The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-12

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Senate nn III. fdimhild, ta feQnife
/ 70 fli.Oup bond fnf ihc city Auditor
nf Honolulu. boz racs of The present
t1Ouu bond required. came in Tor con
fidemiIon in iho House
senate 1871 rs. fairchild. placing the
bonds ~ The county auditors ne fol.
lows, was presented Hawaii, $4,000,
Maui. $1,000, Kauai $4,000.
senate Bin ~. Ways and Means
Committee. is 10 appropriate s5O3.l5
for the settlement Of private claim
neainst the Territory by Levi c. Ly-
man Of Hilo.
Kaleiopu spouts.
Raleiopu was the first orator Of the
afternoon, he pointing out how the
: ehairmen Of finance and agricultural
committees had not wanted 10 present
the bill, getting another one TO do 30.
In two days they had changed their
4, minds. lie did not knew why.
lie reviewed the bill as he under.
stood IT, He thought the day would
: come when il would be found impos-
sible to enforce the law, just now AS it
: was impossible to enforce the charter
!. tax against the Rapid Transit Com
l
no income paid no. income tax, but
every salaried man did and had to pay
, his. The bill does not allow European
immigration only, but immigration
A from any part of the world. The bill
provides for three quarters of the rev.
B., enue under it to go to immigration
n and one-quarter to conservation. What
q benefit will the citizens get under thisf
| Nnf a
q the citizen laborers out of this reve-
10 nue.. and the God-given right of cit
v izen laborer to get public money
would be wiped out.
is Kaleiopu stated that there were
plenty of Hawaiians for the planta-
is tions if they could earn decent pay.
He himself would not spurn a planta-
as ton Job at $l.25 a day. The idea of
d. the planters was, however, to get big
t. profits and cheap labor.
Is At the present time the schools were
IS. crowded. Whyi Was it not because
immigration had been encouraged The
II. result of further immigration would be
in more children, and more children
G. mean more taxes for him and the
I'd other citizens to pay
lg He gave statistics which showed al
4 races to be on the increase as repre-
Ii scented in the schools except the Ha
p waiians, leaving the inference to b'
drawn that immigration accounted fol
Is the low and declining Hawaiian birth
rs rate 1t was for the House to decid,
o. whether this decrease in the number
of Hawaiians should continue or not.
Is al was one of those who opposed thu
On immigration bill in 1908. and | stand
e. today opposed to this immigration bill
u1 and wish SO to go on record in tn,
Nv journal of the House. / ask you t.
~ indefinitely postpone this BILL" h,
\. concluded.
re First Democratic Grafton.
nd Kamahu took exceptions to Single
he figures, stating also his opinion tina
", the country would best benefit by hav
he ing the immigration fund distributes
h in the form of higher wages, when tn
he labor supply would be sufficient H
e, referred to the fact that some Of tn
IL Spaniards We're now leaving the plan
ch tations because the wages paid wer
or too low and that if more laborers wer
he brought in they, too, would leave be
Sc cause of the wages paid.
eff we want to Americanize thi
Territory let us bring in Americans t
do it, not foreigners from Europe,
es he said. while he claimed that at time
an on the waterfront there were from 100
bo to 1900 citizens. American citizens
Is, looking for work. More immigrant
ed would mean more citizens looking fo
ne jobs. He objected to japanese labor
lst ers being employed on public work.
&c. and said: "Still they want nor
ed aliens to come here to compete wit
ra- the citizens of this Territory
os. He saw no benefit in the bill, for tn
ng citizens, and could not understand VIII
m the planters and the rich men Shout
is want to pass such law to iniure IL
of citizens.
of Tenney's Figures Quoted.
In answer to Kaleiopu's statemeI
oh that there was plenty of labor now
40 Hawaii, Single read a portion of Il
~ address given by Z. ID. Tenney co
-, corning the labor situation, in whic
hn it was stated that there was a search
~, of labor.
90 Single also quoted from the Go
~ ernor's speech made before the col
~, mn mittee considering the bill, the Cover
nj or having pointed out the dependen
,an of all classes on the plantations al
,en the necessity of guarding against
mt depression on the plantations due to
'' scarcity of labor.
ius "This two per cent. additional Il
az is money that we never saw befol
ew 1t all comes out of the planters al
an. if there was not a scarcity of lab
Ia we would not be talking about a 81
W, eial tax" continued the chairman
hns the Agricultural Committee, who tc
ant of the other plans suggested, tax
tey sugar, an export tax on tonnage, a
zoe other things, while of the total rails
90, from the planters, quarter was
~ tanned by the Territory, $4,000
hIv Nv relieve the pressure on general reven
Wy If it was decided to carry on I
N' Bureau of Agriculture and Forest
the $4,000 it would take could be II
en- out of this $4,000 velvet mon
TX In answer to Kamahu, Single st
ed that there were no doubt idle m
on the waterfront, but these men wo,
ap, not go into the canefield and work.