The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-01
HAWAII
At TIL:
CAPITAL
Report rtandRequest
OF Governor
4 Dole.
WRIGHT MATTER
NOT CONSIDERED
A Commissioner Coming to Re.
/ port on Public Buildings in
liiIo and Honolulu.
specIal to the Advertiser.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-The report
of the Governor Of Hawaii is received
at the Interior Department but thus
far none of it's provisions have been
made public. The word there is that
the proef sheets may be available with
IN a week or ten days. The Interior De-
partnlent not long ago received from
Governor Dole a request for an official
Interpretation of the organic law as
to the right of the Territorial legisla-
;ure to enact laws imposing upon eoun-
ties and towns municipal and county
taxes. The matter has been referred to
Attorney- General Knox 1t is regarded
sGof too great Importance to be passed
sipon by any of the subordinate attor-s
neys of the Department of Justice.
One cannot say definitely how long it
viii be before Attorney General Knox
reaches a decision.
ANOTHER COMMISSIONER
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
gone west on a stumping tour and be-
fore he returns he may telegraph east
the name of a commissioner to visit
Hawaii and investigate the situation as
to postofflces and public buildings in
FIilo and Honolulu. Assistant Secre-
tary Taylor, who has the matter in di
rect charge, SO as to carry out the pro-
: visions of the recent public building
law of Congress, said today that he
had not yet heard from Secretary Shaw
as to who the commissioners would be.
DE KNIGHT TALKS.
Mr.. Clarence w. De Knight arrived
in washington yesterday, and is at the
New willard. MIR. De Knight is ar at
torney, now residing in New York, but
formerly of this city, where he still has
interests. He recently returned from
the Hawaiian Islands, where he travel
ed extensively and made a study of
the commercial conditions existing
there.
Business is practically at stand
1stin il iTIawan and the other islands, ;"
lie said THE farmers do not know
how to grow anything but sugar. and
the price of crude sugar is so low and
labor so scarce that it is impossible to
grow cane with any profit. Coffee
raising has been a failure, and condi-
tions in the islands are deplorable.
THE islands are capable of produc-
ing great crops of hemp and other prod
ucts which can be sold at profit if
Chinese labor can be had. Under exist
ing labor laws the Chinese are exclu-
ded. White men will not work in the
fields The Hawaiians refuse to do
that sort of work. japanese have been
imported in large numbers, but they
are far less satisfactory than the Chi
nese laborers. The Chinese who were
in the islands before the enactment of
the new laws are returning to China,
as the natives of that country usually
do, and the islands are face to face with
a labor famine.
Politics in the islands are very in
teresting. There were formerly three
parties-the Republican. Democratic,
and Home Rule parties. The Demo
cratic party was so weak that it fused
= with the Home Rule crowd. Mr.. Will
Tcox is the Home Rule candidate for
Delegate to Congress, and Prince Gu
pid is the Republican candidate. The
Hawaiians pay little attention TO the
national issues which divide the two
great parties in the United States. AL
though the Democratic and Republican
PARTIES in Hawaii are supposed TO De
organized along the same lines as those
parties in the United States, the voters