The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-04-04
HAWAII FIGURES
IN DIET SPEECH
MEMBER WANTS no KNOW WHAT
HAS BEEN DONE ABOUT THE
OUTRAGE

According to the statements made by
Mr. Senda, member of the wakayama
prefecture in the Japanese Diet, on
March Ia, and Published yesterday in
the Nippu Jill, there is nothing about
the Hawaiian government, from the
Governor down, who is not prejudiced
against the Japanese. Mr.. Senda, &C.
cording to the Jill, addressed the diet
on the subject Of the Negoro petition
for "Justiee and damages from the
Hawaiian government, saying in
part:
'"rhe Hawaiian authority allowed
the homes of the leaders of the strike
to be searched without proper search
warrant as provided by Law; it also
allowed the homes of the leaders TO be
searched at night without stating in the
warrant the reason for such search, as
is plainly provided by law. The police
searched the homes Of the Japanese
subjects without proper warrants; they
came at night, and forcibly broke open
the doors, and carried away q safe
which they afterwards opened with
dynamite. All these acts are in viola
Nlon OIL Aut
article six--and in utter disregard of
article three of the treaty between
Japan and the United States. This is
tho worst kind of international bar
barism
"rhe Hawaiian authority permitted
forty-odd Japanese subjects TO be ar.
rested without proper warrants and
put them in Jail, which act ignores the
spirit of the supplement article six of
the constitution.
''When these Japanese subjects were
imprisoned the warden gave an order
to prisoner to knock the iron doors
of the cells violently with iron ham.
mers and to pull iron chains upon the
concrete floors. which produced hor.
rible noise These acts of tormenting
the prisoners continued for several days
without interruption.
''The police assaulted several Japa-
uese at night when they were going to
railroad station and injured them.
Japanese residing abroad are under
the protection of the government of
the country where they are but when
the government itself allows such UNI
lawful acts to be done the only recourse
the resident Japanese have is to appeal
to their home government. Therefore
they at once made an appeal to the
government, but our authorities took
no notice of their appeals, Our gov
ornamental officials may have had an
idea that the Japanese subjects who
suffered at the hands of the Hawaiian
government had recourse to law and
protection in the courts of law, but
that recourse is open only when the
courts and judges are unbiased and
without prejudice.
In Hawaii the Governor himself,
all high officials of the government
police, territorial rs well as county at
torneys and judges of the courts, are
land owners, and they were all preju.
diced against u.s. They all treated us
as their enemies, and thus it is they
wink at outrages of which we are the
victims.
"When even the courts were preju'
diced, our government should have in.
terested itself and started international
negotiations about the matter.
"We would now like to know from
our government if it ever had any
negotiations with the United States
government about this matter when
these japanese subjects appealed to it.
If it had any negotiations, we would
like to know what were the results that
satisfied it. We would also like TO
know if our government entertains any
desire or intention to bring up this
matter and demand damages for the
injured persons"