The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-05-04
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Your committee does not find that |
since the arrival of the various ship
ments of Portuguese laborers, wages |
for Portuguese lahorers on plantations |
have been reduced by the immigration
of Chinese and japanese laborers or
from any cause; such wages at the pre- |
sent time being about the same a. they
were when the Portuguese laborers
came into the country.
While it IS true that small property
holders in some cases pay taxes upon a
higher proportional assessment than is
the case with large property holders,
there has been no increase in the statu-
tary rate of taxation on real and per-
soral property since the year 1886
Actual increase Of taxation has UNI
dountedly happened in many instances
through the actual increase in value of
real estate. The disproportion in the
assessment of large and small properties
arises mainly from the defective meth
DDS OF assessing property provided by
the present statutes. We call your at
/ tention to the fact that the Legislature
is alive to this unsatisfactory condition
of our tax system, and is endeavoring
/ to correct it by new enactments.
/ We feel assured that the Legislature
appreciates the Importance of the Portu.
guese element of the population of the
country, and their industry and thrift,
and especially recognize the value TO
| the community of their domestic quail
tiles, and the proportionate large num-
Der of families and children among
them. With these characteristics in
view, legislation has been carried
through, opening the public lands OF the
Republic for settlement in the hope that
thereby opportunities of materially i'm.
proving their conditions and prospects
might be furnished to many industrious
persons and families, including many of
the Portuguese part of the community.
We would cali the attention of the
petitioners to the Land Act passed by
the Legislature in 1895, and more parti.
cularly to parts 9 and of said act,
where they will find provisions for OBJ
tanning homesteads not to exceed eight
acres in good agricultural land without
charge, and homesteads of much larger
extent on very reasonable terms.
In regard to tine introduction of Chin
ese and Japanese laborers. we feel that
the numbers admitted must be strictly
limited to the necessary needs of the
industrial enterprises of the country
But to prejudice these enter prises by
shutting off their supply of necessary
. labor entirely would entail misfortune
upon the whole country and upon al
wage earners.
a Your committee is fully alive to the
importance of encouraging the further
=. immigration of European laborers anC
families, and shall recommend tn,
Legislature to take action to tncourag,
this class of immigration.
This we understand to be the polio,
of the Executive, and we are assure,
that they are taking measures to carr,
out this plan.
On motion of Senator Water
house the report was tabled to b.
n considered with any bill that ma,
come up later
6 The Larceny Bill passed Secon,
reading.
The Fencing Act went to Publ
Lands Committee.
n Senate Bill 40, amendment t,
Constitution, went to Judiciar
Committee.
Senate Bill 3S, relating TO tn
Post Office, referred to Commerc
Committee.
Senate Bill SO, Loan Act, wa
s. deferred.
The act relating to the propert
of married woman passed secon
reading.
Adjourned.