The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-11-30

of the mongoose bill; they were in
troduced but were not long here be-
fore law was passed to kill them
and the Treasury is to be drawn on
to supply the funds.
Noble Baldwin said that it was
not the wish of the planting interest
to overflow the country with Chi
nese.
The amendment was put and lost.
Noble Thurston favored a. limit
being made to the number to come
in. He favored 5000 during the next
eighteen months. Eight hundred
Japs had arrived by the steamer
yesterday and she was going right
back to Japan and would bring 800
more. He considered that it was
advisable to hold hard on the throt-
tie of entrance.
Noble Marsden said that if Noble
Thurston's suggestion of 5000 should
pass that would defeat the object Of
the bill. 5000 was nothing, the
planters wanted all they could get.
Noble Thurston said it was not
proper to send for more labor than
was required, for if the country was
flooded labor would decrease in price
and all planters would want to ship
men for $40 per month where they
are now paying more. That would
only be the beginning of trouble.
Noble NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Noble Thurston-No, it is not
nonsense; dollars and cents are what
you people are looking for and you
care little for the means employed
to obtain them, as those $50 gravr :
over in quarantine can testify. The
planters want all the labor they can
get. They do nothing legally or
morally wrong if the Minister of
Foreign Affairs should be induced
to let in $4,000. He considered that
5000 would be an ample number.
Noble Marsden-W Where did you
learn all this? How do you know
that 5000 would be enough?
Noble Thurston - My common
sense is as good as yours; all that
was necessary for me to do was to
look up the statistics and then |
knew as much as you'll
Noble Marsden was tired of talk
ing on the subject, he moved the
bill pass.
Rep. Smith was sorry that the
Japs arrived yesterday, He hoped
no more would come for several
years; there was too much Of one
kind of labor arriving. He hoped
that both East Indian and Portu
guese labor could be obtained. One
kind was dangerous both to plant
!, ing interests and to society. 300i
was wild guess; it would be unwist
to limit.
Noble Marsden again pressed hi:
} motion that the bill pass.
: Noble Thurston Don't hurr,
yourself; my motion, which is al
: amendment, should pass first. He
; continuing, said that the action o
the Noble from Hamakua in endeav
oring to force this bill down thei
r throats simply because he had
5 majority present was damnable.
/ Noble Marsden-I am not doin.
} so and, Mr.. President, | object tt
/ the use of "damnable" in connection
= with my actions.
Noble Thurston-That's what i
: is. You think you are "big injun
around here, and you'll scalp every
t one that does not agree with you.
9 Noble Marsden-I don't thin
! Pm big injun, but you think 20
/ are.
9 Noble Thurston-I propose t
Q have my motion put and you can
S bulldoze me out of it.
d The Presidents gavel drowne
n the rest of the interesting cor
troversy and Noble Thurston
i motion, that the limit be 3CC0, wa
) then put and lost on the followin
g divisions:
Ayes-Nobles Berger, Hopkin
J Pua, Male, Hoapili and Thurstol
i, Reps. Aki, Pua, Bush, Kaunaman'
i Kamauoha, Waipuilani, Nahin,
}, White, Edmonds, Iosepa and Akin
l. IL.
4. Ministers Wilcox, Robil
son, Jones and Brown; Mobiles En-
l. Kauhane, j. M. Horner, Hind, Mar
J. den, Young, Baldwin, W. Y. Horne
:, Walbridge, Anderson, Kanoa an
9, Dreier; Reps. Wilder, A. Horner an
r., Smith-19.
r, Absent-Nobles Peterson, Cur
h Minis and Williams; Reps. Bipikan
Ashford, Kauhi, r. w. Wilcox, X
IS pahu, Kanealii and Kaluna.
A. Noble Thurston obtained the fio'
and after explaining the necessity
~ the passage of the Registration A.
SO he, at 4:O7, moved adjournmer
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