Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-26

retired to see IL / could not get 1t fin
jshed Later we ascertained that the
| hearing was not to be public, and We
| could get no assurance that anything
We might file would be printed, or that
anything we said would be taken
down, and thought then it would be
/ q waste of time to appear before the
coD.mittee.
Senator Walsh Governor, simply
asked you when II was?
Mr.. Carter 1t was on the after.
noon of that Monday. do not re-
member the day OF the hearing, but it
was the afternoon of the day the hear
ing began. They had a hearing, and
| it lasted from 10 o'clock in the morn
/ ing until something like o'clock in
/ the afternoon And was at work al
i the office when these two gentlemen
came down and told what had occur
red.
Senator Walsh. Can you give US
any idea about how long ago this was?
Mr.. Carter. Yes: ! think II | may
refresh my mind from the calendar
can give you the date. It was on
Monday. and l think 1t was the 18th
i of May, about that date / am not
positive, but the record of the date
can be obtained very easily.
Senator Walsh. In addition to the
brief and bulletins and the advertis-
ing, what else have you gotten out
at your headquarters?
Mr.. Carter. Nothing else that ]
know of.
Senator Walsh. You know this,
Get the facts" do you not?
4 Mr.. Carter Yes.
Senator Walsh. What does that
comprise.
/ Mr.. Carter. That is the pamphlet
that l told You we had prepared from
the mats and had an edition of 5000
printed.
4 Senator Walsh. That is, the vari-
Gus bulletins were collected?
Mr.. Carter. These advertisements
had been running in the paper for
some time. and we collected the adj
vertisements together and made them
fup into this pamphlet.
4 Senator Walsh. ] was in error
then; / supposed that that pamphlet
\ was compilation OF the various bull
letins that you got out?
/ Mr.. Carter. Not at all; the bulletins
are separate.
i Senator walsh. This Is compiIa
4 ton Of the advertising?.
Mr.. Carter. Yes.
i Senator Walsh. How are those dis
seminated?
! Mr.. Carter. In the same way; un,
z. der the mailing hist that we have here
! Senator Walsh Has any other
printed matter emanated from your
headquarters?
Mr.. Carter. Yes.
i Senator Walsh. What else?
Mr. Carter Mr.. Ballou prepared
some before arrived. little pamph.
| let called "An Argument for the Con
sumern
/ Mr. Paxton prepared a little phmph
let called Sugar Facts"
We printed an article by Mr.. Law
q renee that had been published In some
i magazine, an article on sugar that we
! got hold of and that deserved further
cifculation That was done before
arrived. There. may be some other
material. Those who will testify af
ter me can give you better dnforma,
ton on that than can but we would
be glad to file complete set of them
here.
i Senator Walsh. Having told us
about the printed matter that you put
4 out, you we're proceeding to tell me
a while ago about your interviews
with various senators?
i Mr.. Carter. Yes.
| Senator Walsh. What have you
ldone in that wav?
Mr.. Carter. When / have come up
to the Capitol I have usually spent
j my time to little effect. because
would not find the senators in.
Ibave called on a number of them and
left my card and not seen them. ]
nave seen, I think, only a very few.
have seen Senator MARITIME, Senator
o'Gorman. and Senator Newlands. ]
met Senator James Hamilton Lewis in
The corridor and spoke to him. and
was introduced. for the first time, to
Senator La Toilette. / know of no
other senators that / have seen.
can now recall no others.
Senator Walsh. Now, has your or
ganization some head who assumes
! the direction of affairs?
i Mr.. Carter. Not entirely; We are
different units here. This is a day
of cooperation; it is no longer "a day
of labor unions, but day of fedora
tons of unions. We are all repre-
/ senting different things here, but
working in harmony.
Senator Walsh. ! understood you to
start out with the representatives of
tie islands?
Mr.. Carter. / do not understand
you.
! Senator Walsh. This Domestic SUI
j gar Producers Association?
Mr. Carter The sugar producers is
the cooperative action of various SUI
gar interests here. 1t does not alone
/ represent Hawaii. 1t represents Lou
isiana and the beet-sugar interests
! and Porto Rico. When it was started,
its first bulletin outlined what it was
composed of and what its plan was.
| Senator Walsh. Confine yourself
for the present, however. to the re
representatives. from the Hawaiian isl