Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-17
IMMIGRATION OF
FILlPINOS IS
SCORED

q matter sof doubt whether the Re-
publican Territorial platform 10 ac-
ceptable TO Delegate Kuhio and there
fore whether he will run upon Il. ku.
hio, r. w. 5reckons, Holstein and
Desha went into conference In the
Princes office, kapiolanI building, and
at o'clock 5reckons and otherss de-
ciared that the platform. 10 satisfac-
tory to the Delegate.
kuhio himself declined 10 say 50.
He said he had not yet read Il. How
ever, az the first edition Of the Star
Bulletin went to press II seemed fair
ly certain that within a very short
time word would 90 to the convention
delegates assembled at the Hawaiian
Opera House that the Prince will ac-
eede to the platform, and II seemed
certain also that he will be the con-
vention's nominee for Delegate to
Congress.
6reckons and Desha came out Of
kapiciani Estate private office at
1:45.
aIt,s all o. K.,r 1reckons answered
; question i agreement had been
reached; athe Prince considers the
platform psrfeetIy satisfactory.
There has been no trouble about
it, ne replied 10 another query. nAiI
the little talk in there was about q
small detaII.s
nKufio, remaining inside was
asked II the platform was satisfac-
tory and answered.:
~ have not read 1t yet. am just
going over II now"
"What about the land planks?"
n do not know. As | say, am
just beginning to read the whole
thing. II has just been laid before
me" pointing to proofsheets under
his hands.
at wiz be an unanimous report OF
the platform committee" interjected
Chairman Hoistein, who stayed be-
hind with the prince along with c.
z. chilIinsworth.
mo pilikia,' commented 0esha.
Half night and part of two days
of hard work brought the platform
committee of the Republican territor-
ia convention to a point where, at
1880 this morning, compromise was
effected, harmony reached and the
word went out that there would be no
fight in the convention itself.
While the platform committee was
bending over its work up in the SUI
pervisors' chamber of the city, hall, |
the convention twice took recesses to |
wait for the report. The first recess,
taken shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday, |
was until 10 this morning.
At 10 o'clock this morning the plat /
form committee was still unable to re-
port, and the convention took another |
recess until 2 o'clock this afternoon,
when it met to receive the formal re-
port and the draft of the platform as
submitted by the committee. j
Last night the committee labored |
until 1880 o'clock. and its labors
seemed ended. But when the members |
gathered early this morning to go over
the platform. their overnight ideas
had been changed in one important |
respect,-there was a difference Of /
opinion on the immigration plank In
the platform. 1t took two-hour ses-
sion this morning to straiahten out
this plank and stick in two others, onei
on sanitation and one on fisheries, i
that were suggested this morning and
were important enough to merit at
tention. -
The immigration plank from the
first has really been plank directed
against the importation of Filipinos
into the territory, though it is cloaked
in guarded words 1t was a pretty
radical plank as drafted last night. but
IT is still more radical as agreed upon
this morning. As now stated, the
plank urges continuance of the pres
ent law on assisted immigration with
this emphatic proviso:
Provided, that the law enacted un-
der this plank shall not be carried out
so long as the employers of labor
through any of their agencies, contin-
ue to bring to Hawaii individuals as
laborers who are, by reason of their
physical or moral conditions, regard.
ed undesirable citizens of Hawaii"
The two drafts of this plank, first
the one as made out last night, and
secondly the one agreed upon in COM
mittee today, are as follows:
First Draft.
THE continued prosperity of Hawaii
and the healthy growth of her rapidly
increasing list of industries render it /
that the immigration of de-
sirable laborers, either citizens or eli
gible to become citizens OF the United |
States, be encouraged in every legiti- I