The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-05-20

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Your committee therefore recon-
mend the passage Of the bill with the
following amendments:
Under head OF Finance Depart
ment' 'lncidentals. Custom House.
s1395O
/ Your committee recommend this
/ item pass at S491 20, which is an in
crease Of $S51.70 over the amount pass
ed by the Senate. This item OF 1851 90
covers the amount OF bill from w. II.
Castle for legal services in preparing,
revising and drafting Acts. which work
was performed with the sanction OF
the Minister of Finance. consequently
is legitimate item and should be paid.
Under this same head your com
mittee recommend 60 insert the fol-
lowing:
services OF George Carter as Act
ing Auditor-General from June 20.
1895, TO August 20, 1895. two months
at $500 per month, 5000"
BY adding these items the total OF
the bill will be raised to $t9,S1S.57, and
your committee recommend that this
sum be inserted in Section /. line 2.
in place of 1S,S66.S7"
Laid on the table to be considered
with the bill.
Rep. Richards reported for the Fi-
nance Committee, recommending pass
age of items of expense incurred by
the late cholera epidemic. Laid on the
table to be considered with the bill.
Labor.
Rep. Kamauoha reported for the
special committee to whom was re-
ferred the petition of the Central Com
mittee of the Uniao Portugueza, an
organization purporting to represent
the Portuguese population Of the Ha-
waiian Islands.
The petition of the Portuguese in
quoted at the beginning of the report.
The petition prays the Legislature
to adopt measures at this session which
will further restrict Chinese and Jan
anese immigration and devise means
for the better protection OF the labor
classes, says the committee.
During the sixteen years past there
has been a diminution in the wages OF
plantation laborers and other indus
tries The Portuguese saw the des-
perate conditions and their inability
10 procure work, as stated in their
petition.
IT is presumed that the wages paid
now are the same as in the past. moth
ing as to the rates of wages Chat is.
wages per month"; having been brought
10 the notice OF the committee.
The decrease in wages, as well an
depriVing the Portuguese and other
nationalities from obtaining work
which would sustain them and their
families, finds one OF its causes In the
large importation Of japanese and Chi
nese laborers within the past few years.
1t is proper, under the circumstances.
for the Legislature 10 enact laws re-
stricting the importation OF Chinese
labOrers to the actual needs OF the
various industries OF the country.
The sugar interests and other indus
tries of the country require sufficient
laborers TO carry them on, as these are
the mainstay of the Government, as
well as the varied nationalities within
the border of these islands, and TO neg
Iect the various industries would bring
disaster to the country; but the com
nittee has ascertained that in the cen
sus of 1890 there were 15,301 Chinese,
z, 800 japanese and 9,252 Portuguese.
Increase in importation in the Eve
years last past were ,593 Chinese, H.
I47 Japanese and 651 Portuguese. To-
aI-16, ,894 Chinese, % ,507 japanese
ana 9,252 Portuguese These figures
ire to be found in the report OF Min
ster Cooper before the House, March
Il, 1896. Outside of these are native
IaWaiians and other natiOnalities,
waiting for work to enable them AS
we'll as their families to live.
The following report is from Mr..
3olte, Secretary of the Planters Asso-
,iation. and relates to the number of
persons under contract as well as day
aborers at present engaged on the va
'ious plantations throughout the ISL
inds:
Number of Japanese under contracts
expiring in June, 1897
Hawaii-2272 males, SCI females.
Maui-592 males, 144 females.
Oahu-49S males, 127 females.
Kauai-1089 males, 266 females.
Following is the total number Of la
,orers employed on various plantations
I'D TO December 81, 1895:
HaWaiians, under contract, 522.
Hawaiians, day laborers, 1887
Hawaiian women, %.
Total, 1884
Portuguese, under contracts, 42O.
Portuguese, day laborers, 1874.
Portuguese women, 140.
Portuguese minors (under age), 3eS.