The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-24
PERKINS SAYS HAWAII Has ENOUGH
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with majority OF committee submit the following minority
report
has long been established policy United that all
coaswise business should be done American ships Hawaii
asks that exception should be made this general policy of long
standing and that all foreign ships stopping her ports should be
permitted to carry passengers between the United States and Hawaii
As appears from statements made the hearings before the
mtee the accommodations furnished by American ships
ample for the needs of the people of Hawaii There a altogether
1o ang year Honolulu average
passengers during the year ended April 90 1908 not more than
65 per cent of this accommodation has been uscd
1t true that in the years 1000 1907 large ships the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company the Mongolia and the Mancria
temporarily disabled After they repaired and
the line and the last ended April 3d. 1908 the cabin capacity
of the Pacific Mail boats alone between United
I635 less than the cabin capacity On the steamers Of this line
from Honolulu during this same period the cabin
capacity was 4o5 and the number of carried only
2S7 1884 less there for while one-ft the
storage capacity occupied the steamships any
1t further appeared that the time the Mongolia and Machu
ship Company the of the people of Honolulu placed
FRANCISCO ana Honolulu One mad capacity OF $50 hStcass aSen
and 8 secondabn On her first from San
Francisco she had first and second cabin On her
second voyage she had first and II second cabin passengers On her
third she had first and second cabin passengers On her first
homeNard from Honolulu San Francisco she had - first
cabin passengers and second On her second voyage 90 hca
and secondcabn passengers On her third voyage first and
90 second This experiment neted loss the Oceanic Steamship
company OF $4,000 and was then given Of course use
less continue especially view
of the Manchua and Mongolia
appeared before the committee that the
Oceanic Steamship Company has had laid up the harbo of San
the Sonoma Ventura and Serrawh they have been unable
operate because of insufficient business between San Francisco and
Honolulu pay operating The only steamer of the Oceanic
Line operang Alameda had only about so per of
her cabin cac filled between San Francisco and Homo
uiu and during the last year the steamships of the Pacific Mail
sailed than with only per Of their cabin capacity file
This evidence nconradced except by the statement that
there congestion the passengers Ii
Sab francisco The that congestion sta ii
the particular times given ngestion is felt Wnc
be convenient for the nabtan Hawai- which may
touch at her ports whether American foreign is believed
that real necessary has been shown for departure from the cab
hed policy of the United States permit its coawe business
to be done by foreign ships The only Of aceranng the
necessity increased by of the traffic
period time When the of the steamship taken
for it that instead of there being congestion there is
failure employ of the cabin capacity the Pacific
Mail boats alone These steamships large and commodous
kocean vessels and popular with the travelling public between Fran
cisco and Honolulu and is therefore safe say that
cabin capacity of the other American ships quite large
The effect of the passage of this bill would be give large part
OF the passenger business to the ships of japan BY of the
fact that the paid by japanese ships only oned much
paid American ships manned by white American
it costs fully $4,000 the latter than it the
Japanese ships the item of alone This in the
the rolls of the following mail and steamships which
of the type:
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