The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-28
MAY RELIEVE DULL SEASON AT
WASHINGTON.
Governor Dole's Relations with Presi-
dent McKinley-The Powers Exercised
BY Other Territorial Executives.

WASHINGTON, u. c., May Ii
With the return to the national capitol
of Delegate Wilcox and the arrival of
Representative w. Beckley, Hawaiian !
affairs will again be at the forefrc mt
here. 1t is supposed that these gen.
tlemen each of whom Is on decidedly
different mission will reach Washing
ton about the time this letter appears
in The Star. Then the many unsettled
Hawaiian controversies will be trans
ferred from Honolululto the capital city
and-as this is a phenJmenally dull
spring here-afford about the livelicst
news that the correspondents can fird
to write about.
1t can be said in advance that the op-
ponents of Governor Dole, will have TO
make an exceedingly sNong case il
they expect to do anything toward his
removal The President has always
been an earnest friend Of the Hawaiian
executive and is known u hava 4 nigh
Opinion of his integrity, aDil - and en-
perience in island affairs. When Pre-
sident Dole was chief magistra e @. the
republic he visited the President on
terms Of official equality and discussed
the union of the little nation with the
great one in an earnest, honest and
enthusiastic manner that has won and
held the presidents good opinion. Then
too, Samuel Parker is widely known at
the capital as a vigorous Republican
and leader of Hawaiian public senti-
ment He has the personal acquaint-
ance of the President and many Repub-
lican leaders, and will be able to pres
ent the Governors case under the most
| favorable auspices. More important,
| however, than the personality of the
Governor or of Parker, is the fact that
according to all the reports which
have thus far reached the capital the
Hawaiian executive does not appear to
/ have m
usual on the part of territorial eXecu-
| tives in Arizona, New Mexico or Okla
homa. And as far his power-even if
! exhibited in a more drastic manner
! than by refusal to extend the lease of
life of Do-nothing Legislature-it is
not in any sense comparable with that
enjoyed by the District Commissioners
of the Federal district itself, who exer-
else their powers under the very caves
| of the White House and the Capitol.
At this writing and from this distance,
! therefore, it appears in advance that
nothing can result from the journey of
Home Ruler Beckley to this capital.
Geographer Henry Gannett, of the
! United Safes Census has issued bull
! letin in which he announces that in ten
years the center of population of the
United States has moved westward,
about fourteen miles, and southwark
about two and one-half miles. 1t rests
al
about six miles southeast of Columbus,
the county seat of Bartholomew county
Indiana. The center of populat ton is
the center of gravity of the population
of the country, each Individual being
| assumed to have the same weight. In
| order that the result might be COM
parable with those obtained in 1880 and
1890, the population of Alaska and Ha-
wall, although included in the Twelfth
Census, has not been considered in Mr.
! Gannetts estimates and for obvious
reasons the uncounted Filipinos are al
so excluded. He finds the center of
area of the United States, excluding
Alaska and Hawaii and other recent
| accessions to be in northern Kansas,
/ in approximate latitude 80 So and APP
/ prOXimate longitude go so. The cen
/ ter of population is 'atherefore about
/ three-fourths of a degree south and
more than thirteen degrees east of the
center of area. However good the rea-
| sons may have been for not estimating
/ the new possessions in aiming at po-
puldtiOn center, they hardly apply To
the determination of the center of area
| The geographers could readily discover
! If they tried, that-considering the new
| posseSSions-the center of land area has
! approached the Rocky mountains, while
| II is estimated that with the addition
| of the Pacific possessions the center of
population has reached the Mississippi
and perhaps even crossed the great
river 1t has also taken a gooI jump tc
the southwark.
FRANK H. HOSFORD.