The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-09-16
SENATE COMMITTEE
ON PLEASURE BENT
They Spent Sunday as Guests of
Captain Whiting at
WaiaIua.

The social side ~ Hawaiian life. with
an the beauties and pleasures OF tropi-
cal scenery was enjoyed yesterday and
Saturday by the members Of the senate
Commission.
Taking a respite from the arduous
duties OF their official visit, the Sena-
torial party ON Saturday morning ad-
journed after hearing \. 5. Humphreys.
10 take trip on the j. 4. Cummins
about Honolulu and Pearl Harbors as
the guests of the Chamber of Com
merce.
The start was made early i'm the
afternoon and the remainder of the day
was spent in a very pleasant outing
about the harbor. The Senators ex-
pressed themselves as highly pleased
with the trip, the committee on board
pointing on; also the requirements Of
the harbor and the possibilities of Pearl
Harbor.
THE TRIP TO WAIALUA.
Yesterday the Senatorial Commission
and ladies Were the guests of Captain
Whiting, L. :. N, on a pleasant trip
down the Oahu railroad to Waialua, "A
special car being used. The party went
~ Haleiwa hotel, where luncheon was
served on the lanai. Those who en-
joyed Captain Writings hospitality
We're Senator John II. Mitchell, Sena
tor y. @. Foster and wife, ex-senator
John NJ. Thurston and wife. Mrs. j. Il.
Burton, II. {. Robertson and wife, Mrs
Thompson and A. 5. Humphreys. Judge
NJ. NJ. Estee and II. l.. Achilles joined
the party at Waialua.
The Commission will reopen it's ses-
sions this morning at nine o'clock on
the Hawaiian Hotel lanais. +. Z. Dole
Attorney General will be given an OPP
portunity to be heard Immediately upon
opening, and will be followed by h. S.
GIL. Senator Mitchell announced on
Saturday that those who expected to
appear before the commission must be
on hand, when called as no special
time could be set.
HUMPHREYS AT IT AGAIN.
a. S. Humphreys again took up the
time of the Senatorial Commission on
Saturday morning, an adjournment be-
ing taken before he had concluded his
testimony, though the ex-judge stated
that he would rest with what is already
before the committee, thanking the
members for their patience in listening
to him.
oCSdii ny iChuihS llohi
the report OF the Board of Immigration
to show that the Chinese brought here
did not remain on the plantations but
entered the trades competing with
white labor. Witness gave as his opin-
ion that seventy per cent of the work.
ing people here were opposed to letting
down the bars of the Oriental labor.
He objected also to allowing Chinese to
enter for agricultural purposes upon a
question put to him by Senator Burton,
saying that TO do this. Oriental features
would have to be duplicated, as had
already been attempted by the planters.
There was the danger also that they
might marry here, and their children
would then become citizens of the Unit
ed States.
Mr.. Humphreys corrected a previous
statement he mad made as to the num-
her of Orientals, saying the number
was larger than given before by him,
there being 10000 Japanese and 10000
Chinese. He showed also that the total
number of males in Hawaii was 79,427
Of which but II 900 were voters There
was an excess in Oriental population
also of 10000 in round numbers. In the
schools there were four times as many
Ofientals as Americans. There was no
race distinction in ale public schools.
THE PORTO RICANS AND GALICI-
ANS.
Recurring TO the plantations again
Mr.. Humphreys said that Secretary
Cooper had testified that laborers re-
ceived SIS TO $40 while f. NJ. Swanzy
testified that the wages We're SIS a
month, showing a discrepancy. In re-
buttal OF the testimony of F. NJ.
Swanzy that there had been no extra
ordinary thrush of japanese laborers
during the transition period, witness
said that during these two years 10000
japanese had come to this country,
while but twenty-four had been return
ed. The witness referred again to the
decision Of the Supreme Court in re-
gard 20 the Galicians. in which it was
held that during the transition period,
the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and
thirteenth amendments to the Constitu-
ton We're not in force in Hawaii
These Galicians We're brought here by
Hackfeld d Co. to work in the coffee
fields, and when an appeal was taken
to the German consul who was also
at the head of hackfeld & Co. II was
OF course denied. Then public spirited
citizens interested themselves in the
Galicians and raised fund to send
Attorney G. d. Gear to Washington to
intercede in their behalf. However
Gear had appealed to the San Fran
cisco papers on his arrival there, and
they had taken the matter up with the
result that the Territorial authorities
ordered the release of the prisoners.
The exjudge in reply to a question
from Senator Mitchell said the cause
of the arrest of the Galicians had not
been set out in the decision of the
Supreme Court.
SHY ON STATISTICS.
Senator Mitchell asked also where
the bulk of the capital invested in SUI
gar plantations came from. American
or foreign, to which the witness re-
piled that he didn't know, as he had
only statistics for 1898.
Humphreys next took up the Porto
Rican question saying that they had