The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-11-17

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he may produce his own butter, eggs
salt pork. lard, and preserves.
A summary of lands taken up under
the general provisions Of the land ac
of 1895 for the year is as follows:
Number. Acres. Value.
Right of purchase
leases E. -. ...1s3 1869 $S9, SIS s.
Cash freeholds :. 1 61.55 269 .c(
Special agreements 3.437OO S,O74.OC
Homestead leases 16 1i6.24 .......
Total :. .....2O9 2O,912.i1 S4S, 2Sl s.
The total land revenue was 1928, 900 3S
of which 1898 was from sales, and
slO5 O7S1 from rents, interest and fees
The expenditures We're S14.6S101.
AGRICULTURE.
Many pages are devoted to this sub
ject. The exemptions from taxes of
property, real and personal, actually
used in raising certain new products,
enacted this year are mentioned. A
list of plants of value. not including
timber trees or plants raised for flow
ers, as experience has demonstrated to
be productive in the Territory" is Civ
en- in subdivisions. OF productive"
the number is So, of profitable" 81. of
"prospectively profitable" 10 and of
"experimentar' 3-some names being
repeated from the first class in the
others.
Expert information on coffee from A.
Louisson, on pineapples from James D.
Dole and on sisal from l.. Il. Pinkham
is given liberal space.
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dealt with in succession. followed by a
report of the general election. 1t is
shown that two companies in Homo
lulu manufacture and sell $4,000 tons
of fertilizer a year, at about Si5 a ton,
or $1,000, 900 in the aggregate. the whole
product being consumed in the agricul-
tural enterprises of the Territory. On
the subject of labor Governor Dole in
PRODUCES the paper heretofore publish
ed here, furnished by the Builders and
Traders Exchange in response to a
request through A. Gartley, it's presi-
dent, with the following remarks of
the Governors own:
This subject presents difficult ques-
tions. Among mechanics there is some
development of unions for controlling
the skilled labor market, and especially
out aliens. Unskilled labor
is performed mainly by Hawaiians,
Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese.
Many Hawaiians and Portuguese are
skilled mechanics. The Japanese and
Chinese are competing in this field and
are formidable on the ground of their
lower wages rather than the quality
Of their mechanical performance, which
falls behind that of the Anglo Saxon
as regards work not especially Orien-
tai.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Giving an account of the work done
at the regular and extra sessions of the
Legislature, Governor Dole draws par
ticular attention to the expenses of the
Territory's legislation. He mentions
the method initiated by the Senate,
Of keeping the expense accounts of the
two branches separate, and shows that
under this arrangement, for the regular
session, "the Senate expended S19,5s6.2 90
and the House S39, 795.15. without in
GLIDING the cost of publishing it's
journal" The expenses of the Senate
for it's special session last November
to consider executive appointments
were $402S,7O For the extra session Of
'75S4.1S, not including the cost of pub
ishing the journal, and of the House
;l2,9S6.20 not including the cost of pub
ishing the journal, which up to Sep
ember 80 for the House journals of
Doth sessions had reached S46594S.
These legislative expenses for the past
ear as stated by the Governor amount
n round numbers to sSS,640. The Gov
rnor says:
1t is apparent from these figures, to-
;ether with those of the expense ac-
cunt of the legislative sessions of 1901 !
is compared with the legislative ex-
'enses of former years, that the two =
irst legislatures of the Territory have
wasted the public funds by expendi-
ures for their own expenses far be-
'ond the necessities of the case.
He gives table of appropriations for
legislative expenses from 1870 to 1908,
" which 1t is seen that the most ex-
ensive session under the monarchy
that of 1856 cost $50 900, while the
ession of 1892 Qast of the monarchy,
isting seven or eight months, cost but
AZ 900.
Governor Dole suggests a remedy for
,gislatlve extravaganza in the follow
lg remarks:
Under this showing some check upon
ne expenditures of the Territorial leg
stature appears to he called for. I
'ould recommend that such expenses
hould be paid only through the audi
Dr's warrants on the treasury, with
in the auditor to refuse war
ants for charges for services of per-
Dns employed by the senate or house
r for bills for materials until salts
ed that such charges are reasonable
or the work done or the materials
FINISHED.
The legislature OF 1901 and the lower
ranch of the legislature of 1903 have
ithheld from the secretary of the Ter
tory their accounts of such expenses