The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-12-11

presented by Mr.. Castle,'' he said.
1.-The adoption of that resolution would
place Governor Frear in a very awk-
ward position, as it leaves everything
to him. i wish, therefore, to introduce
the following as an amendment to the
resolution
Mr.. Lowery then presented the reso-
luton finally adopted, printed at the
head Of this column.
1--WE all appreciate what the Matson
Company has done in the way of pro-
viding a favorable freight service. -
concluded Mr.. Lowrey, Ibut the pas
senger service is a secondary consider
alton with them"
Operating at Loss.
J. f. Hackfeld kokuaed the ideas ex-
pressed by Mr.. Tenney and drew atten.
ton TO the fact that at least one
American line operating in the Pacific
was being run at a loss. He stated
that he could not understand the posi-
ton of the Governor at Washington,
and thought full explanation of the
change of position of the Chamber
should be supplied him.
Compromise Suggested.
L. Tenney Peck stated that he was
a firm believer in the American prin-
ciple of protection and thought that it
should be recognized in transportation
as in other things. In order not to APP
pear to be at variance with the Presi-
dent, the Governor and Congress, how
ever,,he was in favor of some sort of a
compromise, which he believed could be
worked out without any loss of dignity
or sacrifice Of principle. He suggested
the advocacy of bounty for every
passenger carried on an American bot
tom or n custom tax on every ticket
sold for a foreign bottom. The matter
might be arranged in the mail con-
tracts, also, on the same principle. as
extravagent prices are now paid for
carrying mail into sparsely settled Sec
tons of the country.
81 do not believe in this absolute
prohibition against American citizens
travelling on vessels not flying the
protection; it goes far and beyond pro-
lection and makes crime out of what
it is the citizens right to do"
Macfarlane Surprised.
F. w. Macfarlane stated that he was
surprised some of these reasons had not
been advanced before when the matter
of suspending the law had first been
taken up and the Alameda had been
the only boat on the local run. Since
that time the ,Matson line had put on
the Hilonian, the .Lurline and was now
promising another handsome boat He
didn t want it to be supposed that the
Chamber was an organization that
changed its opinion every twenty min
utes, and advised sticking to the de-
termination reached at the last meet
ing.
Question Put and Carried.
After a call for the question, Presi-
dent Cooke put the amendment to the
amendment, the resolution introduced
the amendment, 10; against, IA.
Final Japanese Report.
c. M. Cooke, before the regular bust.
ness of the meeting had been taken up,
made final report on the trip to Japan
taken by the Pacific Coast Commercial
Commission, of which he had been a
member. He urged the necessity OF
mere IL
in measure some of the hospitality
shown their representatives in Japan
whenever any of the japanese hosts
passed through this port, and advocated
also the assistance of the local Cham
Der in the plan to have japanese rep.
resentatives come to America on q
similar mission.
He related briefly some of the evi.
dences of the great hospitality shown
the party in Japan, instancing how the
Emperor had had special stand built
for them from which to watch the
Emperor review of $4,000 troops, this
stand being the first ever erected for
anyone on the right of the Emperor Is
own stand.
He then presented the Chamber with
two Illuminated addresses, one in Jap
anese, presented him by the japanese
commercial bodies; the other in Eng,
fish, copy of one presented by the
visitors to their hosts. These will be
framed for the. Chambers room.