The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-26
Close Down Upon
the Memorial
Makers.
WILCOX BRINGS
MANY DIRECTORS
Home Rulers With Complaints Fill
Afternoon Session-wright
Case Is Fully Discussed.

This committee has reached the end
of it's public hearings and will soon ad-
journ. Before doing so, however. I
wish on behalf of my fellow members
and myself to express to the Territorial
and Federal officials, to the witnesses
and to the people generally our appre-
citation OF the many kindnesses which
we have enjoyed at their hands. The
people not only of this city. but of all
the islands, have shown us the greatest
courtesy, have accorded us the most
cordial welcome, and we feel deeply
sense of the hospitable interest felt in
our visit 1t is with the most sincere
thanks that express regret that our
visit must now end. 1 therefore de-
clare the committee adjourned to meet
again on the deck of the steamer
Sierra"
Thus Senator Mitchell closed the open
hearings of the sub committee of the
United States Senate Committee on
Pacific Islands anu Porto Rico. COM
missioned to investigate the government
and conditions in Hawaii. 1t was after
a day full of interest and thu. quality
of the material brought out in the hear
ings was quite up to that which has
distinguished each of the prior meet
ings of the body. The Wright case
made the morning session full of meat,
and the Home Rulers were given the
majority of the afternoon session.
There were a number of the most in
teresting memorials presented, and it
was noticeable that even with the wide
range of the men heard on the PROPOSE
tion of labor, there was only one opin-
ion expressed, that under restrictions
there should be an admission of field
labor to the Territory.
The morning session began with
Judge Robinson on the stand to explain
his position as to the necessity for three
judges He said that with the state
of the calendar, with the population
and the business done here, there SEEM
ed no way to escape litigation which
made it Impossible for two judges to
465 cases were commenced in 1898 while
in 1876! there were 7SU. He compared the
courts here to those of Alameda county,
California. where five judges sit all the
time
Henry Smith submitted a statement
showing that there were in 1900 342
cases unfinished, while for the nine
months of the present year there were
AL He said that with two judges the
work would be only half done. A. S.
endeavored to explain his
stand by saying that in 1900 the courts
were closed anu that only one judge
was on the bench later, so that there
was simply a congestion for the time.
Governor Dole was called and asked
as to the defalcation of the Treasurer.
He said that the Treasurer was not un-
der bonds as the money was generally
speaking in the hands of the Registrar.
He said that official was under bond.
The Treasurer had confessed that he
had taken public money out of the
Chinese fund, amounting to nearly $1S,-
00O Gov. Dole said he thought the
governor should have something to say
about the appointment of subordinates
and had talked the matter over with
Wright and thought there was an un-
derstanding, but found later that there
was no authority given him. The Gov
ernor said that he considered Mr..
Wright's leaving the Office tantamount