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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-18
THE VISIT OF CONGRESSMAN
STARKE TO RAINY CAPITAL

A guest at the Hilo enjoying the
balmy climate is a gentleman who
bears a strong resemblance to the late
General Hancock, both in form and
features; the gentleman is Hon. w. l..
Starke, member of Congress from Ne
braska. Mr.. Starke is accompanied by
his wife and son, and their visit to the
islands is solely in the interest Of Mrs.
Starke's health.
Il settled in Nebraska in 1877" he
remarked to a Herald representative
yesterday, land am pretty nearly a
pioneer in what we call South Platte. /
left my home in Connecticut when |
was a youngster, and instead of follow
ing my original bent and going to sea,
| went West and studied law. AS a
school boy | made annual voyages on
fishing schooners and liked the life;
think / would like il yet if l had a
chance to go, but ! guess / will have to
stick TO law and politics, though, really,
l never see a kit of mackerel but what
| think Of. the old days and claim re-
lationship.
II was ten years judge of my county,
and went to Congress from the bench;
l am now serving my third term in
the lower House | have not been in
Hawaii long enough to form an opinion
on the general conditions, though L
am free to confess that / consider the
climate little too warm for the COM
fort of n white man whose vocation is
that of a farmer. l question If the
climate Is suitable for a white farmer.
and the mixture of races would be
against his coming here to take up
land as they do in all the States. A
view of this island from the ships
deck makes a deep impression upon
the visitor. and to me the shortcomings
of the harbor are plainly visible. l un-
derstand that the Federal authorities
have not yet taken over the light
houses; they should do so and quickly,
for my knowledge of seafarlng life i'm
pels me to the belief that light houses
and day marks are badly needed. And
you need n breakwater quite as much
as you do light houses.
IL am not n member OF the terrstorial
so that do not come in di-
rect contact with requests for improve
ments needed, but I am the minority
leader In the committee on military,
and | wish To say that about the worst
thing your Legislature can do is to
throw over the appropriation for The
militia. There II a congressional ap-
OF 1000 900 for that branch.
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afrf fls Vfb a dead rsb as "a mu3rI
thn HrtI.l begins Ilr uHfE Their Bf.
tu4 ARTISTS here and . f1kas nl tho
wrrk IHf rBlh H f..m Oh make tW0
DRAWINGS Do o. .1sa whore haste
must O.. u1dG slowly
When tho nsh arc nrst caught they
are classified by their thls and by their
colors The prospryaflvo into which IN,
fish are placed destroys their delicate
cniurlnr. 90 o. greater or loss extent. and
thereby makes this portion " the work
uncertain. The care of the nsh. after
being caught Is work ~ a special ma
turp. and requires the services of a man
especially trained along this line.
Tho two aquaria are interesting.
though uuassumlng bits Of scientific
furniture. one side Is solid. while the
other three are Of transparent glass.
The inside face OF the solid portion IS
painted light blue or slate color thus
giving the observer a color against
which 80 watch the fnny specimen.
that brings out all the minute mark
ings. one aquarium is made on the
"knockdown" principle. and can BE-
taken apart and packed in "A very small
space in few minutes time. II was
oIlElnally lntcnuru lpf use III noun
famous country, where the investiga-
tors had to carry everything on horse
back.
Every day men come to the hotel
with fish. Someone of the party also
goes to the fshmarket, in order that
there may be nothing left undone to
make their work as thorough rs pos
sible. The work the commissioners did
in Porto Rico last year was particular
ly enjoyable to them, because of its
comparative newness. Hawaii is even
more enjoyable, as the field has never
before been fully exploited, and the
amount of material exceeds anything
that the commission has ever before
encountered.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-18

