The herald., 1897-08-05
To Displace the Coolies in
Hawaii
EXCLUSION OF THE CHINESE
DEFINITELY DECIDED UPON BY
THE GOVERNMENT
The Island People Are Anxiously
Awaiting News of Action by
the United States
Associated Press Special Wire.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4. - The
steamship Australia arrived here this
afternoon from Honolulu. The Australia
passed the Moana 1875 miles from Homo
lulu, and consequently did not bring any
news that may have arisen after arrival
of the Moana, When the Australia left
on July 29th nothing was known by the
general public of a plan for raising the
American flag. Everybody was in a state
of uncertainty, and the people were anx-
iously awaiting the arrival of the Moana,
which is expected to bring decisive in
formation as to what has been done.
The news that Hawaii had virtually
excluded the Chinese was confirmed by
Honolulu advices brought by the Aus
tralia.
When the anneXa ton proposition was
made to the United States one of the
principal clauses was that Chinese
immigration should cease. AS step
in this direction the Hawaiian gov
ernment has decided to issue no
more six-months residence permits to
Chinese or to execute any bonds for con-
tract laDOrerS TO arrive.
The planters do not fear the labor prob
lem. In fact, they are already solving
it, and that to the detriment of the Jap
anese. Recently there have developed
plans for colonizing the American plan
tation negro in Hawaii and to gradually
replace the coolies in the cane and rice
fields and in the coffee and cotton plan
tatons. The sixty or seventy large plan
tations have contract laborers whose
three-year terms are constantly expir-'
ing and they will be gradually replaced
by negroes, and it Is expected to be only
a question of a short time when the un-
desirable foreigners will be replaced by
a new and better element.
The German ship II. f. Glade arrived
in Honolulu on July Goth with nearly 200
contract laborers. They will supplant
Japanese on the sugar plantations.
This crowd consisted of lis laborers, 20
women and AZ children. The nationalities
are mixed, there being many Poles,
Galicians and Austrians, as well as Ger
mans. These laborers will be placed on
nine different plantations. The con-
tracts show that the men are to be paid
SIG month the first year, SIT the second
and SIS the third, in addition to the reg
QldI lOOQ dlu lOtS lIS SlNcu ny Tic PldH-
tationS.
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, Aug. Ain the last
Hawaiian mail to reach the state de-
partment, bringing the record of events
on the islands up to the 21st of last
month, Minister Sewall tells in detail
of the diplomatic correspondence be-
tween Japan and the Hawaiian govern
ment on the labor controversy and
reports that in the opinion of the best
informed people on the islands the Jap
anese government will be amply con-
tent with recognition by the Hawaii
ans of the principle for which they con-
tend without insisting upon substantial
pecuniary damages. 1t is also reported
that the conduct of the negotiations had
been transferred entirely from Homo
lulu to Toxic. No reference whatever
was made in the dispatches to the re-
ported intention to establish a protect
crate.
A NEW DEMAND
NEW YORK, Aug. A special to
the Herald from Washington says Japan
will insist that the United States assume
the contingent responsibility in the mat
ter of the arbitration of her difficulties
with Hawaii on the subject of immgra-
tion and the tariff. 1t is understood that
this is one of the essential conditions
upon which Japan would consent to
arbitration and if this responsibility is
not assumed by the United States Japan
will break off negotiations looking to
arbitration and back up her demands by
a naval demonstration in Hawaiian
waters.
The state department has not received
any official communication, from the
Japanese government on this matter,
and the administration has not indi-
Gated whether or not 1t will comply with
the Japanese demand when made.