The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-01-06

States Expects to Learn More About the
Resources of the Philippines in Three
Months Than spain Did in 500 Years.
Special Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-A pretty con-
test is fomenting over the governorship
Of Hawaii. 1t is the expectation that
the bill providing a territorial form of
government for the islands will be
enacted into law at the present session OF
Congress. Two candidates have so far
formally entered the lists for the honor
of being the first governor of the new
territory, the first entirely insular gov
ernment erected under the authority of
the United States. They are former
President Dole, the chief magistrate of
the government that succeeded the native
monarchy, and former Minister Sewall,
the last diplomatic representative of the
United States to Hawaii. Mr.. Sewall is
the son Of the latest candidate for Vice
President on the Democratic ticket. His
principal claim to recognition seems to
be that he supported Mckinley and
Hobart against Bryan and his own
father. Neither Mr.. Dole nor Mr..
Sewall is particularly popular at large in
Hawaii. Mr.. Dole is the candidate of
the participants in the movements that
resulted in the overthrow of the mon
archy and the establishment of the repub-
lie. Mr.. Sewall is the center around
which the opposition to the present
administration gathers. Mr.. Dole is on
his way to Washington, ostensibly to
discharge his duties as member of the
Hawaiian Commission. Mr.. Sewall is
still in Honolulu He is possessed of
ample means.
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The gubernatorial inauguration at
Denver on the second Tuesday of jan
uary brought into the horizon of national
politics character seemingly destined
to fill hereafter large space in the pub
lie mind. Charles S. Thomas, elected
Governor of Colorado ON the Democratic
Fusion ticket last fall. then entered upon
his political duties. Governor Thomas
is man of great talents and correspond
ing ambitions just now his political
weather eye is focused on the United
States Senatorship. Aided by the pres
tige and power of the gubernatorial
office he hopes to succeed the eloquent
and magnetic Wolcott, whose term will
expire with the close of the present
administration perhaps it would be
more accurate to say, with the close of
the present term of the present admins
tration Mr. Thomas is gentleman by
birth and education. He went to Color
ado in the early '79s, There for several
years fortune refused to smile upon him.
The only thing that kept him in the State
in the Centennial year was his inability
to raise enough money to take himself
and his wife to California. The Lead
vile boom gave him his first start.
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The administration purposes finding
out as nearly as may be precisely what
can be done towards making the Philip
pine Islands of agricultural value to the
world. Naturally this work falls to the
lot of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.
Speaking to-day Of what the administra-
tion intends doing he said
1--WE expect to learn more about the
resources of the Philippines in three
months than the Spaniards did in 300
years. Fortunately for our purposes we
have in the volunteer army now at
Manila force of men fully competent
to do this work. In fact it would be a
comparatively easy matter to discover
among our volunteers enough 'ologists'
to run an entire government, with all the
scientific attachments of modern insti-
tuition. Some months ago my attention
was called to the fact that A. P. Hayne,
professor of viticulture and olive culture
in the University of California and of the
Agricultural Experiment Station in that
State, was attached to the volunteer
forces. in the Philippines as second lieu
tenant Of Battery A of the California
Heavy Artillery. Knowing Mr.. Hayne
to be a man of scientific attainments, /
requested the Secretary of War to detail
him to-inake Thorough examination Of
the agricultural resources of the Philip
pine Islands. Mr.. Hayne has organized
a force of forty or fifty men to aid him
in his researches. Among these gentle
men, who are all in the volunteer army,
are eight or ten graduates of agricultural
colleges. They are not confined to
California in point of residence, but come
from various sections of the Northwest.
AS I understand from private advices
received from Manila, Mr.. Haynes force
embraces experts in entomology, fores-
try, biology and several other branches
Of scientific agriculture. This depart
ment will make similar Investigations in
Cuba and Porto Rico" e. WE
BUSINESS NOTES.