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The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-01

A Model Plant Is not compIete Et1h-
out Electric Power, thus dispensiza
with small engines
Why not generate your power fraR
one CENTRAL Station? One Esnsr-
ator can furnish power to your Puma.
Centrifugals, Elevators, Plows, Rail
ways and Hoists; also, furnish Iixk1
and power for radius OF from Is 70
80 miles.
Electric Power being used, saves TIA
labor of hauling coal in your field, also
water, and does away with high-pricsa
engineers, and only have one engine %
look after in your mill.
Where water power Is availabls Il
costs nothing to generate Elestria
Power.
THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COM
PANY is now ready to furnish Eleetris
Plants and Generators of all descr17-
tions at short notice, and also has en-
hand a large stock OF Wire, Chaaua-
liers and Electrical Goods.
All orders will be given prompt A.
tention, and estimates furnished fer
Lighting and Power Plants; also, At
tention Is given to House and Marina
Wiring.
THEo HOFFMAN, Manager.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-01
FOR The RAILROAD
Two Senate Bills Affect.
ing That Corporation.
One to Allow Company to Purchase
Wharf Land Construction
Time Limit.
(From Saturdays Daily.9

If bill which Senator Brown will
introduce in the Senate today, and of
which he gave notice Thursday, meets
the approval of the Legislature, the o.
R. & L. Company will maintain it's own
wharves in the harbor on its own tract
of land. This will effectively settle the
controversary now before the Courts
on the subject OF wharves and land,
and allow the Railroad Company to
build wharVes and railroad approaches
to them in what manner will most suit
its convenience.
When the present condematory pro-
| ceedings were instituted, the railroad
was in pressing need of additional fac
ilities, and had been for a year. The
plan was to build additional wharves
on the land now occupied, which would
be ample to accommodate the present
business, and prospective business for
years to come. The increasing busi-
ness of Eva plantation, the expected
handling of large quantities of sugar
and freight for the new Oahu planta-
ton, the prospective increased freight
secured to the railroad by the extension
of it's lines and the possibilities in the
now undeveloped territory along its
line, were all taken into consideration
in mapping out the proposed wharves.
The bill assumes that the Railroad
| Company's estimate, that its present
tract will be sufficient for the future is
correct. The bill provides that this
tract now occupied on the harbor shall
| ha m fhl in Cin1
| pie. No value of the land is set in the
bill, but provision is made for deter
mining it. Its value is to be fixed by
three arbitrators, one to be appointed
by the Government, one by the Rail
road Company and one to be chosen by
the other two. This reduces the pos
sibility of a controversy on that
question.
1t is also provided in the bill that
the land shall not be made over until
the company shall have paid the price
settled on by the arbitrators.
In consideration for the opportunity
to buy the land outright, certain con-
cessions are to be made by the COM
pany. One is that it shall relinquish
all right to acquire by eminent domain
vi OIuCl WloC, c1Ay LII IhOl iiOhSo0S Aoi
wharves, or to contest the right of the
Government to acquire, with due com
pensation, any other lands fronting
upon the harbor, or rights therein, now
owned by the corporation.
The Railroad Company will also be
required to agree not to charge more
for wharfage than Government rates
Under the provisions of Provisiona
Government Act 6S the time limit Sc
for the company to construct railroad
in the districts of Waianae, Waialua
KoolauIoa and Koolaupoko is Novem
ber I'd of the present year. The exclu
sive franchise expires September II
1888. Another bill to be introduced b!
Senator Brown extends the time limi
for constructing railroad, in the dis
tricts named, five years. The exclusiv
franchise limit remains the same.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-01
IS NOT PRESIDENT
Minister Cooper Is Simply
Acting
Therefore Residence Provision
Does Not Apply In His
Case.
SENATE.
Tenth Day, February 26.

