The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-01
GOVERNMENT ANT
TO HQMESTEADERS
Commission Makes Report to
the Governor Which Is
Revolutionary.

The commission on advance to home.
steadsrs has fled with Governor Frear
its report, Whieh is the result of ita
long Investigations, and with the report
submits three tentative bills which it
is proposed to turn over to the legia-
lature at the next regular session for
enactment into laws, the reports being
similar to the forecast published several
days ago in The Advertiser. The de.
tailed report, coming on the heels Of
the recent land law amendments to the
Organic Act and experimenting the lat.
ter, provided the recommendations con.
tanned in it are carried into effect, is
revolutionary and means an entirely
new policy in the handling Of the home.
stead problem. In brief, the commits.
sion recommends substantial territorial
aid to homesteaders, and the three bills
submitted are designed to carry into
effect the recommendations made by the
commission. s rtga
w. A. Kinney, w. w, Harris and Jas.
W. Pratt, the members of the commits.
sion, were appointed by Governor Frear
in accordance with the provisions of
house joint resolution No. /, adopted by
the Legislature at the last special SEES.
sion and signed by the Governor,
November 6, 1909. The resolution re.
quired the commission to "study and
thoroughly Investigate and examine
into the matter of establishing an Office
to conduct the business of advancing
money to the bona fide homesteaders of
the Territory on security Of mortgage
of the homestead land and improve.
ments thereon at a low rate of inter.
est" The commission was also to con.
slider "ways and means whereby said
Office shall be managed and the bust
ness thereof conducted, and shall like.
wise consider the most practicable and
feasible ways of raising money by
proper legislation for the purpose Of
meeting the full requirements of the
Office"
The Recommendations.
The commission recommends, in brief,
that the Territory provide by legisla.
| ton cheap methods of transportation
for agricultural products; that the Ter
ritory make improvements on public
lands which it is intended shall be
opened for homesteads, such improve
ments to include the building of fences
and the erection of houses the fund to
come from reversion Of the immigra.
ton tax money to the general treasury
fund; and that the rate of interest on
deferred payments by homesteaders be
reduced to FIVE per cent per annum.
The bills drafted to carry into effect
these recommendations are the follow
ing:
Bills Proposed.
Gan Act to more fully define the OBJ
jects and purposes of Act 33 of the SEES
sion Laws of 1909 entitled AN Act to
promote the conservation and develop.
ment of the natural resources. Of the
Territory through immigration and
other means by imposing tax on in.
comes and appropriating the proceeds
for such purposes and to direct the
expenditure of certain portions of the
income derived under said act for pro.
noting the sale or other disposition of
public lands for homestead purposes. -
can Act to regulate the rate of in
terest due or to become due by persons
acquiring or who have acquired home
steads. T"
50 An Act to promote, provide for and
regulate cheap and proper Transports
| ton by land and sea of fresh fruit
vegetables and other freight from Ger.
tain points of the Territory of Hawaii
to the Pacific Coast of the United
States of America, to provide for and
superintend the sale thereof, to author.
| ize the making and PRONUNCIATION OF
rules and regulations in connection
with the objects aforesaid and the penal
enforcement thereof, and to provide
funds for the aforesaid purposes.'
The last mentioned bill was intro
duced in the house at the last regular
session of the legislature and wal
known as House Bill 1876. It failed
however, Of passage, though its intro
duction was closely connected with thu
introduction later of the joint resolu
tion of the special session under which
the commission was appointed.
The Two-Per-oent Tax.
The first bill provides, in effect, that
instead of using the funds raised by
the special two-per-cent income tax
three.fourths for the assistance of i'm
ton purposes, the fund shall be uset
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the following manner:
"The laying of pipe for conveying
water to and upon each homestead lot
Ter the construction and erecting Of
water tanks thereon. The fencing o.
such lot and the building of a dwelling
house thereon with necessary outhouse
thereto, the legislature recommending
In this connection that not more thar
$500 be expended on each Homestead
lot for such improvements and that nj
such lot be sold or otherwise disposet
of for less than the amount so expend
ed thereOn.''
Section 2 of the bill provides tina
"the board of immigration is hereb,
directed to expend annually from sal
funds not more than S250,000 and no
less than 100000, unless application
for homestead lots improved under thi
Act do not reach said amount of 800
O00.n
The second bill, as above stated, u
duces homesteadera' interest on defer
red payments, to five per cent per an
nun.
A Subsidy Bin.
The third bin provides for the pay
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