Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-10

/ some evaporation for you IL after
igetting your labor here at consider
able expense someone should come
along and take 1t from YOU.
A Turn Of the Shaft
II was not but minute or two,
while this subject was still fresh In
| the minds Of the audience, that At
tornel G. II. Olson OF Governor Frsar,s
counsel made q clever move that
rather turned the laugh on the Dele
gates cause He questioned Mr.. Ivers
somefhi1t IS follows:
u1ldefst4n M 1vers, that Mr..
Kinney Kinney-was large
IL instrumental IN the moves to hold
the laborers here, was he not?''
Il understood So
And that is the same Mr. Kinney
who has figured as one OF the attor-
Ineys for the delegate in his COM
| plants against the Governor?"
And Mr.. Ivers said he understood
this, too. Which rather put the laugh
on Kuhio. Even Kuhio chuckled at
this.
Hutchinson Hostility.
During the morning the Hutchin-.
son plantation complaints were re-
ferred to. and Mr.. Iyers said that the
attitude of the Thompson Settlement
Association homesteaders was not to
be taken as typical Of the territory's
homesteaders any more than the atti-
tude of the manager, who is Carl
Wolters, is to be taken as typical of
the attitude of plantation managers
generally toward the homesteaders.
He said the hostility between the
manager and the homesteaders is
great.
EAiken's Testimony.
Aiken,s testimony dealt almost en-
|tirely with conditions on Maui. He
pdorsed the Fairchild land bill as in,
lis opinion the best settlement of the
public lands question, doubling the
|practicability of small ane-growersl
working successfully unless there
were assured good market for their.
cane at a nearby plantation.
I He said he believed the California
Settlement association at Haiku is the
first real homesteading in the terri
tory of later days. A little sensation
was caused when he declared that be-
fore Gov. Frear's administration lands
had been opened up because of "polit-
ical PRESSURE, a point into which Mr.
Fisher went at some length. Aiken
said that oftentimes poor lands were
opened that afterward proved disas-
trous to homesteaders, and said the
opening was forced because there
were lot of insistent applicants.
The question of the governors dis
cretionary powers came up once or
twice, and Secretary Fisher .endeavor-
ed Co get some sentiment as to wheth-
er the discretion is too great, or too
little, and whether in certain cases III
cannot be covered by safe and broad.
gauge law.
Among those present this morning.
were L. Tenney Peck, A. w. Carter,
G. X. Motley, James A. Rath, A. L.
Castle, Inspector Halsey, M. M. Scott,
II. Gooding Field, DIR. Emerson, Rich
ard Ivers, w. o. Aiken, of Maui; Edi
tor s. Sheba, of the Hawaii Shinpo;
C. 6, Heiser, Jas. w. Pratt, DR.. E. w.
Wilcox, James d. Dole, George Da-
vies, r. H. Trent, Jacob Brown, Judge
A. A. Wilder. William Lucas, C. G.
Owen, l. H. Beadle, Jared G. Smith,
Marston Campbell. ID. L. Wilmington.
Prince Kuhio was late in arrivingI
at the hearing this morning. The
Governor was on hand promptly, how
ever, and the attorneys for both sides
were at their usual places. Attorney
Ashford appeared sctronger and more
active than on his first appearance
yesterday. Just prior to calling tkel
meeting to order, Mr.. Fisher sum.
moned Ashford to his desk and held
"a conversation of several minutes
duration with him. Kuhio appeared