The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-21

would be arbitrary but for the statute
in me control Oh LhIs immig auou.
Now. SIT. can We nave a better pro-
lection against these two eyIIs-fOr
they are SD declared by the national
laW-LLau 10 have a. haWdll. a point
where al these ships touch. a district
COure Oi the United States fully EN-
powered By our statutes 20 deal with
tAls question, and II We have a distrIc,
court. is It not one that naturally and
nlces sarIiy is independent OF an local
influences In Hawaii which might be ia
favor Of the admission OF Chinese i'm
migration for the sake OF its LABOR and
u laUOr-cOntract imm grafton from
JAPAN Where D. there a point in the
United states where the power OF the
district court would be more available
OF more useful or more necessary than
in Hawaii for this very purpose
Then We will take up the impOrta-
ton Of diseases from the Orient. that
great pesthOuse. that bed Of generation
Of All the great breads that ever visit
humanity bubOnic plague. chol-
era, the black plague. OF Whatever 10
is. In the approach Of ships 20 the
United States there ought 20 be an es-
Enlistment OF quarantine in Hawaii
subject 10 the power and control OF a
Federal court SO that the authority of
the United States might there be felt.
far out from the land, and the importa-
ton OF diseases might be stopped at
that favorite possession. IL the Philip
pines after "A while become I'm a condi-
ton where the men who have annexed
those Islands are willing 20 take care
OF the interests Of the United States
and the local population. II il gets into
shape, which I hope Il will do very
soon. we will find an absolute necessity
for court OF this kind at Manila: and
with court Of that kind at Manila and
another one at Honolulu, and with the
district courts that are on the coast
above IL there, we shall have our coasts
remarkably well guarded. so far as the
exercise of the judicial power OF the
United States is concerned. and but for
that power we would not have them
guarded at all.
/ l will not go over the argument /
made upon this question yesterday, and
yet it is an inviting field to me. / wish
TO say to the Senator from Connecticut
and the Senator from Wisconsin that If
they feel in conscience bound to reduce
the tenure of the supreme court judges
i'm Hawaii TO four years and are willing
to assume the expense OF the judicial
establishment there that they have pro-
vided for in the amendments that are
proposed, IL the Senator'S will withdraw
their objection to this Federal court
and let II stand there, / Will feel that
the people of the United States and its
Government have got protection there
that can not be exercised properly and
completely by these local courts of four
Years tenure in Hawaii. Let us have
in that part of the earth of which we
are now taking Jurisdiction and con-
Itrol a judicial establishment that is in
lsome sense adequate to the wants of
this great nation.
Shall we have supreme or circuit
Judges in the Territory, with short ten
lures of office, and have come before
Ithem all these great question of admi-
lralty law and maritime contracts, col
lisions, and questions about violations
lof the customs laws and the internal
revenue laws? Shall We impose upon
Those courts, that are now full OF bust
ness and have all the work they can do,
the difficulty OF conducting this admin
iistration of justice In which the United
States as a Government is so conspicu-
lously and Immediately concerned?
Shall we pack IL upon them and trust
to poor. weak. frail establishment the
adjudication of all these great ques-
lions which must necessarily arise in
Hawaii in consequence OF its isolated
position?
We are going very far indeed. II. con-
sulting the past, We determine in our
own minds that We will not grow or i'm
prove or increase IL in any direction
at all. and IL we conclude that a court
that is fit for Arizona. in the great
. American desert, is really fit for Ha.
wall. out in the bosom OF the Pacific
ocean. 1000 miles from us. Perhaps we
can agree about that, but as a member
or this commission and as a member o
the Committee on Foreign Relations
! after this subject has been so maturely
} considered I can not consent to do less
than to have the Senate understand the
J whole field and vote upon II. as far as
am able 10 inform them. intelligently
Il