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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-02
SENATE FIXES LOANS
IWtiILEEHOUSE DEVOTES
HOURS TO FARMERS

caused Beckley to,, leap to his feet on
question of personal privilege.
The honorable member has charged
me with trying to keep money for taxes
out Of the Territorial treasury" he
said. "and with being a liar TO con-
/ stituents of TIE Home Rule party. 1
challenge him to prove it. Mr.. Chain
man. when speak on this floor speak
to the House and not to the gallery.
If the committee wants to limit the ex-
enption to five years, am willing. but
my contention is for the passage of the
bill because it Will be a good thing for
the people. do not believe we should
look at only one side of 1t, as we do
when we confine our view to the bene-
fit to accrue to the sisal plantation at
Eva The whole people win be bene-
flied, because the poor man can also
grow sisal.''
HOME RULERS QUARREL.
The Speaker defended his contention
that this bill was measure in the in
terest Of poor Hawaiians at length, and
defended, also. the integrity of his own
position on the measure. IF the hon.
orable member he said in conclusion,
''can prove that have not been actual
ed by patriotic motives, then I am will
ing to resign my seat as a member of
this body. He has made the charge
that in s1,DDortfnp tt;S hin T an, +v-xyirs o.
to divert money from the treasury, and
also that had lied to my constituents,
and was two-tongued. If he was talk
ing to the gallery, 1 am willing to over
look the matter. He has not adj
vanced any sound argument against
the bill. I make this statement, Mr..
Chairman. in vindication of my per-
sonal honor
There were more speeches, Kupihea
indulging in one which nobody cared
TO have translated into English, and
during the delivery of which, therefore,
the interpreter sat down and rested
Then the committee rose and reported
progress and the House took a recess
until eight o'clock. Fernandez, from
the Printing Committee. reporting in
the meantime, that the County bill |
would be ready for today.
EVENING SESSION.
After the House had been called to |
order and the roll called, showing only |
eighteen members present. the Speaker |
that evening sessions would |
be imperatively necessary hereafter,
there being but few days of the ses-
sion remaining, and those who absented |
would be held strictly to
account
Then the House went into committee
Of the whole, with Kumaiae in the |
chair, and consideration of the bill for !
the promotion of diversified farming |
SO as to include manioc and Hawaiian
starch in the exemptions, and was then
tremendously put through the COM /
nittee. The committee thereupon re-
ported the bill back to the House, and
t was put upon its third reading, and
passed as amended.
The House then proceeded with the
'rder of the day. which was the third
-eading of the income tax bill, fixing
he exemption at $1,000. The vote was
/ to Z, and as this was not a majority
If the whole House the bill failed of
passage.
The House then proceed to the more
" less amicable passage OF a number
# Senate bills. after which an adjourn
nent was taken until, this morning.
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oAHUrs BIG SHARE.

Further he said. under the Organic
Act we are permitted to incur an in
debtedness of $4,000 for the first
year. If this report is adopted. you
would give the island of Oahu one
sixth of this total amount at one
swoop. If we need more water, why
not let the authorities develop the sup
ply in Nuuanu valley. which can be
done with no additional cost in rhe way
of purchase price. The government
would better spend its money in build
ing roads to sell its lands and so get
some return
Kumalae started to answer Harris's
questions when told th.lt that gentle
men would like a reply as to whether
the committee had looked into the mat
ter of the cost of mains and reservoirs,
but wandered from the question and
the Speaker called him to order. Harris
was foredoomed to defeat, anyway.
The question required on his amend
ment to table the report. and it was
beaten on roll call as follows:
Ayes-Chillingworth. Greenwich, Har-
ris. Knudsen-4. 4
Noes-Aylett, Damien, Fernandez,
Gandall, Haia, Kali. Kalama, Kanfht,
Kealawaa, Keliinoi. Kumalae. Kupihea,
Lewis. Long, Nakaleka, Oil. Paele, Pu-
laa, Purdy Vida, Wright-21.
Observation-Disclosures. Jaeger Kou, Pail
Il
BY the same vote, q to 4, the motion
to adopt the report was carried, and
the bill to purchase was made the or
der of the day for today.
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BEcKLEY's SPEECH.

