The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-06
WILLIAM HAYWOOD BEFORE
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

markets. she can supply the world. or &
the compiler of the Cuban Census say
in the concluding paragraph of the art
Gle on sugar:
The rehabilitation of the large plar
: tationS will require much time and col
siderable expenditures but with the lie
uidation of existing loans on rural prof.
erty, the establishment of banks and
stable financial system, a repetition
the crop of 1894 may soon be expected
with larger. ones to follow. Indeed, whe
we consider that this crop was cultivate
on less than one-fourteenth part of tn
area of the island (2SO00 900 acres),
large part of which can be made suitabl
for sugar, some idea of its great pros
pective wealth in this community can b
formed, provided Cuba is successful i
finding favorable foreign market L
short, it is perfectly apparent, as ha
been elsewhere stated, that under sucl
| conditions Cuba can easily become tn
greatest sugar producing country in tn
world
Having shown as I believe that tn
free introduction of Cuban sugar will s.
stimulate the production as to glut tn
American market with free sugar, let u
see how Hawaii could stand the taking
off of all the duty. We have as a guido
the experience the Hawaiian planter!
went through during the time sugar wa!
| free under the Mckinley BILL
! The United States minister to Hawaii
! in a dispatch to the Secretary of State
/ No 30, of Sept 5, 1884, said:
THE repeal of the sugar duty by the
Bnited States has struck the principal
material product of Hawaii very Sc
we're blow, and with the most favorable
estimate, it now looks as though bank
ruptcy must be the inevitable fate OF
more or less of the sugar planting firms
and corporations"
In confirmation of what I have stated
regarding the cost of producing sugar in
Hawaii, 1 quote from page 769 of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Report on the Hawaiian Islands. The
witness, Mr.. Simpson, says:
when 1 was in Honolulu in the winter
of 1892 the growing price of sugar was
about $50 per ton. The cause of that was
that the previous crop of Cuban sugar
had been practically a failure, and they
We're enabled to get much better price
than they are getting at present. The
last quotations which / received from
Honolulu they We're paying for Hawaiian
sugar laid in San Francisco 21, almost
the lowest price it has ever reached, and
which price does not pay even a small
interest on the investment
In conclusion, I wish to impress upon
the committee the fact that Hawaii no
longer enjoys cheap labor. In fact, she
has been put to her wits end during the
past two years to obtain sufficient labor
to take off her crops at any price. Last
spring the Planters Association tried the
experiment of bringing labor from. Porto
Rico. Twenty-one hundred We're import
ed at a cost of about 100000. It cost
one plantation s1.5e per ton OF sugar rails
ed to obtain this labor. Hawaii IS com
PEELED to pay for the most Indifferent
labor more than is paid in the States.
while skilled labor is paid a much higher
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CONTRIBUTIONS
The nominations of Judge Robinson
and Marshal Hendry were confirmed by
he Senate Thursday last without oppo-
;iton. As stated in my last letter, the
were delayed because no
me seemed to have any personal interest
n pressing them. Mr. Edgar Caypless,
Who was a candidate for judge against /
Judge Robinson, hearing of the delay, I,
vent to Senator Foraker, chairman of /
he committee on Pacific railroads, where |
he nominations were referred, and urged ;
hat they be taken up at once. 4 was /
candidate for the office of judge" he
aid to Senator Foraker but the fact
hat L lost the place does not prevent
ne from urging my rivals confirmation
know that the Territory needs the serv-
ees of another judge, and 1 hope Judge
robinson will be commissioned as early
$ possible
1t is probable that the commissions of
Judge Robinson and Marshal Hendry
ill not be forwarded till the next mail
rule of the Senate requires that con-
rmations lie over a while, before the
are made out. However, it
barely possible that they go by to-
avs mail.
CAYPLESS AND SEwALL. !
According to reports from various
ewall did not have altogether a peace
Il talk when Mr.. CaypIess called on
m few days ago at the New Willard.
5 the rumors of pretty reliable ma
re go, Mr.. Sewall did not say a word
President Roosevelt about Mr.. Cay
ess and the judgeship when, as nation
committeeman, he called at the White
ouse late last autumn. Mr.. Sewan at
mpted some explanation, admitting in
ct that ne had made no personal rec
nmendation to the President, although
dorsing Caypless's papers.
There was some one with a knife
t." Mr.. Sewall is said to have remark
to Mr. Caypless.
I think there We're several knives
t. Mr.. Caypless is understood to have
Piled, testify. when l come to the
p:tal again 1 believe I would do well to
ing a grindstone with me- =
LEPROSY BILL.
senator Platt of New York and Mr.
anger of Pennsylvania have introduced Il
their respective branches of Congress y
Is Ito provide for the suppression and
evention of leprosy in the United
ltes." The bill provides for a COM
ssioner of leprosy, to be appointed by
President, for term of five years,
] ne shall reside at New York, where
re has been some scare of late be-
Ise of the presence of numerous lepers,
in San Francisco. This significant
ltence occurs in the bill: "A mile nc
rare shall be set aside for the location
q nationaI Iener home in some mart af
the n,1hIic domain. far from the At &c
tic and Pacific coast lines. where the
nate is dry and antagonistic to the
of the leper bacillus" But the bill
} states that the appropriation of $50
for this work does not include the
erS of Hawaii, Porto Rico, Cuba or