The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-07-17
STOOD BY
COUNTY ACT
The Governor Not
Moved by Side
Issues.

Governor Dole regarded the County
Bill as being of too much public I'M
| portance to veto 1t 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
a piece of domestic Legislation, and in
the next requests information to be
used at Washington against the same
measure. The consul's 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, 1908.
His Excelency Sanford b. Dole Gov
ernor of the Territory of Hawaii, Ho
nolulu.
Sir: / 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-
venence 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
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.
/ have the honor to be, sir,
Your obedient servant,
MIKI SAITO,
H. l. Japanese Majestys Consul-Gen-
eral.
SECOND LETTER.
His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Con-
sulate General. Honolulu, II. l., July
/, 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, whicl. became law
as officially published, 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 I have
already referred 1t to His Excellency
Takahiro, the Japanese Minister at
Washington, ID. c., and am now for
warding all the informations 1 possess,
together with the decision of the Cir
cult Court regarding the County Law.
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 possi-
BILE data which will assist him In any
conference that may be in progress be-
tween him and the official authorities
at Washington.
I have the honor to be- sir, your most
obedient servant. MIKI SAITO.
H. I. Japanese Majesty's Consul-Gen-
eral.
THE GOVERNOR REPLIES.
Private Secretary Hawes for the
Governor acknowledged the receipt or
the first letter and the Governor an
swered the second one thus:
July 2, 1908.
Mr.. Mkt Saito. H. I. ]. NJ. Consul
General
Sir: l have this day received your
letter of July 1st referring to previous
correspondence in regard to the Hack
mems License Bill and also to similar
regulations which were Incorporated in
the County Act, and asking for a re-
ply.
The Hackmen's License Bill was not
signed and the termination Of the reg
ular session Of the Legislature pre-
vented 1t from becoming law.
Although somewhat similar provi-
sions were placed in the ounty Bill,
the bill was Of such general Importance
that 1t would have been, in my opinion
against public policy to have vetoed II
on account OF such provisions
Very respectfully,
SANFORD B. DOLE.