This being completed, the House en-
tered upon the routine of advancing
| bills which proceeded amicably enough
until House bill "a, which is the meas
ure to encourage diversified industry
| by exempting growers of sisal, castor
oil beans and vanilla from taxation for
ten years was reached. The bill went
to committee of the whole after a
somewhat warm discussion, the Speak
er calling Kumalae to the chair. En-
tering upon the discussion in commit
tee, there was some spirit of levity
manifested, when Beckley took the
floor and recalled the sense of decorum
in a speech in which he claimed that
sugar was king of these islands. what
ever flag hoated. and that it was time
to consider gravely the encoura cement
of diversified industries. This was es-
peciaily the duty of the members in
view of the keen competition and the
increased production of beet sugar on
the mainland When sugar was up, the
country prospered. When sugar was
down, we had hard times. Sisal was
waste land growth. and its production
particularly desirable. There was a cry
for the settlement of small farmers in
the country.
We do not want any more small
farmers, gentlemen" he said. There
are small farmers enough in the coun-
try if you give them a chance The
trouble is that the sugar plantations
control the country. The merchants
are subject to them. And you cannot
change conditions SO long as the pros
perity OF the country depends upon the
rise and fall in the price of sugar
SPEAKS FOR NATIVES
He said the native Hawaiians who
sat in the back part of the hall should
be the owners of small farms. and
would be if they had received any en-
couragement from the powers that be.
He asked that the bill be passed in the
interest of these Hawaiian small land |
owners.
There was lot of talk. after this.
Greenwich offered an amendment re-
iucing the time of exemption to five /
years. and Fernandez made a speech
against the bill. He said lot of things.
among them some about the duty of |
Home Rulers to their constituents that
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when I'm at home. Come in and I'll
snow you my storytelling machine. 1t
is not a genuine one; it is only
ake-believe, but it does very we'll"
in corner of the room in which
they found themselves there was a tall
piece of furniture resembling a narrow
cupboard. Near the top there was
small opening, which turned out to be
the orifice through which the story
was told. Wally Wanderoon went to
this cupboard, and gave it a sharp rap
with his walking-cane.
Hey. there" he cried: what are
you up to in there?"
Goodness gracious!" a voice re-
piled; do you want to brighten me to
death? Who are you and what do you
want?"
You know who 1 am we'll enough:
if it was feed time, you'd know what
1 wanted"
well. you never seem to know
what ] want" replied the story telling
machine.
why, there's man in there" said
Buster John.
'Of course replied Wally Wan
deroon. The man is a necessary part
of the storytelling machine"
And he's fat" cried Sweetest Susan,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
No. 4.

For many days and nights after 1
sailed away from the cannibal island 1
did not meet with. any adventures
worth telling. The weather was fine
and the wind fair, and sailed on night
and dav with only one stop. On the
sixth day | saw another island, and as
l could see no people about | made a
landing to get some fresh fruit. All
that ! had brought with me had begun
to decay.
found many trees loaded with fruit,
and also plenty Of fresh water, and,
though | walked about for two hours,
/ did not find even the tracks of men.
The only living things on the island, as
far as l could make out, were rats, and
they were there In plenty. They were
much afraid of me at first, and scam
pered off whenever / raised my hand or
shouted. but after a little time they
grew so bold and appeared In sucn
numbers that l verify believe they
would have attacked me had | not
loaded up with my fruit and fastened
away. They were the largest rats /
ever saw. and their long, sharp teeth
would have inflicted painful wounds.
On the tenth night after my escape
from the cannibals the wind was so
steady that / made my sail fast and
slept most of the night. was asleep
when daylight came, but soon after
that was awakened by sounds oflaugh-
ter. ~
There were the voices of men. women
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priation that has to be made annually
10 care for the forest reserves
Not all the lands in the forest re-
serves are covered by timber Some of
them are entirely bare-made ugly by
devastating man, who cut down the
timber blindly, sparing neither young
growth or old giants. and then leaving
the land after he had rendered it I'M
inhabitable.
on this land. ruined for the time by
a few foolish and wickedly thoughtless
men, the patient government is going
10 grow new forest And that new
forest will never be destroyed again
unless fire should conquer the patrol
system. Yet, though these woods will
he sacred in many respects, like the
famous sacred groves of the ancient
peoples of Europe. they will furnish
timber, too. But the government will
do the cutting under proper laws and
rules so that only those trees shall be
cut that can be spared or that are be-
ing replaced by new growth around
them.
Preserving the lumber is not the only
great object for which forest preserves
have been formed.
They prevent both droughts and
Hoods. In the rainy times. they drink
up the water greedily, as If they were
come. rills and streams gush out from
the tree-clad mountains, for the woods
are giving up their stores. They pre-
vent floods, for they hold back the rain
and snow, where arid and treeless
mountains would shed them and pour
them in destructive masses on the low
er grounds.
As the Great White Father of the In
dams. the Secretary has been giving
them some severe lessons lately.
He has been making them cut their
hair and put on civilized clothes. He
did not do this to improve their looks.
but to brace them up" and make them
work like other Americans. In their
case 1t was proved that clothes make
the man; for many an Indian buck
who would have been ashamed to be
seen blowing or digging bitches while
he wore his Indian clothes and had his
hair hanging down his back, now la
bors cheerfu1ly IN overalls. and Is
pleased with the wages that he gets.
To further impress on the Indians
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every appearance of iron, is in reality
nothing but light wood painted black.
The knobs of the dumb bell are each
marked 500 pounds, as shown in the dia-
gram, Figure 8.
The clown who acts as strong
man is always very careful to call at
tention to his muscles which are rem
dered wonderful in size and shape by
MS having stuffed quantities of rags
and paper under his clothes.
1t does not in the least matter to the
clown whether OF not his muscles are
In the correct place or of the correct
shape. So long as there are huge
punches on each of his arms and legs
the clown is satisned.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