I and IL the Territory does not lend its
aid the Government at Washington will
not give one dollar of assistance, AS
to your Legislature, ! infer from the
newspapers that the workings of that
body have not been satisfactory. In
| this you need not be surprised: you
are having the same experience of ev-
cry newly formed Legislature, and it
will continue until you settle down to
your new conditions. 1t seems to me
that the Democrats and Republicans
should unite upon political candidates,
and not stick too close to party lines.
am in favor of primaries and opposed
to conventions in the sense that thai
term was used a few years ago. 1t
means caucus, and oftentmes a trade
that eliminates in machine politics and
ring rule, and that is one thing you
should steer clear of right at the be-
ginning and stay clear of. Another
suggestion | would make is this: When
you get a delegate that suits you in
Congress keep him there. 1t is bad
policy to change often because each
new man in Congress has to begin at
the bottom, and il takes some time be-
fore he amounts to anything or is ap-
pointed on committees of Importance.
''I am inclined to believe that Ha-
waiian affairs will be dwelt upon dur
ing the next session of Congress, and
bills should be drawn up and forward
ed to your delegate. For instance: You
want a breakwater. Well before you
get that there must be a preliminary
survey, apart from the one made by
the geodetic survey. In order to get
this a bill should be framed asking
for n sum large enough to carry on the
work. I believe Congress will consider
the request, and while, as I said before,
am not on tnat committee, I may be
able to help 1t through.
II intend visiting the plantations so
may see how sugar cane is grown.
and as this island grows a majority of
the sugar produced in the islands, I
guess I will have ample opportunity"
In speaking of the Organic Act, Mr..
Starke said 1t was rather broader than
any thus far given a Territory on the
mainland, and 1t was made broad to
ft the peculiar conditions existing here.
The franchise is almost exactly the
same as that introduced In the consti-
tuition OF South Carolina by the late
Senator George OF that State, the only
distinction being that In South Caro-
lima the voter must pay his one dollar
poll tax before he can register
Mr.. Starke and family win return 10
the coast on the Santiago, Hawaii
Herald.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-18
JUDGE LITTLE
ON DESERTION
Decides That the Days OF
Slavery IN the Hawai- an
Islands Are over.

A very interesting decision was given
by Judge Little, sitting in chambers. on
Thursday morning In the case of Andrew
/ Sajewich VS.. Sophia Sajewich, his wife,
appealed by defendant from the decision
Of the District Court who had sentenced
her to one weeks Imprisonment for de-
sertion. in accordance with the barbar-
Gus provisions of chapter 56 Of the Penal
/ Laws OF 1897. which makes desertion Of
husband or wife punishable as a crime.
The woman claimed and proved cruelty
on the part of her husband. The Court.
in rendering its decision. said in part as
follows:
"The days OF slavery in this Territory
have passed with the taking effect of the
Organic Act. The principle that the wife
is "A domestic chattel is rule OF law
which cannot exist under the American
flag. Section 90, under whicn the defend
ant has been arrested, defines no crime
or misdemeanor; hence, from the argu-
ment OF counsel and the facts submitted,
II would seem that defendant Is In this
court answering n charge predcated
upon statute which defines no crime or
misdcmeanor The Constitution OF the
United States, IN the Thirteenth Amend
ment, forever abolished and prohibited
slavery ana Involuntary sery!ude except
as punishment for crime whereof the
party shah have been duly convicted. II
is not alleged that this defendant has
been convicted OF a crime, nor was she
Apprehendod by the ciyil authorities upon
"A warrant predicatod upon "a statute
which defines a crime Involuntary ser-
yilude as a punishment for crime would
indicate under our Constitution some pro-
vision that the statute upon which tho
party ls convicted describes an utfanse,
TINS statute does not do so ana rs on
forormrnt iH in conflict with the proyi-
slons nf tho Thirteenth Amendment OF
I the Constitution OF the United states, u
. is therefore horrby declared by the court
/ 90 Dol Unconstitutional ana uf mo- force OF
DnggE"
a Dihrr nWuHiuE circumstance COM
nr'I'I NlIH ihy rHHr i8 thr nnt .aat An
dINN aHIUNIrh tHu husband. WHO 30 ana
. ipH.f appealed Az thi penal ruip 90 rur
. luft Involuntary FrRIiGlr upuH Ne wife,
7 has $500 pf ihp ilonamu uallalAus who
NfHi tH lhU hHpnmu court an la
WeNN4 w ihH uD4uauiut'nHsilly NJ a
HiWisl provision lp ihb contract labor
] H9ilIH f iHa penal fHlr hhlHn sHlr
lHitl an. irIrl.i contract lan9lfr ~ imr
. IfHnnN iir nilfuiIf iHHNfm tha
.IAHnum AmHlmml 50 lHltnlsd nf
l ilW hHi n.i l.l NIa aHr = flaIr ~ ulHl
aIai.haf .IsIlt.siie ~ NHHaHlF gsh
I ~ stifWH aas msap ~ 49, mafs r.Y-
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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-18
THE LEGISLATURE.
(From Saturdays daily

