The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-22

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House committee on banking and cur
rency, declared that the battle for the
gold standard had twice been fought
and both times won, and that no COM
promise would be made with the silver
men. Shafroth, of Colorado would
have nothing but the redemption or
Hawaiian silver in American silver,
and the bill failed. Chairman Knox, or
the Territories committee of the House,
for whom there was little in making
the general battle for Hawaii fought
a good fight all through. He called
up the bill twice, only to meet defeat,
and stood ready to make a third trial.
until he saw, all too plainly, that 1t
was a matter beyond hope, when he
agreed to give up for this short SEES
sion, with confidence that he will win
the next time An effort was made
to have an appropriation of $lOUU,VVV
of this silver put into the general de-
ficiency appropriation bill, but Senator
Foraker, chairman of the committee
of the upper house on the Pacific ISL
ands and Porto Rico would not hear
of such a surrender after the Senate
had passed the coinage bill, and with
out doubt, even had the bill been Of
fered in this shape, it would have gone
out on the point of order as new leg
islation.
The Pacific cable bill, which it was
thought might be put on the sundry
civil, was palpably open to this point
of order, as was the attempt to en-
graft the Nicaragua Canal bill. The
endeavor to secure an appropriation
for a revenue cutter, for the taking
over of the lighthouse establishment.
for public buildings, for fisheries in
vestigation and for land investigation,
foil ad tn n
make them stick. The provision in the
agricultural bill for the experiment
station was good enough to be kept.
and that establishment will be pressed
to completion at once.
So much for measures. This as to
men. Delegate Robert w. Wilcox ar
rived after the session had commenced.
but got to work Immediately. He de-
voted much of, his time to an endeayor
which proved vain to secure consent
for an agreement for a vote in the
House on the cable measure. The
speaker was not ready for such action
at this time, and the battle must be
waged at later day. Mr.. Wilcox also
had the revenue cutter amendment Of
fered in the Senate by Senator Gull
lOm, who would have pushed 1t through
but for the fact that the bill was very
large, and the chairmen of the appro-
priation committees of both houses
new work to be authorized both in that
service and in the lighthouse estap-
lishment Mr.. Wilcox has proved
hard worker in that he has made him
self familiar with the executive depart
ments, their methods and his connec-
tons with them. He has sent to the
Islands masses of information contain
ed in general publications, and has
done very much to make his people
familiar with what the government Is
doing for them. His secretary, Kalau-
okalani, has been constantly engaged
in this work, and may be seen every
day visiting some department, secur-
ing information requested by letter. or
familiariZing himself with what should
be done. Mr.. Wilcox, of course, was
much worried over the protest involv-
ing his seat, and this took much of
his attention and time. He secured
the assistance of Congressman Robin
son, of Indiana, a member of the
House committee on Territories, man
who did much in the framing of the
organic law, and whose skill was seen
in his handling of the Wilcox end of
the case. Mr.. Wilcox, perhaps, was not
so fortunate in some others of his
friends. Some of his advisers persuad-
ed him to make fight against the CON
firmation of Mr.. Gear, but he aban-
doned this upon realizing that he could
not prevent favorable report at
least, from the committee, although
he had friends in the Senate, such as
Senator Sullivan, of Mississippi who
would have seen that no confirmation
took place. Wilcox realized that he
might loose his present good standing
at the White House should he keep
up this fight without better grounds
than he had to offer at first, for the
impression certainly obtained that his
opposition to Gear was actuated more
by a desire for revenge upon the at
torney who opposed him, than from
general grounds of unfitness of the
candidate. Altogether, there obtains
an impression that Wilcox will grow
to be a man who will be of much ser
vice to his constituency.
The representative of the business
interests, Attorney William Haywood,
offers a hard proposition to analyze.
Mr.. Haywood worked in entire har-
mony with the delegate, and that he
worked hard is shown by the fact that
he won three out of four of the propo-
sitions for which he battled before
Congress. 1t must be said of the coun-
sci for the Planters Association and
the Chamber of Commerce that he Is
thoroughly capable of keeping his own
counsel. as well as that of his clients.
He worked directly with the chalrmen
of the committees before which these
bills were to come, talked nothing
about what he was trying to do. but
discreetly warded off any possible op-
position by securing the interest Of the
man who could be of service to him
before anyone else knew his aims. Mr..
Hayw00d ia a trained din1omaf yaara