Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-19

No. , in the installments OF the sn.
gar lobby probe report as published in
i Washington, continued, from the Star
: Bulletin of hast Saturday. The report
will be published practically in full in
this paper.
Senator Walsh. Let US get at what
its production is.
Mr.. Carter. About 10000 tons.
Senator Walsh. What is the heavi-
est producer in the islands?
Mr.. Carter. The largest?
Senator Walsh. Yes.
Mr. Carter The Hawaiian Com.
mercial & Sugar Co. with its $4,000
tons.
Senator Walsh. | thought You said
that Baldwin & Alexander produced
1000 tons.
Mr.. Carter They do not produce
| it: they handle it. The sugar factors
are the bankers or the agents for the
different sugar companies. You asked
me what they handled and / told you
about 100000 tons. They are the
agents for different estates or planta-
tions that combined together produce
about 100000 tons. They are the rep
resentatives of this Hawaiian Com
mercial e. Sugar Co. with its $4,000
tons, and they represent the Maui Ag-
ricultural Co. with its $4,000 or 10000
tons, and they represent also the Ha-
waiian Sugar Co., on the island of
Kauai, with its 10000 tons. Altogeth-
er they represent about $4,000 tons
Senator Walsh. Il do not under
hot hu tho
represent"
Mr.. Carter. A sugar corporation
| is situated on one of the islands, and
| it requires a great deal of material.
| 1t requires to be financed, and it re-
lquires lots of arrangements to be
made for it. That cannot be done on
the island itself. The islands are
spread out over a distance of 800
miles, and interisland steamers bring
the mail back and forth. That corpor-
alton situated, we will say, on the
island of Kauai, has an agent in Ho-
nclulu who represents them, and he
does their purchasing for them, and
he forwards their sugar and attends
to the sale of it and perhaps finances
the company, if the company needs
any financial assistance. He makes
advances to them, or, on the contrary,
keeps its credit, IL there is credit.
Those people we call sugar factors.
Baldwin & Alexander are factors in
Honolulu.
Senator Walsh. How many of
those sugar factors are there in the
| islands?
Mr.. Carter. Let me see; there are
five principal ones, think.
Senator Walsh. Will you give us
the names of those?
Mr.. Carter. Yes. There is Alexan-
| der & Baldwin, there is H. Hackfeld
& Co., there is Castle & Cooke, there
| is C. Brewer e Co, T. H. Davies &
Co, f. A. Schaefer & Co, and B. F.
Dillingham; e Co. / think / have CIV
en- you seven now, and there are some
smaller ones.
Senator Walsh. They all do practi-
calIy the same line of business that
this firm of Alexander & Baldwin
does?
Mr.. Carter. Yes.
Senator Walsh. And among other
things finance the various corpora
lions for which they act as factors?
Mr. Carter. Yes.
Senator Walsh. And provide them
with supplies?
Mr.. Carter Precisely.
Senator Walsh. And market their
product?
Mr.. Carter. Yes: and attend to
things as general agent.
to make an appeal to Walter G..
Smith?
Mr.. Carter. The Hawaiian promo
ton committee at home, during the
agitation after the tariff bill was in
troduced in the house showing that
contrary to the expectation of the
people at home, free sugar was to be
eontemplated-the Hawaiian promo
ton committee before / left there Of
fered me the services of their Mr..
Smith, who was travelling in this
country, lecturing.. Mr.. Smith had
been for many years the editor of
our largest newspaper in the islands.
He was thoroughly familiar with the
affairs at home in the islands in gen.
eral, and they thought he might be of
value here in helping us in any pub
licity work We might be engaged in.
They wanted to send him here then.
Fl said | did not know whether he
would be OF any service. After l ar
rived here, after consultation with
my colleagues, thought possibly he
could be of service. We wanted to
leave no stone unturned in our eff
forts, and telegraphed to him and
asked him to come.
Senator Walsh. Where did you
find him?
Mr.. Carter. His address was in the
care of some railroad in New Orleans,
La. I telegraphed his son, ! think,
first, and got his address and then
autographed him and he came in due
course and is here now.
Senator Walsh. How many are
there of you here now from the
islands on this mission?
Mr.. Carter. | have not concluded.
| have not spoken Of Mr.. Baldwin yet.
Senator Walsh. You have not in