The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-10
HE COMES TO SEE
Senator PettigreV is Here to
Investigate.
CAN NOW CHANGE HIS MIND
Has Been Rated an Opponent of
Annexation-Mad Speeches.
Will Express no Opinion.
CAN NOW CHANGE HIS MIND

Dakota, and Fred. T. Dubois, an ex-
Senator of Idaho, are at the Hawaiian
hotel. The gentlemen have the Snow
cottage and will be here till the 18th
inst. They will try and find time to
visit the Island of Hawaii.
These Americans have been in China
and Japan in the service of the silver
or financial reform party of the United
States. They witnessed the shifting of
the standard in Japan from yellow to
white metal and are agreed that it was
a destructive movement. Said Mr.
Pettigrew: "The change was forced
by the banking or creditor element.
The manufacturers now see that they,
have been hit hard. Their trade with
China has been ruined and their COM
merce as whole will be seriously in
jured.'
The Senator from South Dakota has
been listed for long time as an Oppo-
nent to the Annexation of Hawaii by
the United States. In the upper branch
of Congress he has made two speeches
against the measure or policy. ''F de-
cline to be interviewed upon this mat
ter" he said last evening. Il have no
opinion to offer 1t is true l have made
arguments, but | will say nothing fur
ther at this time. | am here to make
a personal investigation-as close an
inquiry as the time and my Opportuni-
ties will permit"
1T has been stated that you are
fixed in your attitude against any pro-
ject of your country acquiring more
territory"
III l did not feel that l was at
liberty to change my mind ii | dis
cover reasons for it here now, l would
continue on the voyage instead OF stop
ping. | wish to see and hear for my
self. | am anxious to meet all who will
furnish any information. l will be
pleased to talk with anyone who de-
sires to present the question to me" ;"
This ended the annexation portion
of the interview THE country is a
revelation and a treat to me- said the
Senator. Il have never before been so
far south and the tropical plants and
the warm sea and the soft cOlOrs and
the genial atmosphere and the wealth
of green and the clear sky appeal to
me- 1t is all very beautiful. l am sure
we will enjoy our stay"
Senator Pettigrew is tall, well-built
man in the prime of life. He was all
ing slightly when the special session
of Congress ended. Now he is the pic
ture of health and shows an alertness
and activity beftting young man.
He is genuine westerner with all the
frankness and cordially of his home
people. He comes from one of the
great new states where democratic ideas
prevail and the success of his cam
paigns marks him as mixer" politi-
cally. He is very popular in South
Dakota and at Washington is a promi-
nent figure.
The United States Congressional
blue Book" says of the South Dakota
Senator: Richard Franklin Pettigrew
Of Sioux Falls was born at Ludlow
VT, July, 1S4S; removed with his par
ents to Evansville, Rocky county, Wis,
in 1854: was prepared for college at
the Evansville academy and entered
Beloit college in 1866, where he remain
ed two years; was a member of the
law class of 1872, University of Wis
consin: went to Dakota in 1869, July,
| in the employ of the United States
Deputy surveyor as laborer; located
| in Sioux Falls, where he engaged in
the surveying and real estate busi-
ness; opened a law office in 1872 and
has been in the practice of his pro-
fession since: was elected to the Dakota
legislature as member of the coun-
Gil in 1877 and reelected in 1879: was
elected to the forty-seventh congress
as delegate from Dakota territory: was
elected to the territorial council OF
1SS4-5: was a member of the South Da-
kota constitutional convention of 1883
was chairman of the committee on pub
lie Indebtedness and framed the pres
ent provisions of the constitution or
the subject: was elected United State:
Senator October 16 1889, under the
provisions Of the act of Congress ad
hitting South Dakota into the Union
took his seat December 2, 1889: was re
elected in 1895. His term of service
will expire March 3. 1901"
Ex-senator Dubois was one of the
bright young men of the Senate dur
ing his term Immediately after hi'
state was admitted to the Union Hi
state now keenlv regrets that he wa
not returned and leading men of th'