The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-01
GOVERNOR FREAR
OUTLINES WORK
(Coniinucd from ragc rour.l

NNohtlnued from lNgo four.)
Der Of political and other leaders, the
Delegate, his secretary, Mr.. Mcclellan;
tho chairman of the Republican execu.
tive committee, the president of the
senate, the speaker of the house of rep
resentatives, the chairman of the Re.
publican central committee and / think
a few others--1 would not be certain
and we held number of sessions of
several hours length each, discussing
these matters, going over them care.
fully, these proposed amendments of
the organic act, and then called n
special session of tho legislature to
act upon them.
"The legislature had no authority,
of course, to amend the land laws, but
recommended to the Legislature that
1T pass n resolution recommending that
the bill be passed or the bill with such
amendments as the legislature deemed
desirable.
AT that time | went before the
house and senate and addressed them
on the subject and answered various
| questions that they asked The legis-
I lature then unanimously passed reso.
luton recommending to congress that
Secured the Passage.
"I then went to Washington dele.
| gated to push the bill. The Democrat,
lie candidate for Delegate was there
with another bill, which he presented
also, bat congress at the end of that
session passed the bill with few amend
ments which | advocated and which
the Delegate advocated. 1t was APP
proved by the President on the 9th of
May, 1912 A number of matters
relating to homesteading, as well as
other matters were covered by the bill
These related chiefly to who might
take up homestends and what might be
done with homesteads after they were
taken, whether before or after patent
was obtained. For instance as to who
might take homesteads.
previously a person might take n
homestead if he had his first papers of
| citizenship-that was left the same, but
ON that point the change consisted in
this, that he had to, under the amend
ment, complete his citizenship before
obtaining his patent, while under the
old law that was not required. 1t
often occurred that persons have taken
ont their first papers and taken their
homesteads and never completed their
citizenship before obtaining patent;
/ and then again under the former law
person could take up one homestead
after another without limit. In fact,
persons had been known to have taken
up four or five homesteads one after
the other. The amendments prohibited
what is called repeating Each per
son was given only one chance. Then
again, under the old law, a person
would take up homestead although he
already had ample land for homestead.
ing, where the new land law permitted
him to do it only in case he did not
already have sufficient, the limit being
this--the area of homestead was lin
tied to eighty acres, and person could
not take mp, in addition to what he
! halready had, any more land - provided
: the two together would make more
than eighty acres. In other words, il
he had forty acres he could take forty
more; if he had eighty acres, he could
not take any more.
Cutting Out Corporations.
, t'"Then, as to what might be don,
with the homestead after it was takeI
under the old law; it was a question al
least whether then, before obtaining
, patent, homesteader could not prac
tically lease the land and do practical
, ly no cultivation on it himself. Under
the new law, he cannot in any way
!. directly or indirectly in any way
, transfer by way of deed, lease mort
gage or any other instrument or orally
, transfer the land without the consent
of the land commissioner and Governor
before he obtains his patent, and ever
: after he obtains his patent he cannot
do 1T without such consent to any alier
or to any corporation or to any larg,
land holder, that is, to any person who
already has land, the area of which, to
gether with the land in question, would
exceed eighty acres.
Gas / stated the other day, submit
ted to congress the question whether
, the opportunity or the privilege OF
making transfers would be subject t.
the approval of the administrative of
ficers or whether the cases in which
: that privilege might be exercised should
be specified in the act and submitted
to the committee on territories writ
ten form in case they wished to pre-
scribe the circumstances under which
the conveyances were to be made. II
was decided that the matter should be
: left to the discretion of the land com
, missioner and the Governor. ] think
purely for this reason, that it could
not be foreseen just under what-just
for what purposes conveyances ought to
be allowed
"For instance, provision could
very well be inserted that mortgages
could be made under proper limitations
but good many other cases might arise