The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-02-28

edSlueSS anu nuCn lOsS W lie OWueIS.
l should esteem it a great favor IL
the Government or the Board OF
Health has, or should decide in
promptly dealing with these goods as
suggested, and respectfully solicit your
kind attention to the matter.
have the honor to be, sir, your obe-
dent servant,
Mkt SAITo,
H. l. Japanese Majesty's Consul.
February 26, 1900.
Hon. e. A. Mott-Smith, Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
Sir: 1t was published in last Satur-
days paper that at a meeting of the
Board of Health, February 23d, reso-
luton was passed that the President
of the Republic be requested, in pur-
suance of the power vested in him by
law, to prohibit the introduction into
the Hawaiian Islands, of foodstuffs
named in the schedule below written,
from Asiatic ports, so long as plague
exists in any such ports" etc.
My sole object in writing to you on
this resolution is to ask whether the
Japanese Empire is included in the
phrase "Asiatic ports" and also to ask
whether the goods as scheduled in the
third class, If of Japanese manufac-
ture, are to be prohibited from coming
into the Hawaiian Islands, even If the
plague may exist in any other Asiatic
ports outside Of Japan, notwithstand-
ing the recent advice that there is no
bubonic plague at any Of her open
ports.
In case the foregoing resolution
should be so construed as to include
the Japanese ports, the action taken
by your Government would result in
great hardship and loss, not only to
unfortunate merchants, but would also
exclude much of the foodstuffs with
which the laborers on the plantations
are of necessity compelled to supple
ment that part Of food which they can
get in these Islands
In addition to the foregoing results,
the cutting off of such food supply, nee
essary to the laborers to give the
strength to do efficiently their work, it
might result in dissatisfaction, deser-
tions, and even strikes, all of which
would be adding disaster to that which
we have already experienced.
Might I ask, at your earliest con-
venience, whether goods of Japanese
manufacture be prohibited by the
schedule.
1 have the honor to be, sir, your obe-
dent servant,
H. I. Japanese Majesty's Consul.
February 26, 1900.
Hon. E. A. Mott-Smith, Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
Sir: DR.. Yasutaro Sega, Japanese
subject, who passed the medical ex-
animation imposed by your Govern
ment on the 10th instant, wishes to go
to the Island of Maui, where he will
settle to practice medicine.
There being no Japanese physician
on that Island, should think that he
would be of great service to the Jap
anese people resident there.
1 should be much gratified il you can
possibly make it convenient for him
to go as soon as possible.
have the honor to be, sir, your ODE
dent servant,
Mkt SAITO,
H. I. Japanese Majesty's Consul.
DR.. Day: "If no plague exists in
Japan it is unfair that Japanese food
stuffs should be excluded from this
country; If there were an epidemic
there that would be a different thing"
DR.. Wood: What is the latest from
Japan concerning the plague?"
DR.. Day: There have been no
cases in the Empire since January
18TH"
DR.. Wood: "The Board has just set
thirty days quarantine limit on its
own ports where very small danger
exists, and it is not logical that any
less number Of days be set in regard
to a country where the disease has ex-
listed more extensively and of which
we know less"
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