the necessity Of working, the Secretary
of the Interior is dropping Indians
rapidly from the ration rolls. They
cannot call at the reservation agencies
and get food and other supplies as
they used to.
While many of the noble red mer
view this new departure with horror
and grief. most of them have decided
to work. And. though progress Is
slow. as it naturally must be expected
to be in cases of changes like this
the crops raised by Indians who for
merly did no work at all give evidences
of the excellence of the scheme.
Among the products that the Indians
carry to market now are butter, sawed
lumber, wheat, oats, barley, corn, veg.
etables, flax and hay
They have made and repaired many
hundred miles of road. dug big irrt-
cation bitches and freighted many
tons of goods of all kinds.
Among the pensioners who look to
the Secretary's Commissioner of PEN
sions for annual pay there still are
few widows and daughters of soldiers
who fought I'm the Revolutionary War.
There are only about half a dozen Of
these, but of the survivors and widows
of the War of 1872 the Pension Bureau
still has more than a thousand to
pay. There are more than four thou
sand widows and survivors of the In
dian wars and more than $4,000 widows
and survivors of the Mexican War.
An interesting part of the work of
the Secretary of the Interior is as a
map maker. The various departments
under him have produced an enormous
number of maps. There are maps
showing the geological formation of
the various sections of the country,so
that the prospector, the miner and the
quarry man can tell just where to
look for the particular minerals he
wants. They are making maps and ia
bles to show the water supplies of the
United States, gauging the streams
and even measuring and tabulating all
the artesian wells of the United States.
Almost 100000 publications were dis
trfbuted last year by the Geological
Survey alone. The entire number OF
public documents produced and dis
tributed by all the departments and
bureaus under the Secretary of the In
terror was 3.115,234.
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whose curiosity had prompted her to
| look through crack in the cupboard.
Certainly" answered Wally Wan
| deroon I'm the history of the world
no lean man ever told a pleasant story.
l have caught and picked this man,
| as you may say, because he is one of
| the old-fashioned story-tellers. He's
the. last of his kind so far as I know,
| and is one of the worst. You wouldn't
| think it, but even here. where he is
Gagged and kept away from his kind,
| he tries his best to fall into modern
| methods. You listen to him carefully,
and you'll see how he tries to initiate
the style of those who think that in
telling a story they have to explain
! everything and even tell where the
story grew"
Wally Wanderoon went to the cup
board, raped on it sharply and said:
Wake up in there! Shake yourself to-
| gether. Here are some children who
have come to spend the day with me,
) and they want to hear one of your
stories. If it pleases them you may
tell as many as you choose"
A shutting sound was heard in the
cupboard, and then the old-fashioned
story-teller cleared his throat and be-
gan.
I'm it's original form the story that
l am about to tell"
wait! hold on there!" cried Wallv
Wanderoon. He was furious with an
ger. Didn't YOU hear me say as plain
as l could speak, that we wanted an
/ old-fashioned story?''
II was simply trying to explain that
the story l am going to tell is a part
of the folk lore
81 won't have it," cried Wally Wan
deroon, stamping his feet. I'VE want
no prefaces and no foot notes; we don't
care where the story comes from. What
am / feeding you for?'
But you must remember" insisted
the poor story-teller, that this is an
age when even the children insist on a
scientific
NONSENSE exclaimed Wally Wan
deroon, putting out his cheeks with an
ger. Figs and fiddlesticks. Why DO
you want to try to show off in this
way? We come to you for story, and
here you are running about like a wild
calf in meadow. 1 tell you l won't
have It'll"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
RUSSIA'S GREAT SALT MINES.

