The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-13
HUMPHREYS BEFORE
COMMISSION
AGAIN
ATTACKS SUGAR INDUSTRY AND
REFERS TO GALICIAN EPISODE
AND OTHER ANCIENT HISTORY
STATEMENTS TO BE REFUTED.

The session opened, after an eXecu-
tive meeting, at 10 o'clock, with A. S.
Humphreys before the senators. He
continued reading the biennial report
of the President of the Immigration
Board to the Legislature in 1890, bring
ing out the point that the Chinese now
numbered one-fifth of the entire popu-
lation, and that the Japanese popula-
tion was more or less a floating one.
He showed the absorbing up of the
various trades by Chinese, starting
with drivers and following with butch
ers, wholesale merchandise with their
rapid increase during the past forty
years.
The Waikiki front lanai was throng-
ed, the senators being seated in COM
Portable rattan chairs, facing the no.
tel. Those present included Samuel
Parker, Secretary II. e. Cooper, j. b.
Atherton, w. O. Smith, Postmasters
Oat and Kenake, Ritchie, I. McCants
Stewart, Delegate Wilcox, Judge STAN
ley, Special Agent Haywood, w. w.
Dimond, A. c. Gehr H. b. Gehr, j. A.
/Magoon, l.. c. McCrosson, and many
others.
The Judge was asked as to his opin-
ion of the working populations atti-
tude in the matter of Oriental labor.
He thought 20 per cent would vote
against its introduction. He thought
on the question of Oriental restricted
labor, that such procedure necessitat-
ed a setting up of Oriental conditions
and surroundings, bad ethically and
morally, that the children of such inn
migrants would be by the constitution
of the United States, citizens.
Mr.. Humphreys returned to his read
ing Of the report his point being that
at the date of the publication quoted
the Chinese had absorbed a large per-
centage of many of the trades and
threatened to eXtinguish Anglo-SaX-
onism.
That an oligarchy was almost certain
to issue out of such conditions, with a
few rich men and thousands of alier
non-voters to compose the population
Mr.. Humphreys frequently referred
to the Kahn Mitchell bill, with which
Senator Mitchell is closely identified
praising it's logic and rhetoric. He en-
deavored to show that the conditions
today were practically the same as
then, and quoted L. A. Thurston, one
of the signers of the petition, as saying
that Hawaii would not go to the wal
even without the Chinese, and thai
they must not allow them to oVercO tlt
the Anglo-SaXo element On his re-
quest the portions of the report reaG
were admitted as evidence.
The witness corrected his figures OF
Orientals in Hawaii raising them from
10000 to 10000. Out of the total male
population of 10000 over 21, only 11,OOl
are voters. That the Orientals exceed
ed all others in 10000. The statistics
were taken from the Governors repOr
of 1901 from the U. S. Census figure:
of 1900.
Twice the number of Japanese and
the same with Chinese compared will
American children, attending public
schools.
He noted a discrepancy between tht
figures of Secretary Cooper and F. NJ
Swanzy as to Oriental scale of labo
payment. He referred to the high price
of living here, raising a laugh by stat
ing that cold storage turkeys wer'
$3.50 apiece, and that it was lottery
as to whether you got a buzzard or I
turkey. This went on the minutes ol
nod from Senator Mitchell.
During the judges testimony Mr.
Humphreys referred occasionally to T
M. Swanzy and w. G.. Irwin, alway
qualifying them as "of the British
Consulate and a British Consulate.
He took up the disclaimer in the repor
read by the former as to the attempted
flooding of the country, and read fig
ureS OF Japanese imported curing III
"transition period" before the aliel
laws applied, stating that the fact o
1000 laborers then introduced, wa
concealed by the gentleman from tn
British Consulate, quoting from stats
tics said to be "about correct" by tn
immigration Commissioner.
"The officers of the Hawaiian Gov
ernment at the time of annexation wer