Speech #560021392

Criminal cases. smuggling. and a large class of criminal cases are continually arising in this outpost in the sea which can be dealt with efficiently only by a district court of the United States. I will not dwell upon these different topics to elaborate them at all. but I will refer to them rather by their heads. We will take the subject of immigration from China. a subject that properlyfalls within the jurisdiction of a Federal tribunal. Shall we not have a Federal court in Hawaii to intercept the Chinese who may attempt to smuggle themselves onto this continent contrary to law? Shall we leave it to a local court. and a local court whose interest may be directly in favor of introducing Chinese labor into those islands. if not into the United States? Is there not more likely to be a conflict of interest in a local court upon the question of Chinese immigration than would occur if that court had no jurisdiction of the subject whatever and a Federal court was there to deal with that very important matter? And so as to the importation of persons from Japan and from other countries under labor contracts. They are properly the subject of judicial action by a Federal tribunal.