The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-17

The Congressional members of the
commission to report on a form of
government for the territory of Ha-
waii, arrived this morning on the
Mariposa.
They have been busy all morning
receiving callers. They met inform
ally with the resident members of the
commission at the Executive building
at o'clock this afternoon. Plans for
the organization of the commission
will be arranged.
SENATOR CULLOM.
Senator and Mrs. Cullom have the
suit of rooms at the Hawaiian hotel
known as No. II, the same that have
been occupied by EX-Secretary John
G.. Foster and other notables. "It
was hoped that we could all be quar-
tered together" said the chairman of
the commission this morning, but |
see your hotel accommodations are
not quite up to those of Chicago.
However, we shall do very well, as
soon as we get settled down. No, we
have no plans mapped out yet, but we
shall get to work at once, as soon as
is agreeable to the Hawaiian MEM
bers of the commission. We have no
fixed time for returning, that will de-
pend entirely on the work of the
commission. We expected to complete
our work here and | know of no rea-
son why the two Hawaiian members
should return to Washington with us.
But as | said before it depends on
what develops after we get to work.
We must be back in Washington in
time for the opening of Congress and
if we can't get through our work here
we can complete it in Washington.
We are in hopes of having time suffi-
cient to see some of the other Islands
before we go back. Senator Morgan
has told us so much about Hawaii
that we want to see all we can of it.
The people of Hawaii owe much to
Senator Morgan, for he has never lost
an opportunity in or out of Congress
to further your interests. | regret
very much that we could not have
been here to see the flag raising. The
President was very anxious for us to
come in time to do so. but the stea-
mer time tables did not permit and
there were no suitable accommoda-
tions on the Philadelphia. Every peg
has its hole on a war ship and to take
care of such a large party as ours
would have discomoded everybody on
board. We have gathered a good deal
of information about the Islands from
DR.. Wight and other passengers on
the steamer coming down and the
more we learn about them the more
anxious we are to see all we can dur
ing our stay"
CONGRESSMAN HIT.
Congressman Robert b. Hit, the
chairman of the Committee on For
eign Relations, and the only represen-
tative of the lower house on the COM
mission, is quartered at Snow Cot
tage, adjoining the hotel, with his
wife and two sons, Robert b., Jr., and
w. ", where they expect to be quite
comfortable during their stay. "Oh,
yes, we had pretty fair passage, bar
ring the onions," said the Congress
man, lit was pretty rough on us to
be cooped up as we were and even
our promenade space taken away
from us by tiers of sacks of onions.
Senator Morgan was highly incensed
and complained to Captain Howard
the dock superintendent, but it was
no use. Why they even piled lot of
lumber on the decks as well as 300
tons of onions, but the officers of the
ship had that thrown off. We pro-
tested that it was unsafe to pile so
much freight on the decks, but we
were told that if a storm came 1t
could soon be thrown overheard. But
enough of onions. Tell me what has
been done about enforcing the inter
nal revenue laws here, do the banks
require stamps on their checks, and
about the flag raising, what kind of
cermony was it, and about your va
rious industries? Congressman Taw-
ney has told us all about his visit to
the coffee regions, so we know some
thing about that industry and we
have had plenty of Hawaiian litera-
| ture at Washington, thanks to our
| friends Hatch and Thurston. BY the
way that was magnificent speech
Tawney made in the House during the
annexation debate.
NO PLANS.
About our plans? Well we have
none yet. We held one meeting In
Washington for the purpose of or
ganizing, and we have talked the mat
ter over on the way down. All re-
ports of meetings other than the one
for organizing are merely samples of
newspaper enterprise. Personally, I
want to get to work at once and fin
ish up the business of the commits
sion, so that ] can go abroad and see
some of the other islands, and / am
particularly interested in the various
industries of the Islands. ! want to
see what your capabilities are, what
you are producing besides sugar, and
whether your coffee industry has got
beyond the experimental stage.
FLAG RAISING.
"Tell me about the flag raising.
understand that the instructions sent
by the admiral were most explicit and
covered everything. No, l don't un.
derstand that Mr.. Dole is still presi