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r>94 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Tlie CHAIRMAN. Was there any particular emergency of the Government
in Hawaii that caused you to be sent there?
Mr. SPALDING. It was at that time the treaty of reciprocity was
being talked about and advocated, and Secretary Seward wished to
have all the information possible upon that subject. My instructions
were rather indefinite. I received my instructions from the Secretary
himself, and, as he told me, he did not wish to be committed by putting
explicit or specific instructions upon paper, but he wished to know
what effect the reciprocity treaty would have upon the future relations
of the United States and Hawaii.
The CHAIRMAN. What was your vocation in life before that?
Mr. SPALDING. I had come out of the army but a short time before.
The CHAIRMAN. What was your rank in the army ?
Mr. SPALDING. I commanded the Twenty-seventh Ohio Eegiment.
The CHAIRMAN. As Colonel?
Mr. SPALDING. Lieutenant-colonel. Our Colonel was commanding
the Brigade.
The CHAIRMAN. What was your age when you went to Hawaii?
Mr. SPALDING. I went out there in 18C7. I was then 30 years old.
I was born in 1837.
The CHAIRMAN. Were you a married man ?
Mr. SPALDING. 1 was married out there.
The CnAiRMAN. Hid you marry a native?
Mr. SPALDING. My wife was born in Honolulu, but her father was
from Massachusetts and her mother from New York.
Senator FRYE. Who was your wife?
Mr. SPALDING. The daughter of Capt. James McKee.
The CHAIRMAN. A sea captain?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes; he was wounded on board ship near Honolulu
so severely that he was obliged to give up his vessel. He was unable
to leave his bed, and his wife went out from New York City to him.
He always lived there after that. He was one of the early sugarplanters
there.
The CHAIRMAN. Did you continue to reside in Hawaii from the time
you went out there as a Government agent?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes; I have lived there most of the time since then.
I have been a short time in California. I came over to San Francisco
in 1875 or 1876. I lived there about a year, until about the time of the
reciprocity treaty being passed," when 1 went back and purchased the
land I have now.
The CHAIRMAN. Where are you residing at present?
Mr. SPALDING. My family is in Paris.
The CHAIRMAN. There, educating your children?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN. Where were you during the month of January
last?
Mr. SPALDING. I left Honolulu—I think it was on the 4th of January—
on the steamer coming to Sau Francisco—on my return to my
family in Europe.
The CHAIRMAN. What stay had youmade in Honolulu, on the islands,
prior to your return to Paris?
Mr. SPALDING. I had been there, prior to that, three months. I had
been there twice during the year. But I had been there about three
months putting some new machinery in my factory.
The CHAIRMAN. Hennery?
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Mr. SPALDING. NO; sugar factory.
The CHAIRMAN. Were you a manufacturer of sugar cane into sugar?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN. What is the extent of your landed possessions in
Honolulu ?
Mr. SPALDING. I have 27,000 acres there; something like 12,000 in fee
simple, and the balance—15,000 acres—under lease.
The CHAIRMAN. YOU are cultivating sugar?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN. Anything else?
Mr. SPALDING. Nothing else of any importance.
The CHAIRMAN. YOU raise provisions, I suppose?
Mr. SPALDING. Oh, yes; I have also a large herd of cattle. This
plantation was formerly cattle land.
The CHAIRMAN. On what island is it?
Mr. SPALDING. Kauai.
The CHAIRMAN. IS it a fertile island?
Mr. SPALDING. It is called the most fertile island of the group.
The CHAIRMAN. DO you raise crops there by irrigation?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN. SO that you have expended a good deal of money
there?
Mr. SPALDING. I have expended a good deal of money upon the
plantation.
The CHAIRMAN. About how much have you invested there?
Mr. SPALDING. The original investment that I made was only about
$00,000 in buying up the land without the cattle, because when I
bought it there was hardly a fence on the place.
Senator GRAY. When was that?
Mr. SPALDING. I think it was about fifteen years ago. I think it
was in 1878; whether it was just before or after, I do not remember.
The CHAIRMAN. Have you put much machinery upon your idantation?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes, I have expended a good deal of money upon the
plantation; money that I have made out of the plantation has mostly
gone into it.
The CHAIRMAN. What have been your expenditures for the machinery?
Mr. SPALDING. For the machinery alone?
The CHAIRMAN. Yes.
Mr. SPALDING. I think I have spent $250,000 or $300,000 for machinery.
The CHAIRMAN. IS your machinery very fine?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes. I have what is considered among sugar men
one of the most perfect sugar factories in the world—that is, for cane
sugar.
The CHAIRMAN. It is located on this island?
Mr. SPALDING. Yes, on the island of Kauai.
The CHAIRMAN. What labor do you employ?
Mr. SPALDING. Just now we are using Japanese and Chinese labor.
We have had all kinds of labor, that is, all kinds we could get, because
labor has been the one thing that we have been short of.
The CHAIRMAN. HOW about the native labor; do you employ that
also?
Mr. SPALDING. We employ that whenever we can get it; but the

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