Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-12-29

| Mr.. Hoar-I want to ask the Sena-
tor from Ohio whether his committee
received this report and considered
this particular amendment?
Mr.. Foraker-No.
Mr.. Hoar-That is the question
previously put. and | so understand.
Now I want
Mr.. Forker-will the Senator allow
me to say word in answer to that?
Mr.. Hoar-Certainly.
Mr. Foraker-Our committee has not
received a report The report has not
yet been fully prepared. | was about
to inquire whether II had been prepar.
ed as to this point. namely, as to the
| industrial conditions obtaining nj this
time in Hawaii.
J Mr. Hoar-But as to the legislation
in this particular amendment, I under.
stand II does not come with the au.
thority of the Senator's committee.
Mr. Foraker-No; II does not. be.
cause we have not had any opportunity
to consider Il.
Mr.. Hoar-Perhaps II is very old.
| fashioned notion. but my point Is that
whatever be right or wrong in regard
to dealing with a man who has got UNI
lawfully into this country-and ! am
not speaking about that now-when
you come to take a human being and
drag him or carry him against his will
! 900 miles from a place where he law
fully is on the ground that he has brol-
en- a contract or that he has no valid
excuse for failure to work at a partic-
ular occupation, you are violating the
fundamental and decent principles of
all human justice or law; and II Is an
outrage to do II without surrounding
that transaction with some security
for its justice and its propriety. Whe-
Their this transaction Is SO surrounded
now the Senator from Ohio does not
know, and the Senator introducing the
amendment does not know, and the
Senate does not know.
Mr.. Burton-The Senator did not al
low me to answer that part. and will
do II. I will wait, however, until the
Senator from Ohio (Mr. Foraker) is
through.
| Mr.. Tillman-Mr President
The Presiding Officer-Does the
Senator from Ohio yield to the Senator
from South Carolina?
Mr.. Foraker-Certainly.
Mr.. Tillman-I understood the Sen.
ator to say that this amendment had
its origin in the fact that a subcom.
mittee of the committee of which he Is
chairman had been appointed TO visit
Hawaii during the recess to examine
conditions. and that those conditions
are such that they have given rise ia
this proposed legislation. Il seems Ia
me that II would be fairer to the Sen
ate that that committee should be al
lowed to formulate its ideas and sub
NIT them to us. so that we could ex
anime some of the reasons instead OF
having one member of the committee
rush In, although he tells us that there
will probably be opposition from some
other member. | say think II would
be fairer to us If this matter was
brought in In an orderly way by letting
the full committee pass upon the &C
ton of the subcommittee so as to gel
1t before us in a proper manner
Mr.. Foraker-Mr. President
Mr.. Tillman--I have another Ques
ton. but | will not press 1t now.
Mr.. Foraker--Mr. President, II IL
ton Of the Senator from Kansas, fol
he has already explained 1t, and II Is
not necessary. certainly, for me to de
iend him against the charge OF havini
rushed in prematurely. The Senator
stated that he was loath to introduce
simply because the subcommittee hat
been unable to prepare and lay before
the Senate their report; that he hat
been holding his amendment back un
I'll that report could be laid before the
Senate, but had been compelled to of
bill was about to be put upon its pas
sage.
| called attention to the fact, wheI
the bill was about to be reported TO th'
Senate from the Committee of tn,
Whole, that the amendment had no
yet been offered. because the Senate
and those associated with him on thu
subcommittee had told me, quite nat
urally, | being chairman of the com,
mittee, something of what they haC
found to be the existing conditions II
Hawaii. and the necessity for som,
such Legislation as this. | had beer
told that they contemplated preparing
; an amendment and having IL offered t.
, this bill. thought that II It was to b,
offered at all II ought to be offered nov
and | called attention to II, because