The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-12

ass4mlated with US. From them there
| is no danger =
Rice then went into the financial
| side of the bill, pointing out how its
t passage would release 100000 for
| general uses, while the special tax
| would tend to make prosperity con-
! tinue on the plantations, which pros
/ perity was the basis of the prosperity
i of all in the Territory. He stated that
| he was not sugar planters represen-
/ tatlve, but representative of ma
(, 7oriey Of ali the people in his district.
He wanted To see the land prosperous
and his people prosperous
He warned tie Hawaiians not tn
kill the goose that laid the golden ego
Just because the idea was faunted in
their faces tnat they were about to
lose their political power.
Single Replies to Cohen.
Single rose to answer Cohen. who.
he said, was sincere but not fully post
ed, otherwise he would not have ad-
yanced some of the statements he had
MADE, even though the passage of this
bill would kill Cohen s one and a half
per cent. property tax bill.
Single reviewed the bill, telling
how both he and Rice had sidestepped
at first on the introduction, not fully
! understanding the bill. Then Castro
introduced the bill, the misunderstood
ing about this incident being explain
able. He traced the bill through the
House and committee, referring to the
important public meeting held over it.
reading portions of the stenographer'
minutes of that meeting to answer CO.
hen s arguments.
He showed that the planters now
We're paying over a one per cent. prop
erty tax on the enterprise for profit
rulings, and We're willing now to have
the special tax exemption raised high
er than $4,000 if the law would then
be constitutional He quoted w. A.
Kinney on the matter of the effect of
the bill, if enacted, on the Hawaiians.
Mr. Kinney stating that the passage
of such bill would prove the saliva
ton of the Hawaiian people.
The committee had gone into the
bill very thoroughly, and the members
were prepared to answer all questions.
The committee had learned that the
tax would be paid by 102 corporations,
nine estates and eighty-one individu-
ais, all of whom Were willing to pay
the tax; that not dollar would be
taken to assist other than European
immigrants, making it's use to import
Porto Ricans impossible, and that the
exemption was as high as they dared
put it, and the committee had unani-
mously recommended the bill.
Referring to the Trenor cabiegram.
Shlngle stated that Trenor had eabled
for transportation . for forty persons,
men. women and children, after six
months work
The House took a recess at 1915.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
After the noon recess, Rice moved
that the business of the House, other
than the consideration of House Bill
los, be taken up, leaving the disputed
question for the end.
Failure to Concur.
On motion of Sheldon, the consldera-
tion of the Senate amendments to
House Bill IS was postponed. This
amendment would throw out of Office
ali district magistrates not licensed
practitioners in the district courts.
Sheldon objected to the retroactive
principle.
House Bills Al, 81, GO and So were
returned passed from the Senate un-
changed except for verbal change ID
the first.
Senate Bills Presented.
Senate Bill II, Fairehild, to require
$4,000 bond for the City Auditor
of Honolulu, in place of the present
$4,000 bond required, came in for con-
sideration in the House.
Senate Bill rs, Fairchild, placing the
bonds of the county auditors as fol
lows. was presented: Hawaii, $4,000;
Maui, $4,000; Kauai, $4,000.
Senate Bill 81, Ways and Means
Committee, is to appropriate $5oS.15
for the settlement of private claim
against the Territory by Levi c. Ly-
man of Hilo.
Kaleiopu spouts.
Ka1eiopn was the first orator Of the
afternoon, he pointing out how the
chairmen of finance and agricultural
committees had not wanted to present
the bill, getting another one to do So
In two days they had changed their
minds He did not know why.
stood it. He thought the day would
come when it 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
pany Outside corporations which had
no income paid no income tax, but
every salaried man did and had to pay
his. The bin does not allow European
immigration only, but immigration
from any part of the world. The bill
provides for three-quarters> of the rev.
enue under it to go to immigration
and one-auarter to conservation. What
benefit viii the citizens get under thisf
Not cent Not a cent will 60 to
the citizen laborers out of this reve-
nue., and the God given right OF cit
izen laborer to get public money
would be wiped ont.
Kaleiopu stated that there were
plenty Of Hawaiians for the planta-
tions if they could earn decent pay.
He himself would not spurn a planta-
ton job at $l.25 a day. The idea of
the planters was, however, to get big
profits and cheap labor.