The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-24
INTELLIGENCE
(Later Shipping News on Page Five)
THE SENATE
FIFTY-SIXTf DAY.
Afternoon Session.


Consideration of the warehouse
mans lien House bill was resumed.
Knudsen, stating that he did not see
now how common carriers could be
included in this bill, moved that the
bill pass third reading. Carried as
follows:
Ayes - Brown, Coelho, Kalama,
Knudsen, Mccarthy, Moore, Robin
son, Smith, Woods-9.
Noes-Baker, Chillingworth. Har-
vey-3.
Knudsen presented a conference
committee report on House bill re-
lating to expenses of district courts
Adopted.
House bill amending section 1136,
R. L., relating to the carrying of per-
sons suffering from contagious dis
ease passed first reading.
LAND LAWS RESOLUTION.
Makekau in the chair, the Senate
went into committee of the whole on
McCarthy's resolution to memorabilia
Congress to pass a homestead law for
the Territory of Hawaii. On motion
Of the author of the resolution the
bill it contained for submission to
Congress was taken up with the re-
port Of the public lands committee.
President Smith, on the first sec
ton, stated that he was unable to
support the bill. This section de-
clared that all public lands in the
Territory should be set apart for
homesteads. AS well known a great
deal of the public lands was not suit
able for homestead purposes. Any
land law that failed to classify the
public lands was fatally defective.
Mccarthy, who confessed he had
not read the bill himself until that
day, stated that classification would
be found further on IN the bill.
President Smith then permitted the
reading to proceed before making
objections.
Fairchild, on conclusion of the
reading, said it seemed to him that
the bill had been drafted by the AS
ISOLATED Order of Land Grabbers. He
doubted if the resolution should even
pass second reading. Taking the
first section to start with, which pro-
posed to do away with the 999-year
lease system, he remembered in years
gone by when the district of Ana
hola, Kauai, contained at least eighty
homesteads owned by native Hawaii
ans. Since then he believed that
ninety per cent of those homesteads
: had been disposed Of He knew at
| least forty of those former owners
who had asked him to help them to
obtain homesteads OF one acre each
of taro lands under the 999-year lease
PLAN They said that if they got home
steads in fee simple the Chinese would
be after them, first to lease them for
cultivation and next to buy the lands.
This bill placed it in the power of
corporations to get all the land they
wanted. If he were anxious to get
vote for the bill, but as a representa-
tive of the people he was opposed to
it,
President Smith was absolutely and
teetotally opposed to the bill He had
the honor of being one of those who
spent some months in Washington in
the winter of 1S99-1900 when the Or
ganic Act was pending in Congress.
Those who framed that measure want
ed Hawaii to continue under its own
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members of the Commission had told
the people of Hawaii that the land
laws of the United States were not
suited to the conditions of Hawaii.
Any plan that would put the control
of our public lands in the hands of
the Interior Department in Washing
| ton should not be considered for one
moment. Even on the mainland,
where there was direct railway COM
munication with Washington the peo-
pie complained bitterly that they
could not obtain consideration of their
| land interests at Washington.
Mccarthy stated that he did not
like the bill, although some of its
features pleased him. Yet he did not
think the resolution should now be
killed, therefore he moved that it be
laid on the table to be considered with
a resolution on the subject of the pub
lie lands coming from the House.
| Carried.
FOREHANDED RESOLUTION.
Fairchild, adding some appropriate
remarks, presented the following re-
solution:
Be it resolved by the Senate of the
| Territory of Hawaii;
That a Committee Of Three be ap-
pointed by the President of the SEN
ate from among the Senators whose
terms of office do not expire until the
year A. d. 1912, such Committee to
be known and styled 'The Senate