The  Chairman.  The  chairman  has  been  informed  that  he 
was  in  error  when  he  stated  that  Honorable  G.  F.  Affonso 
introduced  the  joint  resolution  referred  to.  The  resolution  was 
introduced  by  Honorable  A.  D.  Castro.  The  chairman  finds 
that  its  list  of  speakers  has  been  materially  diminished.  We 
have  one  other  gentleman,  the  Honorable  W.  O'.  Smith,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Senate,  however,  whom  I will  now  call  on  for  a 
few  remarks. 
Senator  W.  O.  Smith.  Mr.  Chairman,  Ladies  and  Gentle- 
men : 
The  hour  is  late  and  there  is  little  I wish  to  say  except  that 
I wish  to  add  to  what  Governor  Frear  has  said  in  regard  to  the 
impressiveness  of  the  meetings  of  the  Conference  of  Governors 
in  May  last.  During  those  three  days  not  only  were  the 
Governors,  the  President  and  many  of  the  high  officials  of 
the  great  country  brought  and  gathered  together  there,  but 
in  addition  there  were  also  many  of  those  great  master  minds, 
the  captains  of  industry,  who  came  and  gave  the  most  intense 
attention  to  the  subject  of  the  conservation  of  the  natural  re- 
sources. It  was  a matter  of  pride  to  me  that  what  little  we 
had  to  say  of  Hawaii  was  so  much  to  the  credit  of  Hawaii.  We 
had  very  little  opportunity  to  speak  in  public.  But  what  has 
been  done  in  Hawaii  for  the  utilization  of  water  is  a matter 
which  is  a cause  for  pride,  as  is  also  the  matter  of  our  forest 
reserves.  Many  of  the  States  did  not  even  have  forest  laws, 
but  over  one-tenth  of  the  whole  area  of  these  islands  is  now 
under  forest  reserves.  There  is  a little  less  than  four  million 
two  hundred  thousand  acres  of  land  in  the  whole  of  the  islands 
of  the  group.  O'ne-tenth  is  under  forest  reservation,  and  with 
a provision  that  they  should  be  free  from  taxes.  Much  has 
been  done,  but  we  have  much  more  to  do.  I think  that  to- 
gether with  the  matter  of  conserving  and  saving*  the  forests, 
there  is  the  question  of  development  of  the  products  along  the 
lines  of  the  work  that  Dr.  Jared  G.  Smith  is  doing  in  Kona. 
The  experiments  being  made  in  tobacco  culture  is  one  of  the 
hopeful  things  for  the  future.  And  at  no  time  since  the  ex- 
periments, way  back  in  the  fifties,  on  Kauai,  has  there  been 
so  much  to  be  hoped  for  from  the  cultivation  of  marketable  to- 
bacco which  is  now  being  done  at  Kona  by  Dr.  Smith,  and 
those  associated  with  him.  We  must  have  products  beside 
sugar.  While  we  also  have  the  small  farming,  the  truck- 
farming and  all  that,  we  do  want  to  have  other  products 
which  the  world’s  markets  call  for.  For  illustration,  take 
Sumatra,  Ceylon,  Java,  Cuba,  the  Philippines,  and  Porto  Rico. 
What  do  they  grow?  In  the  Philippines,  sugar,  tobacco, 
hemp.  In  Java  the  main  industry  is  sugar,  and  they  are  to 
have  other  products,  and  so  we  find  it  in  Cuba.  Now  the 
time  may  come  when  we  shall  need  another  crop  besides  sugar. 
