Show PLEA TO AMEND LAND LAWS IN HAWAII washington jan 24 george B mcclellan of honolulu secretary of ii hawaiian delegation and F K hatch of the honolulu chamber of commerce appeared today before the house corn matteo on territories and made a plea for amendment 0 the law so aa to permit the leaning of government lands in hawaii to small farmers for terms of ten fifteen and instead of five years as now allowed by law the committee was informed that settlement of the islands by desirable foreign farmers is great ly impeded by the five years lease limit that the japanese laborers in hawaii have reduced the scale of wages to a degree discouraging to whites and that some such special inducement du cement as the proposed amendment amend meni of the law is much desired and needed consideration of the subject will bo next thursday |