Tenth Day, February 26.
Senator Waterhouse reported from the
Finance Committee the three appropri-
alton bills recommending that they
take the usual course. The report was
adopted.
Under suspension of the Rules, Sen
ator McCandless asked the Minister OF
Finance if there was any work going
on to be paid for out of the Loan
Fund, and, if so, in what places, state
when each particular piece of work was
commenced and when it is expected
to be completed.
The order of the day, House bill No.
2, was read and passed the second read
ing and referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
On motion of Senator Waterhouse,
the rules were suspended and the ap-
preparation bills were read by title
only and passed the first reading.
The rules were suspended to allow
Senator McCandless to introduce the
following joint resolution:
The Legislature of the Republic of
does hereby extend to the United
States of America, its deep and earn
est sympathy in the great loss of life
sustained by the destruction of the bat
tleship Maine in the harbor of Havana,
Cuba.
Resolved, That copy of these reso-
buttons be presented to the American
Minister for transmission to the Presi-
dent of the United States.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted after remarks by several Sen
ators. The introducer of the resolu-
ton said that it was fitting that the
Island Legislature should offer some
form of coincidence to the United
States. Hawaii hoped and expected to
some day become part of the sister
Republic In her prosperity Hawaii re-
joiced, in her misfortunes Hawaii's
sympathy was extended.
Senator Baldwin's remarks were
along the same strain. 1t was his be-
lief that such a resolution voiced the
sentiment of their whole constituency
Senator McCandless' motion that the
Legislature order the flags on the Gov,
ernment building and at the bungalow
placed at half-mast was adopted.
Under suspension of the rules {
communication from the House wa!
received announcing the passage o
the Senate special appropriation bill o
$4,000 for defraying expenses of the
present session.
On a question of privilege, Senator
Waterhouse said he believed the Com
mittee on Passed Bills ought to wal
until the question of whether or no
Minister Cooper could legally act as
President be decided before submit
ting bills to him to be signed. No ac
tion was taken.
At 1925 the Senate adjourned.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-01
A Iapanese Objects.

TO THE EDIToR:-In a meeting
that Cocoanut Club on Monday, says
all revolutionists respectfully invited
to come to lunch, and celebrate Wash
ington's birth day
1t pretend to drink toast to universal
brotherhood of man. Why Asiatics
left out? Japanese have revolution in
1868, and make good government
Chinese make revolution too l think,
Cocoanut Club mean to make fool of
Asiatics, when it drink to universal
brotherhood of man. 1t have no sense
| say dam.
A JAPANESE PATRIOT.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-01
A STRONG MARKET.
CentrifugaIs "Stiff" f"-Advices On
Rice and Coffee.
Circular Letter No. 258).

Circular Letter No. 25S).
Honolulu, Feb. 25, 1898.
Dear Sir:-By the arrival of the S
S. Zealandia, we are able to give you
the following latest sugars news dated
up to the 18th inst;
Centrifugals-No change from last
price quoted, 3-16 bid and 4 IA asked
market strong, sellers Withdrawing
Granulated-4.96 Beets-9s. 4 I'D
cwt.
Rice-About one-half receipts by
last trip of Australia were sold from
wharf at 4 5-S C. net.
Coffee-The receipts of this have
been free and the market is easy. The
present price is IA IL cts. to 16 cts.
Arrivals have been Mary Winkelma1
from KahuIui, February 18th; Rober
Levers from Honolulu, February 18th
Sailings gs-Transit, for Honolulu on th'
18th inst; Iroquois, for Honolulu OF
the 18th inst.
Vessels on the Berth-Irmgard, TO
Honolulu, advertised to sail on 19tl
inst; Repeat, for Honoipo, advertised
to sail on 20 inst; Santiago, for Hilo
no sailing date fixed; Robert Levers
for Honolulu, advertised to go on tn
berth on 21st.
Very truly yours,
CASTLE & COOKE, LTD.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-01

1t is, or should be, the highest aim
of every merchant to please his GUS
toners; and that the wide-awake drug
firm of Meyers & Eshleman, Sterling,
ILL.,, is doing so, is proven by the fol-
lowing, from Mr.. Eshleman: In my
sixteen years experience in the drug
business I have never seen or sold or
tried a medicine that gave as good
satisfaction as Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy" Sold
by all Druggists and Dealers. Ben
son. Smith & Co., Ltd. Agents for the
Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-01
HOUSE.
Ninth Day, February 26.

