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

a bOHlS aS4dbpcfdtlOQ tOr you III aft0I
getting your labor here at consider
able expense someone should come
along and take 1t from YOU
Al Turn Of the SHAFT.
silt was NOT but q minute or two,
lwhile this subject was still fresh In
the minds of the audience, that At
torney G. HI Olson of Governor Frear's
counsel made q clever move that
rather turned the laugh on the Dele.
gates cause. He questioned Mr. Iyers
something as follows:
II understand, Mr.. Ivers, that Mr..
Kinney--Attorney Kinney-was large
ly 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-
neys 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.. Ivers said that the
attitude of the Thompson Settlement
Association homesteaders was not to
be taken as typical of the territory's
homesteadefs 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.
Alken's Testimony.
Aiken's testimony dealt almost en-.
tirely with conditions on Maui. He
indorsed the Fairchild land bill as in
his opinion the, best settlement of the
public lands question, doubling the
practicability of small cane-growers
working successfully unless there
were assured a good market for their
cane at nearby plantation.
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, point into which Mr..
Fisher went at some length. Aiken
said that 5oftentimes poor lands were
opened that afterward proved disas- |
trous to homesteaders, and said the
opening was forced because there
were a lot of insistent applicants.
The question of the governors dis
cretionary powers came up once or
twice, and Secretary Fisher. .endeayor-
ed to get some sentiment as to wheth-
er the discretion is too great, or too
little, and whether in certain cases it
cannot be covered by a safe and broad
gauge law. ~
Among those present this morning
were l. Tenney Peck, A. w. Carter,
G. K. Motley, James A. Rath, A. L.
Castle, Inspector Halsey, NJ NJ Scott,
H. Gooding Field, DR.. Emerson, Rich
ard Ivers, w. o. Aiken, of Maui; Edi /
tor s. Sheba, of the Hawaii Shinpo;
9. G. Heiser, Jas. w. Pratt, DR.. E. v.
Wilcox. James D.. Dole, George Da,
vies, R. H. Trent, Jacob Brown, Judge
A. A. Wilder, William Lucas, C. G.
Owen, I. H. Beadle, Jared G. Smith,
Campbell. D.. L. Wilmington.
Prince Kuhio was late in arriving
1t the hearing this morning. The
Governor was on hand promptly, how
ever, and the attorneys for both sides
we're at their usual places. Attorney
Ashford appeared sctronger and more
Ictive than on his first appearance,
yesterday. Just prior to calling tkel
Meeting to order, Mr. Fisher sum,
noned Ashford to his desk and held
! conversation of several minutesl
Iuration with him. Kuhio appeared