The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-15
STOOD BY
COUNTY ACT
The Governor Not
Moved by Side
issues.
importantly of Consul
Saito Against the
Hack Bill.
Interesting Letters That Passed
Between Japanese Consulate
and the Capitol.

Governor Dole regarded the County
Bill as being of too much public i'm
portance to veto it for the sake of
preventing the hackmen's license griev-
ance to Japanese residents The fol-
lowing correspondence will show that
the Japanese cannot blame their con-
sui for any lack of importunacy on
their behalf. Whether a consul has
such diplomatic jurisdiction as Mr.
Saito's letters to the Governor would
imply may be left to international law
yers to decide. What is clear is that
in one letter he solicits the vetoing of
piece of domestic legislation, and in
the next requests information to be
used at Washington against the same
measure. The consurs two letters and
the Governors reply are given here:
CONSUL TO GOVERNOR.
His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Con-
sulate General. Honolulu, II. T.,
April 2, 1903.
His Excellency Sanford B. Dole, Gov
ernor of the Territory of Hawaii, Ho
nolulu.
Sir: l have again the honor to trans
NIT herewith for your favorable con-
sideration the different petitions dated
Yesterday, forwarded to me by the
chairmen of the several japanese cor
porate bodies. setting forth the incon- |
venience and injustice of the hackmen's
license bill, which was recently passed
the lower house of the legislature and
is pending the consideration of the Sem f,
ate.
AS already stand in my former COM |
munication of yesterdays date, the |,
hackmen's license bill, as shown by |
these. various petitions. is decidedly in |
imical to the convenience and economy /
of all Japanese residents in the Hawai- |
ian Territory; and I again ask your !
exceilency's just consideration as to
equal protection of foreign as well as /
native residents.
1 have the honor to be, sir.
Your obedient servant
Mkt SAITO.
II. I. Japanese Majesty's Consul-Gen-
eral.
SECOND LETTER.
His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Con-
1. 1903.
His Excellency, Sanford b. Dole, Gov
ernor of Hawaii, Honolulu.
Sir: Not having, as yet, received any
reply to my letters of the 1st and End
of April, 1903. setting forth the incon-
venience, injustice and If carried out to
the great financial loss to the Japanese
community of the Hackman's License
bill which passed the Territorial Legis-
lature a few months ago, and having
noticed afterward that the same regu-
lations as those in the Territorial Bill
re-appeared in the County Law. Sec
ton 347. Chapter 56, which became law
as officially published, I now beg to ask
you most respectfully to let me have
your answer to my letters mentioned
above.
1 am urged in this matter, as have
already referred it to His EXcellency
Takahiro. the japanese Minister at
Washington, ID. c., and am now for
warding all the informations I possess,
together with the decision of the Cir
cult Court regarding the County Law.
I shall therefore be pleased to have the
answer to my former letters from you
as TO the views of the Executive, so
that Mr.. Takahira may have all posi-
bic data which Will assist him in any
conference that may be in progress be- J
tween him and the official authorities
at Washington.
I have the honor to be. sir, your most
obedent servant. Mkt SAITO,
II. l. japanese Majesty's Consul-Gen-
eral.
THE GOVERNOR REPLIES.
Private Secretary Halves for the
Governor acknowledged the receipt of
the first letter and the Governor an Z
swered the second one thus:
July . 1909.