The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-16
CHARGES OF PETTIGkEN
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I think has been in Hawaii and has
iuyestlgIled these matters, E these
Door Asla.jcs age not .ahGn there t-
contract .abJrers. would they vJluntar-
Ly 20 and labor there under better
conditions than surround them a. con-
tract laUOTes s-theIr lot seems very
hard according % the statement or
the Senators. as contract laDJrers-
would they 20 in sufficient numbers 20
meet the requirements OF the planters
in Hawaii Tor ordinary iabOrers?
Mr.. Pettigrew. Undoubtedly they
would 20 there If the wages were high
enough TO induce them 10 90. although
| 1 believe none have gone heretofore,
practically, except those who have gone
under contract.
Mr.. Sgooner. 1 desire to ask the
| Senator a question.
The Presiding officer (Mr Nelson in
/ the chair. Does the Senator from
/ South Dakota yieid2
/ Mr.. PeLtigrew. Certainly.
/ Mr.. SpOgner / tried 20 obtain rec
| IGNITION before ! asked the Senator TO
| yield. 1 desire 10 ask the Senator
/ wac.her the labor contracts referred
/ TO reserve the right TO dock the Ia
l bOTers, as be used that word2
| MT. BElstHItWs Ols y Is vi .. Il ANaA7
| dent; and / have the report here Of the
| secretary OF the bureau Of immigration
| Mr.. Taylor, who examined Two Of these
l Plantations. and in his report showed
i The methods pursued. In one case the
| contract called for Twelve dollars and
i ha.f a month. the lab0rers TO board
i themselves; but he says in his Official
report that they only receive from SIX
4 10 seven dollars a month, because the
j superinteudent would dock them II
Il they were SLOW, If the men did not
J move quite fast enough for him.
Mr.. Spooner. II the Senator will per-
4 nit me, / put the question TO him for
the reason that. perhaps, In his alb
sence the bill has been amended, part
4 " on motion Of the Senator from Min
nesota MIR. NeisOnl who occupies the
, chair for the moment, so as TO provide
that no suit or proceeding snail De
maintained to enforce specifically any
contract heretofore or hereafter en-
tered into for personal labor or serv-
ice: nor shall any remedy exist or be
enforced for a breach of any such con-
tract, EXCEPT a cIvn sui,, brought sore
iy TO recover damages Tor such breach.
While that, OF course, guards against
j almost all OF the hardships and evils
which we want to reach, II would not
I, guard neCes sarily against the right re-
served in the contract, if 1t is in the
contract, to arbitrarily dock laborers
, because they are not fast enough; and
} il was with a view to ascertaining
I whether the amendment which has al
!, ready been adopted was sufficiently eX-
, plicit and broad to exJirpate these trou-
bees that / put my question to the Sen
: ator; and should be CAD to have him
: answer in that view.
Mr.. Pe,tigrew. / was aware of the
|, amendment we have already adopted
. but Il is not satisfactory to me for the
reason that 1t provides a civil remedy
: The legislature over there is quite la
. be to be controlled by the vast inter
ests we have built up there. We have
. RENTED duties to the amount OF $50
900 900 TO the sugar planters there; We
have taken that money out OF th'
pockets of the people OF the United
States and paid II over to them, be
cause their importation of sugar did
not reduce the price in the United
. States one mill. BY this bonus WI
have built up that vast interest, an'
that vast sum Of money is taken GU
of the people of the United states an
paid TO those sugar planters, and II cal
be used for any purpose they choose
IN |
. wall, and that legislature can enac
), avs by which, IL the penalty Is simp.
one OF civil damages, the painters ca
get Judgment against those people an
then proceed TO provide that they sha
work out the judgment.
Mr.. Spoouer. / should be sorry I
have my friend think l am antagoni7
ing his proposition
Mr.. Pet;igrew. / am simply tryin
TO answer the Senator's question.
Mr.. Spooner. Because l admit tina
II the contracts are as stated by u
Senator from South Dakota-l aske
that question the other day in his al
sence-the amendment which has bee
adopted would not covert the EMIL
trouble.
Mr.. Pettigrew. Here is a furth'
difficulty. These plantations are on r,
mo.e is ands and they are general
visited by steamboats, only when the
20 to take off the sugar. The boat go'
here simply in the interest Of the Owl
er of the Plantations; and these poo
laborers have no chance 10 hear trOl
the world or TO have the word hes
from them; and they will never he's
OF this law, n we enact II, unless IL
somebody's duty to go and notify her
Mr.. SpOoner. / agree 10 that.
- Mr.. Pettigrew. Therefore, the
~ would be he'd. as they are being no
he'd. by force and punished and abu
&c. and this disgrace continue und
our flag. II Is for the purpose OF ren
edying that that / have offered n
amendment.
. will read an extract from the repo
A OF the secretary Of the immigratiC
bureau:
. The men receive $3.50 a mont
2 but out OF this $3.50 is RENTED To q
- board OF immigration toward payiI
. the laborer's return passage when
. desires TO return to China. tn
= leaves him S11. but there are very fe
. that receive over So or 81. and some
= them even less than that, on accOu
y Of the persistent d0cking-for VIII
y LhnN are al los 10 understand