Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-23

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Mr. Ballou. No; not that know Of.
There may be some that have them
in San Francisco. was speaking
then of our agency corporations. This
Honolulu Plantation Co. Is San
Francisco corporation and has its ac-
tual head Office In San Francisco. A
few Of our corporations were organ
lied on the coast and have Offices in
California, but the great bulk of them
were organized in Hawaii
Senator Walsh. Who owns the
Crockett Refinery?
Mr.. Baiiou. 1t Is owned entirely by
the Sugar Factors Co. which is a
commission corporation for handling
the output Of number Of the planta-
lions. They and one individual, Col.
z. s. Spalding. who is the sole owner
of the corporation called the Makee
Sugar Co., own the entire stock of the
Crockett Refinery. II is practically
owned by the plantations which send
their sugar to that refinery.
Senator Walsh. What did you say
was the holding company's name?
Mr.. Ballou. The Sugar Factors Co.
Senator Walsh That. Is q corpora
ton of what capital?
Mr.. Ballou. / do not know. do
not believe can find it here, because
its stock is not listed. It's stock Is In
turn held by various plantations
whose sugar it handles 9ss asa'st
Senator Walsh. win the document
before you give the amount Of stock
held by each of the sugar corpora
lions?
Mr.. Ballou. In what? So 4
Senator Walsh. In the Sugar Fact
ors Co.
Mr.. Ballou.. No; because /: think
that stock is not listed or bought and
sold. 1t is practically a cooperative
corporation. These plantations got
together and formed a corporation 10
handle their sugar and to run this re-
sfnery, and they divided the stock Of
the corporation among themselves
Senator Walsh. or course the
stock of these corporations is held by
the white people Of the islands7
Mr.. Ballou. should assume the
bulk OF it is; yes.
Senator Walsh. What nationality
are they generally?
Mr.. Ballou. The white people?
Senator Walsh. Yes. 800
Mr.. Ballou The white people such
as would own stock of Corporations ID
a large degree are mostly Americans
There are some British and some Ger
mans. and | presume there are some
Portuguese. There are 5000 and bTef
stockholders in the various CORPORA
tions In these 81 sugar CONGREGATIONS
in Hawaii and there are undoubtedly
some small holders. / know also pf
some, wealthy Hawaiian people who
own large blocks of stock, and the
small holders probably would include
Portuguese and others.
Senator Walsh. These new York
gentlemen, representatives of these
Hawaiian corporations, come down
here how frequently?
Mr.. Ballou. Within the past two
or three months they have come
down, one or two of them, almost
every week. They have made a prac-
tice of coming down and staying a
day or two-Mr. Cooke and Mr.. Hum
burg. Mr.. Welsh has been down here
only once, and Mr.. Douglass has been
down twice.
Senator. Walsh. Do you maintain
an office here?
Mr.. Ballou- Yes.
Senator Walsh Where?
Mr.. Ballou. go Colorado Building.
Senator Walsh Is that the same
Office from which emanates the litera-
ture, that is said to be put out by the
sugar producers?
Mr.. Ballou. No; it is not.
Senator Walsh 1t is in the same
building but on different floor.
Senator Walsh. How large an
office do you maintain, there?
Mr.. Ballou. One Office.
Senator Walsh. What force have
you?
Mr.. Ballou. None. have no clerk.
have not even stenographer. I
simply give my correspondence to a
public stenographer on the same floor
in the same building
Senator Walsh. Where is your Of
fee with reference to. the Office of
this Domestic Sugar Producers Assoc
citation?
Mr.. Ballou. My Office is on the
ninth noOr OF the Colorado Building
on the Fourteenth Street side, and
the sugar producers Office is ON the
third floor of the building.
Senator Walsh. What is this Do
nestle Sugar Producers Association?
Mr.. Ballou It is an informal or
ganization or alliance, rather, of four
domestic industries Louisiana,
the beet-sugar industry, the Porto
Riean, and the Hawaiian sugar indus
tries.
Senator Walsh. So the literature
that is put out bearing that type is
issued by this alliance or association
of four units?
Mr.. Ballou. Yes. Let me explain a
lille more fully. When Hawaii sug-
gested the publication of advertise
ments and Of doing publicity, work of
this sort, consulted with the beet
people and with the Louisiana people
on the ground, and / wrote to the
Porto Rican people, and outlined my
plan and said that the expenses would
be the contribution of Hawaii to the
general cause. Therefore, Hawaii il
paying all of the expenses and has so
far. The Louisiana people have