An effort has been made to bring Portuguese and Spanish laborers to the islands to supplant the Chinese and Japanese laborers. Several shiploads of the former were brought to Hawaii to work on the plantations. This experiment met with great success. The natives of the Ilberian Peninsula were paid onethird more salary than was paid the coolies of the Orient for similar services. The planters willingly paid the increase because they found that the Caucasian was a more desirable workman. But the Portuguese and Spaniards are largely illiterates. Under the terms of the conference report they could not be permitted to enter Hawaii and we will have the remarkable spectacle of one of our own Territories. which is trying to supplant its oriental workmen with Caucasian workmen. frustrated in its plans by the im1migration laws of our own country.