The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-18
SECOND CHAPTER
Japanese Meet and Discuss Courts
Action.
WILL APPEAL TO JAPAN
Meeting Was Orderly in
Every Particular.
Another investigation Being Made
Consul General Shinamura
Makes Demand.

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justices of the Supreme Court yester-
day remanding the Japanese back to
the Collector General was not sur
prise to those who were familiar with
the case and the determination with
which the officials were working.
The report of the justices flew over
the city like wild fire and the people
wondered what was coming next. By
an understanding between Ministers
| Cooper and Shimamura those gentle
men accompanied by their secretaries,
Marshal Brown and Interpreter c. A.
| Doyle and representative of the Ad-
vertiser were taken to quarantine in
| the Foreign Office boat On arrival
the party was met by the police guards
Minister Cooper began an investiga-
| tion into the individual cases of the
men and women at the station. Among
the lot he found thirty who were here
under contracts for service with Theo.
III. Davies & Co. Another case was
that of man and wife who had lived
here for two years and then returned
to Japan. Minister Cooper believed
they were eligible after learning that
they were to go back to Paauhau plan
tation.
The Minister conducted his investi-
cation privately in the fumigating
house and as he did not complete it
before dark he left with the under
standing that it would be renewed to-
day. At p. M, Consul General Shi-
maura, through his attorney, A. S.
Humphries, made a demand upon the
minister for an investigation on his
part, to begin as soon as Minister
Cooper had finished. Whether this re-
quest will be granted or not will be
known this morning as Minister Cooper
has the matter under consideration.
In speaking of the release of thirty
Japanese from quarantine yesterday
afternoon, Mr.. Kinney said: ''The
Kobe immigration Company had an
approved contract for that number of
laborers and they were given permis
sion to select them from those at the
station. The release had nothing to
do with the case tried in court.
know nothing further of the case and
my connection with it ended in the
court except that [ will defend Messrs.
Gallagher and Shimizu in the Police
Court AS to what may be done after
this 1 do not know. The Supreme Court
has rendered a decision and that is the
court Of last resort
While the officials were at uuaran-
tine station, the Japanese were not
idle. Word was sent to clubs and
clans throughout the city announcing
a mass meeting to be held at the hall
over Luce's auction rooms at Fort and
Queen.
Long before the hour hundreds of lit
tie brown men focked to the building
and crowded it from mauka to makai
walls. a sprinkling of white citizens
were present and found places where
they could. Interpreter Doyle fixed
himself comfortably in window so
as to be easy of exit and a reporter
for the Advertiser sat with him for the
same purpose.
To get this point of vantage they
had to walk on the narrow projection
above the windows of the first nuor,
holding on the similar projection above
where they walked. The feeling of rne
japanese was in rather high tension
and great interest was paid to the
various speakers. One young man in
addressing the audience said:
''This is the first time we have been
treated with the ignominy that charac-
terizes treatment today. I am per-
fectly willing to give up my life for
those people over in the quarantine
station and If it is necessary, I am
ready at any moment. "a drink of
water was then taken and the haran-
que continued. When a man comes
here he comes under the treaty and
with the same rights as every one else.
We have brought the country TO what
II is, we own it and we have a right
here. If we commit an offense in our
own country we get justice but here
we are left to the decision of the col
lector of the port. These people here
say they are going to send the Japa-