The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-06-09
Local. IMMIGRATION LAW.

be a fellow passenger with DR. wy
man
LOCAL, IMMIGRATION LAW.
Il am taking up with Commissioner
General Sargent the new immigration
law. recently enacted by the territorial
legislature to encourage settlement OF
white people In the Hawaiian Islands"
continued Mr.. Atkinson. II told him,
as l had previously told the President.
OF our endeavors to settle and develop
the country along traditional Amerl-
can lines. / am going into immigration
matters with Mr. Sargent very thor
oughly and ascertaining how far the
new board of immigration can go to-
wards encouraging immigration. We
have reached nothing conclusive yet
but / have an appointment for another
talk with him early this week. He
leaves Washington in few days to
catch the Mongolia for Honolulu, sail
ing from San Francisco June I. His
secretary and one other man will ac-
company him.
IT had hoped to get back TO New
York on. the bond issue this week, but
as l have more important matters in
Washington / will not be able to re-
turn there probably for about ten days.
I am booked to sail from San Francisco
on the China June Is, so as to be there
In time for Gov. Carter to come away
on the Alameda to catch the Manchuria
that carries Secretary Taft to Homo
lulu and the Philippines
THE EXTRA SESSION.
1t seems to be definitely settled that
Congress will meet in extra session Oc-
tober 16. The President has been tell
ing his callers so and this morning re-
iterated his intention to some news
paper men. 1t will be called primarily,
he says for railroad rate legislation as
/ the President does not want to have
| the two subjects confused. In his mes
sage to the extra session, however, he
will touch slightly upon the tariff ques-
| ton.
| SUGAR IN LIBERIA.
Mr.. Ernest Lyon, consul general al
! Monrovia, Liberia, has written a report
to the Department of Commerce and
Labor about sugar making in that
country. He says:
Sugar making was once the most
furnishing and paying industry OF
Liberia. All along the banks of the
st. Paul River, in many places hid
den from view by the dense foliage
may be found dilapidated boilers, parts
of engines, mills, and the grim foun
dations of buildings. Noxious weeds
now cover farms which swarmed Will
.workmen, crushing, cooking, and re-
filming the sugar cane, which grew lux.
uriantly for miles along the feftil,
banks of the river. Those were tn,
golden days of Liberia, when greai
quantities of sugar were sold, not only
along the Liberian coast, but in tn,
markets of Liverpool and New York
Labor supplied by the aborigines anc
captured Kongoes returned by tn,
United States Government to Liberit
was cheap and plentiful. The price O
merchandise On the ground was higl
and the planters did not scruple t.
take advantage of the cheap labor ant
the high price of merchandise given IL
exchange.
Among the causes which contribut
. ed to the abandonment of the industr,
were: "a The fall in the price of su
gar, consequent principally upon tn
, introduction of cheap beet sugar; e
the falling off of American shipping
. facilities, New York being the princi
pal port to which most of the suga
was shipped; go the introduction o
coffee, which superseded the sugar
cane industry, and (4) the lack @
! nil al m iy,n,N
machinery. The price of sugar declin
, ed from p and IA cents to cents pc
pound, which was found insufficient
to meet the working expenses. The in
,, PRODUCTION of beet sugar on the Liber
ian market, the cost of machinery, an
. the scarcity of laborers, who wer
drawn away by the growth of the cot
, fee industry, resulted In a general col
lapse. Every other agricultural enter
: prise was abandoned for coffee, whic
brought from is to 20, cents per pounC
and the farmers grew rich.
so long, however, as sugar-can
> farming lasted it paid. One<of til
farmers who never abandoned the ir
s dustry declared recently in converse
I ton on the subject that even cent
: per pound for sugar paid him. In tn
present reverses of the coffee industr
several small strip makers and dis
tillers at Crozierville now find in suga
= culture a reasonable competence, eve
. with their limited capital and poo
machinery.
!. sugar cane in Liberia grows lu,
: uriantly. When properly planted an
!, cultivated the stubble will last fro
three TO four years before it begins
. deteriorate The mode of planting
= simple: "a The woods, If high Ian
{ must be cleared in the months of jan
Il nary and February, woods of young,
o growth in February and March; Il
e underground is first cut, then the larl
I err trees; (2) when the farm is tho
: oughly dried fire is applied to IL
brush, the ashes serving as fertilizer
T. 90 the soil is then hoed up in parall
: rows, about feet apart; az the stal
of the cane is cut in two parts, abo,
or feet from the top, and the tc
+. part is stripped of the leaves and la