In the KhIrgiz steppes Of Southern
Russia Is a strange settlement named
Iletzk from which 2g.33s tons OF salt
come every year. This salt. II has been
shown by recent borings, extends 10 a
depth OF $50 feet below the surface Of
the earth.
A. present the workers have dug
down TO a depth OF 800 feet where
they are taking the salt out OF an Inn
pense and beautiful chamber that II
7sl feet long ana us feet high. When
seen IN the radiance 81 the electric
lights this Underground cavern shines
Ike . fairy palace. for walls and roof
ana pillars are snowy white ana DeHef
With mgnada n crystals, each ~ which
gives b reflection ~ its oYn.
The great pieces 9f salt are blasted
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

you would say to the other It hear
grandfather coming; let's get away
before he begins about the Mexican
War >"
Buster John looked somewhat sheep
ishly at Sweetest Susan, who excIaim-
ed: "Oh, Brother! 1 told you some
one would hear you'll"
No" replied Wally Wanderoon; II
din't think anyone heard him but you;
but l knew your grandfather had been
3 i'll the Mexican War, and l know, also,
that he is growing old. Put these two
things together and it's no trouble to
guess what the youngsters are likely to
say. Old as l am, l have been young,
and so has your grandfather. Well
as / was going to say-while he is sit
ting back in his easy chair talking
about the Mexican War, L am going
about trying to find the Good Old
Times we used to have"
IT'S no easy matter, 1 can tell you.
1 once hoped to find them in a lump,
as you may say. but have given up
that idea. l know, now, that if find
them at all l shall have to find them
piece at time-an old song here
and an old story yonder. Anyhow, I
shall continue to look for them. One
day not so very long ago, by the hap
pleSC Cndnce, IOunQ one OF the feUCS
of the Good Old Times we used to
have. You couldn't guess what it is
if you were to guess for the rest of
the week. And I'm afraid you won't
believe me when l tell you. 1t is an
oldfashioned storytelling machine
Why l never heard of anything
like that" said Sweetest Susan.
II suppose not" replied Wally Wan
deroon They were very scarce, and
those who had them only permitted a
few of their closest friends to see them.
/ heard of one gentleman, very clever
man, too, who CHANGED to be little
laxative about the one he owned-he
had bought it from a Russian peddler-
and he was tried and hanged as a part
ner of Satan. His machine was made
like a hand organ, and he turned a
handle when he wanted it to tell a
story. Well, well, he suffered in a
good cause"
BY this time they had come to small
house in clump of trees. This said
Wally Wanderoon, lis where 1 live
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

