The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-07
HOOGS ON
HAWAII NEI
What He Tells the
Washington
People.
E. 5. BOYD'S LAND
DISCUSSIONS
The Wilcox Leper Bill Will Not
Pass-Dslegate at the
Queens House.
Especial to the AdvertIser1

| WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Feb. 20.-Hon.
| Billy Hoogs. OF II, lolulu, departed
n few days ago for Philadelphia and
New York, where he expected to meet
Mr. Rodiek, OF Hackfeld & Co, Ho-
| nolulu, and whence he will travel to
Minneapolis and Seattle, before pro-
ceeding to San Francisco and to the
Hawaiian Islands His friends persuad-
ed him to break into one of the local
prints. the Evening Star, with the fol-
| lowing:
Mr. w. III. Hoogs. a member of the
first Legislature of the Territory of
Hawaii, from the Fourth District, has
arrived in Washington en- route for
| New York. He will remain at the ma
tional capital for several days. Dis
cussng the conditions now obtaining
J in the Hawaiian Islands, Mr. Hogs
today said:
Our people are deeply interested in
the proposition to apply the present
United States land laws to the Islands,
and there is much opposition The land
laws of the United States are not APP
plicable to the conditions in Hawaii
for the reason that there are no large
areas of public land at the disposal of
the IeTrltOrlal government. III the
United States land laws were applied
in Hawaii it would work endless con-
fusion and tend to have the remainder
of the public lands pass into the han Is
of a very few owners, as there is not
enough arabic land on the Islands TO
provide homesteads of 100 acres each
to those DESTROYS of acquiring such
rights.
The country is of volcanic formation
and is broken up by numerous noun
tains and ravines, the greater part OF
il being like Bill Nye's perpendicular
farm standing on edge. Our land
problem is a most serious one, and the
bill now before Congress Will, in my
opinion, prove a source OF much litiga-
ton. should ii become law.
I'VE Will never get what we are enti-
tied TO until Congress sends a COM
mission to the Islands to look into and
thoroughly investigate the conditions.
Should this Congress send a commits
sion headed by such a man as the |
present land commissioner, Mr.. Bin !
ger Herman. who has had number of
years experience in the adjustment of |
land controversies, L am sure, would |
get such a recommendation to Congress |
that would enable us to get land |
law that would be thoroughly salts |
factory to the citizens of Hawaii, and |
portion the remainder of our public !
lands.
ANY land laws that may be enacted /
for us should have special features !
looking To the preservation of the pres
ent forest land and the planting and |
caring for new forests that are so es-
sential to the future welfare and the
development Of the Hawaiian Islands.
Mr.. Hoogs declined to discuss the ru-
mored possible change in the head of
the Territorial government.
Il saw Governor Dole only a few
days before l departed" he said. and
1 never saw him looking better
Concerning the general conditions of
the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. Hogs said:
We are having great deal of
trouble because of the shortage of la
Dor. We cannot begin TO farm our
lands for lack of labor. Chinese, Jap
anese, Portuguese and negroes. make
up the Iaboring element of the Islands
TO a very large degree.
The past year has been a bad one
for Hawaii. Probably not half a dozen
sugar plantations have made money,
owing TO the scarcity of labor and rain.
1t has been hard to borrow money be
cause of this. and the Territory suf-
fered thereby. Then the low price of
sugar has had its effect.
THE United States government is
making preparations FOX a great
amount of work building wharves. The
to the United States. There are no
finer navy wharves In the world than
those at Honolulu. which were con-
under the direction of Captain
Merry.
The dredgers for deepening the bar
at Pearl Harbor are no doubt at work I
by this time. Everything was being {
gotten in readiness about the time L
sailed. The dredging is the beginning T
If operations at Pearl Harbor. which
will include the navy yard and coaling
station"
While he was in Washington Mr.
aoogs talked with lots OF people about
Hawaiian affairs. especially with men
prominent in public life. He had a
ong chat with Commissioner Herman
about the land bill which Mr.. Wilcox
Introduced. and learned something of
hat gentIeman's wishes. Mr.. Herman I
$ not friendly TO the Wilcox measure.
md il is safe TO say that he will not
recommend any radical provisions.
In that connection it is probably OPP I
Fortune To say that those people of Y
Hawaii who recognize the impractical !
,iIity OF the Wilcox bill. are not help
ne their cause at all by having SO b
many fingers in the pie. Land Com I
missioner Boyd, who came here under
pecific instructions from the Terri
orial authorities as to his program
nd method of procedure, is working
onscientiously. but 1t is no discredft
o him To say that exactly what his ~
uperiors in office in Hawaii desired Y
-as assured before he came. Often o
here is n great deal OF letting sub !,
act alone here in Washington. Agi~
-.'o, a-J publicity often defeat the