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Show Zmm, QUEEieiL - "Tr:iian Committee Recommends Payment; to Her on Account cf Rent for Crown lands. V VTASinNGTON, Jan-13. The- Senate Committee on Porto Rico and the Pa-c:.".o Pa-c:.".o Islands met today to receive' the rcrort of the eub-commlttee appointed at the close of the last session of Con-rresa Con-rresa to Investigate conditions In the Hawaiian islands. This sub-committee consisted of Senators Mitchell of Oregon, Ore-gon, Burton of Kansas, Foster of Washington. Wash-ington. Cockrell of Missouri and Blackburn Black-burn of Kentucky. The last two named cid not visit' the islands, but Senator Blackburn Joined in the recommendations, recommenda-tions, numbering twenty-six. The visit to the islands was made last September t.nd covered twenty-five days, during which time forty-three meetings were held and 176 witnesses were "interrogated. "interrogat-ed. The committee made a quite thorough inquiry concerning the leper settlement, which is under Territorial control, with the result that It recommends that the management of the colony be transferred trans-ferred to the marlie hospital service with headquarters in Washington and that a general leproaario or retreat for all the lepers of the United States be established on that island. At the time of the visit of the committee there were E8 lepers in the settlement. ' In connection with its discussion of the labor question, the committee takes up the effort on the part of the business men of the islands to secure the removal of some of the restrictions on Chinese immigration.- This desire Is conceded to be very general, but Senators Mitchell and Foster, representing a majority of the sub-committee, take very positive ground in opposition. Senator Burton takes the opposite view. He-" says that neither the native nor white men will work In the sugar fields, and he calls attention to the freedom with which Oriental labor was brought. In In the days of monarchy. V '. The committee finds that Queen Lill-uokalant Lill-uokalant had no personal interest In the crown lands which have been, claimed for her, but only an official interest during dur-ing her reign. Such Interest would have entitled her to the rental of the lands, and the committee finds rrom the time of the dethronement to September 1st last the rental would ha amounted -to $423,378. In view of afj the. circumstances circum-stances the committee recommends that "as an act both of justice and national grace and wisdom the Senate consider with the Governor on the lines Indicated Indicat-ed in this report the. claim of the late Queen Lllluokalanl, now a loyal private citizen of the United States and make such reasonable provision for her as the facts here presented may seem to Jus-tlfy." Jus-tlfy." ; . - . |