When Hamlet spoke of words
words, words" he had in mind, nc
doubt, the Hawaiian Legislature. The
Senate did nothing yesterday morning;
the House nothing more. Emmeluth
got in a good dig on the Porto Ricans.
He interviewed several of them the
other day, and they said just what he
wanted them to. 1t was too good an
opportunity to let slip, and he made
the best of it. There was no session
of the House in the afternoon.
When the House met this morning
Kawaikoa's letter of inquiry to the
Board of Health, asking why that body
had Disseminated against certain pas
sengers who wished to embark on the
| Wilder steamer Lehua on Wednesday,
was introduced. The reply was in the
following words:
"S. Meheula Esq, Clerk House of
Representatives.
Sir: Your favor of June 18th re-
questing the Honorable Board of
Health to inform the House as to the
reasons why certain persons were re-
fused passage on the steamer Lehua,
which sailed for Molokai on the 18th
instant, has been received
In reply, | would state that the
Board Of Health has no knowledge of
any person being refused passage on
the steamer Lehua, and therefore they
are unable 10 give any reasons why
certain passengers We're refused pass
age.
THE steamer Lehua Is not the prop
erty ~ the board, but of the Wilders'
Steamship Company and therefore the
power OF refusing rests with that oom-
pany"
Emmrluth, on behalf of the Finance
Committee, introduced House bin No.
s. lts tile reads as follows
IAN Act Making Special ApproprIa-
tious fur the Departmental use ~ the
Government During the Two Years.
which WIN End With the Thhueth
Day of june. a, y 1908"
Following mis- same a lonH and
windy iisfussion an the rApedlfnry ~
appointing "a taK collector lo so fhaf
thr |Hfnmf iAK vac properly tAkun fRrr
.af AaEekHu hraded 0nr eide Hnd aH
"a matter 0f course Emmeluih l00h up
lhr luiral fnf me other division Nar
krkau wanted ans deputy fl ha paid
e. on0 Emmsluih sail ihai ~ thls HHs
dome ihr income iak Nnull remain Hu-
HF'leHiri 30 flUheI stated ihat "a $40
only bY ps,ine pfrttuiaFf ~ ih6 taa
HHl'rtar hHt lhiH lhR fnulf ~ Faihl"
~ M Hs ll phapit Nak.hau Naa tnF
HH0h sha hed ai lh0 ppHanE apfakf
.HilH ih.k N fHNh8.n#f lH ihe aWfN.
.HlH NWplHlf th. MsilH naa nuH'
F nffu ~ p al ~ HWm.lltf
IH5H lWHWiNlN fU lIH HlNffm mr ~.
HlH.tiHn HNl IhH nIA M lIe. aWnlHlf
~ pthel IHu aA'fa ihf llNalHf
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-18
ANTI-REPUBLICANS GIVE
JUDGE HUMPHREYS SEND-OFF

