The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-01-30
HAWAII IN
CONGRESS
Measures Of Concern
To islanders.
SEVERAL CABLE BILLS
Proposed knti-Contract LabOr--Ap-
pointment to Office - kaviga-
ton and Land Bills.

The following measures of local in-
terest have been introduced in Con-
gress:
On December 6. 1899. Senator Hale
introduced a bill TO provide for the
construction. maintenance and opera
ton under the management of the
Navy Department, OF a Pacific cable or
cables. The measure was read twice
and referred to the Committee on Ma
val Affairs. II provides for cable, or
cables, from San Francisco TO Homo
lulu and thence by way of Midway ISL
ands and the Island of Guam or by
whatever other route may be deemed
by the Secretary OF the Navy to be the
most practicable, to Manila and llo-
Ito. When the cables are completed
the operation and control thereof
shall be transferred to the Postmaster
General Appropriation under this
act. 100000.
Butler Bill.
On December IA Senator Butler Of
fered a measure which reads as fol-
lows
That there shall be constructed,
maintained and operated, in connection
with the Postoffice Department of the
United States Government, a subma-
rine cable or cables and connecting
land lines from the city of San Fran
cisco to the city of Honolulu, in the
Hawaiian Islands, and thence to Mani
la by way of the Midway Islands and
the Island of Guam, one of the La
drones, and the Gulf of Dingala, on the
east coast of the Island of Luzon, or
by whatever route may hereafter be
determined by Government surveys
and soundings and deemed by the Sec
rotary OF the Navy TO be the most prac-
ticable, and thence direct from Manila
to Hongkong, in China.
That when such postal telegraphic
cable or cables are completed, the OPP
Grafton of the same shall be under the
control of the Postmaster General, who
shall have authority to receive and
transmit messages in the interest OF
commerce and the public other than
United States Government messages
and shall establish rate of toll there
for, not exceeding thirty-five cents per
word between San Francisco and Ho-
nolulu, and not exceeding one dollar a
word between San Francisco and Ma
Mia and not exceeding one dollar
and twenty cents a word between
San Francisco and Hongkong. The
Postmaster General shall arrange and
provide for the transmission of mes
sages from news associations and
news agencies to the newspapers of the
United States, commonly known as
press messages, at rate not exceed
ing one-fourth of the above named
rates for ordinary private messages.
Appropriation, $4,000 600
The Corliss Bill.
On December 5, 1899, Mr.. Corliss in
PRODUCED cable bill which was re-
ferred to the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee and ordered
printed. The route marked down in
the preamble is practically the same as
that of the other cable acts. The Presi-
dent is authorized TO secure the need
full concessions to lay and maintain the
cable lines and to draw on the re-
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the work of construction and operation
shall be in charge of Pacific Gable
Commission; that the cables shall be
of American manufacture Qf possible),
and laid and maintained by American
ships; that the tariff shall not exceed
81 per word between San Francisco
and Manila and 80 cents per word be-
tween San Francisco and Honolulu;
that the profits shall go into main
tenance fund; that the President may
negotiate for cable extension on the
Asiatic coast. Preliminary appropria-
ton, 100000.
The Sulloway Bill.
On December Representative Sui
loway introduced a cable bill which
was referred to the Committee on In
terstate and Foreign Commerce. Ii is
entitled bill to revive and amend
and extend the Act of Congress of Au-
gust Is, 1876. This bill is Celso Caesar
Moreno's, and seeks to extend to him
and his associates the rights previous
ly granted Under 1t The Govern
ment of the United States shall be en-
titled to exercise and enjoy the same or
similar privileges with regard to the
control and use OF such line or lines
or cable or cables that may, by law.
agreement or otherwise, be exercised
and enjoyed by any foreign govern
ment whatever; secondly, citizens of
the United States shall enjoy the same
privileges as to the payment of rates
tor the transmission of messages as
are enjoyed by the citizens of the most
favored nations; thirdly, the transmits
sion OF dispatches shall be made in the
following order: First, dispatches of
state, under such regulations as may
be agreed upon by the governments in
terested; secondly, dispatches on tele-
graphic service; and, thirdly, private
dispatches; fourthly, the lines of any
such cables shall be kept open to the
public for the daily transmission OF
market and commercial reports and in.
telligence, and all messages dIsn,,rr -.