The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-03-08


bread and butter for themselves and
families. Politics, he said, had entered
into the matter. Road bosses had dis
charged men for not voting with the
party To which they belonged. lie OF
fcred as an amendment.
THAT all public works shall
be performed by American voters &c
who have resided in the Hawaiian ISL
ands not less than three years"
by putting the amendment with
the three-year proviso, carpetbaggers
could be excluded" said Makekau.
| Makainai asked to speak, but was
politely told by the speaker to take his
seat until he could put Makekau's mo-
| ton to the House. This was done, and
Makainai was then recognized. He
moved to strike out the words AL
who were qualified voters"
Ewaliko was In favor of adopting
part of the amendments of Prender-
! CAST and Makekau, striking out quail
flied voters" This prevented women
! from obtaining positions in the pubic
schools
Makekau explained that the word
"or." placed before qualified vu,ers. did
/ net exclude the womeL. Had the word
and" been in the bin ii would meal.
to exclude women.
| Ewaiko insisted that "or qualified
voters" should be stricken out. as II
person must reside in the Territory,
and must have had a years residence
| fore he could become qualified
voter.
Makainai also insisted that his
amendment should prevail lie con
sidered it euuiva ent to permitting tn"
daughters to work
kekaula, the silent, said the bill was
short and many amendments had been
put In. He thought everything looked
for the employment of young men not
I a. NnfA a nd
true intent in his opinion, was for the
repairing of roads and contracts. The
only question to be considered was,
will the public improvements be car
ried on in q successful mannerY' Pub
lie works would not be carried on sue
cessfully He had a contract to build
a road in Kau, and could not get ma
tives to work, even at 81 n day The
Asiatlcs were unwilling TO leave the
plantations, where they have steady
work. AS he could not procure Ha-
waiians for the work. he employed Chi
nese and Japanese, and the work was
one-half completed.
Prendergast then asked question
What wages was he PAYING"
"One dollar a day" said Kekaula.
and that it was done under a contract.
The planters did not give that much.
The bill was good. but the amendments
were poor and moved the bill be ia
bled. The chairman called attention to
have table"
qualified voters and give them advan-
tageS over others. He did not want
the qualified voters" cause stricken
out, as that would open the door to
undesirable classes of people to labor.
In the past days work has been given
to outsiders. But this bill gave the
work only to qualified voters. and
should meet every demand or ubjec-
ton. He came from Hawaii "A knew
whereof ne spoke. The boys a d girls
here could not get any work. Many or
them had been discharged. W hLt la
dies from the Coast had been put in
their places. friends of the Board of
education" Three b Us, he sad. We're
now working on the wharves because
they cannot get work IL the pubic
schools. because outsiders were Dci"S
put in.
Beck ey moved to amend by striking
out wurus in the first line. The i..ten-
tlOl OF the law was to pat the money
into the pockets IF the cIIiAens, Ins,eau
of those VI outsiders.
by this time the bill began to look
ike tattered sh ri, fun of pa.chworN,
and like Pats jackknIfe-all new parts.
but the same old knife.
Hiho, who was responsible for the
bill, did not think there was anything
wrong with the bill. A few montns ago
party platform. According to the pres.
ent law any outsiders could procure
work in the government departments
The Hawaiian people had cried over
this state of affairs The Hawaiians
should be content though, to eat "mys-
terious food of the country" The in
depreciation seemed to tickle the House
members. The bill should be passed.
Beckley's amendment made the bill
read: THAT all public work, except as
s,.ts h
formed only by American citizens who
shall have resided in this Territory not
less than three years.
Kumalae did not believe in paying
out money to persons not citizens. The
Board of Health had done this for
many months past. He called atten-
ton to one, Duffy, who was employed
as plumbing inspector, who made reg
ulatons which hurt him personally. He
registered a healthy kick against DUFF
fly. Laws must be made for "our
chlldren's children, and laws which
would benefit them" he said. He ia
vored Beckley's amendment that
persons who come to Hawaii must re-
side here three years before they can
get work from the government.
Mahoe preferred the bill as it was
introduced. and said 1t was In accord
ance with the Independent platform.
To him, cutting up the bill was like
cutting up the limbs of child until
only the head remained.
You can talk all day ana all night
on this bill, but you cannot change
the views of some of our MEMBERS" he
said. THE act has grown thin under
this discussion. You can almost See
through II.
He moved that the committee send
its report to the committee on Judici-
airy.
Robertson believed with Emmeluth
that the eght-hour labor law should
be a part of the bin under discussion.
and he had repaired a rough draft OF
bin iucudir that feature lie ferred
to BcCkley's amendment, whereby
court interpreters had been specified az
persons who should b. consId rcd out
side the bill. II the law hai Dnen IN
vogue, such person as the expert IN
n0"s'ruct the sewers Cuuld NOT be
brought here, This was imp rtant
'v.h. y remedy might be found for