The departure OF Judge Humphreys
for Mississippi, Washington, d. C., and
elsewhere, was made the occasion Of
a send-of hy prominent Home Rulers
ana other opponents of tne Republican
party The free lunch crowd, inolud-
Ing the men who passed the baum hill
aud got licenses 90 practice law, were
AN on hand u was interesting 30
watch kalauUkalanL Nakapaaha,
Mossmau, rrrniergasL Markham and
other notorious Home Rulers ana antir
Americans as thry gathered ABOUT the
political ludFH ana begged him 40 roWr
back suon a N NeHr ANA } H tnheH
MtIn HiFl present
Aa ihp thWH rNunH aNHY frnm the
Hnrk lluWpHIrfs baiin Mll.iAm SUM
mon i..lla mthri huaihluflY lhrouHn
lhs ouNl eaIRirH "a hla bunch ~ lNls,
rms lulFa Ham,i l0 D. ln NAilinH fHr
tRf naul pnrHFH faf hr gHlfhl} -
ifHhEH la haHiH Hf.f ihF IHll tho
NaIlin iIlEN flH l.If HHt .htS iHrir 4
Haf.fNI} Uflf ihs hlislH ~ ihf hf
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statement Dickey tried to choke him
on but 10 no avail. Then Dickey tried
10 have the letter stricken from the
records, but this, too, was "a failure,
This was the communication handed in:
Hon, j, A. Akina, Speaker OF the
House Of Representatives
The statement having been made on
the floor Of the House on last Wednes'
day that the Porto Ricans coming 20
this country are not assisted 10 their
passage, and that they all arrive with
$50 iu their pockets, the undersigned
desires % make the following state
ment 90 90 on record in this matteri
u went tp quarantine wharf yester-
day morning ana interylWed a number
~ ihr Porto Ri'ans Nha arrived ia the
Colon on ihn ilth Instant and every
one declared mat he bad been assisted
lp come here eleven men lntrrYlRed
collectively could not show up q lafEsr
ly ln unfsount pieces,
zach lWmiHfnui luirIYlhri drIlarsd
Dc uilHr dependence on thufr Who aer
Sisted bin mus iHr'
Amor ihr readlHF ~ lhe ahaYs lhs
iinuss lnah "a frDfsF unill iht anrfnaon.
fuF hHif HH hpur hHH0nninf aiih 10,
hHknpkua iIlri NJ tfHff ~ quorum
bHt "a NHa Az ~ Hfsll Almost ihf go
fifu nVini Naa Eanf ~ lhe faeef b'Nr
.aut ANHs hHHmf diHmHifd ani adr
iHlWri fhr mib nnlll ip FNlHt iliF
nHHlnf
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parting judge, who Immediately passed
them over his neck
The baum then made his way 20 the
center of the group ot close friends
of the Judge senator kalauokalani,
Senator Nakapaaha, ana Representa-
tive Preudergast who gave an his
House printing to the Judges newspa-
per- Representative Mussman, George
Markham, a, v, Gear Judge Gear ,
t. Nuhru and - ~ Wright ana said.
Lets Fiye three cheers fnT Hum
phrpys" rrundprgasl at once took the
guf. throw up his uRht arm, hat in
land, ANA called flr three cheers Tho
solid nine gave them ANA looked around
tn 500 WHY The crowd dldn't Join in,
u wac YriY touching hut not What you
mlEht rAll NnrIfrI0nB.
Tho Homo hulrrs attempted 40 So
up Wur enthusiasm but hoptlrsHlY
fallld Ths Judge however rlisrd hls
hai ana Hinnd thrHulgally rrral While
ihr tines chr.fs family m.lfi oar pfff
iha intervening distance between thu
da ani ihs arrk NJ ihr hipa
IWF politics Uraitf H'fanHe hsi
frllunH
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Incorporated Under the Laws Of tbs
Republic OF Hawaii.
IAfIIAL ................... $0VO,VVU. w
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
Chas. NJ. Cooke .............. President
P. c. Jones .............. ..Vice-President
c. H. Cooke NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Cashier
F. c. Atherton. Assistant Cashier
Directors-Henry Waterhouse, Tom
May, II. w. Macfarlane, E. d. Tenney.
]. A. McCandless.
Solicits the Accounts of Firms. Cor
porations, Trusts, Individuals, and Will
promptly and carefully attend to all
business connected with banking en-
trusted to 1t. Sell and Purchase For
eign Exchange, Issue Letters of Credit
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Ordinary and Term Deposits received
and Interest allowed in accordance with
rules and conditions printed In pass
books. copies of which may be had on
application.
Judd Building, Fort Street.
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GLARXE'S B al PILLS A's 70 enre Msf5sn'sa GraSsi
Pains in the back. and all kindred COM
plants, Free from Mercury. Established
upwards of 80 years. In boIes 4s. Sd
each. OF all Chemists and Patent Medi-
cine Vendors throughout the World
Proprietors. The Lincoln and Midland
Counties Drug Company. LINCOLN, Eng
land.
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A sl.aM Hu nF lh8mlellsin .
laHtA iHWrif nhfn afVFslHls pfs "a
H inaIf $3.50 faW.iils lH wfhuFfp iH
eHf Hh.f h8fs faIa rhsmbsfair =
nill AHfelf sllaialiIan 81 mipfl
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rHl ~ mHH hRpgy nniH ~ h
afaaN h HhgfF 40 ena ffff ele9
ll fal.fa ~ HlfMasnl A. fhlnIeg faaHis
Az 4 uai H.aN iAlAaFa iaufAH
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-18
Mills Colleg
CALIFORNIA.