Ninth Day, February 26.
A communication from Acting Presi-
dent Cooper announced the transmits
sion by the Justices of the Supreme
Court of their opinion in regard to the
publication of the proposed amend
ment to Article 60 of the Constitution.
The opinion is that the publication
made is insufficient.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs re-
piled in relation to political prisoners
that correspondence was still being
carried on. The Government does not
propose to compromise claims urged
through foreign Government
House members who had questions
on Japanese immigration and Hilo
wharf were referred to reports of the
Minister of the Interior.
The following is a list of the names
of such prisoners as paid fines and the
amounts paid: ]. A Cummins, $4,000;
Kaimimoku, 500; J. c. Lane, $10O; w.
K. Hutchinson, 1924; Jas. Aylett, $50
and John K Baker, $3.50.
Representative Gear was informed
that there was no sharing of fines in
the police department excepting as al
lowed in the law against opium.
To Representative Paris from the
Attorney-General:
The Cabinet did not formally ask the
opinion of the Justices of the Supreme
Court as to the eligibility of Minister
H. E. Cooper to act as President of the
Republic.
The Article of the Constitution re
ferred to applies solely to the office
of President and provides that Sin or
der to be eligible to the Office of Presi-
dent person shall be not less than
35 years Of age, have been born in the
Hawaiian Islands or resided therein
for not less than Is years and be a citi-
zen of the Republic" Minister Cooper
has not resided in the Hawaiian Isl.
ands for Is years and he would not bt
eligible to the Office of President, bur
it seems clear that the provisions o.
this Article do not apply to the perfor
nance by the Minister of Foreigr
Affairs of the duties of President.
President Dole Notwithstanding hi
absence from the country. is the Pre-
sident of the Republic of Hawaii
There can be but one President TIL,
Minister of Foreign Affairs during tn,
absence of the President performs tn,
duties of the President ex-oficio b,
virtue of his Office as Minister of For
eign Affairs.
Representative Gear has inquire,
about Schedule E'' of the tax law
enforcement of which was waived las
year as to mercantile concerns. TIL
Attorney General said the Executiv
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-01
HAMAKUA PLANTATION,
PAAUlLO, HAWAII, H. |.
Mr.. j. q. SPENCER,
PACIFIC HARDWARE Co.,
Honolulu.

DEAR SR:-The Secretary Disc PloW | pur-
chased from you is giving us satisfaction. We
are using it to plow under crop of lupins. They
are three feet high and very thick. Your plow
turns them completely under, at the same time
ploWing the land fourteen inches deep.
feel satisfied that with this plow the draft
for the same quantity and depth of work is as
to g. That is, with the old ploW, to do the same
work, it takes good mules; with your ploW it
takes only g. and they are less tired at night
Please send me another ploW by first schooner
leaving for this.
You are at liberty to use this in any way you
may see fit. Yours truly,
A. LIDGATE.
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MAI. GEN. BROOKE.

