The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-08

The reform Of the public land laws Of
the Territory was also considered
broadly and the question of either ap-
plying the American continental regu-
lations or revising them in such a way
as to meet the peculiarities of the Is
lands has been canyassed by the Wash
ington lawmakers. Legislation to i'm.
prove interisland commerce has also
been considered by the travellers.
Need of Ship Subsidy.
Each Congressman saw the Islands
through the prism of his habitual the
cries. DR.. A. J. Barchfeld of Pitts
burg, member of the house committee
on merchant marine and a constant sup
porter and stimulat0r of ship subsidy
measures, was convinced that the trip
was a striking object lesson TO his col
leagues of the urgent need for a ship
subsidy law. "'You can say for me
that we shall have a ship subsidy bill
passed at the next session of Com
gress,' he declared.
H. G. Humphreys of Mississippi, a
Democrat with constitutional aversion
to the protective feature of such legis-
lation, went further in the opposition
to the shipping question and declared
that the visit to the Islands had con-
WINGED him that the coastwise ship
pins law, which exaets penalty on
passengers travelling between the Is
lands and America in foreign bottoms,
should be abrogated in that particular.
Richard Bartholdt of st. Louis, Mo-,
the dean of the delegation and an in
veterate apostle of peace, went on
record as complimenting the amity in
which white. Hawaiian and japanese
children attend school together in the
| Islands, ga good lesson to some people
on the Pacific Coast. he said. He also
advocated, to ameiorate any possible
labor stringency in the Islands, the
admission of limited number of Chi
nese to perform the plantation labors.
The Japanese problem in the Islands
according to Bartholdt, is fading.
Delegates Well Pleased.
On the whole the Congressman were
gratifed with their entertainment at
the Islands, and edited and amazed by
the progressiveness, prosperity and re-
sources of the group. The trip was
| made by the delegation as guests of the
commercial bodies of Honolulu and the
Islands, and judging by the enthusiasm
aroused among the members of the
party the excursion viii be profitable
one to the business and commercial in
terests of Hawaii.
Congressman Barchfeld of Pennsyl-
vania, member of the merchant marine
committee of the house, drew a lesson
from the trip that will add fuel to fires
of his oratory on the ship subsidy bill.
He furthermore had critical comment
to make on San Francisco docking ia
cilities and a caustic denunciation of
the people of Southern California who,
by their votes, defeated the recent Is
lais creek bond issue project.
Barchfeld said: Il noted in the Ha-
waiian Islands lack of SHIPS, of break
waters and of docks. The sugar bust
ness on the Islands was a revelation to
us. The pineapple industry will de-
velop enormously, and in five years
from now l believe there will be s.
100000 cases of pineapples shipped from
the Islands every year. The twenty
seven days run which the Pacific Mail
makes from Panama is so long that
Central American pineapples can not
be carried TO this port. But there are
no adequate shipping facilities with the
Islands. | believe the Islands are an
important part and parcel of this coun-
try, and they are entitled to modern,
progressive American accommodations.
The Pacific Mail runs three boats a
month to Honolulu. But the bill which
will become law at the next session
| of Congress, by a postal subsidy, will
give Honolulu two boats a week. |
| believe that converts to the ship sub
| sidy have been made on this trip. The
proposition of abrogating the coast
wise shipping laws as applying to pas
senger traffic with the Islands is rot; il
is subterfuge, fluke, and a farce
"The question of land legislation fol-
the Islands should be left to the people
of the Islands. We don't know any
| thing about that.
Criticizes Local Docks.
1T pains me as a world traveller tc
| come into your docks and find that
while some of them are passing fair
more of them are mediocre, and some
absolutely antiquated. If San Fran
cisco expects the Panama canal to re
| habilitate her languid shipping indus
try, which has been put to sleep by ad
verse national legislation, let it take
hold and improve the docking facilities
| Have them so that a vessel of 10000