COLLEGE, AND SEMINARY
Courses; Music and Art: excellent ad-
vantages. A refined, Christian homo
for young ladies. Fall term begins
August 7, 1901. For information, ad-
dress MRS. C. T. MILLS, Mills Col
lege Postoffice, California
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-18

aHi customers Sass pWsfsl aala,
Hlih NaA tilu k = hRYq elr
NalH ut0a n M - aNN fHnl|F BON
II W. ~ ,tlls'H NJ lf,'flG Ess7 fsi.' ~.
liHN#AlY AZ =
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The Bank Of Hawaii
LIMITED.

Incorporated Under the Laws Of ths
Republic OF Hawaii.
The times., 1901-05-09
Our PcIted President.

In Europe. when the chief Of a State
starts out upon a progress through the
country he governs, all the resources of
an elaborate and highly organized po
lice system are drawn upon to keep him
alive until he can get back to his CAPT
tai. The railway lines are inspected
and furnished with guards in advance.
a pilot engine and often a dummy
train, are sent ahead to anticipate the
dynamite activities of enthusiastic cit
izens. At the railway stations the com
mon people are kept at arms length by
soldiers and gendarmes. and everything
possible is done TO prevent the populace
from throwing bombs at the Lord's-or
the People's-Anointed.
In the United States, we are happy to
be able to say, the case is different.
Here our President can make a tour Of
the continent without protection of any
sort, mix with the people. enjoy him
self as any we'll to-do tourist would.
have a good time, and be in no danger
of having anything thrown at him more
offensive or dangerous than flowers.
In southern California yesterday, in
the beautiful land of fruits and bios
SONS, he and his train We're pelted with
thousands of roses. Men, women, and
children Wed with one another in max
ing the bombardment effective. In do
ing SO, they voiced that glorious Ameri-
can sentiment that the President of the
United States is Our President, no mat
ter what our political ideas or afTilia-
tions may be. As long as he is elected
by free ballot of the whole voting
mass, when once the verdict at the polls
has been rendered, he is entitled to the
respect Of every American citizen. This
is altogether as it should be. We are
heartily in accord with the Californians
who assaulted the Chief Magistrate
horally. More power to their rose
trecSf
The times., 1901-05-09
MAINE CLAIMS IN ORDER.
Opinion of the Chairman of the
Spanish Claims Commission.

