The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-14
COOPER IN
WASHINGTON
HeContradicts the
Resignation
Canard.
RESOLUTIONS OF
THE HOME RULERS
They Fire Their Popgunt at Dole
and Ask His Place for
Wilcox.
Especial Correspondence

wv YASHlNGTON, D. c., Sept. 3d.
wv Secretary Henry E. Cooper of
the Hawaiian Territory arrived
here Sunday evening and is stopping
at the Cochran Hotel. Mr. Hartwell
who travelled part the way between
here and Honolulu with him, has gone
on to Boston, where three of his daugh-
rers are at school. AS soon as the de-
partments were open this (Monday)
morning Mr.. Cooper called to pay his
respects to the Secretary of the Inter
ior BY that official he was conducted
around the department and after a
brief informal chat about affairs in the
islands departed There was an .un-
derstanding that he will have fur
ther conference with Secretary Hitch
cock later in the week. He also visited
the Treasury Department where he also
made some formal calls and then went
back to his hotel where he resumed
work on the annual report of Governor
Dole. With the big sheets spread out
on a table in one of the corner win
dows he went about the task of COM
pleting the report.
II expect the work on that report will
be ready for the Secretary of the In
terror by the end of this week" said
Mr. Cooper. There is little in the re-
port which l care to discuss in ad-
vance but it contains nothing of sem
sational character. There are some
statistics to come on the next mail,
arriving here probably Thursday. Our
trip over was very pleasant and salts
factory but without any noteworthy in
cident. At San Francisco I hastened
across the bay to catch the Overland
train, which left at 10 o'clock in the
evening about an hour after the Sierra
landed. made such good time that I
beat the mail here to Washington by
day"
Mr.. Cooper expects a conference with
Secretary Hitchcock before the end of
this week and as soon as the report
is completed will go on to Boston, his
old home, and visit among friends there
a few days. He took occasion to en-
phatically deny the report, telegraphed
over the country the night of his ar
rival that Governor Dole was TO resign
and that he had the resignation in his
pocket. 1.-THE report of Governor Dole s
resignation was entirely strange to me. T
said Secretary Cooper. II know abb
solutely nothing about it,
The belief here, as stated in a pre-
vious letter to the Advertiser, is that
the report was encouraged by state
ments which Judge Humphreys has
been making that he would drive Gov
ernor Dole to resign and that the deci-
sion in the charges presented against
him (Humphreys) could mean nothing
else.
The rumor of the resignation of Gov
ernor Dole was accentuated here to
some extent today when a petition was
presented at the Interior Department
to Secretary Hitchcock and also at the
White House asking on behalf of the
Home Rule Republican party the ap-
poinunent of Delegate Wilcox as gov
ernor. The petition came by the same
steamer as that on which Secretary
Cooper travelled and was handed 10 the
Secretary of the Interior today bg Mr.
d. Kalauokalani, Jr., who is the private
secretary of Delegate Wilcox but who
is residing this sumrh.r in Washing
ton
The full text of the resolution is as
follows, the copy in each instance being
The same for the President and for
Secretary Hitchcock. each copy being
formally certified by John X Nakoo-
5oo:
Honolulu. H. T., Sept. 16, 1901
To the President of the United States
and Secretary of the Interior.
Washington, D. c.
Sir-Whereas, the failing condition of
Hon S 3. Dole, Governor of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii. has grown so serious
as to incapacitate him for further dis
charge of the responsible duties of his
office, and, in the opinion of his medi-
cal advisers, is such as to render nee
essary and imperative his retirement
from the cares and concerns of official
life; and
Whereas. we are advised that he has
rendered, or is about to tender, to the
President, his resignation from office;
and
Whereas we are hopeful and firm in
the belief that in the selection of a
successor to Governor Dole, it wiz be