Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-26
The Herald Starts a Campaign Of Active
Advocacy.
Senator's Davis and CullOm Quoted-NeW York
Merchants Want II As Soon As Posi-
ble-C0nSul Allen Talks.

fiuencinQ merchants 10 the east
and Legislators at Washington to
secure the speedy construction of
a Pacific cable. The Herald's
Washington correspondent writes
as follows i'm recent issue"
AT the next session of Congress
one of the first matters to demand
attention will be a consideration
of the proposed submarine cable
from the United States to Ha-
waii. '.
The editorial on this subject
printed in the Herald was read
here with much interest and gen
eral commentator. Farseeing
men like Senators Davis, Lodge
and Morgan have realized the i'm
portance of having cable commu
nication with Hawaii for just such
An emergency as the present, but
they have been unable to impress
their views upon their associates.
Several bills to charter cable
companies are now pending be
fore the Foreign Relations Com
mittee of the Senate and the In
terstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee of the House, and
efforts will be made to get one
through at the earliest moment.
These bills propose government
subsidies in one form or another,
generally by the government
guaranteeing the company Ger.
tain amount each year for the
transmission of government mess
ages.
WILL PUSH THE BILLS.
Senator Frye, of Maine, who is
chairman of the sub. committee of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs
having charge of bills relating to
cables, has left Washington for
his home. He is very much in
terested, however, in obtaining
cable communication with the
least possible delay and can be
depended to push the bills to con-
sideration as soon as possible.
Senator Davis, the chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee,
said to me tonight:-"The ques-
ton of cable communication with
Hawaii is one which must be
taken up at once. 1 suppose the
best way to procure the construc
ton of cable would be by grant
ing a charter to a private corpor
alton rather than by having the
government construct it as gov.
eminent line. The provision in
one of the bills before our com.
mittee that the govern ment should
pay a certain guarantee was favor
ably considered Iy members of
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee."
TO THE ORIENT. .
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, who
is a member of the same commit
tee, and who Is chairman of the
com mission of five appointed to
recommend legislation regarding
the Hawaiian Islands, declined to
enter into a general discussion of
the question of Hawaiian legisla.
ton on the ground that it would
not be proper for him to express
opinions which he might modify
after looking over the ground. On
the general subject of cable COM
munication, however. he said:--,,
a"The present situation has
| shown the imperative necessity OF
cable to Hawaii, which would
{ eventually reach to the Philip
pines, japan and all the ORIENT
, just how it is to be built is, a
matter for Congress to determine.
My recollection is that bill
which our committee considered
t favorably, proposed to have the
government pay certain amount
t annually for a fixed number OF
: years, after which the line was to
! revert to the government and be-
, come government properly"
ALL FAVOR THE CABLE. IA