The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-22

While the cost OF producing 1t was
$105.25 for 1000 pounds. This he said
meant ruin and the plantations trees
would not be cultivated any more.
Many small planters had abandoned
their fields and sought work upon sug-
ar plantations. He said there was APP
proximately 100000 acres here suitable
for coffee, but there would have to be
some protection. He said If this acre
age was settled the islands would be-
come a paradise indeed If tariff
could not be had he thought a bounty
of four cents pound would start the
plantations. He said the coffee had
been exhibited and won prizes and he
thought the coffee had been put be-
fore the people properly but no great
efforts had been made owing to low
prices. Senator Burton said he thought
with proper efforts there could be
found people to buy the coffee at high
price because of it's purity.
Mr.. Horner favored Chinese labor for
field work and said this would help
skilled labor. He thought there should
be restriction to field labor for short
periods and that this was the general
feeling. He said he did not think white
people would work in cane fields and
that few natives worked in cane.
Col. Parker was asked about being
engaged in the cattle raising business
and raised laugh by asking if an as
SCISSOR was about. The questioning took
the form of an inquiry into sheep rails
inf, and Col. Parker said about 100, 600
sheep were on all islands. In Homo
lulu the consumption was 10000 car
casses a year. The islands do not raise
sufficient meat for consumption and
much must be imported from San
Francisco
w S. Terry, a coffee miller for six
years past, said he was one of the first
coffee planters of the last boom. He
said the coffee industry had been de-
Ginning and he now bought better coffee
for six cents than he formerly bought
for Is cents.
LYMAN AS TO LANDS.
Rufus A. Lyman, who held many po-
sitions under the monarchy, principal
ly in land matters, was heard He
said he thought the present system of
was wrong He thought there were
tendency for spectators to get lands
He thought there should be a breakwa-
ter for the protection of the harbor.
With reference to crown lands, he
said if the Queen had stayed on the
throne she would have been entitled
to the revenues during her life. He
recited the history of the action of Ka-
V in setting aside the lands
for the crown, SO that the revenues
should go to the monarch. During
time he said he heard that
the revenues ran up to 100000, and
that this was increased.
TO Senator Burton's question as to
the general belief as to the dethrone-
ment being possible only through the
aid of the United States troops he
said he thought the overthrow would
have come anyhow, though it would
have been attended by bloodshed. He
said the general opinion was that some
compensation should be given her.
To Col. Parker Mr.. Lyman said that
he knew that Liholiho and KaIakaua
and Liliuokalani in turn were entitled
to the revenues.
Col. Parker said he was premier and
one of the crown land commissioners
and he thought the revenues for few
years before the reinforcement aver
aged about 100000 a year, promising
that he would procure the figures later
and submit them.
Hilo people were freely invited to
speak but seemed timid, so that the
Commission had to suggest that me-
MORALS might be put before them Sat
urday afternoon.
SQUATTERS TELLTALES.
On the return trip from the volcano
Saturday the Commission gave a hear
ing in the office of the American Set
tiers Association, where fifty Olaa men
had gathered for the purpose of giving
weight to the presentation of their
claims by DR.. N. Russell and T. j.
Ryan. The Senators gathered first at
DR.. Russeli's house and then adjourned
TO the place Of hearing, the room be-
ing filled with the many members of
the squatters' association and the Wis
TORS, many of whom came up from Hi
10, The word had gone about that
Ryan had asked for two days to pre-
sent his case and he had evidently
''coaled for a long cruise as he had
his desk and the shelves about filled
with papers. copies of the Congression-
al Record, and bills both of Congress
and the last legislature
When everything was ready DIR. N.
Russell was sworn. He said he had
put his items and argument into a me-
mortal, and submitted it. He said he
had nothing further to say, and for
lack of time the memorial was not read.
In it DR.. Russell compares the condi-
tons in Hawaii to those in the Phil
ippines, the only difference being that
sugar planters here rule while in the
Orient it is the friars. He says the in
dustries of the islands are under the
control of score of men who in va
rious combinations own sugar estates
and all other branches of business. He
calls attention to many reformss prin-
cipaQy those embodied in his bills in
the last legislature and as exhibits put
in copies of them ALL including the
county law.
T. j. Ryan, president of the Ameri-
can Settlers Association, presented his
memorial, saying it was brief EXPOSE
ton of his views. This paper, covering
some dozen sheets of foolscap, goes
over the land system, reciting the ac-
ton of the squatters and charging all