The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-16
SENATORSDECLARE
MISUNDERSTANDING
OF HAWAII LANDS
Myers Is 0utspoken and Says
Land Division Is Necessary
To Promote Americanlsm
CONGRESSIONAL PARTY
IS DEEPLY INTERESTED
Ashford Warns Visitors Not To
Heed WhiSperings Of "Ad-
miniStration Lobby

HTLO, November 15--(Special to The
Advcrtiser) - Homesteading was de-
clared today to be an essential Of
Americanism. by one of the visiting
senators Of the congressional party, and
Judge Ashford warned the members of
the party not to give ear 20 the whis-
pers of the administration lobby,
unless they wished to strangle home
Stealing III the Islands.
Hawaii's land problems are coming
more to the attention Of the visiting
natiOpal Legislators than any other sub
ieet during their stay on the Big Is
HAND. 1t came up today time after time
and II, would not stay down but was
touched upon at several places where
the party stopped, sometimes lightly
and &C others with great vigor.
Myers For Homesteading
1t wasa at Pauilo where Senator MYERS
of Montana asserted first that the
demonstrating of land was an absolute
essential to the promotion Of true
Americanism and that the people of
the country are entitled 20 q division
Of the lands which belong TO them IL
they so desire. He afterward repeated
the idea in different words when he
spoke, as did Others at several gather
ings of homesteaders at various points
along their route The remarks made
by various members of the parfy
showed that they are in favor of home
stealing the lands Of Hawaii rs fast
as the leases expire.
It was at Mooheau Park that Judge
Ashford in the course Of a speech
warned the members of the congress
sional party not to listen to the whis-
pers of the administration lobby't
To do 50, he said, and to amend the
Organic. Act so as TO cancel the pro-
vision that lands must be homesteaded
upon the demands of twenty-five citi-
Zens, would mean the strangulation Of
all hopes Of homesteading in the Ter
ritory Of Hawaii. To place the matter
of land openings in the hands Of
commission with absolute powers Of q
erection he. declared was dangerous a.
to place such discretion in the hands
known enemies of demonstrating med
the strangling Of every effort to sect|I
division among the people of the Id
which was theirs by right under
laws and the policies of the Uni
States.
At Pauilo the party was met by
thonv Lidgate, manager of the Har
kua Mil aud reception committee.
bade the party welcome in D brief Ia
Here the excursion was Initiated IL
new secret society as the result %
which the Red Cross funds were en-
riched by $240.
Poindexter For Military Road
At a public meeting held in Hilo last
night Senators Myers and Poindexter
and Representatives Treadway and
Gordon spoke for the visitors and
Louisson and Russell spoke for the
Hiloites. Nt this meeting Senator
Poindexter pledged his support to the
Oahu military road project.
George ID. Russell, speaking of the
breakwater, said that authority had
just been received 70 advertise for bids
on a new contract for work to cost
$l5O,o00. II.
Anumber of the party toured to Wal
akea headed by the Governor and Land
Commissioner Rivenburgh. At noon
they stopped at Mooheau Park where a
luau had been prepared for them and
it was here that Judge Ashford, see
ing that the Governor and land com
missioner had been in close conversa-
tion with some of the party, took ocea-
sion to issue his warning against med
ding with the provisions of the land
laws in the Organic Act, az it would
mean the strangulation of homestead
ing ..'
The Governor announced an extern
sion to November 80 of the reprieve of
Garcia, the confessed murderer.
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