The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-03-22

oroInlSe Ion wall III you are
worse but huv u .h-."n today
1t would have passed but for the unfor-
I tunate inls-Statehent of the delegate.
that gold was sun at "A heavy premium
over SILVER in Hawaii. The inevitable
result was a rafting skirmish betwe II
the gold and silver men. HILL of Con-
necticut, banker of experience, and
one OF the leading members of the
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, OF
the Territories committee of the House
for whom there was little in making
the general battle for Hawaii, fought
n 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 it
was a matter beyond hope, when he
agreed to give up for this short ses-
sion, with confidence that he will win
the next time. An effort was made
to have an appropriation Of 81 $50, 81
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 surrender after the Senate
had passed the coinage bill, and with
out doubt, even had the bill been of
fered in this shape, 1t would have gone
out on the point of order as new leg
islation.
The Pacific cable bill. which 1t WAS
thought might be put on the sundry
- IN n
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,
failed to arouse sufficient interest to
make them stick. The provision in tine
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 endeavor
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 a later day. Mr.. Wilcox also
had the revenue cutter amendment Of
fered in the Senate by Senator Cul-
lon, who would have pushed it through
but for the fact that the bill was very
large, and the chairmen of the appro-
priation committees of both houses
had tacitly agreed upon the amount or
new work to be authorized both in that
service and In the lighthouse estap-
llshment Mr.. Wilcox has proved
hard worker in that he has made him
self familiar with the executive depart
ments their methods and his connec-
lions 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, a 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-
firmatfOn 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 unhtness OF the |
candidate. Altogether there obtains I
an impression that Wilcox VIII grow |
TO be man who viii be Of much SER /
vice 10 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 ne
worked hard is shown by tha fact that |
he won three out OF four ~ We propo-
gitions for which he hattled before
Congress II must be said ~ the coun- .
sci for the Planters Association ana .
the Chamber Of Commerce that ne Is
thoroughly capable ~ keeping his own
counsel ns Wen as that ~ his clients.
lie worked directly win the chairmon
~ the committees before which these
bills We're 10 come talked nothing 7
about what he was trying ~ DO, bur J.
disDrfrtlv Wafded m any possible op. I
position hy securing The Interest ~ the
man who could be- n service 90 him n
before anyone else know his aims hf \
Haywood is a trained Diplomat frars !.
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methods Hui Do hns nfntri himself .
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