The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-10

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Humphrey. he father Of the ship sub
~idv bn who finds nothing. evidently.
IN the suspension request to alarm any
but dollarnarked patriots. The report
was presented TO the house On April
. and ordered to be printed It i, is
follows:
Recommends Passage.
The committee on merchant marine
and fisheries, to whom was referred the
bill (H. Il. 1920 to amend the laws
concerning passenger transportation be
tween ports of the Territory Of Hawaii
and other ports of the United States.
having had the same under c0nsidera-
ton, report it back with the recon
mendation that it do pass, with the fol
lowing amendment:
After the last word in line y, change
the period to a colon, and add the fol
| lowing:
Provided further, That the provi-
si0ns of this act shall extend only
to foreign vessels plying between
ports of the United States and one
or more Of the ports of China
Japan, the Philippines or Austria
lasia.
The purpose of this measure is to af-
ford temporary relief to and additional
facilities for passenger travel between
the Hawaiian Islands and the mainland
of the United States.
During the past year there have been
numerous occasions when the time he
tween sailings Of American ships has
been from ten to eighteen DAYS. with
intervals of ten or twelve days a fire.
quent occurrence. In numerous cases
the American steamers calling at Homo
lulu en- route to San Francisco from
the Orient have not been able to pro
vide cabin space for more than from
twenty to sixty per cent of the passen-
gers booked for those steamers.
The following statement of intervals
between American steamers is taken
| from the official list of mai steamers
arriving and departing from Honolulu:
| From the Coast:
November % to December Il, 1909,
| interval of eighteen days.
December p. 1909, to January 7,
! 1910, interval Of eleven days.
January Il to January IS, 1910, tif-
| teen days, with only thirty-passenger
| boat intervening.
January 81 TO February s, interval
| Of eight days.
February Is to March ;, interval of
| fifteen DAYS.
| March 16 to April l, another interval
Of fifteen days.
Schedule from Honolulu to the Coast:
November Is to November 80, 1909,
| interval of twelve days.
December I to December q, interval
| of seventeen DAYS.
December %, 1909, to January Z,
| 1910. sixteen days, with only a thirty
| passenger boat intervening.
February . to February IS, interval
| of sixteen days.
February % to March ), interval of
ten days.
When if is considered that passenger
10 and from Hawaii. after waiting from
! ten to eighteen DAYS for a steamer, are
| then frequently unable to secure pas
sage. it is evident that some relief
| must he afforded to this restraint of
| travel
In February. 1905, This committee
unanimously reported similar bill Oh.
| Z. 1866. Goth cong, LIST sess.l, and that
| measure passed the house, May %, 1908,
| by a vote Of 1854 to is.
That bill was also favorahlv reported
| by the senate committee on commerce.,
| but If was not pressed for passage. be
cause at that juncture the promise If
additional American ships Ted the PEG
| pie of Hawaii to hope that they could
| secure adequate facilities for travel
! u. r+ to tho f1ea ~ ft1af