Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-23
FIFTY-FIRsT DAY, APRIL %.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Adjourned

HOUSE Ot REPRESENTATIVES,.
Rep. Bond presented report
of committee, signed by himself
and Rep. Winston, recommending
the passage of the House bill re-
lative to legacies, exempting from
taxation the persons and schools
therein described.
Rep. Bond presented report
of the education committee on the
petition from Hilo, praying that
no Hawaiian OF half-white teach
ers be displaced to make room for
teachers from abroad. The COM
mittee had learned from the
Board of Education that no such
policy was being followed. Some
Hawaiian teachers, however, had
failed to come forward to under
go the prescribed examination for
certificates, and some who had
come forward failed to pass. The
committee recommended that the
petition be laid on the table, and
their report was adopted.
Rep. Robertson presented and
read a petition from r. w. Irwin,
Hawaiian Charge d. Affaires at
Toxic, Japan, by his attorney,
Paul Neumann, praying to be re-
imbursed So head for 1892 la
Dor immigrants he had recruited
and forwarded in 1893. The petit
toner sets forth that during 1893
he was the acting agent of the
Hawaiian Board of Immigration.
That on the 9Th of August he re-
ceived a dispatch through G.. o.
Nakayama, Inspector of Japanese
Immigration for the Hawaiian
Government, ordering him to re-
cruit 1892 immigrants. That he
Immediately began to recruit la
borers, arranged for the charter of
a steamship to carry them to Ho-
noiulu, and continued recruiting
until the 18th of August, when
he received ceblegram from the
President of the Hawaiian Board
of immigration, instructing him
that if he could not send the
immigrants under the same con-
ditions as the previous lot he
should not send them at all. That
in April, 1898, he had notified the
Hawaiian authorities that, owing
to certain conditions imposed in
Japan, the recruiting would cost
S45 head, but by his exertions
he had obtained a reduction to
$3.50. That after notice of this
reduction had been given the
Hawaiian planters placed orders
for the said 1892 immigrants.
That second dispatch was re-
ceived, ten days after, from the
Hawaiian Minister of the Interior
stating that, unless the 1892 peo-
pie were sent on the same terms
as the previous lot, they were not
to be forwarded. That, however,
as he had incurred considera-
BILE expense in recruiting the peo-
pie before receiving the dispatch
on August Is, he forwarded the
immigrants anyway. He there
fore prayed that he be paid the
difference between the former
terms and those on which he had
recruited the immigrants, being
So head as stated.
Minister Smith, arriving in the
midst of a discussion on motion
to refer the petition to the judi
ciary committee, expressed the
opinion that the claim seemed
to be barred by the statute that
required claims against the Gov
eminent to be presented within
two years. He suggested that it
be referred to the Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, SO AS
to give the Government an oppor-
tunity of presenting its side of the
case, When that was done the
whole matter might DO referred to
Il committee.
Rep, Robertson moved that the
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