Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-09
ATTACKS
ADVERTISER
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the action Of the Board
Member Trent's communication
which was spread on the minutes OF
the Board, follows: .
"In the Daily Pacific Commercial
Advertiser OF Saturday, September 3
there appeared a news story which
was apparently designed to impugn
the motives of and cast discredit
upon certain members of this boarl,
and It is so palpably evident that
the said story had its inspiration, II
not its origin, in the ofiise of the
Commissioner of Public Lands, that
| wish II to have a place in the rec
ords of this board" CThis story
deals with the action OF the board
at its last meeting, on the matter
OF the Kawailoalele lots.)
"In order that the true facts OF
the case may appear of record, beg
to state them, and II am in any
respect mistaken in my statement oI
the facts will he Obliged to any
member of the board who will be
kind enough to correct me.
"G.) There is no ground what.
ever for the insinuatlon that the
meeting was held without proper no
tice, and unexpectedly when the
meeting of the. Monday afternoon
previous was adjourned, II was
agreed and announced that the next
meeting should be held ON Thursday
night, September /, at s o'clock p.
M, and II was So held.
"(2) After the reading of the
minutes OF the meeting at which
permission was voted to allow the
putting up ut auction of the HAWAI-
loalele tract, MIR. Trent stated that
he had read in the papers that TWEEN
ty.fivo of the residents of the dis
triet had applied for the land on
the homestead plan, and asked Com
missioner Campbell. who was pres
ent, IL this were true. Mr.. Camp
bell replied that It was, but that the
applications had been withdrawn.
Mr.. Trent thereupon remarked that
he recalled the fact that when the
lands were first voted for auction
very enthusiastic stories appeared in
the press concerning their desifabil-
ity as beach homes, etc, but that
when it.'was announced that home
stead applications were in for the
same lands the printed stories were
very different; and It seemed strange
to him that 80 many homestead APP
plications were being withdrawn,
and he thought that the board ought
to make an investigation on Its own
account of the circumstances of this
particular case before the lots were
auctioned on; and he therefore NOV
ed reconsideration of the former
action OF the board respecting these
particular lands until such investi-
cation could be made. With very lit
tie discussion, this motion was PUT
and unanimously carried, not a dis
NNhNihB NoiNt btihB iuioNus
"Thereupon Commissioner Camp
bel, unlimited, arose and announced
In an impatient tone that the lots
In question would be put up In jan
uars on the homestead plan, and
mutteved a yelled threat to the eff
feet that II the applicants whose pc
tition had resulted In this action OF
the board did not make good on the
homestead proposition. they wouli
hereafter receive no consideration
from the land office, or words to that
effect. ..s. az
tThe chairman announced that
nothing further need be done, since
Mr.. Campbell had announced that
the land would be homesteaded, thus
taking 1t out OF the hands of the
Land Board And Mr.. Campbell's
action had the further effect, wheth
or so intended or not, of forestalling
any investigation on the part OF the
board as to the reasons for the with
VI Nbl WI AIf nOlhfsN'du ItNlllphns
Now, Mr.. Chairman and gentle.
men, In order that you may Judge
for yourselves whether | am right
or not in assuming that the inspira-
ton for the news story that has fur
nished the basis for these remarks
found its inspiration In the land Of
fee. beg to be allowed to submit
portions of two other published re-
ports from the Advertiser of August
. and from the Advertiser OF Au-
gust II.
"Mr. Campbell's admission in this
last article that only eight applica-
tions had been received for the up
wards of 1000 homesteads that he
had prepared to offer, while hun
dreds of applications had been re-
ceiyed for other lands, may possibly
suggest to some minds that the de,
partment, though probably obeying
tho letter of the law, IL not offer
ing the people what they want. In