dead and his command in pitiable
plight from hunger and wounds. In
April Of 1887 Col Merritt was made
a brigadier general and in 1897 major
general.
Next in point of interest to Gen. Mer-
rift and his division is the Fifth corps,
otherwise the army of Cuban invasion,
and Its commander.
Gen. Shafter was farmers boy out
in Kalamazoo county, Mich, when the
civil war came. He enlisted in the
Seventh regiment of Michigan infantry
In 1861, and was made a first lieutenant
of volunteers. He distinguished himself
at the battle of Nashville, and received
promotion for gallant and meritorious
services" in the battle of Fair Oaks, and
was awarded medal by congress for
heroic conduct at Piney Ridge. When
the war ended he became part of the
permanent establishment, and did nc
end of rough work and hard fighting in
the various Indian wars in the west anC
southwest as lieutenant colonel of the
Twenty-fourth infantry. In 1897 he wal
| given his commission as brigadier gen
| eral.
Perhaps ofall the presidents appoint
ments none have been quite so popula
with the public at large as that of Fitz
| hugh Lee.
Gen. Lee comes of a fighting fam
lily. His great-grandfathe was tina
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Philippines, is a native OF Maryland. He
took part in many of the most I'M
portant battles fought by the army Of
the Potomac. 1t was his gallant con-
duct at the battle of spottsylvania Court
House that won for him the rank Of
brigadier general. Gen. Graham, who
commands the Second corps, entered
the army in 1855, when but 81 years of
age. He was a Washington boy, and
had seen active service in several bat
ties with the Seminole Indians prior to
the breaking out of the rebellion. He
served with great distinction all
through the war and when it came to an
end was sent west, where he was en-.
gagged until 1887.
He was in command of the United
States troops on the Pacific coast dur
ing the California riots Of 1894, and dis
played tact as well as courage and de-
termination in controlling the situation,
Gen. Graham is the Oldest of the new
appointments, and can go on the retired
list next September, if he likes.
Gen. Breckenridge is an officer of long
and varied service in the United States
army. He was one of the citizen sol
| diers of the rebellion, entering the vol
unteer army as a lieutenant Of artil
lery in 1861. He fought all through the
war, winning promotion step by step
and upon its close, when he was mus
tered into the regular army, saw hi
full share Of rough work in the west
In 1881 he was appointed to the in
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section, and was appointed colonel OF
the Nineteenth Alabama infantry. At
the battle Of Shiloh he was in command
of brigade. Next he was transferred
to the cavalry, and in 1862 was placed
in command of that arm of the service
under Braxton Bragg, in the west. A
major general in 1863, he led the con-
federate cavalry at Chickamauga.
Later he proved himself The most
troublesome of all the southern leaders
who disputed Sherman's march to the
sea. Failing in his endeavors to turn
aside that resistless wave of conquest
he sought to defend Savannah.
He SO distinguished himself that in
1865 he was appointed lieutenant gen
eral, and at the close of the war was in
command of the cavalry opera ting with
the forces of Gen. Joseph L. Johnston.
At the time of his appointment by
President Mckinley he was serving his
seventh term as congressman from Al.
ALBANIA,
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pointments. Yet, oddly enough, they
are the only West Point graduates on
the entire list. Breckenridge, Otis.
Coppinger, Shafter, Graham, Wade and
Merriam entered the army from civil
life during the rebellion and were
transferred to the permanent establish
ment when the war ended. Butler, like
Lee and Wheeler, was confederate
soldier, but not West Point man.
Of the three regular army major gen.
erals, Miles, Merritt and Brooke, Mer'
rift alone is a graduate from the mill
tary academy.
Following out the present plan, the
American army will be mobilized in
seven army corps. Each corps will be
composed of three divisions, and there
will be at least three brigades in each
of these divisions. The major generals
will command the corps and divisions,
while the brigades will be commanded
by brigadier generals. Perhaps the
greatest interest centers about Gen.
Merritt and his division at present, for
1t is the first time in our history that
we have had occasion to send troops
thousands of miles from our shores.
Gen. Merritt goes to responsibilities
and difficulties such as no soldier OF
the United States army has ever be-
fore been called upon to meet. 1t is
true we had military governors dur
ing the civil wal, but their burdens
were trifiing compared with those he
has gone to take up in a strange land
and amongst strange people, having
customs, language and habits widely
| different from our own. The nature of
| his position renders it unique and strik-
| ing. No other military governor ap-
| pointed by the United States has ever
had anything like the power he will
WELD in the Philippines. 1t will be alb
solute and final. No civil authority will
exist to question his acts. 1t will be as
he sees fit and as necessity demands.
| Gen. Merritt was born in New York
city in 1896. While he was yet mere
child his parents moved to Illinois,
where the boyhood of our military gov.
ernor in the Philippines was spent on
farm. Young Merritt entered West
Point at II years of age, graduating
Just prior to the breaking out Of the
civil war. He was one of the "boy gen
erals" of that tragic struggle, a cap
tain of cavalry in 1862; just one yeal
later he was serving as brigadier gen
eral of volunteers. 1t was his gallan
fight at Beverly Ford that won him hi
rapid promotion. The newspapers o
] that period TEEN with accounts of hi
bravery and courage on that occasion
He twas in the Richmond campaign Q
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them, who made the generals march to
