyisO that
coffee and soda should be furnished.
Noble Marsden moved that the
amendments 10 Article - and the
proposed Article $ OF the COnstitu-
ton be taken up.
Article s. was taken up first, and
the report of the committee was read.
Rep. kamauOha opposed the
amendment a. being improper in
form. The Constitution should not
be amended by a law.
Noble Marsden did not agree with
the last speaker. Labor was q neces-
sity. He did not believe in unre-
stricted Chinese immigration and
therefore favored the amendments and
he moved it pass.
Noble Williams as representative
of the labOring class felt bound to
support Noble Marsden's motion.
The mechanics of the country could
not consent to unrestricted Chinese
immigration. If the amendment
were passed now it would become
law, and labor might be safely OBJ
tanned at reasonable rates. The in
dustrieS of the country would 90
ahead and there would be work for
everybody. If it did not pass, what
would become of US. Few planta-
tons were making money. The rest
were hanging on by their eyelids,
| hoping for something like this.
Without the agricultural interests
| fiourishing, none of Us could exist.
He did not wish to see this place an
| Asiatic colony, but he wished to see
| 1t prosperous, affOrdlng chance of
/ return to money invested.
! Rep. Ashford had had occasion be-
| fore to comment on the curious prac-
! tice of taking up an act and passing
over every section except the last.
| He had cOntended all along that the
| bill must pass as a whole, or not at all.
! Moreover he would like to know
what was to be done with the rest of
| the bill, after this section was passed.
/ Was it to be thrown away, like cast
off garment? He was not prepared to
vote for Article So, until he knew
what was to be done with the rest.
Rep. Smith said the different
amendments were brought in in 1890
| as separate amendments. For some
utterly unaccountable cause, the com
| mittee, at the last moment, brought
them in together. They had no bust
ness to do so. But the merits of the
question were not affected thereby.
The form of a bill was not proper, but
there was precedent for it. 1t had
been done in 1868 and later. He saw
no objection to taking them up separ-
ately.
Noble J. NJ. HOrner thought the
House had the right to take up any
section of any bill. 1t is known that
we must have cheap labor. The
cheapest labor we can get now is the
horse, and next is the cheap foreign
labor; and if we do not get that
where are we? This low class Labor
which we are aiming at is not only
for the benefit of the planters, but
will help everybody in the country
The low class labor will not be per
formed by natives and white men, 81
we must have Chinese and japanese
While it is a fact that Hawaiians O.
white people will not do this labor
there are people who are willing t.
furnish their services, and if we pas
the amendment we can get them
This amendment will assist every
body in this country, and hope w
will treat this as an important ant
serious matter, and vote for tn
amendment.
Rep. Kaunamano was in favor o
of Article So personally, but his Oh
lection was to the order ia which i
was taken up. The native member
were in favor of taking up the iten
about the increase in pay for the Rep
resentatives before the one under con
sideratiOn.
At t O'clock Rep. KaUnaman
moved the House adjourn.
Minister Wilcox arose and an
nOunced that Bill 81, to better detin
the practice of trials by jury; and Bill
rs, to consolidate the laws relatin
to internal taxes, had been presente
to Her Majesty for signature.
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