The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-05-27
HAWAII At
THE CAPITAL

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sssifa ons ~ ihs receptions ss
eiten w. ~ nnIss father ~ rhafir
pole. vhass Governor Dole has been I
quest n I. thought ~ this time tina
Governor Dule IL yell across the con
tineni ana near San Ffauoiscu ~
and Judre Hartseli Wst. talking ahou
returning 90 Honolulu together bot u
may be- tina, Judge iiarteell. who ha'
been In Massac husstts for the las
month or two. may sail from San Fran
I cisco on one 81 the Government trans
ports in whicn event he viii not &C.
company Governor Dole.
WILCOX on LAND MATTERS
Delegate wilcox flashes forth on IN,
editorial page Of the Washington Time
/ % a few days ago with an article on
I Hawaiian matters. The Times now de-
votes considerable space 10 signed ar
/ ticles by different members Of Con-
/ gress who can be persuaded TO write
/ for them. Mr. WlcoX's article was as
follows:
am deeply Interested In the bin pro.
. AidlIE Tor inc hlNlalhn ~ hhNfiftlli' iiA
lands into homcstoads for the farmers
and middle classes 3. because at present we
only have In Hawaii the very rich and
the very poor-the poor being the labor
srs or coolies.
out OF the population Of 10000. nearly
5000 are Asatic. 10000 being japanese
and 10000 Calnose. There are several thou
sand Porto Ricans. but they are unde-
slrable. as ,hey would rather lie In Jail
all of the time than go to work.
The area of Hawaii is 100000 acres.
OF this area. 100000 acres are In the
hands Of seventy men engaged In sugar
raising and cattle ranging. The other p
OOo 900 acres, which constitute the Govern
ment lands. are rented and leased to the
sugar corporations the leases ranging
from five to sixteen years.
These Government lands ! want divid-
ed up into homesteads, to encourage
American farmer to go TO Hawaii In
stead OF dividing the Government land
into hom.steads OF 100 acres as In the
United States. the best lands could be
divided into twenty-acre homesteads.
and the pastoral lands into eighty-acre
homesteads, either of which would give
the American farmer fine homestead to
support his family all the year round
To give an idea how fertile the land
is the sugar corporations produce an av-
erage of ten tons of sugar to the acre
The rice planters produce two crops a
year. aggregating between $3.50 and GOO
pounds to the acre. The same land
planted to taro. plant akin to elephants
ears, which is the staple food OF the ma
tves. will produce somewhere between
5000 and 5000 pounds per acre, and 1t
sells at one cent pound.
At present the living II costly because
we have no farmers. All of the subsis-
tcnce, such as fruit and vegetables. comes
from California. They could be raised in
Hawaii, and we have both the climate and
the elevation.
CUBAN RECIPROCITY.
one il hearing almost nothing nova
days about the Cuban reciprocity bill
II seems to be taken for granted that
| the Senate Is going to do something
and. II II does not during the present
session, President Roosevelt not Ions
ago made II known that he would i'm
mediately call an extra session of Con-
gress. There IL little doubt he vii
carry out his word Probably no pol
icy will be outlined in the Senate fol
a week yet, as the Philippine Islands
bill is still occupying attention there
What the outcome will be in the House
and whether the independent Republi
cans and the Democrats will stand to-
gether to keep off the differential or
refined sugar Is still very much of {
problem. Manv think the Republican,
will yield or that the Democrats vii
be forced into voting for the Senate
bin in its entirety, which will prob
ably retain the differential. II the join
forces had not stood so firmly in the
House originally beyond what ANYBODY
dreamed could be done till within TWEEN
ty-four hours of the time for voting
one would now expect a compromise
1t will probably require two or three
weeks yet to tell what Is going L
happen.
The lateness of the session and tn,
fact that most of the appropriation
bills are passed and out of the way
make the chances of canal legislation
in the Senate very slim. After th'
Philippines bill is out of the way th'
Cuban reciprocity bill will be brough
to the front and it will be we'll int
the middle of June before both thos'
problems are adjusted and the Presi
dents signature attached. 1t may ever
be July and by that time there viii
be little disposition to enter on loni
canal debate.
MEMORIAL FROM HIlO.
A memorial of the citizens of Hilo
Hawaii, praying for the construction
of a breakwater In Hilo Bay, has beei
printed by the Senate and referred {
the committee on Pacific Islands ant
Porto Rico. 1t Is signed by f. b. Nc
Stocker, John Il. Moir. c. c. Kennel
and p. Peck as committee. Nothin
was done for Hawaii on the rivers an
harbors bill, as no one pressed for rive
and harbor improvements. Followin
Is the memorials
To the Honorable the Senate and Hous
Of Representatives of the Unite'
States:
Your memorialsts, the underslgne'
committee appointed at meeting hell
April 7, 1902. at Hilo. island and Territor.
Of Hawaii, beg to respectfully represent
The island of Hawaii, popularity Gale,
the big island" is the largest island o
the Hawaiian group. 1t has an area q
A2i0 square miles and contains about 1000,
600 acres. As throughout the rest of tn
\ archipelago. sugar growing is the chic