the sea such a difficult enterprise.
Wheeler was born at Augusta, Ca,
and was educated at West Point, grad
uating in 1859. When the break between
the north and south came he resigned
his commission in the United States
army, and offered his services to his
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They are for the most part West Point
graduates. Even in the case of the So
called civil appointments those whose
claims received recognition have in
every instance seen actual service; in
deed, some of them displayed genius of
a high order for leadership during the
rebellion.
The major generals are Joseph G.
Breckenridge, Elwell S. Otis, John j.
Coppinger, William r. Shafter, William
M. Graham, James f. Wade, Henry G.
Merriam. James T. Wilson, Fitzhugh
Lee, Joseph Wheeler and Matthew G.
Butler.
They rank as in the order named.
In addition to these are the three
major generals of the regular army
Nelson A. Miles, Wesley Merritt and
John r. Brooke, who rank the newly
appointed major generals because Of
prior date.
The question of rank is all settled BY
the date on the commission, and the
standing of West Pointer, merely be
cause he is West Pointer, is in M
wise different from that Of a civilian
officer of the same rank and date; In
deed, tthe civilian may command thu
regular if his commission is the older.
OF the newly-cleated major generals
Lee, Wheeler and Wilson are the mos
frequently mentioned as civilian ap
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post he nlled with such courage and
tact that he was retained by the Nc
Kinley administration. When William
]. Sewall, of New Jersey, declined to be
made major general, preferring to re-
tain his seat in the senate, the appoint
ment went to Matthew C. Butler, of
South Carolina. Butler may be called
bona ffde civilian; that is, he is not
West Point man, and his soldering was
limited TO the rebellion. He rose to be
a confederate major general, with
splendid reputation for gallantry and
ability.
Butler comes of good American fight
Ing stock. Oliver Hazard Perry, who
won the victory over the British fleet
on Lake Erie, in 1913, was his uncle.
Maj. Gen. John r. Brooke, who COM
mands the First corps and the depart
ment of the Gulf, enlisted in the volun-
teer army when the cab for men came
In 1861, and was made captain in the
Fourth Pennsylvania infantry. He was
mustered out July &c, 1866, and two
| days later entered the permanent es-
tablishment with the rank OF ieuten-
ant colonel.
Two very gallant officers, Maj. Gems.
Wade and Wilson, report to Gen.
Brooke for duty. Wade is one of
the youngest of newly appointed
men, cavalry officer of the very finest
type, with distinguished war record,
which, since the close of the rebellion,
has been added to by his services in the
,yaef or,opm tho Indians He xyas a
first lieutenant of cavalry in 1861, and
rose to be brigadier general in the
regular army in 1897.
1t was part of Gen. Wilson's com.
mand that effected the capture Of Jeffer
son Davis.
Wilson was born in Illinois, in Sep
TENDER, 1897, and entered West Point
before he had reached his twentieth
year. graduating in 1860. He was as
signed to the engineer corps, and was
present at the bombardment of Por
Pulaski, and afterwards took part il
the battles of South Mountain and An
tietam. In November of 1862, he wal
appointed lieutenant colonel of vol
unteers, and with his regiment operated
before Richmond.
He was transferred to the army o
the Potomac in 1864, and had comman'
of cavalry division during the Shen
andoah campaign. Subsequently h
was placed in command of cavalr.
,, corps in the department of the Missis
g sippi, where he rendered valuable sup
IS port to Sherman and Thomas and wa
e, with the former during his famou
e march to the sea.
At the close of the war he was
:, major general of volunteers, and whe
E the reorganization of the army, too
y place he accepted lieutenant colonel
IS commission in the regular service.
1870 he retired from the army and Ell
n tsrsd clYl life. a
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up his c.; mission In the a! IS to cast
his fortunes with those of his state,
and was al orce made adjutant general
on the staff of Gen. Ewell.
Later he was appointed colonel of the
First Virginia cavalry. He was brig
adler general in 1863, and major gen
eral in September of the same year.
Gen. Lee was not quite 80 years of age
when the last flicker of the confed-
eracy went out in the darkness of de-
feat, and the sensible manner in which
he accepted the situation and went
through the Reconstruction period
made him especially popular in the
north.
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1864, serving with Sheridan as the lat
ter's chief officer, and with that dashing
leader he did plenty of hard lighting for
the union.
He was present with Grantand Sheri-
dan when Lee surrendered, and he was
one of the three commissioners appoint.
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ed by the government to carry out the
terms of the treaty.
At the close of the war he was mus
tered out of the volunteer service and
transferred to the permanent establish
ment as lieutenant colonel of the Ninth
cavalry.
In the west Col. Merritt soon made
name for himself as an Indian fighter.
1t was Merritt who rescued Thornburg's
command at the time of the White river
agency massacre, when the troops were
being slowly but none the less surely
starved to death and shot to pieces by
the Ute Indians, who hemmed them in
on all sides.
One Of the soldiers succeeded In es-
Gaping the vigilance of the savages, and
made his way to Rawlings Station on
the Union Pacific.
A Telegram was sent to Col. Merritt,
then in command of the Fifth cavalry,
stationed at Fort Russell. He hurried
down to Rawlings with his men and
then there began one of the greatest
cavalry marches on record. For four
days and nights the soldiers rode al
most without pause, led by their tireless
colonel.
When they reached the White River
agency 1t was to find poor Thornburg