The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-03-06
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with Coz. SpaiGing of the Makee Sugar
Company. AS matter OF fact, he has
not released any land yet. but he has
Igreed to do 1t.
STATEMENT TO MORGAN.
"Then the second Molokan ENJOYS
came down here, and l went with them
To Kauai The second party, the
elders, confirmed the selection made by
Demens. At that time Mr.. Morgan
came to me and wanted 10 know
whether he could make arrangements
20 secure the land on the fiat where
the house stood in which he lived. l
told him the Molokans were not to
have the land on the fiat, the makai
lands, the so-called kula or dry
lands.
Later I told him this again,
and that there were about 100 or 165
acres of these lands. could not tell
exactly how much until the survey had
shown, just wlere the lines ran.
said that, when these lands were sur
veyed, the usual reservations would
be made-that IL, there would be re-
served the right of way for the road
around the islano for a railroad which
was certain to be built at some time
In the future. and for roads by which
the occupants Of the inside land. Mo-
lokans and other. could reach the
waterfront. After these reservations
were made, l told him that the balance
OF the lands, whatever that might be.
would be cut w into town lots and
sold. either by the Land Department
or the Public Works Department, as
village site The lands not being
pastoral or agricultural. could not be
disposed of in any other way. But
was very careful to tell him that Meth
er this disposition nor any other could
he made of them until after the ex-
pirat icr of Colonel Spalding's lease,
enc year from next May. Until that
date, The lands belong to Colonel
Spalding.
MoLOKANS NOT ALIENS.
Il ttld Mr.. Morgan, moreover, that
1t was tho intention of the Molokans-.
who. as I have said. are not aliens
to do all the work in Kappa. There will
be II" work there for anybody else.
And l said to him that If he would
form IL settlement association and get
Coicnei Spalding to open the lands Of
Araholo and Kamalomalo on the same
terms rs he had opened Kappa to the
Moiokafs the government would do
fog such association precisely what it
had done for the Molokans. The set
Element association has the right to
select its own members, and there
would hardly be enough Kappa land
to go around.
n 1atN 1,
not as rich as those of Kappa, and
that the farther south you went the
better the lands got. l then asked
him how the lands OF Olohena would
do, and he said those were richer than
Kappa. Upon that I told him If he
would get Colonel Spalding to release
those lands, the government would give
them to his association. We are not
favoring and will not favor one class
or citizens above another, but there
is a great problem in opening cane
lands-which are the kind we are now
opening to settlement. We want the
lands kept in cane, and their power of
producing revenue to the Territory
preserved.
Mr.. Morgan says something about
Mr.. Hundley's position in the matter,
also. As matter of fact, Hundley is
the head luna on the Makee Planta-
ton. and holds his house on the same
tenure that Morgan does-at the will
of Colonel Spalding, who can move
either of them any day he sees fit. But
there is this difference in Hundley's
case. His place has been reserved for
school site, and Superintendent Bah
bitt is going up there very soon to in
spect it. 1 think he will accept the
site.
JUST A GAME.
'As to the petition Mr.. Morgan
speaks of, l am almost certain that
there was no return excepting for the
makai lots and seventeen acres of taro
lands which Colonel Spalding had leas-
ed to Hawaiians. In fact. Colonel
Spalding worked his plantation lands
as any other plantation would, leasing
where he could make profit and putting
his employees on land that was not of
much value for other things.
II told Mr.. Morgan, in reference to
the petition for the makai lands, that
there would not be- in all PROBABILITY,
more than a little over half an acre
of land for each of the 81 signers of
the petition, in the event that the lands
were turned over to them.
That does not make any differ
ence,' he said. If Hundley and a few
of us now living on the lands get our
lots, the other signatures are those of
men living over on the other side
so you see that Mr.. Morgans state
ment of the case is not strictly in ac-
cordance with the facts. If 1t had
been. it would have been a very strong
statement BY the way" said the Land
Commissioner. II have received
number of letters from men in the east
asking II we would make the same
terms to white men that we make to
the Molokans. l wish you would say
that the Molokans are really about as
white as anybody else in this coup
try"
KATO LEANFS THE CABINET.