The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-14
LABOR LAW FOR HAWAII
SENATOR FAIRBANKS REPORT on
A BILL AFFECTING CONTRACTS.
Urges Extension OF Our immigration
ands-Squadron Cruise Delayed.

WASHINGTON. Feb. Ex-senator Fair
banks, from the Senate committee on i'm
migration. to-day reported back to the
Senate the bill extending the anti-contract
labor laws of the United States to Hawaii.
with amendments making the bill cover all
immigration questions The amendments
specifically include the Chinese exclusion
acts. The bill was accompanied by a written
report, in which the committee says:
THE committee is Of the opinion that
since the Hawaiian islands have come with
in the jurisdiction and authority OF the
United States our immigration laws shoulq
be so extended as to protect the cltlzens ana
laborers in those islands from invasion by
immigration Of undesirable subjects or cltl-
zenS Of other countries. Under the muIlclpdI
legislation of the Hawaiian ISLANDS the I'M
pOrtation of contract laborers Is expressly
sanctioned. This class of immigration forms
by far the larger per cent: OF the ooJecuoh-
able elements now being imported INT the
islands and is entirely repugnant 10 the
policy of the United states.
Since the passage of the joint resolution
of annexation there has been a decided inn
petus given to the Importation or contract
labOrers into the islands by the sugar plail-
tation owners. The committee IS informed
that each vessel from Asiatc countries -
increasing the list of contract ldDOIeIS anu
unless some restrictive measure IS adopted
the number must shortly be Stlll Iurtner
augmented. The joint resolution ahneXlng
for the exclusion of Chinese in the folloW-
ing language: There shall pc no IuItieT
immigration OF Chinese into the hawaiian
islands except upon such conditions as are
now or NAV hereafter be allowed by the
laws of the United States. This provision
the committee regards as inadequate, mas
much as it does not provide for apprehend-
ing and deporting Chinese Immigrants
should they land in contraVentloh OF tue
terms of the joint resolution ABOVE men,
toned 1t is. therefore, deemed es sIsi,i
hot ISL Nf O
acts, as well as the discriminating lmni-
grafton laws of the United States should pe
welfare of the citizens of Hawaii
The cruise Of the North Atlantic squad
ron. under command Of Rear AuhFai
Sampson, was to have pegun to- day. tut
Bureau to-day the Navy department 9e-
cided promptly that ii would be unWlSe Tor
any of the war ships to leave port while the
present blizzard is raging. Telegrams,
therefore, were sent to all the Atlantlc ports
where ships were supposed to be lylng
warning them that heavy hurricanes might
be expected tonight and tomorrow. The
delay will not seriously interfere with the
itinerary. which was arranged as follows;
Leave New York Feb. IL, arrive Bermuqa
16; leaving Feb. 19, arrive Havana FEB "A;
leaving Feb 2S, arrive Cienfuegos March 2;
leaving March 4. arrive Guantanamo 8ldfch
6; leaving March Il, arrive Kingston March
IS: leaving March 90 arrive San Juan, POr-
to Rico, March %; leaving March %, arrive
Martinique March 2S; leaving March 81 ar
i
rive Trinidad April 5; leaving April = arrive
La Guayara April IL; leaving Aprl a. ar
rive Cartagena April II; leaving April ~,
arrive New York April q.
The department has decided that mail can
best be supplied to the fleet by the depart
ment itself and to this end recommends
should be addressed III. S. S. -, care T.
s. Dispatch Agent, Postottice building, New
York city Foreign postage Will be neces-
Sary. The postmaster al New York Will be
kept informed of the movements of the
squadron and mail will be forwarded by him
by the commercial lines on the following
sailing dates: Feb u. p, ri; March 3 IL
and II.
The President to-day sent these nominal
lions to the Senate: George w. Gillen, TO be
surveyor of customs at Nashville, Tenn
Regular Army-Infantry arm: Lieut.. Col
Wheaton, Second Infantry. to be colonel
Maj. Augustus w. Cortiss Seventh In
fantry, to be lieutenant colonel; capt VIM.
V. Richards, Sixteenth Infantry, to be
jor; First Lieut.. c. l.. Beckurts, Sixth In
fantry, to be captain; Second Lieut.. f. c.
Bolles, Eighteenth Infantry, to be first lieu
tenant. Cavalry Second Lieut.. Fitzhugh
Lee. jr., Twenty-irst Infantry, to be second
lieutenant, cavalry.
Second Regiment Volunteer Engineers
Second Lieut. James L. Lawton, to be first
lieutenant; Sergt. VIM. B. Dougall, Com
pany *, to be second lieutenant.
The Senate to-day confirlned the following
urer; Fl. Dudley Coleman, melter and re-
finer Of the mint, and Mayer Cohen. coiner
of the mint at New Orleans; Lieut.. Col. W.
w. Coke, to be assistant paymaster general;
also, some promotions in the lower grades
in the army.
The Senate committee on judiciary to-day
a favorable report on the nomi-
nation of Hon. Edward r. Meek to be dis
trict judge for the Northern district Of
Texas IS
The entire cost of the recasting of the
navy on new lines as proposed in the pend
ing personnel bill will be $2,O02 569. This
fact is set out in a communication to the
United States Senate from Secretary Long
in answer to a resolution of inquiry intro
duced by Senator Jones, of Arkansas
Merging the line and engineers, as is pro-
posed in the bill, the cost Of the combina-
ton would be 50 Go 600 which is $500 900 more
than the total of the present pay of both
branches The increase in the pay of the
marine corps is 81 22S ,S3S, which is accounted
for by the increase in the number of both
officers and men. The new naval appropria-
ton bill also carries an appropriation of
4,l11,5O5 for pay of 1880 additional enlisted
men.