Some sensational developments respect
ing the blowing up OF the Maine in the
harbor of Havana may be expected if ex-
Senator Chandler continues in his opin-
ion announced yesterday that the claims
of the victims of the disaster properly
come before the Spanish Claims Commits
sion, of which he is the head In the
briefs for the claimants already filed. the
findings of the Naval Court of Enquiry
Of 1888 are submitted as evidence Of the
external origin of the explosion. These
findings it is maintained by good law
yers, are not evidence, and as the or
ganic law establishing the Commission
says that its duty shall be to receive.
examine, and adjudicate," the belief is
general that the Commission would have
to go more thoroughly into the nature
of the Maine disaster than simply to ac-
eept these findings.
IL the Commission reopens the question
of responsibility for the disaster il will
encounter some interesting testimony.
Although these findings supported the cx-
ternal explosion theory, the United States
Government is today putting it's coal
bunkers in different position in rela-
ton to the magazines from that in the
Maine, thus implying that spontaneous
combustion was not out of the range of
probability. Further, as several fires
from spontaneous combustion had oc
CURED III the coal bunkers prior TO the
Maine explosion orders had at that time
been issued for the more perfect fnsrIIa-
tion OF the magazines from the bunkers
Ht the various stations this transforrna-
tion was going on, as opportunity offered,
when the explosion occurred. But il had
never been done with the Maine.
These facts were not. for some reason.
brought out fully before the Court of
Enquiry which met in the exciting days
when everybody was crying for war with
Spain and when several Western news
papers were insisting that war already
existed by reason of an overt act on the
part of Spain. Should the Commission
now rehear the case it would get some
very cool testimony. Certain high Of
hclals of the Government decline TO be
quoted ON the subject but if called as
witnesses before the Commission. would
give some important testimony along the
lines above Indicated. OF course anyone
VINO suggests these things risks his reDu-
tation for patriotism, and it is possible
that the enquiry may be snuffed out.
The attorneys conducting the Govern
ment case IN these Maine claims will be
In the awkward situation, if they should
bring out testimony of this sort, of arglI-
ing against the Governments own con
tentlOn in its dealings with Spain in order
to save the Government the costs that
would naturally be entailed by a strict
of that contention In 9th
er words, the Government would be try-ine,
of such trial would be of the greatest
historical value.
The times., 1901-05-09

whether his name would continue to be
that of a reDuted criminal. or by some
strange happening be cleared before
the world
Such diabolical scheme of escape as
this would hardly have entered the
brain Of novelist to conceive for his
villain. In order to carry it out, the
criminals were obliged TO take advan-
tage, for their own evil ends, Of the
most solemn and sacred obligations Of
the Church TO which they professed to
belong. They did so with full con-
sciousness, according to the woman's
own confession, that their act would
condemn an innocent man. and that
priest Of the Church, to suffer in their
stead for a crime of which he was in
nocent. They knew that his reputation
as d priest would be, by this condemna-
tion. blasted irrevocably, and that 10
the mere pain Of death would be added
that of disgrace, felt as keenly as only
a man who is thoroughly conscientious.
upright, and benevolent in his inten-
tions can feel it. They must have be
lieved in his integrity or they would not
so have trusted their necks in his keep
ing; and the event proved that their
confidence was not misplaced.
Such an exhibition of heroic loyalty is
perhaps more really valuable to those
who are looking for instances of the
good in human nature than half the
stories of martyrdom of which books
are full. This priest had no audience
to cheer him, no consciousness of glory
which might be his after death, no
knowledge that his true character
would ever be known. 1t is almost in
conceivable that he might not. if he
had chosen, have found some means of
clearing himself and convicting the real
criminals without actually violating
the secrets of the confessional; but it
looks very much as if he had deter
mined to be faithful to the spirit as well
as the letter of his VOWS. 1t is story
which Victor Hugo should be alive to
tell