department of education that is under
his control.
The Secretary of the Interior also is
the man who pays the pensions.
His jurisdiction extends over the
Patent Office. Whoever wants to find
out anything about the minerals of the
United States writes to him. He sends
out men TO study, and in many cases
control the planting and preservation
of forests. He has problems of irriga-
ton to solve for the whole country and
for the various states separately.
Besides all these duties, the Secre-
tary of the Interior has under him the
work OF collecting and publishing the
Census. He is the man who looks
after the railroads. The Territories
come under his authority in most Of
the ordinary affairs of their govern
ment, although the governors are not
appointed by him. He also adminis@
tiers the charitable institutions. hosE
pitfalls, ETC., of the Federal govern
ment.
There are many Kings who con-
slider themselves extremely powerful.
who have nothing like the territory
to govern that is represented by the
forest reserves of the United States
alone. There are 81 such reserves
now, and they cover 10000, 900 acres.
Ahr COMMUNICATION OF these reserves
Is serious work. Lying as they do
in wild and rough country, where the
civil law is not strong. they offer great
temptations to timber thieves land
thieves and small armies of swindlers
who try 10 sell parts Of them TO In
nocent settlers. All these things must
be remedied and guarded against by
the Secretary OF the Interior.
To police the National Parks, the
indian Reservation and the Forest
Reserves. the Secretary Of the In.
terror borrows soldiers from his friend
and neighbor, the Secretary OF War.
Besides soldiers he has a little army
Of his own. IL Is always on duty
and has 20 fight a foe FAR more ferce
than Indian, desperate or animal II
is the army Of fire rangers. and their
work is 10 prevent the start OF fires
and % light the flames IL fires DO
start
That this brave and unknown little
army has done SIS duty nObly, was
shown BY the fact that the destructive
forest fires that swept the West last
yesr were confined almost entirely ~
the UnregeTyed tlmbeFed lands II Isl
estimated feat this saving ~ timber
alone has paid for the entire spPr0-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

Probably there are few persons who
tions of the Presidents cabinet off,
GERS are, so far as the Secretaries Of
the Navy, the Treasury, War and Ag-
riculture and the Attorney General
and the Postmaster General are con-
cerned.
But how many, young or old, can
tell much about the duties and powers
of the Secretary of the Interior?
The Secretary of the Interior is not
heard from nearly as often as are the
other cabinet officers. This is because
a large part of his work lies in fields
that are not prominently before the
people as whole.
The Secretary of the Interior is the
real White Father to-day. He is the
ruler of the Indians, and they have to
look to him for rations, education,
money and seedlings
He is also the father of many Of the
wild beasts Of the country, for the ma
tional parks are under his care. II
grizzly bear becomes too familiar with
tourists In the reservations, sooner or
later the Secretary Of the Interior has
to consider the beast and decide wheth-
er he shall be allowed TO continue In
evil ways or be shot
II a geyser fails to spout as often or
as beautifully as II should. the matter
is reported 10 the Secretary. II tour
Isl tries 10 smuggle a rife into the
parks. or builds FIRE that spreads and
burn trees, that tourists name and Of
Tense are laid before him.
The Secretary OF the Interior is a
great father Ia many other ways. He
ls directly a father 20 the children Of
the country, and particularly the chill
dren 81 the new territories annexed 20
the United States, for there Is q great
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

and pigmies, and knew that these lit
tie people must belong to the latter
class. Every last one of them, from the
oldest to youngest, was red-haired.
may say that l did not see a gray-hair.
ed person during my stay on the ISL
and, nor did any faces have wrinkles.
Another curious thing about the peo-
pie was that all had blue eyes, and
their eyesight was so good that they
could see three times as far as could.
Their noses turned up at the end, and
their mouths were large, and they had
double teeth in front.
Their thumbs were as long as their
fingers, and, though they were little
people, they had wonderful strength.
For the first five minutes after
came ashore the people did nothing
but laugh and skip around and clap
their hands. If had any fear of them
at first 1 soon got over it. The laugh
ing finally ceased. and a man stepped
forth from the crowd and said to
me:
Welcome to our shore, oh. giant.
You shall have food and wine and all
you desire, and in return we ask that
you do not harm any of US"
1t made me laugh to hear him speak
of me as a giant. when was only
a small boy. and as 1 laughed they
all laughed with me. l was much
surprised to find that they spoke my
language, and that could under
stand all that was said. and standing
up In my boat | answered:
My good friends, you need not
fear me. ] am in search of an island
called jolly Land. VIII you tell me
IL this Is the one?"
1T is-it isl" they shouted, as they
danced around.
We'll. l am Joe Jolly Boy, and I
have come to visit you and have good
times. l see that you are very merry
people. ! am that way, too. 1 am
always ready to laugh, and it is sell
dom that I am sorrowful Are there
any more of you than what I see
here?"
There are 1000 of us in ALL" re-
piled the man who had spoken before,