Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-09-10

complaint of Goo Kim. Chinese Com
mercial Agent. that the Chinese labor
ers were being subjected to docking OF
their wages and harsh treatment.
you must remember" interjected
the witness into his reading. that
white people employed on these plan
tations were subjected to the same
treatment. They had to endure espion-
age and brutality OF managers
To Senator Mitchell-The reports
are written by the Secretary OF the
Board of immigration, an officer under
the Government. Witness, after quot
Ing the findings OF the Secretary that
the charges were well founded. went on
to read Of the investigation of riots
that had occurred on Lihue planta-
ton. The wages were $3.50 month
, but docking reduced them to So or 81.
Laborers were turned out earlier and
kept at work later than the contract
+ hours stipulated. There was sarcas-
tic reference in the report to the plan
tation clock. The Secretary testified
TO the strict impartiality OF his lnvesti-
CATION. he having declined all hospital
tiles. and his conclusion was that tho
rloting was caused by ill-treatment OF
the laborers, with a recommendation
that the manager be dismissed and tho
plantation refused further labor sup
ply until its labor was better treated.
Objections to Asiatics.
Mr.. Humphreys gave his reasons for
the conviction that Asiatlc immigra-
ton was not conducive to the settle
ment of the country by a desirable and
thrifty class Of people. After the an
nexation OF the Islands on July T. 1898.
the Hawaiian authorities, fearing II
would react upon them II Chinese were
permitted to enter the Islands. encour-
aged the importation of large num-
Der of japanese laborers from Japan.
Between July 7, 1898, and the organiza-
ton of the Territory on June II, 1900,
many hundreds Of Japanese men and
women were brought into the country.
In anticipation OF the organization of q
Territory OF the United States realiz-
Ing that the contract labor law would
not be continued in force.
The Porto Rleans.
Mr.. Humphreys had data he wished
to file, making passing reference there
to, showing the conditions under which
some thousands OF Porto Rican men
and women were brought to these ISL
ands. ship or ships were chartered
by the planting interest here, and
agents employed who were supposed
to have influence over the people OF
Porto Rico, to bring them to these ISL
ands. | might best express the condi-
ton in which these laborers were when
they entered the harbor of Honolulu By
saying that the people In the recon-
centrado camps OF Havana were not
more famished or wretched. Even the
organ OF the planters and Of the pres.
ent government detained against the
condition In which these people were.
Witness filed an editorial and a news
article the subject from the p. c. Ad-
vertlser. He was unable to answer a
question as to the proportion OF wo-
men and children.
Asiatic Competition.
During tho last civ moptbs tho wit.
ness pro,eeded some Ave hundred
white mecban;cs-Amar,c,n cI,izenv
with their wiyos ana chIIdren-boyo
left tho country unable IN stand ,bo
icomnetitior n, Asia,ics SIxtv-eyo nor
cent of the retail ,rodes and mecbanical
cmnIoyments was cortroIled Inv Orion.
falls The commissIoners were asked
IN look into the Chinatown districts
II was ,mnossIhIe for an American n
come here and enter into trade owinO
to tho or,enta,s who dId NOT educats
their children IN 1.-Two like white men